God hears your prayers. He wants to hear your prayers. He cares enough for you to want to listen to you. He promises to hear you.
Therefore I will look to the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me. – Micah 7:7
Look to Him. Put your eyes on Jesus. Look at Him in all the beauty of His ugliness. We caused that ugliness. Although that ugliness is incomparable so is the beauty beneath it. But talk with Him. He promises to hear you. No matter where you are in life, He’ll hear.
When my soul fainted within me, I remembered the Lord; and my prayer went up to You, into Your holy temple. – Jonah 2:7
I bumped against this concept. Why was God remembered during a bad moment? Why not at a good moment? Well, perhaps it’s like this. I miss my Mom all the time. But the day I burnt myself in the kitchen she was the one person I wanted nearest. Why? Because she could comfort me and care for me and, I’ll admit it, coddle me. Yet I missed her all along and yet my missing her intensified at the bad moment. It’s a natural thing.
Jonah was in the bottom of a fish’s belly. So He prayed and God delivered Him. If you ever feel like you have hit bottom just call on His name. Perhaps you will feel physically exhausted with all the work you have to put up with. Or emotionally exhausted because of all the people. Or even spiritually exhausted. I don’t know. But I do know this. Wherever you are, even if it is a fish’s belly, God hears and answers your prayer.
But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. – Isaiah 40:31
So if you ever feel as if you’ve hit bottom and find yourself in a fish’s stomach go to Him. He promises you fresh strength. You can go from the fish’s belly to the eagle’s heights (sounds like a great sermon title…). Gladys Alward wrote, “The eagle that soars in the upper air does not worry itself how it is to cross rivers.”
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