Thank you, Lord. My heart needed that.

Living the Christian life is not easy. It was never meant to be.
Last night, as Nick and I prayed through some things that have broken our
hearts, we asked the Lord for His confirmation in our thoughts and decisions.


It is precious to pray in the middle of brokenness!


I don't know how many times I've been unable to put into
words how I feel and God has given me just enough words to pray. Often our
hearts are broken by our own selfishness...pain caused by focusing on our plans
more than we focus on the Lord's. Sometimes I think God breaks it because it's
at that low point before the Lord that His words are heard the loudest. I'm
thankful for that!

This is what God gave me this morning as a reminder.
Thank you, David, for saying what I couldn’t say. I hope this encourages you in
whatever you’re going through as it did me!

Psalm 42
1 As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So my soul pants for You, O God.
2 My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and appear before God?
3 My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
4 These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me
For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of
God,
With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
5 Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him
For the help of His presence.
6 O my God, my soul is in despair within me;
Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
7 Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
8 The LORD will command His loving kindness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me in the night,
A prayer to the God of my life.
9 I will say to God my rock, "Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
10 As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they say to me all day long, "Where is your God?"
11 Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and  my God.