1. Summer in the Psalms: Sheltered & Secure (Psalm 61) – This Psalm teaches us that we can be confident and, like David, we have access to pour out even our most desperate cries to the Lord, knowing He listens and responds according to His will.

2. Faint – The word faint here means when my heart is overwhelmed, exhausted, or weighed down by circumstances.

3. A Core Truth – You might say that in order for us to realize that God is all we need, we have to be brought to the point where God is all we have.

4. Refuge – A refuge is a safe, secure shelter from physical or spiritual distress. It’s the strong tower David refers to.

5. Shelter – Shelter provides protection, and in Hebrew it means hiding place. (See Psalms 91). The secret place of the Most High, under the shadow of His wings, where our enemy can’t find us.

6. Heritage – Heritage means a legacy, spiritual blessings, promises & eternal security.

7. Vow – Vow means my solemn, binding promise. A sincere declaration. His vow was one of life-long worship.

• 1. David said, "O Lord, You have searched me and known me."

• 2. "You comprehend my path and my lying down, and are acquainted with all my ways."

• 3. "For there is not a word on my tongue, but behold, O Lord, You know it altogether."

• 4. "Where can I go from Your Spirit? Or where can I flee from Your presence?"

• 5. Even when David ran, hid, or sinned, God's hand still led him.

• 6. David said, "I am fearfully and wonderfully made."

• 7. "How precious also are Your thoughts to me, O God! How great is the sum of them!"

• 8. David's honest prayer was, "Search me, O God, and know my heart."

• 9. God calls David a man after His own heart not because he was sinless, but because he kept coming back.

1 You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. 2 You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. 3 You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways. 4 Before a word is on my tongue you, Lord, know it completely. 5 You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. 6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain.

7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. 9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, 10 even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast. 11 If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” 12 even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.

13 For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. 14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. 15 My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. 16 Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. 17 How precious to me are your thoughts,[a] God! How vast is the sum of them! 18 Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand— when I awake, I am still with you.

19 If only you, God, would slay the wicked! Away from me, you who are bloodthirsty! 20 They speak of you with evil intent; your adversaries misuse your name. 21 Do I not hate those who hate you, Lord, and abhor those who are in rebellion against you? 22 I have nothing but hatred for them; I count them my enemies. 23 Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. 24 See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.