God! Are You There?

 

 

Your heart cries out: ‘God! Do not be silent.’ Unfortunately, there is no answer.

 

You wait and you try to be patient, but not even a whisper vibrates the deepest part of your inner most being.

 

Your inner most part, where God has made his journey, has experienced something similar before, when you let yourself be vulnerable and you opened yourself for others to travel through.

 

You thought they would stay, but they had other ideas, and they slipped away through the night hours so they could not be seen anymore, leaving your heart empty; it produced agony and pain.

 

Where is he, has God moved on, was his stay only temporary too, has he slipped away through the night hours like those from the earth, does he not see your trouble, surely he must?

 

Your tears well up, they will not stop, your eyes feel like they are drowning in this flood of saline fluid, they come from the lacrimal gland but it feels like they come from the deepest portions of your being.

 

Your soul is overwhelmed, it sees the grave opening up, and ready to take you in  like a thief who takes something he does not own.

 

Your hearts continues to scream, ‘God! Turn your face to me, know my despondency.’

Have you read the Psalms lately?

 

One of the writers of the Psalms was, Heman the Ezrahite, who was thought to be one of the three Levites instructed by the King of Israel, King David, to minister in music; he is believed to have been the writer of Psalm eighty eight.

 

It is believed that this Heman was related to Samuel the Prophet, supposedly his grandson, who eventually became one of King David’s seers, one from the company of prophets (1Chron.25:5).

 

Skimming through Psalm eighty eight, one cannot help but notice the sheer agony this man was going through, this Psalm indicates that he was on the edge of death, the grave had its eye on him.

 

This death may have been literal but he may have been referring to his emotional state.

 

Heman blames God for the exile of his soul, perceiving that God's wrath is heavily upon him, that his hand of anger is overwhelming him, the reason for him being on the edge of death.

 

He accuses God of making his closest friends repulsed by him, they could not stand him (תּוֹעֵבָה) {tow`ebah}, they considered him a disgusting object.

 

Was their abomination of Heman because he was at deaths door or was there another reason?

 

Generally your closest friends are not repulsed because you are near the end of your life but they can reject you if you are completely given over to the will of God, the syntax of the scripture seems to indicate this.

 

A life given over to the will of God usually has an abstruse effect on the lives of other people who are not given over to him.

Heman cries out to the Lord, seeks his face, with every part of his being, every morning and everyday, but God seems far away from him; he believes that God has rejected him.

 

Grief and sorrow, heartache and pain, had gripped Heman like a hand come up out the sea pulling him down into the waters, the light has disappeared, all he can see is darkness, so he embraces the darkness as a companion.

 

Seeing the darkness as his closet friend he is terrified of the Lords wrath.

 

Sometimes we can be overtaken by situations in life, life is not fair for some people; even God's people.

 

God's people can get overwhelmed just like Heman was.

 

Life was not easy for this prophet, even from his youth he was afflicted and wanted to die, he dreaded life and was in despair.

 

You think it is strange that you suffer similarities to this prophet, has God rejected you, does he hide his face from you?

 

Jesus suffered, this Psalm is similar to his life; he suffered at the hands of men.

 

We are destined to suffer too, if we are his children, heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ Jesus our Lord.

 

We will suffer in this life so that one day we will be glorified with Christ  at his coming.

 

The Apostle Paul had the revelation that the sufferings in this life are inconsequential to the glory that will be revealed in us, at the day and hour when God raptures the body of believers into the Lord’s presence.

 

Our bodies will be redeemed and our salvation will finally be completed.

 

So do not give up, continue in him until the day of his coming.

 

YouTube Video:  Danielle Rose Psalm 88

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How Do We Pray According to Gods Will?

            Have you ever been to the place in your relationship with God where you feel hopeless, you lack confidence, cannot realize the power of heaven at work on your behalf? Day after day your prayers seem that they never go past your lips, the doorway to your mouth, your tongue moves but the hand of God seems to be paralyzed to your relentless flow of words, and it makes you exhausted. If you have ever experienced this, and even more the recent, then you surely do not stand in a corner by yourself; most of us have felt this emptiness at one time or another. Some feel this way because they have never been taught or learned how to pray. Then there are those of us who have been taught and learned how to pray but sometimes get so weary that exhaustion creeps in like a lion sneaking up on his unsuspecting prey, all because we do not continually practice what we have learned on a daily basis.

