Seeking for the help of the Lord,
I direct your prayer for attention to Psalm 18 and verse 6. Psalm 18 and verse 6. In my distress I called upon
the Lord and cried unto my God. He heard my voice out of his
temple and my cry came before him even into his ears. This is a psalm of David and
it is delivered, we are told in the title, at the time when
the Lord delivered him from all his enemies. And what is the
burden of my spirit this evening is that David here ascribes these
deliverances to prayer. We read in the beginning of the
psalm his testimony that the Lord is his rock and his fortress
and his deliverer, my God, my strength in whom I will trust. His resolution in verse three,
I will call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised, so shall
I be saved from mine enemies. And he joins the calling upon
the Lord to being saved from his enemies. The two are joined
together, prayer and deliverance. And he tells us in verses four
and five, how the sorrows of death compassed him about, the
floods of ungodly men made me afraid, the sorrows of hell compassed
me about, the snares of death prevented me. He tells of his
trial, his trouble. And then we have the words of
our text. In my distress, I called upon
the Lord and cried unto my God. He heard my voice out of his
temple and my cry came before him even into his ears. Our text tells us that in David's
distress he called, he cried, he prayed to the Lord and the
Lord heard him. How did he know? that the Lord
heard him. When we read from verse 7 and
right through, right down to verse 19, of all that the Lord
did, told in such vivid detail. Verse 7 begins, Then the earth
shook and trembled, the foundations also, the hills moved and were
shaken, because he was wrong. And it goes on, all in answer
to prayer, as if prayer just unlocked all of the power and
might of God. The Lord wroth because of the
distress David was in, his enemies, his trials, and all these things
as David had ported out before him. And we know in David's life
how many times he fled from Saul, many times the Lord appeared
for him and Saul heard rumours and went back or the Lord caused
a deep sleep to fall upon Saul and the Lord delivered him on
every hand and here he pictures and sets this forth so so clearly
what the Lord has done in answer to prayer. And this is what is
upon my spirit this evening. We may know the path of prayer,
we may be able to set forth exactly what prayer is, a poor sinner
speaking to God, coming to God, and it is coming as clear in
the New Testament through our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ,
praying in His name, And through Him, if you ask anything in my
name, I will do it. We may be very clear on the doctrine
of prayer and of the exhortations to prayer, but how often do we
pray? And how much do we really realize,
really believe that prayer is directly related to our comforts,
our helps, our deliverances, the things that God does. I will
for this being quiet of by the house of Israel to do it for
them. And so the subject this evening
is remembering. Remembering what prayer can do. Remembering what God has done. Just the same as what David is
doing in this psalm. He is remembering his trouble. He's remembering how he prayed.
and he's remembering what was done. We think of Psalm 107. The many times that they fell
down, there was none to help. Then they cried unto the Lord
in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
And the turning point in every time in that Psalm is prayer. Why didn't they pray first? Why
did they have to fall down and none to help? how backward we
are in prayer, how soon we forget that God is exalted and honoured
and glorified in hearing and answering prayer. And so this
psalm is a great psalm in that respect to see in action one
who has had answers to prayer, joining those answers to the
prayers that he has offered up and giving the praise and glory
to God. Now, I want to make it very clear
that this psalm, as well as the psalm of David linking to his
own life, as it definitely does, it is also a prophetic psalm
of our Lord Jesus Christ. Sometimes we can very clearly
tell that a psalm is such when there are words in it that could
not possibly belong to David. Now we know of course that, relatively
speaking, there are good men on the earth, there are those
that fear the Lord, and the Lord does, he's a good God, he does
reward his people, that walk in right ways, he blesses them,
and he helps them. His people do not serve Him,
as it were, and the Lord takes no notice of it, no. The wicked,
they reap what they sow, but the righteous, they bear fruit
and the blessing of the Lord upon them. But none, none of
the people of God, none that are saved through the precious
blood of Christ, none that are redeemed, will ever come before
