December 19

I’ve thrown myself headlong into your arms – I’m celebrating Your rescue. I’m singing at the top of my lungs, I’m so full of answered prayers”. Psalm 13: 5-6 (MSG)

God is always listening, always available, always willing to hear and answer your prayers. In fact, to walk with you throughout each day, to hear what is on your heart, and to share His, was His fervent desire from the beginning of time. 

Genesis 1 tells us of the relationship God had with Adam, the very first person God ever created, and how they walked, worked, and shared together, enjoying each other’s company, day by day. Adam was made for fellowship with God, to know Him, and to be known by Him, in the most intimate and life-giving ways.

And this is as true today for, beautifully loved and marvellously created, you! God loves to be with you, to hear your heart, all you carry as a concern—along with all that you celebrate, too. You are the One He longs to be with, on your good days and bad; through the messes and the mis-steps, and that will never change. 

He waits for us to bring our pain and our prayers, because He is wisdom. He has the answers and He Himself is the fullness of all we need. God our Father, Protector and Shield, keeps us always in His care. Jesus is our Salvation and our Song—our Healer and our Help. Holy Spirit is our Comforter and Companion, always by our side.

Our temptation can be when we are in pain; when we have done something wrong; or when something wrong has been done to us; to run away and hide. However, Wisdom would say to run to God instead and into His wide-open arms of unconditional love and acceptance. 

That is where your help is, beloved—your healing and your hope. Here you will find, as the light of His love floods in, the fullness of all you need, and the substance of all your answered prayers!  Won’t you trust Him today with all the ways you down and wears you out?  Won’t you let Him come and rescue You?

Prayer:

Lord, sometimes I fear that I wear You out with all my prayers, but I know that is not true, for You have said You want to hear them all, You wait to hear, and really, before I even say a word, You already know!

Because of that Lord, I bring everything that is my heart today—my hopes, dreams, and fears—and with great thanksgiving, I leave them all with You. Thank You for leading and guiding me into all truth; for working all things out for my good and for Your glory, even when I cannot see.  
 
Let the whole world rejoice, I pray, for our God, infinite in mercy and wisdom, is on our side! His answered prayers are on the way!