            The bible makes it clear that when we pray we must approach God having complete confidence in him, and if we pray according to his will, he will hear us from heaven (1Jn.5:14). Many believers know this, they have heard this from their teachers, but unfortunately this is all they have heard. Some teachers only teach half the lesson, leaving many with a lack of confidence because of confusion, because they are left with incomplete knowledge. The Apostle John did not confuse the body of believers with a lack of knowledge, but it is many of the purveyors of scripture who do.

            The bible teaches us to pray according to the will of God; nobody will argue with that. The Spirit says to pray according to the will of God, in the scripture reference in the previous paragraph above, but what is the will of God when it comes to prayer. Some teachers leave their students with the idea that the believer has to hear a voice in their inner man, and that voice will lay out detailed instructions leading the hearer on a certain pathway that the believer must then pray about and also follow; they say that this is the method in knowing the will of God for your life, and they contend praying this way will cause God to hear you and his will for your life will then come to fulfillment—If the believer waits eventually the will of God that he or she has prayed for will happen. Again, nobody will argue with this supposition, even though many believers have never experienced this type of revelatory images within their spirit. I am not saying that this method of revelation cannot happen, but it just does not happen to every believer, even the most ardent of believers. Then the conundrum occurs, because even the most impassioned believer does not receive specific instruction from within, laid out step by step, on what to pray for their own lives, let alone praying for what will be beneficial for other people in the near and long term of their lives.

            This problem exists because some do not understand the meaning of how to pray according to the will of God, and this should not be so confusing; some just make it confusing. What is the will of God anyway, is it not the word of God? Has God not spoken to us through his son, Jesus Christ? Before Christ became manifest in the flesh of men the Father spoke to us, primarily Israel, through the prophets of Israel, but now, in these last days, he speaks to us through his son; the Spirit of his son by what has been recorded in the holy scriptures (Heb.1:1-2). Jesus Christ taught us how to pray by the very words he spoke, and his servants recorded, he taught us how to pray according to the will of his Father.

            How then does the believer pray according to the will of God so that he will hear us? Praying according to the will of God requires that the believer prays with a spirit of faith, believing that whatever we pray for he will grant it to us. John writes that if we pray according to Gods will, which means praying according to the law that he has laid out for prayer, the law of faith, then we must pray according to the method that Jesus taught us on how to pray, it is then we can have confidence that he will hear us: “and if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him” (1Jn.5:15*).

            To use a frequent phrase, used by certain people in political circles in recent times, to get the attention of their hearers, “let me be clear!” Praying according to the will of God is praying the method that Jesus taught to his disciples, and what is recorded in the scriptures for us to practice. The method that Jesus taught so that we pray according to his Fathers will is to pray believing that we will receive whatever we ask for in prayer (Matt.21:22). Does this mean we can pray for anything that we desire, even if it is evil, concupiscent, and avaricious? Do I have do answer this for you? If what we desire is in direct conflict with what God has written then we should not desire it. If anyone desires to cozy up with the world then he will only make himself Gods enemy; do not be at enmity with him (Jms.4:4). On the other hand, if the requests we make before God do not directly conflict with his nature then we will receive whatever we ask for, if we are emphatic  that we believe that we receive it, doubt cannot be an issue (Mk.11:24).

            Is there some question in your mind that it is his desire to give you whatever you ask for? Quantitatively it is; he is the one who said: “Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you. For every one that asks receives; and he that seeks finds; and to him that knocks it shall be opened” (Matt.7:7-8*). Christ promises that if we partner up with someone and we have the same heart in a specific matter we can then ask for anything and God will do it for us (Matt.18:19). We do not have to beg, or cry, or stomp our feet, but only believe that we receive what we ask for, believe that he will do for us the very thing we have requested. This is how the law of faith works (Rom.3:27), whatever God says, whatever he promises, he will work to make sure what he says is done (Num.23:19; Ezk.12:25), our part is to make absolutely sure that we believe that we receive, whatever it is that we ask him for, and let there not be even one drop of doubt in your heart (Mk.11:23-24).  

* Darby’s Translation 1890

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