“But I am Prayer”

David wrote Psalm 109 as a plea to the Lord for help. But, early in the Psalm, verse 4b, he writes, “…but I give myself to prayer.” The Hebrew here, according to the ESV translators, literally means, “…but I am prayer.”

 

It struck me—can I say this?

 

Can I say that in every circumstance, every life situation that I face or that my children face, “I am prayer”?

 

Or, do my hands and feet get ahead of my mouth? Do I try to be the fixer before I gain the mind of Christ through prayer?

 

If “I am prayer,” then I will be already in the correct place to receive help from the Fixer who isn’t just about repairs but is the Restorer and Redeemer. In fact, I think I prefer to be restored and redeemed and definitely prefer that for my children.

 

May we each be able to say, “…but I am prayer.”

 

 

Thus says the Lord, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:

I am the Lord your God, Who teaches you to profit,

Who leads you in the way that you should go.

Isaiah 48:17 (AMP)