Psalm 60:1, O God, hear my cry! Listen to my prayer.
I want to tell you a story. A few months ago, I was sick and after I had my iron infusion, they told me that it would take a while to feel the full effect and it might feel as though you have the flu. Well, it took eight weeks but during those eight weeks, I was so sick and was really not happy, happy with my situation, happy within myself and I remember, crying and crying and in my moment of hopelessness, I decided to pray to God for help, for his Fatherly love, I felt as though my only hope was in God and his love for me. Fifth teen minutes later, the doorbell rang and a man was standing there, selling books and the book he showed me, and this is so true, was a book on how to eat healthy, living a healthy life and it suggested, more Vitamin B and C, fresh fruit and vegetables, going for a walk, vitamin D, walking or sitting in the sun. While I was talking to this man and he was selling me on the idea of the book, the wind around us was so strong and I could feel that it was the presence of the Holy Spirit and our Great God, answered my prayer. I brought four books for ten dollars because that is all I could afford, those books where The Ministry of Healing, Darkness before the Dawn (finding hope for the future), happiness Digest, you turn which was a smaller version of the book he was promoting. I was so surprised, and I said, “O My God!” You answered me, and I called my mum and told her what happened, straight away.
What is your desert of despair, your place of parched hopelessness?
My other place of desert of despair, the place where I was parched with hopelessness, happened a few years ago and ended, when I heard the message of Christ. In all the richness, not only did it find a home with me, I found a home in the message of Christ. I remember through my desert of despair, I placed my trust and hope in the wrong people and before finding my home in Jesus Christ, my hope was in their judgement, and for them to see justice done for me. Until the day I was made to realise, that God sees and hears all through our desert of despair and I must hold fast to hope. Placing my hope in God, I knew he would see justice done, for all the tears, I have cried to him day and night, even when he delays and stays silent before he helps. God is not an unjust judge. He judges fairly and he would never feel as though it was a burden. God loves us and in today’s world, when the son of man comes, he will find many on this earth with faith, faith in him, faith in his message. There will always be hope in the cross, there is hope in his great glory, from the wind and rain of our storm, comes an abundant of growth and a beautiful life. Every morning, I place my hope in God, to be patient, to never be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer, continual prayer. He is God, the faithful God. My hope is in him.
Hebrews 4:16 Let us be confident, then, in approaching the throne of grace, that we shall have mercy from him and find grace when we need help.
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