The second thing he says is also in verse eight: “Call on his name.” Now this is simple, too, but our problem is we don’t do it either. What this is saying is that we should pray. And yet that’s also hard, isn’t it? We find it easy to do all sorts of things. It’s far more easy for us to get active for God and do something, such as teach a class or serve on a committee than it is to pray. 

You’ve probably noticed, if you’ve reflected at all on your friends and people you work with, that some people do everything well. I supposed by contrast you know people who don’t seem to do anything well. Most of us do some things well and other things not so well. And then there are people who really do everything well. David, a great king, was one of those people. He spoke well. He ruled well. He fought well. But I think above all, he knew how to give thanks well. The text we’re going to look at is a text in which he tells us how to do that.

The second thing is that in her faith she acknowledged her need. That is, she had her faith in Jesus and she knew that there wasn’t any use putting faith in herself, even to the point of being able to appeal to Jesus on the basis of something that she may have been. She uses that powerful word “mercy” in her first approach. “Lord, Son of David,” she says, “have mercy upon me!” Now mercy is favor upon people who don’t deserve it. As a matter of fact, it’s favor upon those who deserve the exact opposite.