Praying with the Psalms
Posted by greglarson in Psalms at 7:30 am | 
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Sent this out to the Kairos community yesterday…
This morning, I was reminded of the passage that JR shared on Sunday at our Kairos gathering:
Psalm 130:1-2 “From the depths of despair, O Lord, I call for your help. Hear my cry, O Lord. Pay attention to my prayer.”
Then I read the following quote by Eugene Peterson — “There is no trouble so severe that it cuts a person off from God; there is no sin so powerful that it removes a person from the greater power of forgiveness. The witness of the troubled, suffering and afflicted who prayed and found their lives changed by a loving God is (unbelievably large).”
That thought challenged me today. The thought that when I am troubled, suffering & afflicted, and I pray, that God can & does change me and my circumstances (rarely in ways that I expect, and rarely in my timetable - but He does so nonetheless.)
What is weighing on you today, that you need to talk to God about? For some of us, we need to talk with God in the same manner the Psalmist does “from the depths of despair, O Lord, I CALL for your help. Hear my CRY, O Lord. PAY ATTENTION to my prayer”
God stands ready to listen to your heart.
