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HEARS OUR HOWL
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1 Hear my prayer, O LORD;
let my cry for help come to you. 2 Do
not hide your face from me when I am in distress. Turn your ear to me; when I
call, answer me quickly. Psalm 102:1-2 (NIV)
8 Record my lament; list my tears on your scroll-- are they
not in your record? Psalm 56:8 (NIV)
1 I love the LORD,
for he heard my voice; he heard my cry for mercy. 2
Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I
live. 3 The cords of death
entangled me, the anguish of the grave came upon me; I was overcome by trouble
and sorrow. 4 Then I called on the
name of the LORD: “O LORD, save me!” 5 The
LORD is gracious and righteous; our
God is full of compassion. 6 The
LORD protects the simplehearted; when
I was in great need, he saved me. 7 Be
at rest once more, O my soul, for the LORD
has been good to you. 8 For
you, O LORD, have delivered my
soul from death, my eyes from tears, my feet from stumbling, 9 that I may walk before the LORD in the land of the living. Psalm
116:1-9 (NIV)
8 The LORD
is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love. 9 He will not always accuse, nor will he
harbor his anger forever; 10 he
does not treat us as our sins deserve or repay us according to our iniquities. 11 For as high as the heavens are above
the earth, so great is his love for those who fear him; 12 as far as the east is from the west, so
far has he removed our transgressions from us. 13
As a father has compassion on his children, so the LORD has compassion on those who fear
him; 14 for he knows how we are
formed, he remembers that we are dust.
Psalm 103:8-14 (NIV)
1 I call on the LORD
in my distress, and he answers me.
Psalm 120:1 (NIV)
16 Come and listen, all you who fear God; let me tell you what
he has done for me. 17 I cried
out to him with my mouth; his praise was on my tongue. 18 If I had cherished sin in my heart, the
Lord would not have listened; 19 but
God has surely listened and heard my voice in prayer. 20 Praise be to God, who has not rejected my
prayer or withheld his love from me! Psalm
66:16-20 (NIV)
6 In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard
my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears. Psalm 18:6 (NIV)
29 But if from there
you seek the LORD your God, you
will find him if you look for him with all your heart and with all your soul. 30 When you are in distress and all these
things have happened to you, then in later days you will return to the LORD your God and obey him. 31 For the LORD
your God is a merciful God; he will not abandon or destroy you or forget the
covenant with your forefathers, which he confirmed to them by oath. Deuteronomy
4:29-31 (NIV)
1 I will exalt you, O LORD,
for you lifted me out of the depths and did not let my enemies gloat over me. 2 O LORD
my God, I called to you for help and you healed me. 3 O LORD,
you brought me up from the grave; you spared me from going down into the pit. Psalm
30:1-3 (NIV)
7 To keep me from
becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was
given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take
it away from me. 9 But he said to
me, “My grace is sufficient for
you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will
boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest
on me. 10 That is why, for
Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in
persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2
Corinthians 12:7-10 (NIV)
BUTTER
“You need not cry very loud; He is nearer to us than we
think.” Brother
Lawrence
“All
we love is in his hands. He hears our prayers and our tears when there are no
words. He counts them as liquid intercession, which is precious to him. He is
our Mighty Warrior and contends with those forces that are contending with us.” Sylvia Gunter
“Tears have a tongue and grammar and language that our
Father knows.”
Samuel Rutherford
“A Jesus who never wept could never wipe away my tears.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“Tears are
never a sign of weakness. Tears are always the sign of an open heart.” Ann Voskamp
“Do not
think that your prayer, however weak or trembling, will be unregarded. Our God not only hears prayer but also loves
to hear it. ‘He does not ignore the cry
of the afflicted.’ True, He does take
into consideration haughty looks and lofty words; He doesn’t care for the pomp
and pageantry of kings; He doesn’t listen to the swell of martial music; He
doesn’t regard the triumph and pride of man; but wherever there is a heart big
with sorrow, or a lip quivering with agony, or a deep groan, or a penitential
sigh, the heart of Jehovah is open; He marks it down in the registry of His
memory; He puts our prayers, like rose leaves, between the pages of His book of
remembrance, and when the volume is opened at last, a precious fragrance will
release itself from it.” Charles H.
Spurgeon
“If
you have gone a little way ahead of me, call back – ‘Twill cheer my heart and
help my feet along the stony track; And if, perchance, Faith’s light is dim,
because the oil is low, Your call will guide my lagging course as wearily I go. Call back, and tell me that he went with you
into the storm; Call back, and say He kept you when the forest’s roots were
torn; That, when the heavens thunder and the earthquake shook the hill, He bore
you up and held you where the very air was still. Oh, friend, call back, and tell me for I
cannot see your face, They say it glows with triumph, and your feet bound in
the race; But there are mists between us and my spirit eyes are dim, And I
cannot see the glory, though I long for word of Him. But if you’ll say He heard you when your
prayer was but a cry, And if you’ll say He saw you through the night’s
sin-darkened sky If you have gone a little way ahead, of friend, call back – ‘Twill cheer my heart and help my
feet along the stony track.” Mrs.
Charles Cowman
“What you think you can’t
handle — might actually be God handing you a gift. And I think of
everything I have chaffed against and railed about and howled to the heavens
and who am I to know what is best or not — but when you bow and surrender to the sovereignty of God
then you are in the posture to receive all as a gift.” Ann
Voskamp
HEART
SAVOR
- · God hears the cries of His children. He records their tears.
- · God tells us to call on Him and He will tell us great and unsearchable things we do not know.
- · God is never far away or too busy to hear. Indeed, He delights in the heart petitions of His saints.
