Psalm 5.1-3
David
Nanny
Charlie Brown
Mark
Me
*Bible College Safeway Store
*When my brother died
*In Haiti
*Pastoral Ministry
*Our Country as of late
Sunday- Monday of this past week...
After a full Sunday of services and ministry I made my way down on my bike to the town pool where I have been a member for over 30 years. I swam laps and took a break at the deep end and began speaking to a sweet couple whose names I would find out later are George and Eve. They are originally from El Salvador. I began to tell them about the work in Haiti. I could see the spiritual connection. It is my privilege to welcome then to our group.
Today I noticed them sharing posts from the group here then I received the following texts from Eve:
God bless you pastor I'm the girl u found at the pool with my husband. I'm trying to collect medicine close anything for the people of Haiti i would love if I can come over to your church in the middle of August to drop the box that I believe in my God I'm going to get for u mission.
I have been sharing your post because I make a video on Facebook and tag some of my friends in church and I'm explained how u work and how God used you to help all those people give me until August 15 and I know and I believe in God that I'm going to have a lot of boxes for you.
I was sighing as I left the pool today. I explained to some of the staff at the pool about this today as I was leaving, why I was sighing. They listened. Then I went outside and saw this license plate on a car!
These verses in Psalm 5 came immediately to mind.
Give ear to my words O LORD, consider my sighing.
Listen to my cry for help my King and my God,
for to You I pray.
Morning by morning, O LORD, You hear my voice;morning by morning I lay my requests before You and wait in expectation. (vs.1-3)
Consider= to discern, understand, consider
to perceive
to understand, know (with the mind)
to give heed to
to have insight
teach, instruct
attentive, consider diligently
Sighing = Hagah
to moan, growl, utter, muse, mutter, meditate, devise, plot, speak
to roar, groan, to utter
to meditate, devise, muse, imagine
Unutterable feelings and thoughts. Words are the clothes that carry our prayers but they originate in the heart. Sighs come right from the heart out... Ah!
Sighing= emit a long, deep, audible breath expressing sadness, relief, tiredness, or a similar feeling.
synonyms: breathe out, exhale; groan, moan
meditation--moanings of that half-uttered form to which deep feeling gives rise--groanings, as in Romans 8:26-27
Haggadah= "Telling" ...Passover Book
Hagah= moans, unutterable feelings and thoughts, meditate
We need to sigh... to groan in our prayers
Consider my sighing...
1. We Sigh When We Lose A Loved One.
We cry. Tears... out of our eyes, We sigh... out of our hearts and lungs.
Greg Adams:
What is this all about—this sighing as part of grief? We sigh for lots of different reasons and in many different situations. There is the contented sigh at the end of the day or when relaxing. The “life is good” sigh. There is the sigh of relief that can come in a few varieties such as “thank goodness that is over” and “thank goodness that (bad thing) didn’t happen.” There is also the sigh that comes with disappointment, frustration or exasperation. The kind of situation where in emails we may actually write, “Heavy sigh,” in response to a particular or general wrongness in the world. Connected to this kind of sigh is the sigh of resignation—this is all there is, the best we’re gonna get, no need asking for more as no more will be provided. Submissive to the realities present, subdued, resigned, beaten. Sighs of sadness, of sorrow, sighs “too deep for words.”
David is praying for the LORD to understand his moans. He was no stranger to grief in his life. Like us there were times when he didn't understand why his own family was against him.
I Samuel 17.…28Now Eliab his oldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger burned against David and he said, "Why have you come down? And with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your insolence and the wickedness of your heart; for you have come down in order to see the battle." 29But David said, "What have I done now? Was it not just a question?" 30Then he turned away from him to another and said the same thing;
Family can make us sigh
We love them.
They hurt us.
These are things that make us sigh.
2. We Sigh When Our We Encounter Deep Problems
I have to believe Jeremiah sighed a lot.
Jeremiah 45.3 You said, 'Woe to me! The LORD has added sorrow to my pain; I am worn out with groaning and find no rest.'"
I have related to Jeremiah in recent days and years. Here was a man, a prophet of God who saw the deep sin and spiritual needs of the people of Jerusalem and Judah. They didn't listen. They berated him, told him and others, "The LORD didn't say that." Not one convert in 50 years of ministry but he was faithful.
Jesus sighed.
Hebrews 5.7 During the days of Jesus’ life on earth, he offered up prayers and petitions with fervent cries and tears to the one who could save him from death, and he was heard because of His reverent submission
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