Psalm 102:12-17
Trust God to answer prayer
‘Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence,’ as Charles Spurgeon famously said.
When you see the problems in your life and in your nation, what is your first response? As the psalmist looks out at the mess that the people of God are in and the fact that his city is in ruins, his first response is to cry out to God.
The psalmist extols God for both his power and his love, declaring his greatness: ‘You, O Lord, sit enthroned forever’ (v.12a) and his ‘compassion’ (v.13) for Jerusalem: ‘For her stones are dear to your servants; her very dust moves them to pity’ (v.14).
As I look around our nation today, I see that so much of the church is in ruins. But God has the power to rebuild his people in this land.
You can be confident in the power of God to answer your prayers. It is not that you can control God’s power by your prayers, but that God is always active in the life of his people and his world: ‘He attends to the prayer of the wretched. He won’t dismiss their prayer’ (v.17, MSG).
Lord, I cry out to you to rebuild the church in this nation. Please send your Holy Spirit upon us again and on our nation, I pray.