Psalms 66: ¹³ I will come into Your temple with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my promises to You—¹⁴ The oaths that parted my lips and were promises my mouth freely made when I was suffering and in anguish.
¹⁵ I will bring You my sacrifices—plump beasts and the sweet smoke of consecrated rams—I will also offer You bulls and goats.

¹⁶ Come and listen, everyone who reveres the True God, and I will tell you what He has done for me. ¹⁷I cried out to Him with my mouth, and I praised Him with my tongue. ¹⁸ If I entertain evil in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.¹⁹ But surely God has heard me; He has paid attention to the urgency of my request.

²⁰ May the True God be blessed, for He did not turn away from my prayer nor did He hold back His loyal love from me.

 

I was thinking about us as people... how we are in a bad situation.. broke.. depressed.. sad... whatever the case may be.. and we go to God in our time of suffering and we make all these promises to Him about what we will do when He brings us out of it...

 

just think how many times you have maybe lost a job or messed up your money really badly and we say to God.. if You will just give me a job.. I will tithe for the rest of my life.... or if we have a bad relationship... like me.. I chose the man I wanted and God said he wasn't for me and i wanted him anyways.. and he was abusive and a drug addict and alcoholic... and I told God.. if you just get me out of this... I don't care if I never have another relationship.. I will just stay alone forever... well.. He got me out of it... but I only halfway kept my promise to Him... I wanted a man around when I wanted him around but certainly not to ever have ownership of me again.... so when God had decided He is going to marry me off again.. I was quick to say.. look God.. we had decided I would never marry again... but God said I had been with men anyways... so I needed to be married.. but this time it needed to be for His glory.. surely not mine... whew that was a battle... to accept that God would want me to be married again....

 

when God is good to us.. we cannot keep our mouths shut.. we have to tell what He has done for us... and we praise Him for His goodness.. but how quickly we forget our previous troubles.... v18 states if I entertain evil in my heart God will not hear me.. well while my intention would be to never have evil in my heart... do I have evil in my heart? surely sometimes I imagine I do... even when I would rather not....

 

God did not turn away from my prayers... He has not held back His loyal love for me.. I am so thankful for the Love of God in my life!!