Daily Devotions

Ps 40:1-3 I waited patiently for the Lord; and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry.
2 He brought me up also out of an horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.
3 And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the Lord.
KJV
Ever wonder how long David had to wait on the Lord in this Psalm? Was it an hour, a day, a week, a month, a year, or several years? I wonder how long David had to wait on the Lord? Most of us want our prayers answered the very moment we pray. Many look at prayer as if in a fast food lane, give it to me now and give it to me fast. But our relationship with God through Jesus Christ is not built on speed or time. God moves in His own time and is in fact outside of time. There are things that I have been praying about, specific things, one for eighteen years now, and have yet to see the answer. What to do? Give up on prayer even though I have not been led by the Lord to believe I should stop praying about the need? Get impatient to the point I give up on prayer? Get bitter because I have had to wait? Or get even more bitter because I think the answer will never come? Or should one follow the pattern of David in prayer knowing that eventually one will be brought up to stand on that solid rock? David waited, for how long I do not know, but that patience was rewarded with a new song in his mouth, a song of praise for answered prayer.

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