God. and say of themselves, as David
does here in verse 20, the Lord rewarded me according to my righteousness. Doesn't the Word of God say that
all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags? There is none righteous,
no, not one. All have sinned and come short
of the glory of God. Yes, it does. So what is David
saying here? Doesn't David remember his ways,
his sins. He says, I have kept the ways
of the Lord. He says, according to the cleanness
of my hands, have he recompensed me? I've kept the ways of the
Lord. I have not wickedly departed
from my God, for all his judgments were before me. I did not put
away his statutes from me. I was also upright before him. I kept myself from mine iniquity. And he's speaking of the cleanness
of his hands. And whenever we come across passages
like this, it lifts the psalm and exalts it well above speaking
of man, sinner, a sinner. But it points to Christ. It points
to the righteous man. It points to the only one. that
is righteous. Their righteousness is of me,
saith the Lord. This is the name wherewith they,
the church of God, shall be called the Lord our righteousness. This
is the name wherewith he shall be called the Lord our righteousness,
the Lord Jesus Christ. He is the only one that lived
a perfect, spotless, and pure life, and it's because of his
righteousness that the blessing of God rests upon his people,
the reward of his righteousness, the reward of his precious blood,
that which he has purchased and done is bestowed upon his dear
people, and not one of his people will ever come and stand in heaven
and say, well, I'm here because of my good works, here because
of my righteousness. No. only by that which has been
imputed and imparted to them of the Lord Jesus Christ. So
we have a blending, as it were, in this psalm, that which is
David speaking of his own experience and that which he is speaking. Jesus Christ. David is a prophet. We think of Psalm, just a couple
of Psalms on in Psalm 22, Psalm of David, My God, my God, why
hast thou forsaken me? Why art thou so far from helping
me from the words of my roaring? And the very words are your Lord
used upon the cross. There is David in prophecy speaking
of David, he spake of the Lord. Now clearly we have it set forth
in some of the Psalms that speak of that which our Lord quoted
himself. Psalm 110, the Lord said unto
my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand until I make thine enemies
thy footstool. Now Lord asked the scribes and
the Pharisees, he said, how is it? How can David in spirit call
him Lord, call Christ Lord when he is his son? But he is the eternal God who
has made flesh and dwelt among us. And so we have the Psalms
that if we want to see the beauty of them, we look to the Lord
Jesus Christ and we see him set forth before us. We read that
he walked that path of prayer himself, spent whole nights in
prayer. How that just before he was taken
in the Garden of Gethsemane, going and praying, falling down
to the ground, sweating great drops of blood. Father, if it
be possible, let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless, not my
will, but Thy will be done. And it is prayer to His Father. We read in Hebrews that He was
heard. Though strong, crying and with
tears, he was heard in that he feared. Our Lord Jesus Christ
walked that path of prayer. We think of Daniel opening his
window those three times a day toward Jerusalem and praying. The temple was destroyed, but
the time was still there as it were. looking to the Lord Jesus
Christ. Daniel is known as a man of prayer. And may we be men, women, children
of faith and of prayer. And so then I want this evening
to consider, put it under three headings. Firstly, remembering
to pray. And then secondly, remembering
the deliverances through prayer in the scriptures. We have some
here in this psalm. And then thirdly, remembering
personal answers to prayer. That is what David is doing here. Firstly then, remembering. Remembering
to pray. What a strange thing, that the
people of God should forget to pray, and yet we do. We may give assent to prayer and
the teaching of our Lord and the need to pray, our Lord's
parable of the unjust judge and the widow coming
unto him again and again avenged me of mine adversary but he wouldn't
for a while then he said because of her continual coming lest
she weary me i will avenge her the lord says here what the unjust
judge saith shall not god avenge his own elect which cry day and
night unto him And our Lord speaks of a people that are praying
day and night, and yet they may pray for a long while and not
seem to get answers. But God is not dictated to. He answers in the time and in
the way that He sees fit. But He will avenge His own elect. He will hear them. Our Lord exalted
in that way too. Pray that all men would pray
