Psalm 6:9 The Lord hath heard my supplication; the Lord will receive my prayer.
David’s feelings shifted from fear to confidence after he prayed. His faith knew that the Lord heard his plea and received his prayer. He knew God’s goodness enough to believe that God hears his prayers.
We also can respond to life’s difficulties with believing prayer to a kind and merciful God. We can believe God. We can believe God personally cares about us and our problems. We can believe God hears and receives our prayers. We believe God answers our prayers because of Jesus Christ, not because of us, and we believe in Jesus and pray in His name. We pray with confidence.
1 John 5:14-15: “This is the confidence that have toward him, that if we ask anything according to his will he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in whatever we ask, we know that we have the requests that we have asked of him.” This describes the faith of David, and of us. It is a blessing of God when we have a “knowing” in our spirit. Not a wish. Not a hope. The Holy Spirit gives us this gift of knowing that the Lord hears and receives. Then we may rise from our knees with a spring in our step.