"Keep The Faith" \ Tehillim
"Yisrael trust in HaShem from now and evermore" (Tehillim 131:3). "Trust in HaShem, strengthen yourself, and He will embolden you, and trust in HaShem" (Tehillim 27).
These verses reveal the secret of prayer and trust in HaShem.
Many people think that HaShem wants us to pray to Him, but just one time.
If He answers our prayer, then all is good. If He doesn't answer our prayer, then it means HaShem has not accepted our request. So we give up, and we stop praying for whatever we requested.
However, the above verses reveal that we need to pray to HaShem, over and over again! "Trust in HaShem" -- pray to Him. "Strengthen yourself, and He will embolden you," -- if you strengthen your trust in HaShem, He will reciprocate and invigorate your spirit. "And trust in HaShem," now that you increased your faith in HaShem and He inspired your soul, pray to HaShem, over and over again!
Moshe Rabenu prayed over five hundred prayers requesting to come into Eretz Yisrael. There was no place in Heaven that Moshe Rabenu did not visit in his pleading with HaShem to allow him to enter the Land of Israel.
Only when HaShem told him to stop, did Moshe stop praying.
How do we apply this powerful lesson to our situation?
Review the verses aloud, "Yisrael trust in HaShem from now and evermore. Trust in HaShem, strengthen yourself, and He will embolden you, and trust in HaShem."
Internalize the lesson from this verse. Pray to HaShem, strengthen your trust in HaShem, and He will encourage you. And pray to HaShem, again and again. Never stop praying, never stop trusting, always believe and trust in HaShem, and always be optimistic that HaShem will save you.
(Midrash Tehilim 40:1)
