Psalms 119:170 Let my supplication come before thee: deliver me according to thy word.

Have you prayed and prayed and yet your prayer seemed to go unanswered? Have you begged and cried to a Divine ear that was seemingly of reach? Have you sought out and searched the heavenly wisdom, and felt it void?

My friend, is there even a remote possibility that God does not hear your prayer? Is it even plausible that He ignores your beggarly plea? Or could the treasury of heavens wisdom be empty?

I see one who digs for water. He needs to satisfy the thirst of his family and of his flock. He also needs to satisfy his own thirst. He starts digging, hoping and praying he started in the right place. Everyone helps; hope sings in the heart of everyone, an air of assurance fills the heart of the worker giving them strength. But the digging yields no water. The workers are spent, the foreman discouraged, the people and the flocks thirst.

My friend, it is good to dig, to work hard and to labor in prayer; it is good to even remind God of the promises by which He bound Himself. But before you dig in trying to solve your problems in your own strength; before waste your precious energy, and disappoint the faith of your flock; ask where to dig. Ask if you should even dig, as He might tell you to hit a rock; He might tell you to speak to a Rock and lo and behold, waters of life will come gushing out to satisfy everyone.

My friend; deliverance from God always comes, but it often does from outside the realm of our understanding, from inside the realm of obedience in simple faith. This obedience will make you as wise as a serpent, and as harmless as a dove. It will lead your prayers to the nostrils of God, bring your petition nearer to the Divine ear, and most of all, put the riches of heavens treasury at your disposal.

Jam 1:5 If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.

Patrick Lumbroso For past issues of the daily devotion go to my blog at: http://hearthstoneministries.blogspot.com/