Hear My Voice When I Call To You 31 [Psalm 141:1-10]

 

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Hear My Voice

When I Call To You 31

[Psa 141:1-10] 

 

/ Anne’s Faith

column

 

 

 

/ By Priscilla

 

  

 

"A psalm of

David. O LORD,

 

 

 

I call to you; come

quickly to me.

 

 

 

Hear my voice

when I call to you.

 

 

 

May my prayer

be set before you

like incense;

 

 

 

may the lifting up

of my hands be like

the evening sacrifice.

 

 

 

Set a guard over

my mouth, O LORD;

keep watch over the

door of my lips.

 

 

 

Let not my heart

be drawn to what is evil,

to take part in wicked

deeds with men

 

 

 

who are evildoers;

let me not eat of

their delicacies."

(Psalm 141 : 1-4)

 

 

 

From David's prayer

posture and the

contents of his

prayer,

 

 

we can see his

earnest heart

and honest heart

  toward the Lord.

 

 

 

Above all else,

praying to the Lord

and earnestly asking

for an answer

 

 

 

to his cry will be

the same not only

for David, but also

for each of us.

 

 

 

The Lord wants us

to have pure hearts. 

 

 

 

God wants us to be

 pure and unpolluted

in our souls.

 

 

 

Therefore,

each of us needs

to wake up from our

spiritual hibernation,

 

 

 

abandon our usual

forms of prayer,

 

 

 

and be more sincere

and honest with God.

 

 

 

Like David's great

confession, we must

beg the LORD to set a

guard over our mouths

 

 

 

and watch over us

day and night, and

keep us from the traps

set by evildoers.

 

 

 

And also we must

strongly ask for

desperate wish for

God not to give us

over to death.

 

 

 

How should we

 pray for that, then?

 

 

 

We need to empty

our minds toward

God faithfully and

 

 

 

sincerely and raise

our hands.

 

 

 

It is very important

to protect ourselves

and our hearts by

asking the Holy Spirit

 

 

 

so that we may

not unwittingly be

 stained with evil.

 

 

 

God always tells us

to put off the mask

of hypocrisy

 

 

 

and lies that afflict

God's heart and

be honest.

 

 

 

In fact, even if

we are in very difficult

and stressful situation,

 

 

 

we must pray earnestly

in order to experience

the miracle of crying

out to God

 

 

 

and receiving 

answers.

 

 

 

Although we walk

through the narrow

path of life, we will

bear more beautiful

 

 

 

and richer fruits

of faith in our close

fellowship with

the Holy Spirit

 

 

 

when we go forward

serving the Lord in joy.

 

 

 

Therefore,

no matter what

situation we are in,

 

 

 

we are required

to have a religious

attitude in which

we feel truly satisfied

with God's grace.

 

 

 

Also, we must

earnestly pray at

this time that the

roots of our faith

 

 

 

will be strengthened

through constant prayer

even during disasters

 

 

 

and that the unshaken

resolutions of faith

will go on like David's

confession.

 

 

 

Furthermore,

as David went through

a night of terrible

 hardship, he looked

to the Lord more,

 

 

 

praised God, and

glorified God,

 

 

 

The Lord tells us

to imitate David's

attitude of faith

during disasters

 

 

 

and go forward,

depending on the

Lord more.

 

 

 

1) Therefore, let's not

try to wrap ourselves

up in front of God,

 

 

 

but first, let's be honest

believers who talk openly.

 

 

 

2) Let's increase our

trust in God who listens

to our faint groans

 and answers our cries.

 

 

 

3) Let's empty our heart,

put the word of the

Lord in it, take root

in faith

 

 

 

and keep the

heart that the Lord

has given us purely.

 

 

 

_______________

 

 

 

Prayer

 

 

 

O LORD! 

Hear my earnest cry,

and answer my plea, 

O LORD, quickly!

 

 

 

Amen!

 

 

 

2009/03/16

 

 

/ By Priscilla