W. Robert Godfrey
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first heard Nov 2025
last heard 31 Jul
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God has appointed this as a reality through which He is going to work, through which He is going to accomplish what He has set out to do.
And I think one of the things we need to work on as the people of God — here I come to the guilt section of this message — what we need to work on is working on more praying the promises of God that we might be advancing His kingdom and participating in the fulfillment of His will.
Now, we are also, I think, taught by Scripture
that we are encouraged to pray for things that are not promised explicitly in the Scripture.
Jesus not only in Gethsemane prayed for something that God had not promised, but in Gethsemane he prayed for something he knew God would not give.
And what does that show us?
It seems to me to show us
that God wants us freely to open our hearts to Him and pour out our feelings before Him.
This is part of why I treasure the Psalter.
Part of the glory of the Psalter is the emotion we find, the pouring out of the heart of the experience before God.
in ways that are surprising.
One of the Psalms before I die that I hope to preach on, but I haven't figured out yet, so I can't preach on it yet, is Psalm 39, which is a psalm of lament before the Lord.
a psalm of suffering before the Lord, a psalm where the psalmist senses that the hand of the Lord is heavy upon him.
And verse 12, the next to last verse of this psalm, ends in a way that seems very appropriate for us to embrace.
Verse 12 says, "'Hear my prayer, O Lord, and give ear to my cry.'"
Hold not your peace at my tears, for I am a sojourner with you, a guest like all my fathers.
Hear me, Lord, as I pray.
Take note of my tears and my suffering.
I'm in exile like all who've come before me.
That's a good way to end the psalm, isn't it?
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