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Thursday... There are so many ways to pray.


Thursday... There are so many ways to pray.

Meditation is one. We read in the Bible something and we meditate on it. We let it sink into our heart and mind. We see what it says from many sides. We meditate. That is always a great way to connect with God.

Then there is desperation. King David writes in Psalm 141:1 (NLT), "O Lord, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!" There are exclamation points at the end of each statement. He emphatically cries out to God. He is desperate.

Somewhere in his life, David has had some times of meditation. He has stopped to think about his relationship with God. He has spent time thinking about God. What he is like. What he can do. Does he really care? Can he handle any problem that I bring to him? How will he handle it if I come to him in desperation? David had times when he was out tending his father's sheep that he stopped and thought about God. 

And he also has had times when he was desperate. There was a lion after the sheep and there was also a giant named Goliath "O Lord, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!" He had had other times of desperation so he could call out to God in confidence. 

Times of mediation give us confidence in our times of desperation, don't they? I personally know that God will come quickly because I believe the Bible and it says he will but I also know he will because he has done it before. 

Later David prays in verses 8-10, "I look to you for help, O Sovereign Lord. You are my refuge; don't let them kill me. Keep me from the traps they have set for me, from the snares of those who do wrong. Let the wicked fall into their own nets, but let me escape." "But let me escape." Verse 10 in The Message Paraphrase says, "Let the wicked fall flat on their faces, while I walk off without a scratch." Now David knew who he was talking to and he knew what he could do 

Yes, we need to spend some time meditating so when we call out in times of desperation we will have confidence that God will hear us and help us. We really do need to spend time in God's Word and that will give us confidence when we are desperate. Yes, yes! #todaysbeginning

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