“My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O Lord; in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee, and will look up.” KJV
“At daybreak, Lord you hear my voice; at daybreak I plead my case to You and watch expectantly.”HCSB There is a story that I have told many times over the years about a cotton mill in Georgia. There was a sign on the wall of the mill that read, “When your thread gets tangled, call the foreman.” There was a twenty-something young lady working in the mill. One day her thread got tangled and she proceeded to try to untangle it herself. The more she tried to untangle the thread, the worse the tangle got. That foreman watched her for a little while, then walked over to her and said, “I see that your thread is tangled.” The young lady replied,“Yes, but I’m doing the best I can to untangle it.” The foreman answered her: “Look at the sign. It says that if your thread gets tangled you are supposed to call the foreman. Young lady the best thing that you can do when your thread gets tangled is to call me, and I will untangle it for you.” I think that you already see the point that this story makes. We get all tangled up in our lives and we try to untangle the mess on our own, but to no avail. I think that God would say to us that when our lives get tangled, we should call on Him. He knows more about the situation than we do, and He knows the solution. We just need to trust Him. I think that the text printed above tells us that David understood this. Nobody’s life ever got more tangled than David’s. David is an important Biblical figure, but, like us, he could really make a mess of things. I think that David came out of it being called “a man after God’s own heart” because of what he wrote in Psalm 5:3. He had decided that he would start each day with prayer. The HCSB translation says that David prayed at daybreak. It is a good idea to start each day with prayer. Instead of saying, “Good lord, its morning,” we should say,“Good morning Lord.” It is very important to start each day with prayer. I learned this many years ago. I was pastoring my first church, and a crisis came up. I had never been driven to prayer that I could remember, like I was at that time. The crisis was probably not as dire as I thought it was at the time, but it drove me to my knees. The Lord helped me to see in that experience that I needed to spend more time in prayer in order to meet the crises of life. That is when I started praying each morning when I got up. It became a necessity to go to my “prayer closet” and pray and read my Bible every morning. Whenever I have gotten away from the schedule, if that’s the right word, I could tell a difference in my life. I guess that I’m saying that we need to pray before the “thread gets tangled.” But there will be times when even at that we will get entangled in some mess in life. That is when we need to learn to go to the Lord immediately and give the mess to Him. The more we try to untangle life’s messes on our own, the more tangled the messes will get. Jesus wants to be invited into our messes. He pleads with us to come to Him and avoid needless anxiety and suffering. It is my prayer that this article will help you to see the importance of prayer in your life, if you haven’t already discovered it. If you have already discovered it, we still need to be reminded occasionally about how important it is to pray. Whatever you are dealing with in your life right now, you do not have to handle it by yourself. Don’t be like the people who say, “When all else fails, pray.” Be the person who says,“Before all else fails, I will pray.” I remember that when John Glenn returned from his orbit around the earth, someone asked him if he had prayed about it a lot. His answer was, I didn't need to pray an emergency prayer at that moment because I stay prayed up." This is not just my advice to you, but it is the Bible’s advice. Heed it! Bro. Joe
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