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- Herausgeber: Editora Oxigênio
- Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
- Sprache: Englisch
- Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015
This sermon preached by Charles Spurgeon invites us to meditate on God's presence. It is a heartfelt cry for divine help in times of distress. Spurgeon masterfully uses the model prayer of David and challenges us to know the power of prayer in our lives. A sermon inspired by the Holy Spirit
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DAVID’S PRAYER IN THE CAVE
Psalm 142
“A Prayer when he was in the cave.” David prayed when he was in the cave. If he had prayed half as much when he was in the palace as he did when he was in the cave, it would have been better for him. But, alas, when he was king, we find him rising from his bed in the evening, looking from the roof of the house, and falling into temptation.
If he hadbeen looking up to Heaven if his heart bad been in communion with God he might never have committed that great crime which has so deeply stained his whole character.
“A prayer when he was in the cave.” God will hear prayer on land, on the sea and even under the sea. I remember a Brother, when in prayer, making use of that last expression.
Somebody who was at the Prayer Meeting was rather astonished at it and asked, “How would God hear prayer under the sea?” On enquiry, we found out that the man who utteredthose words was a diver and often went down to the bottom of the sea after wrecks. And he said that he had held communion with God while he had been at work in the depths of the ocean.
Our God is not only the God of the hills, but of the valleys, also!
He is God of both sea and land. He heard Jonah when the disobedient Prophet was at the bottom of the mountains and the earth with her bars seemed to be about him forever.
Wherever you work, you can pray! Wherever you lie sick, you can pray! There is no place to which you can be banished where God is not near—and there is no time of day or night when His Throne is inaccessible!
“A prayer when he was in the cave.” The caves have heard the best prayers. Some birds sing best in cages. I have heard that some of God’s people shine brightest in the dark.
There is many an heir of Heaven who never prays so well as when he is driven by necessity to pray.
Some shall sing aloud upon their beds of sickness, whose voices were hardly heardwhen they were well. And some shall sing God’s high praises in the fire, who did not praise Him as they should before the trial came. In the furnace of affliction the saints are often seen at their best! If any of you tonight are in dark and gloomy positions if your souls are bowed down within you may this become a special time for peculiarly prevalent communion and intercession!
And may the prayer of the cave be the very best of your prayers!
I shall, tonight, use David’s prayer in the cave to represent the prayers of godly men in trouble.
But, first, I will talk of it as a picture of the condition of a soul under a deep sense of sin.
This Psalm of the cave has a great likeness to the character of a man under a sense of sin. I shall then use it to represent the condition of a persecuted Believer.
And, thirdly,I shall speak of it as revealing the condition of a Believer who is being prepared for greater honor and wider service than he has ever attained before.
THE CONDITION OF A SOUL UNDER A DEEP SENSE OF SIN
First, let me try and use this Psalm as a picture of THE CONDITION OF A SOUL UNDER A DEEP SENSE OF SIN.
A little while ago you were out in the open field of the world, sinning with a high hand, plucking the flowers which grow in those poisoned vales, and enjoying their deadly perfume.
You were as happy as your sinful heart could be, for you were giddy, careless and thoughtless, but it has pleased God to arrest you. You have been apprehended by Christ
