A Prayer To The God Of My Life

The only longing I sense some have in this Body of Christ is for things to be the way, quote “they,” end quote want them to be. In fact, for the first time I heard the word “clique” used in reference to an unknown “they” this past week. It was stated to me that there is a clique of sorts who want to keep things the way they have always been. So in essence the only strong longing is a longing to go back to the way things were at a perceived point in the past. The question that we must answer is this: “Is that where God wants this Body of Christ to go?” And is that really where you want to go?

I don’t clearly and precisely know where God wants this church to go in the future. But I do know this, God is at work right now in the present in the heart and soul of this Body of Christ. I believe He sent me here to bind up the broken hearted, to break up the hard hearted, to restore the spiritual health and vitality to the Body and to prepare you to move forward with Him as He moves in our midst. But for you to be perceptive to what God is doing in this Body, you must pour out your soul in A Prayer for the Meaningful Present Work of God. Paul prayed in Phil 3:10 “That I might know Him in the power of his resurrection AND the fellowship of His suffering, becoming like Him in His death.”

Finally, you need to pray:

III. A Prayer for ME to Put My Hope in God vv.6-11

The Psalmist prayed a prayer to put his hope in God. And notice a part of the predicament out of which he prayed his prayer. We’ve already noted that he felt distant from God (v.6). His heart was breaking within him. He feels that he’s drowning in a sea of trouble. Great sorrow and chaos is overwhelming him (v.7). It sounds like depression is oppressing him. He feels forgotten by God, forsaken by others and all alone (v.9). He feels oppressed by his enemies. He even feels physically fatigued (v.10). A deadly wound is found in his body either out of sickness or injury caused by the insults of his foes as they taunt him with the question: “Where is your God?”

But his prayer putting his hope in God is entitled in v.8 "A Prayer to the God of My Life. “By day the Lord directs His love.” We are called and commanded as children of God and the people of God to “Love one another.” God will direct us in how to do that as we “walk according to His Spirit.” And no matter what we may be going through we need to keep a hymn in our heads and hope in our hearts – expectation and desire that God is working all things together for good. Of course “putting hope in God” is stated 3 times in v.5, v.11 and in 43:5. When we talk to God and pour out our soul to Him, we need to be honest with Him about how we really feel like the Psalmist did in v.9. We need to ask God what He is doing here, in your life, in your circumstance, in HIS church. We need to ask God for His perspective on our situation if we are to ever know the TRUTH about it and that can only come from God as he chooses to reveal it in our pouring out “A Prayer to the God of My Life.”