“CRY TO GOD”
“CRY TO GOD”
“He will fulfill the desire of those who fear him; he will also hear their cry, and will save them.”
(Psalm 145: 19)
After all these years, I still don’t fully understand the subject of prayer. It is a mystery to me. But I do know one thing: when we are desperately in need, prayer flows naturally from our lips and from the depths of our hearts. When we are scared to death, beyond what we can bear, out of the ordinary and with our well-being in danger or threatened, we involuntarily and instinctively turn to prayer. Our natural cry is: “Lord, help me!”
Author Eugene Peterson wrote: “The language of prayer is forged in the crucible of difficulty. When we can’t help ourselves and cry out for help, when we don’t like where we are and want to escape, when we don’t like who we are and want to change, we use basic expressions that become the essential language of prayer”.
Prayer begins with problems, and continues because we always have some kind of difficulty. It requires no special preparation, exact vocabulary, or proper posture, but springs up when we are faced with needs and, over time, becomes a common response to every situation (good or bad) in this life (Philippians 4: 6)
What a privilege it is to bring everything to GOD in prayer.
Dear LORD, inflict courage on me not to fear when affliction comes upon me, knowing that You have arranged in me that Your truth triumph. My faith matures to understand the true meaning of faith, to believe that Your wonderful will will be done. In the name of
JESUS. Amen and Amen.
