I Love The Lord Because He Hears My Voice And My Prayers For Mercy
He Did It For Me, So He Will Do It For You
PSALM 116:1-2
“I love the Lord, because He has heard My voice and my supplications. Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.
”Psalms 116:1-2 NKJV
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God is always ready to listen; when you call, His response is immediate. In fact, He heard your prayers before you thought of them.
He bends down and listens to your voice.
The writers’ love and faith in the Lord had grown because he had experienced God’s answer to his prayers.
We all get discouraged at times, but it is encouraging to know that God sees our every situation and hears our every call.
He doesn’t promise us that we will have a trouble free life, but He has the answer before we even knew we had the problem.
Furthermore, He uses our troubles to mould us and shape us into the people He created us to be (ISAIAH 64:8).
James said, “My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. But let patience have its perfect work, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking nothing.”
James 1:2-4 NKJV
In view of James words, it’s not surprising that God’s timing doesn’t always align with ours. Our troubles come with purpose and must continue until God’s planned outcome is achieved.
But regardless, He goes before you to prepare the way, and He is there with you by your side, to go through it all (DEUTERONOMY 31:8).
Whatever evil comes against you, God uses it for good (GENESIS 50:20). “And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according to His purpose.”
Romans 8:28 NKJV
It doesn’t always feel like God is helping us, but we humans see only a small part of the picture, the immediate circumstance. But God sees the whole picture; He knows what is best long-term.
Your salvation is always His number one priority, rather than your immediate circumstance, so you can expect to be uncomfortable at times.
But whatever the circumstance, however impossible it seems, it is possible with God (LUKE 18:27; MATHEW 19:26).
We have a choice, we can go our own ways, putting our trust in money or people, or things of this world; or we can put our trust in God.
You are free to do it your way. God will stand back if that’s the way you choose. But if you submit to His will and give all your troubles to Him, He is faithful to intervene and make a way for you.
Truly I tell you, “”Blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, And whose hope is the Lord. For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters, Which spreads out its roots by the river, And will not fear when heat comes; But its leaf will be green, And will not be anxious in the year of drought, Nor will cease from yielding fruit.”
Jeremiah 17:7-8 NKJV
All you need is a little faith, and you can move the mountains in your life (MATHEW 17:20).
Like Peter, you can rise above every storm and even if it becomes overwhelming, Jesus is always right there to take your hand, lead you to safety and then faithful to calm the storm (MATHEW 24:22-33).
My beloved, I love God because despite the mess I made of my life, He loved me anyway.
He changed my life giving me peace where there was no peace. He gave me joy in the chaos of this troubled world. He healed me when I was sick, and gave me hope where there was no hope. Furthermore, He wrote my name in the book of life that regardless of my sinful past and the suffering of this life, I have a wonderful eternal future to look forward to.
Furthermore, He continues to work within me and through me and beside me, not just for my sake, but for my children, and loved ones, and all the people who sends my way, to give each and every one of them the opportunity of same gift that He given me.
My beloved, He is working through all His people, the body of Christ that He had put together for such a time as this (EPHESIANS 4:11), that His promises extend to every single person regardless of their sinful past, their faults and failures, their skin colour or place of birth, or even their sexual orientation, that all who choose to believe shall be saved.
“What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us. Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written: “For Your sake we are killed all day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.” Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Romans 8:31-39 NKJV
All glory to God forever and ever! Amen.
