Psalm 141:1 –
O LORD, I am calling to you. Please hurry! Listen when I cry to you for help!
This Psalm is a great prayer by David. It first praises God and implies the act of prayer as more than rituals. He then asks for protection from evil and then asks for correction. How many times have we asked for that? Give me another spanking please in not what usually flows off our lips when praying to God. The Psalm returns to David’s focus on evil and protection from the ones trying to harm him. All in all this is a great model prayer for you to help focus your eyes on protection.
I picked this verse because of the urgency in David’s tone. He wants help and he wants it now! How many of us have been in the same desperate place David is in this Psalm? How many times this week have you prayed for God to hurry? Most of the time I start my prayers with something similar, most of the time not out of desperation by impatience. I rest on God’s promises, I just want Him to “get a move on” and answer my prayer.
Sometimes I feel like a spoiled kid when I pray to God. Not saying that David is being a “spoiled kid” in this prayer, but more commenting on my feelings when praying in urgency. David had a nation to look after and pray for, so his urgency was not for his own good, but the good of the people. Now this does not dismiss your urgent needs, just don’t get upset when God puts them “on the back burner” for a while. God acts in his own time and we should be thankful for that, sometime we need a “buffer” to keep us from getting spoiled or overwhelmed.