God lives and works today.
Perhaps you've often longed to experience his miracles
in your life.
Perhaps you've even prayed about it, but nothing
happened.
You wonder what's wrong.
Did you perhaps not pray right?
Why didn't God hear?
Or when does he hear us?
Listen to the following meditation by Basilia Schlink
called The Cry from the Depths.
Recently, I was praying with a sister about
a sinful bondage in her life.
This sin seemed to grip her like steel,
because she had really inherited it from her
parents and ancestors.
However, in prayer, she received the word from
the Lord, but Israel is saved by the
Lord with everlasting salvation.
You shall not be put to shame or
confounded.
Isaiah 45 verse 17.
What a joyful message.
Christ the Savior has come.
However, we can only respond in a correct
way to this news if we have understood
the message of Ephesians 6, that all the
powers of darkness, the spiritual hosts of wickedness,
are continually fighting against us.
Whoever has been alarmed by this verse learns
how to cry from the depths of his
soul.
Lord, deliver me.
Jesus will hear such a cry from the
depths.
When we cry to him with all our
heart, he can do nothing but deliver us,
for he is a deliverer.
If a person goes swimming and starts to
drown, and he doesn't cry for help, no
one is likely to notice and come and
save him.
Therefore, when it concerns our drowning spiritually, we
can't cry enough.
The Lord will hear the cries of suffering,
the cries from the depths.
Be thankful if there is a great distress
in your life.
Give thanks if you sense that you are
especially bound to a sin on a certain
point.
For then you are forced to cry out
for help, and those who cry out will
become free from Satan's power.
There may be others who are just as
bound to sin as you, but perhaps they
don't realize it, and therefore don't cry out
to God for help.
Satan will draw those people even more tightly
into his clutches.
That is why it is actually good when
you are upset about your sinful bondages.
For then you have to cry out, and
cry from the depths of your heart.
I have known people who were so close
to the Lord Jesus.
But then they began to listen to the
voice of Satan, and they no longer cried
to the Lord.
Later, I didn't recognize these people at all.
They had changed so much.
Their sins had grown into an avalanche and
had completely changed their appearance and character.
May each one of us become one who
cries from the depths.
For he who cries out for help and
deliverance will experience the help of the Savior,
and that person will be protected from all
the powers of hell.
He has subdued the devil's might, for he
has won the fateful fight on Calvary's cross
so dreadful.
You have been listening to a program written
by Basileus Schlink of the Little Land of
Canaan.
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works today, visit us at our website, www
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