Viewing God Through Prayer

Having spent the first days of this most favoured week, viewing a picture of Creator, Sovereign God, revealed to us by His servant, John the Revelator, the disciple whom Jesus loved, we move on to view another picture, as promised.

Before moving on though, I must spend a little time on the grace and goodness of God, to have given us the privilege of receiving blessings, from the pictures which John shared with us. With the photos, which my sister sent me of the elegantly dressed trees, in their brightly adorned fall colours, my entire being – heart, soul, mind and strength – was divinely warmed. In like manner, John’s pictures brought out more and more, unaided and upstaged desires to ascribe greater and deeper praise and thanks to our Great Creator. I’m sure that this was the experience of most, if not all of you, to respond in accents of worship, with every snapshot.

When we received the pictures of God, as the One and Only worthy; when we were compelled to know God as Lord, and not just hold Jesus as Lord; when it was made abundantly clear that God’s glory, honour and power were all one and the same, we had to seek forgiveness and bow lower in deep confession. In addition, when these final snapshots were opened up to us, where we could no longer deny or hide from the fact that God, our Lord, created all things, we were made silent. Then, without taking a breath, when we were told that by God’s will they were created and by His will they have their being, we were totally transfixed and transformed, in our thoughts.

Not one of these was a dead, still snapshot, for every single one of them, taken from any angle, was perfect to bring our Creator Father to us, in Spirit and in Truth.

As promised, at the beginning of the week, where we were told of receiving snapshots, all given by His servants, we continue to now receive from David. Indeed, we shall end the week with different, yet, none the less transforming pictures of the God whom we worship. My prayer for us remains the same, and it is that we will deeply desire and sincerely long to know our God and Heavenly Father, as David, in his time of exile. May we be so moved, so inspired, so compelled, by what he has seen, known and lived, that we will have no choice, but to freely and willingly leave where we are, to be where we too, will see, hear and know, with our own beings, these specific spiritual truths.

We follow David, as in his prayer to God, he utters these words. In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried out to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears. Psalm 18: 6. These are pictures, of God, Creator God, as offered to us by David, in the midst of his suffering, persecution and fugitive state.

But who is David? He is the shepherd boy, whom God chose to shepherd His chosen people, Israel. Note God’s words, in prophecy, about David, which He revealed to prophet Ezekiel. I will place over them one shepherd, my servant David, and he will tend them: he will tend them and be their shepherd. I the LORD will be their God, and my servant David will be prince among them. I the LORD have spoken. Ezekiel 34: 23 – 24. We also listen to God’s testimony of His servant David as recorded in Acts 13: 22. After removing Saul, he made David their king. He testified concerning him: I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do. This is the person who is revealing to us, unmovable and unswerving facts about Creator, Father God and His attitude towards His children, in trouble, who call to Him for help.

Immediately, we clearly see that God is with His servant, David, and intimately so, in his deep distress. We are holding before us, a God who is not just with His servant, when all is going well for him, when he is on the mountain peaks of conquests, but a God who is present in his lowest valleys.