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Bible study · Psalm 18:1-50

Psalm 18: I love you, LORD, my strength

Read Psalm 18:1-50 before you meet.

In a few lines

Psalm 18 is 2 Samuel 22's song with its own first line, "I love you, LORD, my strength" (18:1): love there is racham, a verb used everywhere else for compassion. In the psalm David and his enemies cry with one verb; he was heard (18:6), they weren't (18:41). And Paul gives its praise "among the nations", also 2 Samuel 22's, as written of Christ's work (Romans 15:8-9).

The verse to carry

“The LORD is my rock, my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge; my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower.”

Psalm 18:2

To talk about

  1. 1. The psalm's first words to God are "I love you, LORD, my strength" (18:1). If you said one line like that to God this week, in your own words, what would it be?

  2. 2. "The LORD’s word is tried" (18:30). When has something God says in the Bible held true for you when it was put to the test?

  3. 3. "Your right hand sustains me" (18:35), and "My feet have not slipped" (18:36). Where do you most need to be held up right now, and who could you tell?

Prayer requests