My heart has heard you say,
“Come and talk with me.” And my heart responds, “LORD, I am coming.” - Psalm 27:8
We communicate with God in
the same manner in which we communicate with people. There is no need to use
long sentences, flowery words or to translate English into Greek and Hebrew to
impress God with your prayers! There is no need to pretend with God, because He
knows you better than you know yourself. We just need to be authentic and to
allow our true self to communicate with our Heavenly Daddy.
There is a time coming,
during the Great Tribulation, when mankind will cry out to God and He will not
hear them. But right now, if we seek the Lord and
call upon Him, He is always near to us. He calls the wicked to forsake his way,
and the unrighteous man to submit his thoughts to God. He wants everyone to
return to Him (John 3:16-18). If we will, He will have compassion on
us all and abundantly pardon all of our transgressions (Isaiah
55:6-7).
If, with a thankful
heart, we bring everything to God in prayer for what He already provided, we
have no need to worry about anything. He will continue to supply. He actually
invites us to make our requests known to Him. He is the God of such deep,
abiding peace that we cannot even comprehend the depths of it. Therefore, He is
capable of guarding our hearts and our minds, and of providing all of our
needs, as we stay in tune to Him (Philippians 4:6-7).
God speaks to us, through
the Bible, in prayer, by His Holy Spirit to our spirit, through our
circumstances and in His still, small voice within our mind (1 Kings
19: 11-13). His
grace is sufficient for all of our needs (2 Corinthians
12:9). His power is
perfected in our weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9). That is why Paul declared that he preferred
to boast about his weaknesses, so that the power of Christ could be strong in
him (2 Corinthians 12:8-9).
At times, the
darkness in the world threatens to overwhelm us. God promises to be the light
all around us, because even the darkness is not dark to Him. The night is as
bright as the day to the Lord, because darkness and light are alike to Him (Psalm
139:11-12). God is not
afraid of the darkness and His Spirit in us will give us confidence to face
dark circumstances with courage and victory.
God is just
waiting for us to give him the opportunity to have compassion on us. He is the
God of justice, and we are blessed when we long for Him with our whole heart (Isaiah
30:18). He hears our voice and our requests, because He bends
down His ear to hear us. We have no excuse not to call upon Him every day of
our life (Psalm 116:1-2). He
longs to be gracious to us.
Thought
for the Day:
Never start a day without first
saturating it in prayer.
