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Psalms 130
1Out of the depths I have cried to you, LORD.
2Lord, hear my voice. Let your ears be attentive to the voice of my petitions.
3If you, LORD, kept a record of sins, Lord, who could stand?
4But there is forgiveness with you, therefore you are feared.
5I wait for the LORD. My soul waits. I hope in his word.
6My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, more than watchmen for the morning.
7Israel, hope in the LORD, for there is loving kindness with the LORD. Abundant is with him.
8He will Israel from all their sins.
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Does God hear my prayers?
Scripture says yes, and it says so without depending on how the prayer felt or how quickly it was answered. God's hearing is grounded in his character and in Christ's mediation, not in our fluency. The Bible distinguishes between being heard, being answered, and being answered yet, and confusing those three causes most of the doubt.
What does it mean to fear the Lord?
The fear of the LORD is not terror of an unpredictable God. It is the reverence of a creature who has rightly understood who God is, holy, sovereign and near, and who therefore takes him seriously in every decision. Proverbs calls it the beginning of knowledge, because a person who has not reckoned with God has not yet begun to understand anything rightly.