God Hears Our Pleas

Verses: Psalms 142: 1 - 7

Songs inspired by the chapter:  Song has been uploaded from YouTube.com and is not my original.

My thoughts about the verses:

Imagine Jesus on the cross.  Look into the eyes of Jesus as he looks around and see that his friends have deserted him.  Listen to the voice of Jesus as he turns his spirit over to God.  Watch his head as it falls gently down.  Observe that moment when Jesus dies and returns to the right hand of God.

Did you realize the most important part of the above as you were imagining those last moments of the savior.  Jesus gave his spirit to God.  He asked God to relieve him of his pain and agony.  In that very moment Jesus plea was heard and he was given the gift of peace.

Now look at your own life.  Have you ever had a moment that you cried out to God from deep within your soul?  We have all had that moment that we can only survive if God takes over.  We have to only ask the precious savior to come and our pleas are heard.

We have to come to understand that God wants to come and take away our pain and agony.  God does not want us to suffer.  Yet, there are times that we must come to the point that we truly turn it over to God for our pain to end.  See we say that we have given our problems over to God.  Yet, deep down inside we are still trying to fix it ourselves.  We are looking for an answer and are disappointed because God did not take away our pain.  Yet, God would have done it immediately if we had left it to God. 

I live in pain all the time because of illness I have.  I suffer will illnesses that I would never give to my enemies.  Years went by that I “turned” the problem over to God.  Yet, nothing was getting better.  I even got to the point that I wondered if this was a punishment for something that had done.  My faith was faltering because I couldn’t understand why God was helping. 

Then I came to realize that my pleas were only superficial.  I really wasn’t turning the problem over to God.  I was trying to do it all myself.  I was trying to find the answer myself.  When I finally turned it over to God my life changed.  The pain didn’t leave but my spirit no longer felt hopeless.  I knew that my God was there for me listening to my pleas.

I came to understand the true power of God when you allow God to take over. You may not get the exact thing that you wanted.  Yet, God who is all knowing will give you what you need.  I learned what I needed was to let go completely and let God take charge.  In that moment the pain of hurt deep within my soul disappeared.  It was then that I realized it wasn’t my physical pain that needed to be healed.  It was the hurt that I had carried from rejection. 

God will do the same thing for you.  If you truly turn your needs over to God you will get exactly what you need.  You may find strength that you never thought you had.  You might find the peace that you needed.  God will give you what you most need if you plea to God and accept what God is giving to you.

Prayer:

We thank you for answering our prayers.  We praise you for the gifts that you bestow to us.  Help us Dear God to turn our problems over to you.  Help us to accept your answer.  We thank you precious Savior for the gift of everlasting life.  Help us accept that this is the greatest gift that we can ever receive.  In the name of our Almighty God we pray.  Amen

Questions:

Have you accepted the gift that God is given to you?  Are you willing to turn your problems over to God?  Are you willing to ask God to save you from your despair?  Have you come to the conclusion that God wants what is best for you?  What is God trying to teach you today?