We are kings of Gods kingdom

Ps 138 1" I will praise you, O LORD, with all my heart; before the "gods" I will sing your praise.2 I will bow down toward your holy temple and will praise your name for your love and your faithfulness, for you have exalted above all things your name and your word."

Here David is teaching that Gods kingdom is established through His creative word. When God unites our experience with the reality of His creative hand working all things together for His glory then we experience a confidence that is compared to winning a war. God has established His law in the same way that we build muscle from exercise. He builds His confidence in us through His love and faithfulness. "Love and faithfulness" are part of these two word phrases that are used to teach a lesson to Israel as they sojourned through the desert with Gods presence as light and fire. His presence was out in front and covering their back. Its like a city with walls moving from camp site to camp site enjoying the protection of God from all attacks. 

The parallel is "love and faithfulness "with "His name and word." God establishes the success of Israel through His name and word and it is displayed by His covenant faithfulness. So David is saying that God has established Israel as a nation in His eternal counsel through speaking His creative word . Just like Gods light and fire is displayed to them so His name and word are made known among the nations as a display of Gods name. No one is able to thwart Gods power. Every enemy of David has been destroyed. 

When David says that he comes in the Name of the Lord he is saying that God in establishing His word through creating, has also done the work necessary to be pleased with the results. The only way that Gods covenant can be known is by His absolute judgement at all times. God in establishing His covenant stands over all of time making absolute judgements on all reality so that His creation and recreation does not depend upon His creatures. God sits on His throne as judge pronouncing life and death on every thing that exist. 

What is the principle that separates Gods purposes from mans plans? Its Gods recreation through blessing and cursing. The law of God is an instrument of the judge to overturn all of mans communication that establishes man as his own governing authority. God proves His covenant sovereignty by overturning all of mans destructive communication so that He can glorify Himself. This absolute voice of life and death is described by David as Gods covenant success in saving His people. 

The confidence of the king is that Gods word is a spoken word. The king speaks the law, covenants, decrees, and promises as the source of the kings authority. These words of God transcend all governments. David has been given the prescription that addresses the problems of all authority by the King of the universe.  These words create the identity of the real man. They are given to us in the creation ordinance so that we can understand our place in this world. Each man gets his authority by God alone. We are identified with the God -Man who took His place on the throne as He rules as King. In speaking these words we are approaching God as a king. It is terribly important to understand our position in order to reflect Gods purpose in giving us this authority. By lowering our position as king we lower God. David expresses his success in overcoming all opposition in this kingly image by declaring.3" When I called, you answered me; you made me bold and stouthearted."