Hasten to My Help: Psalm 70-Supplication through the Scriptures
Hasten to My Help Psalm 70 It is not forbidden us, in hours of dire distress, to ask for speed on God's part in his coming to rescue us. Charles Spurgeon If I’m honest, my timetable is rarely in step with the Lord’s. I seek God’s answer to my prayer and I think I know the time He ought to step in and answer. I wish I could direct His Omnipotent hand to bring about my relief in what I would deem a timely manner. I see the minutes, days, weeks, perhaps even years go by and I think the sooner He answers me, the better. At times, His answer to my earnest prayers is delayed, or seems to be. In Habakkuk 2:3 God is speaking to Habakkuk about a vision he has had concerning the future of the southern kingdom of Judah. “The vision is yet for the appointed time; It hastens toward the goal, and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; For it will certainly come, it will not delay” (Habakkuk 2:3 NASB). I think there are several principles of which we can remind ourselves when we desire...