Prayer & Intimacy

We up are up to DAY #10, of the “Loving to Talk to God” Bible Memory Challenge. I hope you are ready to memorize our next verse.

If you just found the Challenge, latecomers are welcome! Find the Memory Verse List here.

We have been going over daily thoughts for each verse. Today it is, Prayer can be intimate.

DAY #10 MEMORY VERSE

Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. Psalm 62:8

Prayer can be Intimate

Heart Prayers

Our verse today comes from one of the Psalms of King David. He is telling the people to pour out their heart to God. That was good advice then and it’s good advice for us as well.

We can engage in prayer in public places. We can engage in prayer around the table before we eat. But there are times that we need to pray those intimate prayers with God. For those type of prayers, we need to get away from everybody and everything and just pour our heart out to God. We need those close, private, and deep conversations with our Lord.

Intimacy is all about feelings. And feelings are what we feel deep inside of us.

Sometimes we have to go to that prayer closet. We have to go be alone with God and pray those heart prayers, as I call them. I’ve prayed many a heart prayer. They always make me feel better.

Exposing our Heart

We may think letting our guard down with other people and allowing our feelings to show makes us vulnerable and is a weakness, but it is okay to be vulnerable with the Lord. That’s a strength when it comes to our prayer life.

We can let our guard down with that one on one intimate prayer to the Lord. We can expose our heart to Him. We can tell God our truths. The Lord isn’t going to harm us. He isn’t going to hurt us like other relationships may have hurt us. God is going to take whatever we share with Him in prayer as precious. He doesn’t even mind when we cry our eyeballs out when we pray. And aren’t you glad He keeps confidences? That’s a given when we pray those intimate prayers.

We have to tell God what’s in our head and on our heart. We have to let Him know what we are feeling. Are you angry about something? Tell God. Are you sad about something? Tell God. Are you happy about something? Tell God. Are you jealous about something? Tell God.

You get the idea! The Lord wants to hear everything we are thinking and feeling. He doesn’t want to know just when we are happy, or just when we are worried and concerned about something. But God wants to know when we are having trouble with our feelings and emotions too. He wants us to ask for help when we feel jealousy, anger, hatred, and all those things.

God made us human. He knows we are going to have emotional rollercoasters to ride throughout life. He is there for us to bounce our thoughts and feelings off of like the Good Friend that He is. God is such a good Listener. And in the end we can give those things over to Him to keep like we talked about in yesterday’s post, on DAY #9 of our Memory Challenge.

Ups and Downs

I think about David and those prayers he prayed in the Bible. He sure wasn’t shy about telling God how he felt and what was on his mind. If you have read through the Psalms and read some of those psalms attributed to David, you can see how he shared his heart with God. One minute David is singing praises to God and he is on a high point. Then go a little further and he is doing the woe is me prayer! Look in Psalm 109. There’s a great example there.

For I am poor and needy, and my heart is wounded within me. Psalm 109:22

You don’t have to wonder how David is feeling in this prayer to God. It’s pretty descriptive of how deeply David is hurt, and He isn’t keeping it to himself. He is telling God about it.

This verse works as a great prayer many a time for me, because sometimes it just sums up how I feel on certain days. I’m sure you have those wounded heart days as well.

I’m sure that I don’t have to tell you that life is comprised of highs and lows. That’s how life works! So, it stands to reason that we will be up or down emotionally. It would be nice if we stayed up all the time or even if we were balanced emotionally all the time, but that just isn’t reality.

Finding a Refuge

It fills me with such joy to know that the Lord is there to ask guidance of when we need it to navigate the heartbreaks, the highs and the lows in life, and the things that just break our hearts in two. Our memory verse today says that God is a refuge, and what a blessing that is. The Lord is always there to catch our tears, to let us lean our head on His shoulders, to lift us up, to brush us off, and to help us pick up the broken pieces of our heart.

The first part of our memory verse says to trust God. I’m so thankful that I can trust God with my innermost feelings. I’m so grateful that I can have those intimate conversations with Him. He’s never too busy. The Lord always has time for me.

Thanks for stopping by. If you have any thoughts you want to share about today’s verse, feel free to leave a comment.

Have a lovely day,
Julia

2022 Bible Memory Challenge

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Prayer & Intimacy

Prayer can be Intimate

Heart Prayers

Exposing our Heart

Sharing Emotions

Ups and Downs

Finding a Refuge

2022 Bible Memory Challenge

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