Have you read Psalm 25 lately? It is mainly a prayer to the Lord by David. Except for a few verses in the middle where David seems to be telling others about his God, David primarily addresses God.

I’ve heard people say they don’t know how to pray like they should. I know Jesus gave us the outline and main points of prayer in “The Lord’s Prayer,” but David was also good at praying. He put his prayers to music in Psalms. We can learn a lot about prayer from Psalm 25.

It begins: “O Lord, I give my life to you. I trust in you, my God! Do not let me be disgraced, or let my enemies rejoice in my defeat. No one who trusts in you will ever be disgraced, but disgrace comes to those who try to deceive others.” [NLT]

That’s where it all starts … “I give my life to you. I trust in you, my God!”  Every prayer we pray is because we have first given our life to God, we have placed our trust in Him and Him alone. Now we have the assurance that our enemies are defeated and that we will not be put to shame.

I remember the day I prayed that first prayer of trust in God, August 1973. It was at a small interdenominational Charismatic Prayer Group run by perhaps the oddest couple in history. She was 80, he was 50. I had been witnessed to by my Pentecostal great aunts for years. I had been bullied into driving my mother that day. I had no desire, no intention of being anything but a chauffeur. And God met me there.

My life turned around forever with one little prayer, which was nowhere near as eloquent as David’s “O Lord, I give my life to you. I trust in you, my God!” but still every bit as effective. I became His and my trust and my hope in my Savior, Jesus Christ, has only increased over the decades.