He Hears Our Sighs

Hear my words, O Lord. 

Consider my sighing. 

Listen to my cry for help, 

my King and my God. 

For I pray to you. 

Morning by morning, 

You will hear my voice. 

Morning by morning I lay 

my prayers before You 

and look up.

Psalm 5

I love how David expresses 

what is real to him and his hope 

that God has the power to change all that.

David is full of words, sighs and requests.

When I read, "Consider my sighing," I smiled.

I have often sighed before God and 

figured that He was waiting for me

to get over my sighing self and just trust HIm.

But David asks God to please consider--

to pay attention to--his sighing.

God hears me each morning, sighs and all.

He wants me to come as I am

and exchange my sighs for His peace.

David is confident that God will hear him.

He says that he is going to lay his prayers

before God...and look up.

The apostle John assures us:

If we are sure He hears us 

when we ask, 

we can be sure He will give us 

what we ask for. 

1John 5:15

God, I look to you and ask You 

to hear both my words and my sighs.

I am laying my prayers before You

and I am looking up.

I am confident that You hear me.

And I am confident that You answer.

You are all-knowing,loving and wise.

And though there are deep sighs in my heart,

I trust You

And I look up.