God answers when we call

"Call" and "answers" may vary in nature.
But the nasic propositiom is the responsiveness of God to our
calling out to Him.

It is not dogmatic formulas on how loud, how long, or how many times one should call on God. It is general evidence that God will respond to man's calling. And that's a good thing.

Psalm 138:3 says -

"On the day that I called out, You answered me; You encouraged me with strength in my soul."

Call out to God.
Open your heart and call out to the Lord Jesus.
You may have tried thinking and meditating and contemplating for a long time.
Why not trust to call out to the Lord Jesus - "O Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus!"

The Psalmist says "On the day that I called out, You answered me"
Within his heart he received divine enouragement.
Within his being God's presence was made known to him with substantiation
deeper than human words can convey.

It is not too early to show the EAGERNESS with which God wants to respond to the heart reaching out to Him.

Isaiah 65:24 has God saying even BEFORE they call He will draw close to the seeking one. So CALL " O Lord God, Lord God I open my being to You Lord."

King James Bible
And it shall come to pass, that before they call, I will answer; and while they are yet speaking, I will hear.

God does hear.
God does answer.
Call on God telling Him so, that you read so, that you expect Him to answer.
Remind Him in your calling out to the Lord Jesus - "Lord Jesus, did you not say in the OT that before some call You as God would hear?"

It is very important that you call HIm addressing Jesus as "LORD".
Very important.

@sonship said
"Call" and "answers" may vary in nature.
But the nasic propositiom is the responsiveness of God to our
calling out to Him.

It is not dogmatic formulas on how loud, how long, or how many times one should call on God. It is general evidence that God will respond to man's calling. And that's a good thing.

In the early days of the departure of human beings from knowing God, they eventually realized that they could CALL n the name of the Lord to sorten that distance.

This occured in the fourth generation after the fall of Adam into sin.
They noticed they were drifting farther anfd farther from God's presence.

When Enosh was born in the fourth generation, men BEGAN to call on the name of Jehovah God.

"And to Seth also a son was born, and he called his name Enosh. At that time men began to call upon the name of Jehovah." (Gen. 4:26)

The meaning of the name Enosh is "frail, mortal man"

Those who thought they could live without God eventually realize that they were mortal and frail without God. They had the good sense to begin to call out to Jehovah God for fellowship.

The Hebrew word translated call there means to cry unto, i.e. cry out audibly

Men BEGAN . . . to realize the unashamed NEED for communion with God.
Men BEGAN . . . to realize there was no shame in desiring to draw close to God.

"At that time men began to call upon the name of Jehovah."

Of course not all called.
Of course there were some who scoffed saying "What good does that do anyway ?"

@sonship said
Of course there were some who scoffed saying "What good does that do anyway ?"

What happens when a man calls upon the name of the Lord is mysterious yet real. If he makes contact in his innermost being with God it is as if God is a beverage he is drinking.

The Psalimist says he first loved God upon discovering that God HEARD his VOICE and responded to his supplication.

"I love Jehovah because He hears my voice, my supplications, because He inclides His ear to me;

Therefore I will call upon Him all my days." (Psalm 116:1,2)

Latter he says this calling on the name of God was to him like lifting up a cup of salvation and drinking.

"I will take up the cup of salvation and call upon the name of Jehvah."

He drank in the as a thirst quenching beverage inward fellowship with the living God.

He didn't say he would spend the rest of his life arguing about the use of calling.
He was too spiritually thirsty for that. He would CALL drinking from "the cup of salvation"

Other portions of the Psalm 116 show what condition his being was rescued from. I will include some of them below.

"The bonds of death encompassed me,
And the distress of Sheol fell upon me;
I fell upon trouble and sorrow" (v.3)

Calling on the Lord with his whole heart saved him from this dreadful sorrow and threat of death itself.

"But I called upon the name of Jehovah. O Jehovah, I pray, deliver my soul." (v.4)

He may not have even been able to express the trouble he felt in his soul.
He may have had a shortage of language to tell God just how under it and
gloomy he felt.

It was not necessary to God for him to be able to do so.
it was helpful for him just to call upon the name of the Lord to be strengthened
and delivered from the turmoil.

He realized he too was an Enosh probably.
Though others may have mocked claiming his trouble only showed he was a weakling. He didn't care for how he appeared to them.

He cared to contact the living God.

"O Jehovah, I pray;, deliver my soul.

God knows from what we need to be delivered.
God knows full well even better than ourselve from WHAT we need to be delivered from.

He knows.

"Jehovah is gracious and righteous,
Indeed our God is compassionate.
Jehovah preserves the simple.
I was brought low and He saved me." (vs.5,6)

This is my testimony too when I called "Lord Jesus, Lord Jesus brng me home. Lord Jesus help."

@FMF
The help rendered by one calling to touch God results in help of which the caller realizes is not generated within himself by his own resources.

He can know it is not self help.
He can realize what he receives is of a supernatural nature from God and not
motivational self help.

After an accumulation of such experiences it is reinforced that he is on the right track to trust in God.

One can argue about calling.
And one can call.

I encourage the latter as having much higher priority.

Of course life is full of opportunities to depend on God again and again.
So it was not the ONLY time the Psalmist called.

In this Psalm he said he told his soul to "return to your rest" .

Today the Lord may answer you.
Tomorrow will have its own trials.
Then you call again and tell your soul when God answers "RETURN to your rest".

"Jehovah preserves the simple;
I was brought low, and He saved me.
RETURN to your rest, O my soul;
For Jehovah has dealt bountifully with you." (vs. 6,7)

We fallen sons of Adam are so very proud that we need many instances of being humbled and needing to call upon the name of God to return to rest in Him.

@sonship said
The help rendered by one calling to touch God results in help of which the caller realizes is not generated within himself by his own resources.

@sonship said
He can know it is not self help. He can realize what he receives is of a supernatural nature from God and not motivational self help.