It is a good and honest thing to bring your burdens before the Lord, even when the tongue cannot fully speak them. He who knows the heart knows what is unspoken, and prayer in the day of trouble is a truthful recognition that God is not a fancy but a fact to the soul that seeks Him.
We will bear your burdens with you and fulfill the law of Christ in much prayer for you. Intercessory prayer is the sweetest prayer God ever hears, for it is like the prayer of Christ Himself who ever lives to make intercession. When you have prayed for yourself, do not end your supplication, and so we will not end ours without remembering your four requests before the throne.
Fly away to Christ and stand in spirit beneath the Cross. There under that crimson canopy no flash of divine penalty shall fall upon those who trust in the blood of Jesus Christ. Some think it is presumption to believe God at His word, but it is true humility to take Him at His word and to trust Him, and then your sins are gone in a moment. If you can say, I got it straight from the throne of God by trusting in the blood of Jesus, then you will know you received it from Headquarters and there can be no mistake about it. Trusting and not fearing is your calling, for though clouds may surround you, your God is your light, and though storms rage around you, your God is your might.
Remember that God has spoken in His holiness, and you may rejoice in that very fact. What a mighty power your soul will have in prayer if you go to God and say, Do as You have said. That is the sword to flash in the face of the foe, for it is written. He has already spoken, and while you are waiting for God to answer, you may remember that He has given His promises to plead. Get the promise and then offer the prayer, and the prayer will be answered as sure as God is God.
Calling upon God in the day of trouble brings honor to God in the very act and brings honor to God in His answer, for there is coupled with such a prayer the blessed assurance, I will deliver you. The Lord loves a sincere cry, not a solemn mockery of rehearsed words, but honest speech with God. Many are the words which pass between the Lord and the afflicted saint, and He delights to hear them.
Be definite before Him as Jacob was when he said, Deliver me, I pray You, from the hand of my brother, from the hand of Esau. God knew the name, yet Jacob mentioned it that his prayer should be clear. So tell the Lord all that lies upon you, even these unspoken things, with plainness. And if there should seem to be no answer, let unanswered prayer be a search warrant to examine the heart. Breathe the prayer, Search me, O God, and try me, and see if there is any evil way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. For sometimes failure in prayer may be caused by sin harbored within which is contrary to the will of God.
Therefore we now entreat the Lord for you, that He would do according to His holiness and His mercy shown in Christ alone, for there is no other way of salvation. We ask not that He would simply grant every desire of the heart, but that He would grant what is holy, good and for your eternal profit, conforming you more to His Son. If any of these four matters concerns a path that His Word forbids, we pray He would give repentance and a love for His chastening hand, and turn the heart to that which honors Him. If they concern affliction, temptation, provision or the souls of others, we pray He would be exalted above the heavens in delivering you, and let His glory be above all the earth in your life. May He give you present peace and keep you rejoicing in hope of the glory of God, till that remains, a rest for the people of God.
We will continue to cry to God in secret about these souls and burdens, asking Him to help you and to let you see His hand, that you may praise Him for the deliverance He will surely give in His own way and time.