Positive Christian Motivation
Turning Despair into Praise - Powerful Christian Motivation
Make God's word your ultimate source of daily motivation as you tune in to this impactful episode filled with motivational messages, empowering life advice, inspiring teachings, and stories. Enjoy this remarkable blend of spiritual insights and empowering inspiration that motivates you to become the best version of yourself and nourishes your spiritual connection with God.
- Duration:
- 10m
- Broadcast on:
- 30 Jun 2024
- Audio Format:
- mp3
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Another negative on another pregnancy test, another underwhelming first date, another specialist, another grey winter day, another shift at the same old job or another afternoon staring at the four walls of a prison cell just waiting for the night to come. How can this be it? There's a guy named Charles Spurgeon, and here's what one of his books he said. He said, "The best style of prayer is that which cannot be called anything else but a cry." You ever prayed those kind of prayers? God, if you don't show up, I got nothing in the tank. And I don't know if you've ever been there. Where you've spoken those kinds of honest and sincere words to the Lord. I don't think I'm going to make it without you. But God's not afraid to hear those words from his children. David was a man after his own heart. And he just, he laid it out, he laid it out to the Lord exactly the way he felt. And he said, "If you don't help me, I may die." Psalm chapter 13. It says, "How long, O Lord, will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? How long must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart all the day? How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? Consider and answer me, O Lord my God, light up my eyes lest I sleep the sleep of death. Lest my enemy say, "I have prevailed over him. Lest my foes rejoice because I am shaken. But I have trusted in your steadfast love. My heart shall rejoice in your salvation. I will sing to the Lord because he has dealt bountifully with me." But you'll notice that it begins with the voice of desperation. David begins this psalm by saying, "How long, O Lord?" He says, "How long, O Lord, will you forget me forever?" David feels forgotten by the Lord. How long is this going to keep going? Now here's a question you always have to ask ourselves. Was David forgotten by the Lord? No, he was not forgotten by the Lord. But did he feel forgotten by the Lord? Yeah, he did. 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He said, "I know that God put me here. I just wonder if he remembers where he put me." God knows where you are. The very hairs of your head are numbered. Now, keeping in mind how David started this song, and you saw how desperate it was. How long, O Lord, will you forget me forever? Check out these last couple of verses. But I have trusted. Notice that's past tense. As David begins to speak now, here toward the end of this very short song, he says, "But I have trusted in your steadfast love." And it's kind of as if David is saying, "You know, I've trusted you in the past, and there's no reason for me to stop trusting you now. I've trusted in your steadfast love. So what's his conclusion?" My heart shall rejoice in your salvation. Look at this turnaround. My heart will rejoice. But if my eyes are on the Lord, there's always reason to rejoice. And that's what we're told, "Rejoice in the Lord." And so, David is looking back on his past, and he's saying, "God's been faithful." You know, that doesn't mean there haven't been rough spots. But God brought me through. Pour out your heart to the Lord. But then when you get to the end of your prayer, and I'm preaching to myself just as much as you, let's bring it back to what is right. I will rejoice in God who is my salvation. I will sing to the Lord for he has been good to me. He has blessed me. Ah, just such an important reminders. You're probably like David, and you're saying, "How long, O Lord, will you forget me forever? Will you hide your face? Must I take counsel in my soul and have sorrow in my heart? And will the enemy prevail? How long, O Lord?" Praise the Lord, though, that David doesn't stay in verse one and two. David is now writing the last part of this song with a new song in his heart. He is rejoicing in the Lord. Today, there's many of you in the room who have been living in verse one for far too long. 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