Psalm 17:6
6 I have called [qara'] upon thee,
for thou wilt hear [`anah] me, O God: ['el] incline [natah] thine ear ['ozen] unto me, and hear [shama`]
my speech. ['imrah] KJV-Interlinear
6 I
have called upon Thee, for Thou wilt answer me, O God; Incline Thine ear to me,
hear my speech. NASB
Based upon the criteria
set forth in the previous verses, God will hear your prayers.
Ignore those requirements
for the spiritual life and your prayers will not be acknowledged.
Will hear, means the
certainty of Gods hearing and acknowledgement of your prayers. God hears all prayers that are presented in
accordance with His rules for prayer.
Incline the ear, means
you have Gods undivided attention. He will not ignore you. He will not disregard you. He will not turn His back on you. God will not play games with you.
But remember that your
prayers must be in compliance with His plan and design, not yours.
Gods plan has a lot of
criteria which includes your learning, your testing, your obedience to His
will, and so forth.
You must learn
doctrine. You must live your life in fellowship. You must study and grow up and apply His
instruction to your daily life. And
remember, just because you have believed in Christ, and just because you may
have done a little or even a lot of studying, that does not exempt you from the
trials and tests of this life.
So, testing is an
important part of your spiritual life, and in some cases your testing could
possibly push you to the very edge of your faith. Some folks who lack faith fall apart with
virtually little pressure in life, while others can take the pressures to the
extreme and still be looking to God for their relief in faith.
That is one of the many
reasons why we have so many stories in the Old Testament to help you learn the principles
of Gods faithfulness. Daniel, Moses, Elijah,
Joseph, and many, many more folks from history, went through extremely trying
tests, even to the edge of their own death.
If you have big troubles
in your life, chances are that there have been others who have had greater
troubles than you. Others who have
looked to God and failed and others who have looked to God and have passed.
God is not a genie. His primary objective for you is not to be a
drive through prayer answering service, but to drive you through life in
preparation for the greatest phase of your life, which is spiritual maturity
acquired through testing and beyond.
This is among the many
things that you need to put into perspective when you pray. If you are still alive, then there is a
reason. And God does not do anything arbitrarily.
So, defer to His wisdom
and learn from your day to day experiences and studies, even to the point of
asking yourself why this or that is occurring, and then search for the answer
from Gods point of view, not yours.
God has a plan for human
history. God has a plan for each
dispensation. God has a plan for each
individual and society on the whole. His
plan is driving toward an objective, which is to get you to maturity, and to
get history to its completion, and then beyond.
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