Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. Psalms 116:2 KJV
When we talk to someone, we want them to listen to us. We expect them in some way to indicate they are listening, especially if they can not stop doing what they are doing at the time. We may even ask them, "Are you listening to me?".
The writer of Psalm 116 did not have to question if God had listened to him. Past experience had taught him that God heard and listened to him. When we question whether others are listening to us, they may reply, "I heard you!" but they can not repeat back what you said. The psalmist has no such problem with God. He knew God had listened because God responded to his cries and met his needs time after time!
Keep calling on the Lord. His ear is turned towards you. He will hear, he is listening, he will respond as he has many times before!
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Have you ever asked yourself, How strong is my God? What can He withstand? Is anything to hard for Him? Will anything overcome Him? Psalm 46 is a celebratory psalm proclaiming the power of God.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.2 Therefore we will not fear though the earth gives way, though the mountains be moved into the heart of the sea,3 though its waters…
God doesn't need long prayers. In fact, the Bible says, “And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.” (Matthew 6:7)
God knows what you need before you pray (Matt 6:8) and He already knows how He will answer, because God lives outside of earth time. Short, simple prayers work too. And in times of great stress, sorrow (or just not knowing what to pray) broken, weak, tearful, poorly worded or even unspoken prayers still work.
Friend, when you need help, cry out to God in any way you can. God is listening, He loves you and He wants to help you. Just keep praying (1 Thess 5:17). Amen. 🙏🕊️🙌
Something I think about a lot is how Rick Riordan very rarely uses "girlfriend/boyfriend" to refer to Percy and Annabeth within their perspectives. They're so intertwined, even Annabeth says in hoh that the word boyfriend isn't strong enough, because Percy was a part of her. They are a singular soul, too wrapped around each others' fates that regular labels are far too weak for them. But, Rick Riordan uses "boyfriend" a lot in Nico and Wills perspectives, not because they love each other less than percabeth, but to show how much the word means to them. Nico uses it any chance he gets- "his boyfriend," "he actually had a boyfriend," because Nico has never been able to say that before. Their struggle with their queer identities mixed with Nico's catholic guilt and chronic everyone-hates-me disease makes the fact that he has someone to call his actual boyfriend so much more important to his character development.
Each Sunday during Lent I have been blogging on a portion of scripture where we are shown how to pray for each other. Lent is a time of prayer and some of that could or should be spent praying for one another. Philippians 1:9-11 is a simple but profoundly moving prayer by Paul for the Philippian Christians.
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of…