Daily Reflections

To Prayer

February 2, 2025 Nancy DeMoss Wolgemuth

Out of the depths I call to you, Lord! —Psalm 130:1

Compared to many people, my life has been relatively trouble-free. Most days I could convince myself that I can operate on my own efforts, quite apart from His grace and intervention.

I have a friend, however, whose third child was born with multiple birth defects. For years her son remained in critical condition, undergoing life-threatening surgeries, requiring a breathing apparatus every night, prone to choking, and frequently unable to breathe. Do you think anyone had to tell her to pray for her son? You couldn’t keep her from praying.

She was desperate. She knew her son’s only hope of survival was for God to intervene. And she knew the only way she could get through all those long days and even longer sleepless nights was for God to grant her supernatural strength and enabling.

Though my natural instinct is to wish for a life free from adversity, I’m learning to welcome anything that makes me conscious of my need for Him. If prayer is birthed out of desperation, then anything that makes me desperate for God is a blessing.

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The Quiet Place: Daily Devotional Readings

©2012 Nancy Leigh DeMoss

Scripture taken from The CSB

Make it Personal

When was the last time you were truly desper- ate for God? How could you maintain that level of dependence, even in the mundane?