Psalms 88:13 But to You I have cried out, O LORD, And in the morning my prayer comes before You. Have you ever woken up early in the morning with lots on your mind? Well many times this is the Lord calling us to prayer. Prayer in the morning is a wonderful time of intimate fellowship with God. Sometimes its just a groan or a cry or just a sigh. But it is still prayer.
Category Archives: Encouragement
Prayer – Waiting for God to Move
God intends to fulfill every desire placed in us by the Holy Spirit. We just need prayer, waiting for God’s timing and God’s way. Trying to adjust God’s timing is like trying to move the hands on a clock, we can move the hands, but we cannot actually change the time.
Just remember Romans 8:26 Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses. For we do not know what we should pray for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes intercession for us with groanings which cannot be uttered.
Also remember Genesis 13:14 And the LORD said to Abram, after Lot had separated from him: “Lift your eyes now and look from the place where you are — northward, southward, eastward, and westward; 15 “for all the land which you see I give to you and your descendants forever.
The Lord Lifts Up our Head
Psalms 3:1 Jehovah, how many are they that trouble me, many they that rise up against me! 2 Many say of my soul, There is no salvation for him in God. Selah. 3 But thou, Jehovah, art a shield about me; my glory, and the lifter up of my head. 4 With my voice will I call to Jehovah, and he will answer me from the hill of his holiness. Selah. 5 I laid me down and slept; I awaked, for Jehovah sustaineth me. 6 I will not fear for myriads of the people that have set themselves against me round about. 7 Arise, Jehovah; save me, my God! For thou hast smitten all mine enemies upon the cheekbone, thou hast broken the teeth of the wicked. 8 Salvation is of Jehovah; thy blessing is upon thy people. Selah.
Consider the encouragement in this Psalm. The psalmist is praying “With my voice will I call to Jehovah“. And after the short prayer, look at what the Lord does:
1. lifter up of my head
2. a shield about me
3. sustaineth me
4. Salvation is of Jehovah
The Lord does much when we pray.
Christ Intercedes for Us
Romans 8:34 who is he that condemns? It is Christ who has died, but rather has been also raised up; who is also at the right hand of God; who also intercedes for us.
This is another encouraging verse since it shows that the Lord is praying (interceding) for us. So don’t loose heart, God is on your side to bring you fully into His glory.
The Lord is Always Praying
Hebrews 7:25 Whence also he is able to save completely those who approach by him to God, always living to intercede for them. In this verse we are told that the Lord is always praying.
Sinners Can Pray
Can a sinner pray? Consider the what should be the number one apostle “Peter”, who many times was singled out special by the Lord Jesus. Matt 16 — “Peter, …upon this rock”, Matt 17 – saw the Lord transfigured with a few other apostles.
But here in Luke 5, Peter realized he was a sinner. Luke 5:8 When Simon Peter saw [it,] he fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, “Depart from me, for I am a sinful man, O Lord!”
Consider this section from Holy in Christ by Andrew Murray.
O my God! with a love and a joy and a thanksgiving that cannot be uttered, I praise Thee for Christ, who has been made unto us of Thee sanctification and redemption. In Him Thou art my Redeemed, my Holy One. In Him I am Thy redeemed, Thy holy one. O God! in speechless adoration I fall down to worship the love that passeth knowledge, that hath done this for us, and to believe that in one who is now before Thee, holy in Christ, Thou wilt fulfil all Thy glorious purposes according to the greatness of Thy power. Amen.
1. ‘Redemption through His blood.’ The blood we meet at the threshold of the pathway of Holiness. For it is the blood of the sacrifice which the fire of God consumed, and yet could not consume. That blood has such power of holiness in it, that we read, ‘Sanctified by His own blood.’ Always think of holiness, or pray for it, as one redeemed by blood. Live under the covering of the blood in its daily cleansing power.
Eternal Realities
“Live near to God, and so all things will appear to you little in comparison with eternal realities.” from Robert Murray M’Cheyne
This verse reminds me of I Cor 4:18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
Also consider the verse showing the confidence of God in completing what He begun in us. Philippians 1:6 Being confident of this very thing, that he which hath begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ:
So when we pray, remember God is in this eternal realm, and sees things from this perspective.
God Causes Things to Happen
Genesis 1:9 And God said–Let the waters under the heavens, be gathered together, into one place, and let the dry-ground appear. And it was so. When God prays things happen. No earthly environment or situation can hinder God, eventually He wins and everything else stands in awe.