Rescue Me. Hear me. Free Me.

It's finally nice enough to sit out on my little porch and enjoy the outdoors. There's a slight breeze, but it's warm, and that means that summer is on its way.  I was reading in Psalm 141 and 142 this morning. And for the past few days I've been taking my eyes off of Him....a dangerous thing to do. But I've been focused on school, my future, and distracted by things that should always take the backseat to Jesus.  So this morning was the first really deep and intimate time that I have been alone with Him in a few days. Oh how I've missed it. You don't realize how amazing it is to be alone with your Creator....if you have ever missed a few days or even a few weeks....that day that you come back to Him is like being reunited with the love of your life. And so I needed verses to help me, because I needed to feel His presence again- I needed Him back.  Psalm 141 just starts out so beautifully...

" O Lord, I call to you; come quickly to me. Hear my voice when I call to you. May my prayer be set before you like incense; may the lifting of my hands be like the evening sacrifice..." Also the first part of verse 4 is my prayer right now, that I won't slip or fade away from His love...I need to always have my intimate time with just me and HIM. "Let not my heart be drawn to what is evil..."

And then I just kept reading and in Psalm 142 it gets reallllyyyy good in verse 5 

"I cry to you, O Lord; I say, You are my portion in the land of the living. Listen to my cry, for I am in desperate need; rescue me from those who pursue me....set me FREE from my prison that I may praise your name." 

Those verses are my prayer to God today.