Joan Brock
Why are you so downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me. Put your HOPE in God, for I will yet praise him, my savior and my God.
The Psalmist gives us an example of the difference between praying our prayers and truly praying. He really wanted a relationship with God more than anything else in the world. Many people pray without earnestly wanting an intimacy with God. He talked to God about what he was feeling – really! That kind of honesty in prayer made way for God to heal the real needs and not just the surface whims. Let’s use this psalm as a model to talk to God.
It was the experience of the steadfast love of God that drew him back into close union with the Father. What God has done heightens our expectation of what He will do. Praise opens the heart. The more we praise God, the ore ready we are to accept the next steps of His strategy for us. Let’s make today a day in which we bless God all through the day for His goodness to us in all the problems and perplexities of life.
We need not e anxious when we can turn everything over to the Lord of the universe. Our prayers are to be an honest statement of our need and then thanksgiving for the fact that the Lord has heard us and will act for our ultimate good. A peace and hope beyond our understanding will flood our hearts. Christ will guard our hearts from anything that could distress us. Prayer is a time to meditate on creative, positive thoughts about Christ and what He is able to do with our problems.
Prayer: Father God, may we pray in a way that our minds ad heart and become focused on your positive power and hope and not just on our perplexities. Only then can peace replace problematic living. Amen.
Lloyd John Ogilvie
God’s Best For My Life
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