God Loves a Lullaby: What God Hears When Our Hearts Cry Out

By Jonathan Herst

Anyone who has ever cared for a child knows a lullaby a gentle song can quiet and calm a childs active spirit. As the children of God, our minds can also be full of distractions and worries and a full agenda that competes with Gods best for us.

In God Loves a Lullaby, Jonathan Herst, himself a young father, examines the Father heart of God.

Just as a human parent responds to the cries and fears of his children, God hears our cries and anxieties. Jonathan Herst examines a full slate of our emotional issues desperation, regret, loneliness, anger, and many others, and contrasts our view of those feelings at the time, with Gods eternal point of view.

In this simple devotional, the author invites us to consider how God hears our prayers. Gods view, Jonathan reasons, is different than ours. Our prayers may seem like emotional desperation, but they are music to the ears of our Father, God.

Read on, and you too will find that God Loves a Lullaby.


J. Kie Bowman
Senior Pastor
Hyde Park Baptist Church
The Quarries Church
Austin, Texas

• Language: English
• Publisher: AuthorHouse
• Release date: Sep 13, 2012
• ISBN: 9781477249635

Jonathan Herst

With a heart of compassion, Jonathan Herst deeply desires to minister to those whose hearts are hurting and desperate for rescue. Active within the ministries of his church, Hyde Park Baptist in Austin, he is seeking his ordination to become a minister. Jonathan is a veteran law enforcement officer in The Great State of Texas where he lives with his wonderful and beautiful wife and his brave-hearted son. You can find him online at Facebook.com.

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Published by AuthorHouse 08/25/2012

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Contents

Foreword

A Lullaby

Preface

It Only Hurts When I Breathe

Pulled from the Wreckage

The Horse Stampedes and Rages

Hemorrhage

When the Ashes Scatter

Hungry

Hell hath No Fury

Seethe

Until Lambs become Lions

As the Poison Lays My Soul to Sleep

If Only

Lost

Storm

Hurricane

Why hast Thou Forsaken Me

And There My Burdened Soul Found Liberty

A Lullaby Prayer

The Gift of Salvation

Acknowledgements

Endnotes

Foreword

Anyone who has ever cared for a child knows a lullaby—a gentle song—can quiet and calm a child’s active spirit. As the children of God, our minds can also be full of distractions and worries and a full agenda that competes with God’s best for us.

In God Loves a Lullaby, Jonathan Herst, himself a young father, examines the Father heart of God.

Just as a human parent responds to the cries and fears of his children, God hears our cries and anxieties. Jonathan Herst examines a full slate of our emotional issues—desperation, regret, loneliness, anger, and many others, and contrasts our view of those feelings at the time, with God’s eternal point of view.

In this simple devotional, the author invites us to consider how God hears our prayers. God’s view, Jonathan reasons, is different than ours. Our prayers may seem like emotional desperation, but they are music to the ears of our Father, God.

Read on, and you too will find that God Loves a Lullaby.

J. Kie Bowman

Senior Pastor

Hyde Park Baptist Church

The Quarries Church

Austin, Texas

A Lullaby

Bring to me your weariness.

Bring to me your tears.

Bring to me your loneliness, hopeless cares and afflictions.

Bring to me your fear, shame and regret.

Bring to me your malice, anger and rage.

Bring them all to Me.

For I care not in what manner you bring them.

I simply care that you . . . bring them.

Pour out your long sufferings to me.

Lay them at the foot of . . . the cross.

Pour out all of your miseries.

For all I hear are melodies.

You can sing to me your lullaby.

—Jonathan Herst

Preface

Too often I think just how amazing it is how we view God, in light of telling him all of our problems and struggles. Some see him as someone we bring our concerns to, and then hope for the best. Some bring their problems to him and really don’t believe that anything will happen, that is, in their favor. Some talk to God and think that if they have not committed any really large sin lately that God will find more favor in answering their prayer because of that. Some talk to God truly believing that whatever he allows to transpire, that his perfect will manifested through this accomplishment will be achieved. And then, some believe that God does not want to hear our problems, and that he grows tired of our crying and aching hearts.

No matter what your view is of how God views our cries to him, the Bible is