This year I am doing a virtual run back to my home town of McClure, Ohio to the house I grew up in. This will be a 1489 mile journey and I hope to complete it in 365 days.
I think my Achilles heal is healed up. No pain during the run. It hurts a little later in the day. I’ll increase my weekly mileage next week.
Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice,
And be gracious to me and answer me.
Psalms 27:7
What single prayer do you wish the most (cry with your voice) that God would answer? Is it for yourself or for another or for others? Create your list. Let God help you prioritize it and pray.
Here is some additional material to help.
John 14:13-14
Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.
John 16:23-24
In that day you will not question Me about anything. Truly, truly, I say to you, if you ask the Father for anything in My name, He will give it to you. “Until now you have asked for nothing in My name; ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be made full.
1 John 5:14-15
This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests which we have asked from Him.
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John 14:13-14 |
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John 16:23-24 |
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1 John 5:14-15 |
The following is taken directly from The Treasury of David by Spurgeon.
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Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice. The pendulum of spirituality swings from prayer to praise. The voice which in the last verse was tuned to music is here turned to crying. As a good soldier, David knew how to handle his weapons, and found himself much at home with the weapon of “all prayer.” Note his anxiety to be heard. Pharisees care not a fig for the Lord’s hearing them, so long as they are heard of men, or charm their own pride with their sounding devotions; but with a genuine man, the Lord’s ear is everything. The voice may be profitably used even in private prayer; for though it is unnecessary, it is often helpful, and aids in preventing distractions.
Have mercy also upon me. Mercy is the hope of sinners and the refuge of saints. All acceptable petitioners dwell much upon this attribute.
And answer me. We may expect answers to prayer, and should not be easy without them any more than we should be if we had written a letter to a friend upon important business, and had received no reply.
Prayer. To whom addressed? How? Cry, etc. When? Left indefinite. On what is it based? Mercy. What it needs? Hear, answer.