Daily Devotions

Psalm 102: 17

He will respond to the prayer of the destitute; he will not despise their plea.

Prayer is the doorway through which we come into God’s presence. T can be prayer of praise which leads us into God’s presence and then followed by prayers of intercession. This is the normal process that every worshipper comes before the Lord.

In this psalm David said in verse 1-2 I pray to you Lord! Please listen, Don’t hide from me in my time of trouble. Pay attention to my prayer and quickly give an answer. David starts with the declaration that he is coming before God in prayer and worship. Then he immediately followed it up with an intercession for his needs.

The way that David prayed indicates that he is habitually in direct communication with God on a daily basis. He did not have to go round in having to prepare himself in long confession of sins and drawing close to God. He was already in constant communion and he just needed to say ‘I pray to you Lord.’ There is an immediate connection made because David’s communion with God is on a constant basis.

It is like taking a 5 mins break and now he comes back to announce that he is continuing his previous conversation with God. Having established the reconnection, David immediately petitioned God for His answers to his prayers. This is possible only because as mentioned, there is an ongoing communion between David and God.

David had this privilege to open a direct line to God and he knew that on the other side God is waiting to hear from him.

If we too want to enjoy this privilege with God, then we need to do as David did. We must open our direct line with God and spend time communicating with God all the time. When we do that we would be able to take short breaks in between and we would be able to pick up our communication with God where we have left off earlier.

God is the same, He communicated with Adam and Eve, with Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, with David, with Solomon and also all the other saints of old. Now that they have gone, God wants to communicate with us the NT saints of today, God wants to speak with us, and do we want to speak with Him?

If we want to live the same kind of life as David did, then we must first learn to do what David did on a daily basis.