How to Have a Crisis

What do you do when you’re desperate and people problems press heavily against you? You are being wronged while trying to live right. Do you call your friends and complain? Do you worry yourself sick? Do you mope around all day causing those around you to walk on eggshells?

Take a few moments alone and get hold of God. There’s a way to do that, and David provides the perfect example in the verses below from Ps. 119, which we are working through. David is the ultimate example of someone with people problems, considering his relationship with Saul. Notice what he did, and apply it to your circumstance. I read the verses below and wrote out a personal and private prayer to God. Perhaps you can do the same. 

Psa 119:121 I have done judgment and justice: leave me not to mine oppressors.	Who like David could say they have decided a case and determined to do what’s right? David did that with Saul when he considered and decided not to kill Saul when it was in his power to do it. And therefore, David asked God for a simple thing: “Don’t leave me to my oppressors.” And God answered. Saul was soon out of the way, and David became king as God had promised he would.
(122)  Be surety for thy servant for good: let not the proud oppress me.	David wasn’t done talking to God about his oppressors. To be “surety” means to “undertake for.” David thought of himself as God’s servant and asked God to work on his behalf for good and not allow the proud to oppress him. It’s a great prayer of dependence and supplication. Rather than worry about his oppressors, David appealed to God for deliverance from them. It’s an example of Casting all your care upon Him, for He careth for you. 1 Pet. 5:7
(123)  Mine eyes fail for thy salvation, and for the word of thy righteousness.	David was desperate, likely a result of the aforementioned oppressors. What he needed was to be saved from them. But just as equally, he needed a word of righteousness from God. We also need less issues and people problems and more of God’s great word.
(124)  Deal with thy servant according unto thy mercy, and teach me thy statutes.	“God, here’s how I need you to deal with me…” Is it OK to pray that? It is if the suggested way is according to who God is, and his “mercy” is definitely the way he is (Ex. 34:6-7).  “Lord, in this situation, deal with me according to your mercy. And while you’re at it, teach me your prescribed tasks.”