{"id":1092,"date":"2019-11-20T11:05:26","date_gmt":"2019-11-20T11:05:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/?p=1092"},"modified":"2025-06-22T10:18:56","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T10:18:56","slug":"daily-devotion-of-psalm-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/psalm\/daily-devotion-of-psalm-116\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily Devotion in Psalm 116"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Psalms-539x240.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"433\" height=\"193\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Artwork from a 1611 KJV.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-audio\"><audio controls src=\"http:\/\/www.devotionsfromthebible.com\/dvblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Psalm116-1.mp3\"><\/audio><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>HEAR the devotion and KJV chapter.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Daily Nugget<\/strong>:<br><em>\u201cI love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications. 2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.\u201d Psalm 116:1-2<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the advantages of being a child of God is we get to talk to our great Father in Heaven.&nbsp;He not only hears our complaints, pleas, and supplications, but often He answers our requests.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some take this ability to communicate with our Creator lightly.&nbsp;However, it is a privilege and honor to converse with Him.&nbsp;Who are we that He would incline \u201chis ear unto me\u201d?&nbsp;He is God.&nbsp;There is nothing He needs.&nbsp;He owes us nothing, yet He listens to our prayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What a blessing it is to speak to the One that is responsible for all on this Earth, yet that privilege is often neglected. Sadly, it usually takes a catastrophe in one\u2019s life until one reaches out to the Solver-of-Our-Situations.&nbsp;Perhaps that is why many have more \u201cemergencies\u201d than normal, so their helplessness is realized, and He is turned to and relied upon.&nbsp;That is what God desires of us; He wants our fellowship and for us to depend on His help.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have prayed most of my life, although I was not saved until I was 28 years old.&nbsp;I never got prayers answered before my salvation, and I thought that was how it was supposed to be. We talk, and God just listened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After being born again, I continued to pray. Still, it took a while to realize God answered my petitions.&nbsp;A friend who knew I was seeking His intervention in a matter commented one day, saying, \u201cHey, you were praying about that, and God answered your prayer!\u201d&nbsp;I was more aware that God was answering my requests from that point on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Many are just like I was.&nbsp;They do not realize what God has done for them much of the time.&nbsp;Perhaps we would be more aware of His help if our request dropped out of Heaven in a gift-wrapped, bowed package and a note explaining, \u201cFrom God with Love.\u201d&nbsp;It does not work that way.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We must be more astute and sensitive to His meeting our requests by how He deems fit. He does hear and answers the prayers of His children.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Christian, are you regularly speaking to Him? Do you recognize He has answered your requests?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Thought:\u00a0<\/strong><br><em>\u201cYe lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not.\u201d James 4:2<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Words to Understand:<\/strong><br>Afflicted: vexed; troubled; distressed<br>Compassed: surrounded; covered<br>Supplications: requests<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Today\u2019s Reading:<\/strong><br><em>Psalm 116<br>1\u00a0I love the LORD, because he hath heard my voice and my supplications.<br>2 Because he hath inclined his ear unto me, therefore will I call upon him as long as I live.<br>3 The sorrows of death compassed me, and the pains of hell gat hold upon me: I found trouble and sorrow.<br>4 Then called I upon the name of the LORD; O LORD, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.<br>5 Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; yea, our God is merciful.<br>6 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.<br>7 Return unto thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.<br>8 For thou hast delivered my soul from death, mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.<br>9 I will walk before the LORD in the land of the living.<br>10 \u00b6 I believed, therefore have I spoken: I was greatly afflicted:<br>11 I said in my haste, All men are liars.<br>12 What shall I render unto the LORD for all his benefits toward me?<br>13 I will take the cup of salvation, and call upon the name of the LORD.<br>14 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people.<br>15 Precious in the sight of the LORD is the death of his saints.<br>16 O LORD, truly I am thy servant; I am thy servant, and the son of thine handmaid: thou hast loosed my bonds.<br>17 I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving, and will call upon the name of the LORD.<br>18 I will pay my vows unto the LORD now in the presence of all his people,<br>19 In the courts of the LORD&#8217;S house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. 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