and not faint. Continue in prayer and watch
in the same with thanksgiving. How many times we're exhorted
in the scripture to call upon the Lord. Call upon me in the
day of trouble, I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me. But do we remember to pray. Or
do we like in Psalm 107, leave it until we've exhausted every
other avenue first? My desire that the word tonight
might encourage us and help us to remember to pray. There's
nothing that encourages prayer more than getting little taste
of answers to prayer or remembering answers to prayer. Now if we've
tried something one way and it's worked, we'll try it again, we'll
do it again. And the more we prove that God
hears and answers prayer, and that is His chosen way of blessing
and bringing about providence and moving in our lives and in
others' lives, then the more we will be encouraged to pray. But how forgetful often we are. We immediately go to action,
go to working, going to do something ourselves, and don't think that,
well, what we should do first? Ask the Lord's direction. Ask
His help. Ask His blessing. Ask His guidance. Ask His strength. Ask that He
direct our thoughts and direct us what to do and how to act. For those that we're not able to help in a physical
way, that the Lord would help them. The Apostle Paul speaks
of those helping together with us by prayer. Prayer is that way that God has
appointed. David says he was in distress. And many times it is that we
are in distress or trouble or need before we pray. And yet that should not be so.
If we live a life of faith and prayer, the two going together, God hears and answers prayer. He is glorified in that. And
he will answer prayer. We are to continue in the same,
watching in prayer, watching for the answers, not just praying. But in this first point, remembering
to pray. May we think of this when ever
we come to the Word of God, the hymn writer says, join prayer
with each inspection. May we remember this before we
ever start any job, when we start ever searching the Word, when
we start ever preparing a Bible study or a sermon or going to
evangelize or to speak to someone have to give an account to those
that we work with or live with, that we don't forget to pray
and to ask the Lord for his help and blessing. Lord to look then secondly at
some of those passages in the Holy Sacred Word of God where
we have the very clear answers to prayer. We think of dear Jacob, Jacob
when he was returning from Laban and he heard reports that his
brother Esau was coming before him with 400 men And we read
that Jacob was greatly distressed. The danger was very real. He
knew his brother had hated him for robbing him of that blessing. And now it seemed that he was
intent on destroying him. And he took steps indeed to calm
his brother down by sending a present before him. Then he put all over
the brook, and he wrestled with the angel, I will not let thee
go, except thou bless me. You know, there's something so
very beautiful about the way that he prayed first. In very simple terms, he told
the Lord about his brother coming, and how he feared him, and how
he feared for the mothers with the children and the flocks. Prayer is not complicated. It
is simply telling. Telling the Lord. And that is what Jacob did. And
you know when Jacob did meet Esau, Esau ran and embraced him. And Jacob, he said, I saw thy
face as the face of an angel. Jacob clearly saw that God had
answered his prayer, he'd taken away the wrath of his brother
and he embraced him in love. There was peace. There's a beautiful account there
where it says they wrestled a man with him again, the Lord Jesus
Christ, in one of the pre-incarnation appearances. Thou hast wrestled
with God and with man, and hast prevailed. That's why Jacob's
name was changed from Jacob to Israel. In one sense, Jacob was
never to forget that time. That was when his name was changed. And it was a time that he prayed
so earnestly, and the Lord answered his prayer. Going back from that,
we think of when Abraham's servant was charged with finding a wife
for Isaac. And again, he comes to the well
and he prays, he lays before the Lord exactly what his mission
was, what he was commissioned to do. And he asked that when
the women come to that well, if he asked one to give water
for him and then for his camels, and she does so, let the same
be the one for my master's son." And he said, and he would say,
the matter is, we heard several times after, he seemed to be
so overwhelmed that he'd only just finished speaking in his
heart. It wasn't audible prayer, it
was silent, it was in his heart. The Lord heard. And Rebekah came. And you know what Liban and Bethuel
said? Rebekah's brethren, the thing
proceeded from the Lord. They could say, they could say
it was answers to prayer. How often have we read that account?
