Pastor's Corner

for Sunday March 28th
How do you feel about prayer? Really deep down, do you believe that God hears your prayers? Do you believe He will answer your prayers? We’ve been hurt so many times by people promising to help us and then never following through that it’s hard for many of us to believe that God will do anything. I mean, why should He? What’s special about me that He should even notice my troubles? Listen to Nehemiah’s prayer; it reveals something important about God. Then I said, “O Lord, God of heaven, the great and awesome God who keeps his covenant of unfailing love with those who love him and obey his commands, listen to my prayer!” (Neh. 1:5) Hear what he says? As Nehemiah talks to God he reminds himself of the kind of person God is. He’s a God who has a covenant with us, and He “keeps his covenant of unfailing love with those who love him and obey his commands.” So, why should God hear your prayer? Why should He even notice you? Because God’s love is unfailing and He has made a covenant with those who love Him and obey Him. God has NEVER broken His covenant with anyone before and He’s not about to break His covenant with you either. You see, I know God hears my prayers and that He WILL help, not because there’s anything special about me, but because of what’s special about HIM! Who is like our God?! People will abandon you but God never will. People will let you down but God never will. People break their promises but God never will. So do what the apostle Peter said, “Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about what happens to you.”
Pastor Don.