June 15, 2019

   The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer (Ps. 6:9).
 
    Others may not hear me, but the Lord will.  Abraham Lincoln said, "I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go."  This promise, which lies sleeping in the psalmist's believing, may be ours by faith.  One of the attributes of the true and living God is that He hears prayer.  "O thou that hearest prayer, unto thee shall all flesh come" (Ps. 65:2).
 
    Billy Sunday once told of a little girl who was obliged to have an operation.  Just before receiving the anesthetic, she asked the doctor, "What are you going to do to me?"
 
    "My dear, we are going to operate, and then you will be well again."
 
    "But," she persisted, "what is going to happen now?"
 
    "Why, we are going to put you to sleep so you will not feel any pain."
 
    Then the child said, "But before going to sleep I always say my prayers."  And there in the presence of the interns, physicians, and nurses, the little girl climbed down, got on her knees, and said aloud:
 
                                Now I lay me down to sleep,
                                I pray the Lord my soul to keep;
                                If I should die before I wake,
                                I pray the Lord my soul to take.
 
    That little girl prayed with the simple faith of a child.  In the simplicity of prayer, may we all be as little children.  Let us do as did David, who said, "What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee" (Ps. 56:3), and then we shall be afraid no more.
 
    Let us pray in simple faith, for "the Lord will receive my prayer."
 
 
MEDITATION PRAYER:  "Thou answeredst them, O Lord our God: thou wast a God that forgavest them" (Ps. 99:8).