From: https://www.presidentialprayerteam.org/guide

 

“You who have made me see many troubles and calamities will revive me again.” Psalm 71:20

Psalm 71 has been called the Senior Citizen’s Psalm.

It speaks of God’s faithfulness across the span of life, praising and glorifying the Father for the many ways He has demonstrated His love and tender care. Theologian Charles H. Spurgeon said, “We have here the prayer of the aged believer, who in holy confidence of faith, strengthened by a long and remarkable experience, pleads against his enemies, and asks further blessing for themself.” Even by the end of the psalm, the writer says he will continue to speak of God’s “righteous help all the day long.” There is no retirement for the Christian.

However, there is assisted living! The follower of Christ who has had the joy of walking in the Lord’s ways a good part of his life, understands that it is God who has seen them through everything that came their way – their troubles and calamities as well as the victories and triumphs – and that the same God also continues to strengthen and revive. Pastor and evangelist F. B. Meye said, “Never doubt God. Never say that He has forsaken or forgotten. Never think that He is unsympathetic. He will quicken again.”

 

Pastor David Guzik, in his commentary Enduring Word, says, “The psalmist knew the faithfulness of God through the younger years and now asked that God continue that faithfulness in old age as strength fails. The psalmist knew that our strength diminishes with old age, but God’s strength does not.” Pray for the many in America’s leadership who are aging and do not know the Lord that they would turn to God for wisdom and salvation. Life and strength are sustained by God alone.