Have we really noticed this? What was done in answer to prayer? We think then of Moses and this
is the account when they came out of Egypt. Then came Amalek. Now in this way you might say
it's not directly linked to prayer but it was where Moses stood
with his arms spread wide And with his rod, Aaron and Hur held
his hands up, because when his hand dropped down, then Amalek
prevailed. When he held his hands up, then
Israel prevailed. Joshua, he was in the valley
fighting with Amalek. They were using the manes. They
were fighting in a conventional way. But God's blessing was there. when the rod was lifted up. It's
a beautiful type of prayer. We use the manes, but we pray
over the manes. And as we pray, then the Lord
causes those manes to be blessed. And often it is referred to in
that way, that instance. Prayer is a bringing down of
the power of God on our behalf. And Moses lifting up his rod
and his arm was bringing down the power of God on behalf of
Joshua and the children of Israel. In that account, it was so evident
the direct link between that power being given and the power
withdrawn. When the rod was let down, the
power's not there. When it was lifted up, the power's
there. And may we notice the same in
the matter of prayer. The difference between when we
pray and when we don't pray. We think of Moses in that way.
There are many times that Moses made intercession for the children
of Israel. We read that the children of
Israel murmured and the Lord then sent a fire amongst them.
But Moses prayed for the children of Israel and the Lord healed
them. And then there was a time the
Lord sent serpents amongst them as well. And the children of
Israel cried to Moses to make intercession for them. And again,
in answer to prayer, those serpents were taken away. That was the
time that the brazen serpent was raised up. And our Lord refers
to that in John 3. Even as Moses lifted up the serpent
in the wilderness, even so, must the Son of Man be lifted up that
whosoever believeth in Him should not perish but should have eternal
life. Moses made intercession when
they made the golden calf, the times that God said He would
destroy the people and that turning away of His wrath was when Moses
prayed, Moses made intercession. You can read of those accounts,
the direct relationship between Moses' prayer and the blessings,
the deliverance from wrath of God and the children of Israel. We think of Hannah, Hannah who
could have no children, who went up yearly to Shiloh to sacrifice
with a husband who had another wife, and that wife did have
many children. But there Hannah was in bitterness
of soul and prayed unto the Lord again. Her voice was not heard,
only her lips moved, and Eli the priest, he mistook her, told
her to put a wine away from her. But she says, no, I'm a woman
of a sorrowful spirit and have poured out my heart unto the
Lord. He says to her, the Lord grant
thee thy petition that thou hast asked of him. And the Lord gave
her a son, a man-child that she'd asked for and promised that if
the Lord would give him, she would lend him all the days of
his life to the Lord. And that was Samuel. And later
on we read that she comes to Eli and she says, I am the woman
that stood before thee praying. For this child I prayed, and
the Lord hath given me my petition, that I have asked of Him. And
again, in that account, you can read it in the first book of
Samuel in chapter one, how that she directly links the prayer
that was offered up and the answers to prayer. This child I prayed,
here is this child, here is an answer to prayer. May we. Remember such accounts as that. Then we have the account of Solomon
dedicating the temple. Those long chapters that record
the prayer as he dedicated that temple. And after he'd prayed,
the smoke, the cloud that filled the temple. When they offered
the sacrifice, the fire came down from heaven and kindled
the fire upon the altar. The Lord clearly answering, and
we read the Lord saying, appearing to Solomon in a dream and saying,
I've heard thy prayer. than we have later on with Elijah
in the days of Ahab. And how the children of Israel
had gone after Baal and served the false god Baal. And God had
sent three and a half years of famine and after that brought
them to the top of Mount Carmel. Two altars were made, one for
Baal, one for the true and living God. And the God that answered
by fire, he was to be known as the true and living God. For
those that worshipped Baal, they cried from morning to noon, and
yet there was no answer, and no God. But with Elijah, when
they repaired the altar, and he commanded that they pour water
all over it, and made it very clear that this was to be an
answer to prayer, and a miracle not just man kindling this fire
and he prayed then unto the Lord before all of the people of Israel
and before all the false prophets the Lord answered by fire from
heaven and consumed not only the wood and the burnt sacrifice
but the stones and the water and the dust and burnt everything
it must have been a fearful sight those of you who I've seen lightning
fall from heaven, or strike a tree, whether I'm literally, personally
with your own eyes, or seen a film of it, it's a fearful sight,
this sudden fire that comes not up, but down from heaven, and
completely consumes that which it hits. And the people reacted,
the Lord hears God, the Lord hears God. They saw that this
was an answer to prayer. With Elisha as well. When the
king of Assyria sent his armies to get them, because he was making
known to the king of Israel the plans of the enemy, the servant
arose in the morning and he said, Alas, master, how shall we do?
