*Grace for Every Need*
Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant. (Psalm 86:16)
Future grace is the constant plea of the praying psalmists. They pray for it again and again to meet every need. They give us a beautiful model of daily dependence on future grace for every exigency.
They cry out for grace when they need help: “Hear, O Lord, and be merciful to me! O Lord, be my helper!” (Psalm 30:10).
When they are weak: “Turn to me and be gracious to me; give your strength to your servant” (Psalm 86:16).
When they need healing: “Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am languishing; heal me, O Lord” (Psalm 6:2).
When they are afflicted by enemies: “Be gracious to me, O Lord! See my affliction from those who hate me” (Psalm 9:13).
When they are lonely: “Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted” (Psalm 25:16).
When they are grieving: “Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am in distress; my eye is wasted from grief” (Psalm 31:9).
When they have sinned: “O Lord, be gracious to me; heal me, for I have sinned against you!” (Psalm 41:4).
When they long for God’s name to be exalted among the nations: “God be gracious to us and bless us . . . that your way may be known on earth” (Psalm 67:1–2).
*Unmistakably, prayer is the great link of faith between the soul of the saint and the promise of future grace.* If ministry was meant by God to be sustained by prayer, then ministry was meant to be sustained by faith in future grace.