"His Utterance"

"Hear the voice of my supplications, when I cry unto Thee, when I lift up my hands toward Thy Holy Oracle." (Psalms 28:2) It's kind of like speaking for the sake of being heard, and then reacting to being heard by reaching out for acceptance and to say, I believe that You have heard me! This is not a silent inward pray, but one that puts the petitioner in a state of animation before his God, as one who expresses a deep desire to not only be heard, but that of being listened to. Not quite seeing the picture? Okay; first of all, if we are at the least bit honest with ourselves, then we know how often we pray for our own needs and wants, verses, how often we pray for what God wants; it's really not that we are meaning to put our desires before those of God's, but we just are naturally drawn towards self preservation. However, when we are praying for what God wants, it is an whole different matter all together, because we are praying towards His will and desire, and not towards our own. I have capitalized "Holy Oracle" to make the point of what it is meant to represent; it's not just the place within the temple, or the holy of holies where the ark was placed, but it goes much further than that, by representing the Utterance of God, as in "to speak"; and not just speaking forth, but speaking out Holiness and Glory! In that light, we are petitioning God within the arena of His Holy Word, what He has revealed as His will and His desires for us, not in the arena of our own desires for our self. In other words; if we truly know the heart of God, and if we are praying towards His heart, then we can be more than assured that He not only hears our petitions, but He is listening..."These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God. And this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask any thing according to His will, He heareth us: and if we know that He hear us, whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we desired of Him." (1 John 5:13-15)