HE CARES ABOUT US, HE TAKES OUR PRAYERS SERIOUSLY (Psalm 56)

-
Psalm 56:4
In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do unto me.

Romans 8:31
What shall we then say to these things? If God [be] for us, who [can be] against us?

David had to run to Gath, a city of the Philistines to escape Saul's pursuit. We remember that Goliath, that he slew was from this city.

1 Samuel 27:1
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: [there is] nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

Imagine running from your people, cause your king wants to kill you into an enemy's nation, such stress, such exhaustion.

Yet David knew that His trust was in the Lord. He was a man, yes he could be afraid. However he put his trust in the Lord, he stayed in prayer.

Psalm 56:3
What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee.

Psalm 56:8-9
 Thou tellest my wanderings: put thou my tears into thy bottle: [are they] not in thy book?
When I cry [unto thee], then shall mine enemies turn back: this I know; for God [is] for me.

Do we notice that David understand how important our prayers are to God? He knew God took record of them and that none of our tears as believers is wasted He stores them in His bottles.

Psalms 56:8(NLT)
You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You have recorded each one in your book.

See John's revelations:

Revelation 5:8
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four [and] twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

Halleluyah

Yes in all, David did not forget to praise!

Psalms 56:10
I praise God for what he has promised; yes, I praise the lord for what he has promised.

What good example for us who believe.

In all, we know that after this earthly journey God will wipe away every tear from our eyes.  Yet still while we are in this life we have the comfort of His Holy Spirit. He dwells in us. Glory to God.

John 14:18
I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you.

Revelation 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.

Yes we have a greater glory, we have experienced what our elders' of old only envisioned. Can we do better than they did? Can we claim a better testimony. They trusted God in the midst of stern situations, what is our own testimony.

The Lord will never fail us, we must lean on Him for just as David prophesied:

Psalm 56:13
For thou hast delivered my soul from death: [wilt] not [thou deliver] my feet from falling, that I may walk before God in the light of the living?

Compare:

Colossians 1:13
Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated [us] into the kingdom of his dear Son:

Romans 8:32
He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?

Glory to God. We have victory.

He calls us blessed.

Love
@the watcher.

Comments

  1. Koleoso Akin5 September 2019 at 01:22

    May God always makes it comfortable for us to put our trust in Him. May He keep us against any form of temptation that can lead us to deny Him

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

DO YOU STILL SEE?

-
Habakkuk 2:3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time; but at the end it will speak, and it will not lie. Though it tarries, wait for it; Because it will surely come, it will not tarry. It may have been easy when we first believed, to visualize the promises. We reach out with zeal, loving God, seeking to do exploits. That was when we first believed, just as Jesus said: John 3:3 Jesus answered and said to him, "Most assuredly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God." When we become born again we see God's kingdom, our spirit man is reborn and we count the flesh as nothing. Then time passes by, we are in the world, all its distractions, temptations, responsibilities, challenges and so on begin to reveal themselves. The question then is: * Can we still see heaven? John 3:3 * Are we still zealous? John 2:17 * Are we continuing in those things? Acts 2:42 * Are we walking in love? 1John 4:7 or Has the cares and worries of life and service ta
Read more

DO UNTO OTHERS . . .

-
Matthew 7:12 "Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also to them, for this is the Law and the Prophets. It is hypocritical of us to expect people to stand with us when we are experiencing challenges yet when we see others face their own challenges, we begin to imagine what they must have done wrong or maybe they annoyed God or did one evil or the other instead of reaching out to help as we would desire others to do for us. The same thing goes for prosperity, when the Lord opens a door for us and we have abundance of wealth or a breakthrough we expect others to rejoice with us, more so, some would even find it hard to give to others. What is our reaction when someone else gets this breakthrough, do we get suddenly suspicious without reason. Do we expect the person to reach out to us? It is better to stay on the side of encouragement than to sit as a judge or prosecutor. Jesus said, Matthew 7:2 "For with what judgment you judge, you will be judged; and with the same
Read more

MY YEAR OF FULFILMENT

-
Psalms 57:2 I cry out to God Most High, to God who will fulfill his purpose for me. We just finished the book of 1Samuel, in this book we see the cry of Israel for a king and how God raised Saul to rule them. We also saw how Saul disobeyed God and lost kingship for himself and his generation. He did not stop there, he went on to seek for the death of David, whom he saw as the next heir of the throne. In chapter 31, the last chapter, we see how Saul and all his sons and men were killed, it was tragic, however it was as a sign of relief for David. We could go on counting all the struggles and difficulties we faced in the past year. No, we should not, we should begin to look at all the positives, remembering all the good things God has done for us. If He promised it, He will do it and that is what we hold onto as we go through this year. Hebrews 10:23 Let us hold tightly without wavering to the hope we affirm, for God can be trusted to keep his promise. This is the year of fulfilment, and
Read more