Our gracious God and our Father, we come to you once again in Christ Jesus. We confess that we have not always and very frequently we have failed to think your thoughts. We have entered all too often into the mind of Satan and we have taken our eyes off you in all of your sublimity and superb attributes, you who are created, omniscient, omnipotent, not only wise. We have taken our eyes off you and focused them upon ourselves. Instead of seeing your grand year and our creatureliness and our relationship to you, we have put our eyes upon ourselves and we've tried to be ten gods establishing our own rule, our own kingdom, our own englandisement and self-centred programs. We confess it because of your grace we abhor and we desire Lord to know more of focusing upon you and seeing you manifest in all the excellencies of Jesus Christ, that we may truly see who we are and our relationship to Him and that in living in Him and dying to self we may become part of that which is reality, eternal and true. We pray Lord that our meditation this evening, our study this evening may be girded in Christ that He may indeed be our teacher through His Spirit, may His Spirit minister to me and to each of us may we be open to learn of you in Jesus' name, amen. If you have your notes, would you turn to page 29 and we begin yet another form or type of sound. We are dividing the Psalms in two different ways, for the first part here we are dividing the hymns according to their form and namely we're looking at Psalms of lament and out of that Psalms of trust and then Psalms of declarative praise and then Psalms of descriptive praise. As we notice in the notes and as you received that outline from Walter Bodine a couple of weeks ago, not all the Psalms fit into these forms and we classify other Psalms according to the subject matter whether they're teaching about Torah or the reign of God upon the earth and so forth. We spent then several weeks on the form of lament Psalms understanding its motifs so that we could recreate in our minds the threat structures of the inspired poet and then having looked at individual lament Psalms and community lament Psalms last week we took a type of Psalm that develops the confidence section and we looked at Psalms of trust. Tonight we want to look at a second major category of Psalms after lament we want to look at the declarative praise Psalms. These are the reverse of the lament Psalms, namely now the Psalmist has experienced the answer to his prayer and he declares in the temple in association with paying his vows and with the offering up of his gifts as we saw one of the first introductory lectures. He declares in the community what God has done for him. These Psalms are given to us on page 29 and I know several of them, namely Psalms 18, 21, 30, 32, 34, 40, 41, 66, 106, 116, 116, 118. If you have, in the other evening, the sheets taken out of Bernhard Anderson's work out of the depths, there is a whole section on individual songs of Thanksgiving that essentially compartment with the list I have given here. There are one of two Psalms where Professor Anderson and I may disagree in our classification but essentially it is the same sort of listing of Psalms. Now these Psalms have distinct motifs just as lament Psalms have distinct motifs, the acknowledgment Psalms where they publicly acknowledge God's answer to prayer have distinct thought structures to them, namely there is frequently, though not always, a proclamation. If you look in page 29 I put that down, the parts of the declarative praise, proclamation to praise the Lord. Many of these Psalms begin, I will praise the Lord, I will acknowledge what he was done for me. I will love the Lord or I will bless the Lord and then there is a summary statement and they state in a nutshell exactly what God has done for them. The Psalmist will say, he saved me from the desperate situation in which he found himself. And thirdly there will frequently be a proclamation and secondly a summary statement and thirdly a looking back at this time.