Remember, O Lord, ... - Psalms 87-89

Psalms 89:49-52 (ESV Strong's)
49 Lord, where is your steadfast love of old,
which by your faithfulness you swore to David?
50 Remember, O Lord, how your servants are mocked,
and how I bear in my heart the insults of all the many nations,
51 with which your enemies mock, O LORD,
with which they mock the footsteps of your anointed.
52 Blessed be the LORD forever!
Amen and Amen.

Remember, O Lord, ...

Psalm 89 is a powerful song written to acknowledge God’s supreme rule over the earth (vss 1-18) and to celebrate the everlasting covenant that God made with King David; to establish His kingdom forever throughout generations (vss 19-37).   God would ultimate establish David via Christ and the Kingdom of God ushered in when Christ became man and die and rose again.   In the remaining verses, however, we have a lament of the writers (vss 38-52).  The writer switches from the things he knows about God and that God has fully promised and begins to talk about his defeat and his need for God to come through for him.   The writer has suffered some large defeat.  To call upon God during this time he recounts God’s promises to King David:

Psalms 89:33-35 (ESV Strong's)
33 but I will not remove from him my steadfast love
or be false to my faithfulness.
34 I will not violate my covenant
or alter the word that went forth from my lips.
35 Once for all I have sworn by my holiness;
I will not lie to David.

With these words flowing from his pen, the writer pivots to:

Psalms 89:38 (ESV Strong's)
38 But now you have cast off and rejected;
you are full of wrath against your anointed.

This apparently is a leader (hence the phrase “your anointed”).   Having established God’s rule and word, he asked God to “remember” His “faithfulness” to David.   It could be assumed this is a king, of David’s linage, who is in trouble.  The key thought is that he cries out for God to remember.   In our prayers, one of the most powerful tools we have, is to claim the promises of God.  God does not lie.  God keeps everyone of His promises.  We might not see how He is keeping them.  We might, at times, which He fulfilled them in a different way in our lives.   But, God does not fail to keep His many promises.   We ought to pray them back to God and claim them.   That makes for a powerful prayer life to God.