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De Profundis Clamo ad te domine

“Out of the depths I cry to you O Lord”

 (excerpted from Latin Devotional)

by Ky M. Bishop

Psalms 86:3-6

3 Be gracious to me, O Lord,

For to You I cry all day long.

4 Make glad the soul of Your servant,

For to You, O Lord, I lift up my soul.

5 For You, Lord, are good, and ready to forgive,

And abundant in loving kindness to all who call upon You.

6 Give ear, O LORD, to my prayer;

And give heed to the voice of my supplications! (NASU)

Our devotion times with the Lord were never intended to be little “O by the way”, encounters on the way to better things.  They were also not intended to be disconnected encounters where we allot twenty minutes of our day to God and leave the remainder for ourselves. No, our times with the Lord are intended to be consistent, fervent and unceasing times of deep heartfelt connection with our Father, our God, our Creator and our Savior.

 De Profundis Clamo ad te Domine finds its source in the prayers prayed in Psalms.  It was in the desperate times that David cried out passionately for his God.  It was in times of trial, tribulation, suffering and sorrow that David had his most desperate conversations with God.  It was also at those times when David was the most willing to listen.

 Think back on a most desperate time in your life.  Maybe it was a time of grave personal illness when you needed Gods intervention, or maybe it was a time in your life when you fervently interceded for someone else that was experiencing a difficult time.  In that moment was your prayer casual?  In that moment was your connection with God limited?  At that most desperate time in your life, was your prayer a jumbled mass of dispassionate words, or was your prayer alive with enthusiasm, fervency and a longing to see, hear, taste and touch the answers you were asking for?  Let me answer those questions for you, NO! In your passionate moment of need you were crying out to God with every fiber of your being. It is that type of desperation that God wants daily from His children.

 Jesus demonstrated this fervent style of prayer in the Garden of Gethsemane when the Bible said that “sweat drops of blood” poured from Him as He conversed with the Father.  What was He so passionate about?  He prayed for Himself, He prayed for His Disciples, He prayed for the world, and He prayed for the Fathers will to be done. His prayer was so intense that it literally invoked a physical response of bleeding. Now that is a serious “crying out to God”!

 I am not suggesting that unless your prayer life causes you to bleed, then it is not effective. No, we are not engineered to handle the intensity of the sins of the whole world being poured out on us, nor do we have to.  Jesus work was a completed work. My suggestion is that quiet possibly each of us should take our prayer life to another level.

 David not only demonstrated a passion for God in the difficult times, but also in the times of celebration.  The scripture declares that David entered the city joyfully, dancing naked before the world, celebrating enthusiastically his victories. This too was a deep cry to God.

 We are consistently striving to climb the ladder in a multitude of areas in our life. We are continuously trying to be better at our jobs, and in our fitness endeavors, and in our relationships, and in our finances. What if today we determined that we were going to apply the same determination of achievement in our personal lives to our spiritual lives? What would that begin to look like after several months of intensity?

 James 5:16b says this;

The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much.

NKJV

 As you begin your journey of passionately seeking after God let this be “the first day of the rest of your life”. Determine to approach your prayer time with a new intensity, passion and fervency that before was reserved for other things.  Cry out from the depths of your soul to the only source of relevant, lasting answers to all of life’s questions and begin this journey with an intensity and passion.

All Glory and Honor to God