Pray the Word with David Platt is a resource from Radical.net.

Micah, chapter 7, verse 7. But as for me, I will look to the Lord. I will wait for the God of my

salvation. My God will hear me. What a cry of hope in the middle of despair. These words encapsulate

the challenge that we all experience in waiting. As I read this verse and meditate on it and even

say what I'm about to say, I'm speaking to myself as much as anybody else amidst a variety of

things I'm waiting on during these days, waiting on asking God to do that he's not done yet.

In this picture in Micah 7, verse 7, as for me, I will look to the Lord when you are in the middle

of despair, when you are in the middle of challenges of trials. Look to the Lord. If we're not careful,

we can get so focused on the challenges and the trials before us that we lose sight of the God

who is sovereign over those challenges and sovereign over those trials who is omnipotent,

all powerful and all wise. Look to the Lord and wait. I will wait for the God of my salvation.

Think about that. You have trusted. I have trusted God to save me. You us from our sins and death

for all of eternity. Surely if we can trust him for the next 10 trillion years and beyond, we can

trust him today amidst whatever we're walking through and we can wait on him trusting. That's what

I love about verse 7. The way it ends, my God will hear me. If we're not careful, especially when

we're walking through challenges and trials that just don't seem to be ending and we pray and we

pray and we pray and nothing happens or at least things aren't happening the way we would hope or

we would want to happen or were you asking God to move in this way or that way and it's not

happening. We can start to subtly think maybe prayer doesn't matter, maybe God isn't listening,

but to say in faith, I know my God will hear me. He's the God of my salvation. So I'm going to keep

my eyes fixed on him and I'm going to keep crying to him and I'm going to trust that he is all

powerful and all wise and all loving and he is working in all of this, especially in my waiting

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