In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee, for thou hast answered me (Psalm 86: 7)
A headline read: Unanswered Prayers: Letters to God Found Abandoned in the Ocean. The letters, which numbered 300 and were sent to a pastor in New Jersey, had been dumped overboard. Most of the letters have not been opened. The priest was long dead. How the hundreds of letters were found floating on the waves of the New Jersey coast is still a mystery.
The letters were addressed to the pastor because he promised to pray for him. Some letters ask for things that are out of place; others are written by spouses, children, or widows who are suffering. They pour out their hearts to God, begging for help for a sibling who abuses drugs and alcohol, or a spouse who betrays them. There is a letter asking a husband and father who loves his child. The reporter concluded that all the letters were "unanswered prayers".
Not so! If the writers of the letters cried out to God, He heard their every cry. Not a single honest prayer passes His ear. "You know all my desires," David wrote in the midst of a deep personal crisis, "and my groans are not hidden from you" (Psalm 38:10). David understood that we can leave all our troubles to God, even if no one else wants to pray for us. With full confidence, he concluded, "In the day of my distress I cried out to you, because you answered me" (86:7) --DHR
JESUS HEARS OUR WEAKEST CRY
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