Daily Manna: Prayer That Prevails

Saturday 17, August 2013

TEXT: PSALM 86:1-10

KEY VERSE: “Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy” (Psalm 86:1).

One day, a clergyman was confronted on his manner of prayer. Prior to that, he was used to saying loud prayers. He later changed to a quiet way of communing with his heavenly Father.

When a colleague asked about the change, the clergyman laughed hysterically and replied: “When I was young, I thought it was the thunder that killed people, but when I grew up I discovered it was lightning. So I determined that in the future I would thunder less and lighten more.”

David, a man with a penitent heart, knew how best to touch heaven with prayer. He had passed through troubles: he killed a lion and a bear; he escaped being killed by Saul, first king of Israel; he killed Goliath; he suffered a coup plot by his son, Absalom, etc. In each of these circumstances, David was never deterred, for he knew how to get help from God through prayer.

Our text today provides us with insight into David’s prayer for mercy, with meditation on the excellencies of the Lord. His prayer was from a lowly heart by reason of his humility. David exemplified his littleness and weakness before God, noting that God was higher than him. Therefore, he besought Him to hear him. He felt himself unsafe except he was covered by divine protection. So, he requested for nothing else but mercy. His importunity in prayer was borne out of the fact that only God could supply good things and remove evil. This was the reason he looked to the Lord alone for joy.

How is your prayer before God? Remember that “the sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise” (Psalm 51: 17).

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: It is the heart’s attitude, not posture, that counts when we pray.

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That's True,,,he deals with d heart ,,,

Ajibam: That's True,,,he deals with d heart ,,,

you are on point its nt all about noise making but heart to heart communication with God...