Prayer

I greet you in Jesus’ precious name! It is Wednesday morning, the 8th of May, 2024, and this is your friend, Angus Buchan, with a thought for today.

We start in the Book of Psalms 32:5:

“I acknowledged my sin to You,
And my iniquity I have not hidden. (in other words, I have confessed my sins)
I said, “I will confess my transgressions to the Lord,”
And You forgave the iniquity of my sin.”

Then we go to the Book of Daniel 9:23:

‘At the beginning of your supplications (your prayers) the command went out, and I have come to tell you, for you are greatly beloved; …”

That was the angel, Gabriel, who brought a message to Daniel from the Lord. I want to say to you today that the Lord hears and knows your prayers, even before you speak them. Isn’t that wonderful news? You might say, “What is the point in us praying?” Well, mother, that little boy of yours, he comes into the kitchen. You know that he is ravenous, you know that he is so hungry but you want to hear him say, “Mom, could I please have something to eat?” And then you give him that lovely sandwich or whatever it is that he needs.

I remember going down to Cape Town like yesterday. They had no rain for two years, and the people were literally about to start dying of thirst. We had a prayer meeting on the sand dunes of Mitchell’s Plain, one of the most dangerous places on the Continent of Africa. Something like a quarter of a million people cried out to the Lord, asking God to send life-giving rain. I want to tell you, it makes me want to weep when I think of it. In the middle of the service, we hadn’t even finished the service, it started raining and it hasn’t stopped since. That huge dam that supplies water to the city of Cape Town was dry. It was like a desert. They said it would take seven years to fill if it started raining. Well, it was overflowing in 4 months. God knows what we are asking before we even ask and yet He still wants to hear us praying and saying, “Lord, please help.”

Today, let us ask the Lord with faith, believing, and then we start to thank Him for what is coming.

Jesus bless you and have a wonderful day,
Goodbye.