... for I am your servant

Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love,
for I have put my trust in you.
Show me the way I should go,
for to you I lift up my soul.
-- Psalm 143:8

I have a daily verse sent to my email and in reading this verse tonight I read the whole of Psalm 143. Reading it this evening brought me great encouragement as it too was/is my cry.

In one of the versions (New American Standard see below) the Psalmist speaks in past tense and it's like he's moving into a new phase - this is what I identify with. He talks of what he has been through, how he has felt, his spirit being overwhelmed. This has been me. And yet, now, and I pray I don't speak ahead of time, I feel like I'm coming out of this dark period. My cry is for God's guidance in the way I should go... but before that and beyond that, my trust is in Him regardless.

I've had an encouragement within me all day, a sense of anticipation that while I've felt it for hourly periods has never lasted a whole day... like something really good is happening, even though I don't know what.

May what I have write be true... I feel I'm coming out of the trenches.

Psalm 143 (New American Standard Bible)

Prayer for Deliverance and Guidance.

¹Hear my prayer, O LORD,
Give ear to my supplications!
Answer me in Your faithfulness, in Your righteousness!
²And do not enter into judgment with Your servant,
For in Your sight no man living is righteous.
³For the enemy has persecuted my soul;
He has crushed my life to the ground;
He has made me dwell in dark places, like those who have long been dead.
⁴Therefore my spirit is overwhelmed within me;
My heart is appalled within me.
⁵I remember the days of old;
I meditate on all Your doings;
I muse on the work of Your hands.
⁶I stretch out my hands to You;
My soul longs for You, as a parched land. Selah.
⁷Answer me quickly, O LORD, my spirit fails;
Do not hide Your face from me,
Or I will become like those who go down to the pit.
⁸Let me hear Your lovingkindness in the morning;
For I trust in You;
Teach me the way in which I should walk;
For to You I lift up my soul.
⁹Deliver me, O LORD, from my enemies;
I take refuge in You.
¹⁰Teach me to do Your will,
For You are my God;
Let Your good Spirit lead me on level ground.
¹¹For the sake of Your name, O LORD, revive me
In Your righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.
¹²And in Your lovingkindness, cut off my enemies
And destroy all those who afflict my soul,
For I am Your servant.