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Seeds Of The Kingdom 13 June 2022 | Pour Out Your Heart

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TOPIC: Pour Out Your Heart

SCRIPTURE: Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.”

Seeds Of The Kingdom 13 June 2022 MESSAGE

In today’s verse, the psalmist encourages us to pour out our hearts to God. This is what David himself does on many occasions, telling God exactly how desperate he is feeling, or how angry he is. Psalm 69 is a good example of this. It begins with David saying that he is sinking in the miry depths and is worn out calling for help. He then goes on to talk about his enemies, and how he has been scorned, disgraced and shamed.

He starts to express his anger about them and this turns into a real rant, with him asking God to pour out His wrath upon them (verse 24) and to “charge them with crime upon crime” (verse 27). After pouring out his anger to God, his mood seems to change completely. He obviously feels greatly relieved and released, peace is restored, and he is able to end the psalm with praise to God.

This is a good model for us – not with the words he uses about his enemies, which are a bit shocking, but in the way that he expresses his emotions and is being real with God. Sometimes people are embarrassed to tell the Lord exactly how they are feeling, and so they bury their emotions, especially any anger they might be experiencing.  They seem to think that God might be shocked if they express what they are truly feeling! But God knows exactly what is going on inside us and so he cannot be shocked.

Ephesians 4:26 says, “In your anger do not sin,” which shows that anger in itself is not a sin. It is an emotion that is God-given. The problem is that most of us do not handle it well. We can easily express it in such a way as to hurt others, and this gives the devil a foothold (Ephesians 4:27), or we can decide not to recognise it at all and to bury it, which is also ungodly.

Emotions that are buried can cause problems in our lives, emotionally, spiritually, and sometimes even physically. It is therefore much better to follow the advice of the psalmist and to pour out our hearts to God. He is our refuge and will provide the comfort and peace that we need.

Seeds Of The Kingdom 13 June 2022 PRAYER

Lord, I am sorry that I have not always recognised the emotions that You have given me, and I have tried to bury them. Please forgive me and help me always to pour out my heart to You, knowing that You are my refuge and the only source of comfort and peace that I need. Amen.

TODAY’S AUTHOR

Seeds Of The Kingdom 13 June 2022 Daily Devotional written by Jilly Lyon Taylor has been involved with Ellel Ministries since 2001. Her early career was in publishing, and she then spent three years working with children in Hong Kong. When she returned to the UK, she married, had three sons and spent the next years being a full-time wife and mother, at the same time serving in the local church with her husband. She was involved in running Alpha courses, children’s programmes and Bible study groups.

During this time, she began to see how many people were being held back in their Christian lives because of issues in their past. A desire to see people healed and set free led her to undertake the NETS training at Pierrepont in 2001. Following this, she joined the ministry team at Pierrepont and began to teach on courses. She was asked to join the leadership team in 2004. She has since had the privilege of teaching with Ellel in many different countries.

She was widowed in 2017, but continues to live locally to Pierrepont. Her sons are all married and she has eight grandchildren.

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