I'll start with a letter I wrote from Psalm 20! It contains an overview and some excerpts from my prayer diary. It will take several posts to get through the Psalm because I will take just a verse or two a day. Then I will start at the beginning of my "book" with some of my writings of the summer of 1997.:)
Dear friend,
I don't know you yet, but I'd like to get to know you! You are my friend because we have something in common- chronic illness! Psalm 20 is my prayer for you today!
Psalm 20
1a The LORD hear thee in the day of trouble!
The DAY OF TROUBLE? Ah, are you there? I've been there! Still am, but I praise my Jehovah-Rapha, my LOVE who HEALS, that the "darkness" is not quite as dark as it was before and that He has given me a "DAY OF HOPE"! I pray for you that He shall hear you, also, in your Day of Trouble"!
Is. 50:10a says, Who is among you that :1) feareth the LORD,
that: 2)obeyeth the voice of his servant
(Christ)
that: 3) walketh in DARKNESS, and hath NO LIGHT...?"
DARKNESS...endless "NIGHT OF SICKNESS"..NO HOPE?
Here is the answer for those who fear the LORD and obey his voice-for those whose hearts hold no iniquity because their trangressions have been covered by the blood of Christ-for those who by grace and by His power are empowered to keep His commandments out of love-
IF he walks in DARKNESS with NO LIGHT,
"Let him trust in the NAME of the LORD and STAY upon his God."(Is.
50:10b)
Ah, what name? God has many names:
Elohim-"My Creator"
El Elyon-"Sovereign Ruler of My Life"
El Shaddai-"My Security"
Jehovah-Jireh-"My Provider'
JEHOVAH- "MY GOD WHO HEALS"!
Trusting in His NAME...Knowing His character...REMEMBERING what He has done for you and others in the past...Such gives HOPE!... (I hope to share my testimonies on the names of God and how He has met me in each of these ways sometime.:))
"Stay" can mean "to support one's self...lean...rest"
I am "broken"..and are you so, TOO, my friend? LEANING hard upon the Saviour, supported by His strength, and RESTING in His arms of love...Ah, this is the only way to survive, isn't it?
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Excerpts from my prayer diary, summer and fall 1999-
Ps. 63:1
O God, thou art my God: early will I seek thee, my soul thirsteth for thee; my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is.
Yes, Thou art my God, and I am Your little, broken, bleeding lamb hiding my face in Your bosom this morning. Everyday I say, "Jesus, Lover of my soul, let me to thy bosom fly!"...I am thirsty for you! I want YOU!...
"O WALL of the daughter of Zion, LET TEARS RUN DOWN LIKE A RIVER DAY AND NIGHT: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease." (Lam.2:18)
Lord, You are my "wall", and I am the "apple" of Your eye...Tears ARE running down Your cheeks like a river day and night, aren't they, Lord? I am Your beloved, hurting child, the "apple" of Your eye, and just as a mother would go running out with great emotion and tears
streaming down her face to pick up and hold close to her breast her unconscious, bleeding child who had been hit by a truck, so YOU are holding and weeping for the "broken" ME!
Lord, sometimes my discomfort and fatigue is so great that just about all I can manage to say is "Baa-aa!" I am Your little lamb, and Your arms are my place of refuge!
Love in Christ,
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