HEAR MY PRAYER, O LORD

THURSDAY, 16TH NOVEMBER, 2023.

Author: PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE – General Overseer

TOPIC: HEAR MY PRAYER, O LORD.

MEMORIZE: “O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob!” Psalms 84:8 - 12.

SCRIPTURE READING: Psalm 84:8 - 12. 

“O LORD God of hosts, hear my prayer; Give ear, O God of Jacob! 9 O God, behold our shield, And look upon the face of Your anointed. 10 For a day in Your courts is better than a thousand. I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God Than dwell in the tents of wickedness. 11 For the LORD God is a sun and shield; The LORD will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold From those who walk uprightly. 12 O LORD of hosts, Blessed is the man who trusts in You!” 

EXPOSITION:

Prayer is the communication line between God and men. We make our requests known to God through prayer in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. The psalmist prayed for audience and acceptance with God. He needed to say no more when he had professed such an affectionate esteem for the ordinances of God. All his desire was, in that profession, plainly before God, and his longing, his groaning, was not hidden from him; therefore he prayed that God would hear his prayer and give ear, that he would behold his condition, behold his good affection, and look upon his face, which way it was set, and how his countenance discovered the longing desire he had towards God's courts. He calls himself God's anointed, for David was anointed by God and anointed for him.

In this petition, He has an eye to God under several of his glorious titles…

-- As the Lord God of hosts, who has all the creatures at his command, and therefore has all power both in heaven and in earth. He is the One,

--As the God of Jacob, a God in covenant with his own people, a God who never said to the praying seed of Jacob, Seek you me in vain,

--And as God our shield, who takes his people under his special protection, pursuant to his covenant with Abraham their father.  Ge 15:1, Fear not, Abraham, I am thy shield. When David could not be hidden in the secret of God's tabernacle (Ps 27:5), being at a distance from it, yet he hoped to find God his shield ready to him wherever he was. 

 

He also has an eye to the Mediator; for of him I rather understand those words, Look upon the face of thy Messiah, thy anointed one, for of his anointing David spoke, Ps 45:7. In all our addresses to God we must desire that he would look upon the face of Christ, accept us for his sake, and be well-pleased with us in him. We must look with an eye of faith, and then God will with an eye of favour look upon the face of the anointed, who does show his face when we without him dare not show ours. 

 

PRAYER POINT: Lord, I look unto you, answer my prayers in Jesus name.

ii. Lord, help me to develop an effective prayer life that trust in you in Jesus name.

DAILY BIBLE READING IN A YEAR –  Acts 10 - 12.

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ANCHOR OF LIFE is the daily devotional guide written by PASTOR DR. SAMUEL AYORINDE, General Overseer, Anchor of Life & Redemption Ministry Int’l. It is an extraction of God’s word designed to draw the sincere seekers closer to God on a daily basis through an insightful exposition and analysis of God’s Word. 

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