Psalm 65: The Hearer of Prayer

God has heard our prayers, He is hearing them now, and He will always hear our prayers. God Almighty, Creator and Father, promises to hear the prayers of all the earth’s inhabitants. The specific need in the prayer of Psalm 65 is rain; and the Lord comes to bring rain in abundance. To “pray for rain” is to pray for livelihood and wellbeing: a matter of life or death.

To pray to the Hearer one must first come into His Presence; but no one is allowed into His hearing with any stain of sin and guilt. So He does it: He himself purges the sin away. Now we talk. The Hearer hears. The enemy barrier is gone.

This God of Salvation is Creator God who once defeated and still defeats chaos and turmoil, the enemies of peace in the inner man. This God of Salvation is also Provider God who sends rain and provides goodness and fatness more abundantly than we can ask or imagine.

The God Who Hears is always available, so the child of God can avail and prevail.