It is with an expectation of being blessed, that I come again this evening to meditate upon my wonderful Lord and His mercies. I am very grateful to be able to freely study, pray and worship God, again today; and every day.
Though Almighty God is merciful and extremely patient, there comes a time for a wayward, unrepentant person or people group, when God has said enough is enough, and says ‘He will not answer or talk to them anymore’. However until the time of the end of earth as we know it; it is still true, that when we repent, and sincerely seek God, He is available to answer our questions, and our deepest need. Isaiah 55: 6, 7 “Seek the Lord while He may be found, call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord, and He will have mercy on him and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.”
King David had always had a close relationship with God, because He had delighted in God and walked in righteous obedience to his God and treated his fellow man, righteously. However in self-indulgence and absence of self-awareness, his life record became stained by the sins of adultery and murder. He had been very clearly been told via a prophet what God thought of his actions. Suddenly the ‘lights went on’ for him, and he felt unclean and very repentant. Psalm 51: 10 “Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast Spirit within me.” Now that King David understood how God, viewed his sinful actions, David was very repentant and desirous of making things right with God; but he was also now not as confident as He prayed and interacted with God. Psalm 51: 11, 12 “Do not cast me away from Your presence, and do not take Your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of Your salvation. And uphold me by Your generous spirit.” It is so good to know, that God did just that, and the prayers of King David were more than answered.
While on earth, Jesus Christ, wanted people to know and believe, that all genuine, faithful prayers would be answered. I have found this to be truly so, especially when praying through the scriptural promises of God the Father, and God, His son, Jesus Christ, for they cannot deceive or lie. Every person of every age are invited to come. Matthew 7: 7, 8 “Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” I have been so blessed lately, because I have used the above text and have asked much more boldly, with belief, for an answer to a physical problem that is distracting when reading the word of God or praying to Him. God answers my prayer day after day, and I delight in His care and love.
I am growing more confident and trusting in my prayer life, and it is not due to me, but the prompting and strengthening of the Holy Spirit. I realize more and more, that the prayer of the humble, trusting, persistent Christian opens the spiritual storehouses of God. Jesus knew we tend to become overly self-confident and prone to complicate, our relationship with God. Matthew 18: 2-4 “Then Jesus called a little child to Him, set him in the midst of them, 3 and said, ‘Assuredly, I say to you, unless you are converted and become as little children, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven. 4 Therefore whoever humbles himself as this little child is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” I obtain pleasure from hearing the simple trusting love and belief of little children in Jesus, and how they can interact and pray to Him for all things. They have no thought as we often do, that He may not answer, or they are not good enough to come to Him and obtain the answer.
Dear God, I come believing that You will answer my prayer, to put all else aside, and take You at Your word, and as taught by Glenn Coon in, “ABC of Prayer”, ask, believe and claim, as many of the scriptural promises, as are applicable and that I come across. I am thankful for them, and know that it is faith in You that unlocks rich spiritual treasures; and when I ask, You will supply that lack also.
Praise Your wonderful and all powerful name and self.