All around them was armies. We read Elisha, he prayed, Lord
open the young man's eyes. And the Lord opened his eyes
and he saw round about them those chariots of fire and horses of
fire. Later on, he prayed, Lord smite
them with blindness. And the Lord smote those armies
with blindness. He led them into the midst of
Samaria. Then he prayed again, The Lord
would open their eyes and they saw where they were. And again
in that account, we hear prayer answered again and again. Then we have Hezekiah. Hezekiah,
when Sennacherib came, we read that he and Isaiah, they spread
the letter that was sent to them, railing upon the God of heaven.
They spread it before the Lord. and prayed toward the God of
heaven. And the Lord appeared for them. He went out, he sent an angel,
and he killed 180,000 of them and sent them away from Judah. Wonderful deliverance, that little
Judah in the midst of all the nations standing up against the
might of Assyria at the same time. Hezekiah was sick, sick
unto death, told to put his house in order, and again he prayed
unto the Lord. Immediately the Lord answered,
added to his life fifteen years. Hezekiah was a man that trusted
the Lord, but a man of prayer, and he prayed unto the Lord.
We think of Jonah, Jonah in the whale's belly. I'm cast out of
thy sight, yet will I look again. toward thy holy temple. Salvation
is of the Lord. The Lord spoke unto the fish,
it vomited him out onto the dry land. Our Lord spoke of Jonah
as being the sign, sign that was given to the Ninevites and
a sign to his generation as well, because our Lord was to be the
same as Jonah, with three days and three nights in the fish's
belly, So he was to be three nights and three days in the
heart of the earth and then rise again from the dead. Jonah, in
effect, rose again from the dead. But in that well's belly Jonah
prayed and the Lord heard and answered that prayer. Then we
have in the New Testament, we have the account of Cornelius. 10 years after Pentecost. And yes, we could say with Pentecost,
it was while they were gathered together and praying that the
Holy Spirit was first given. With Cornelius, 10 years after,
which is the equivalent of Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was given
to the Gentiles, we find that Cornelius is praying. And he
was a man of prayer that had prayed for a long while. We don't
know how long. But an angel appeared to him,
and said, Thy prayer is heard, and come up for a memorial before
God. And he was bid to send to Joppa,
and to call for one Peter, who shall come and speak to you words
whereby ye shall be saved." And at the same time, we read that
Peter also was praying on the top of the roof when these
messengers came. You find Peter praying, Cornelius
praying, the two brought together, Peter made willing to go to the
Gentiles, Peter going, and the Spirit fell and blessed them,
who shall withhold water for these who have received the Holy
Spirit, as we have, says Peter, and they were baptized in the
name of the Lord Jesus Christ. Those remarkable times when Prayer
was offered up and prayer heard and sometimes those prayers had
continued for a good long while before they were answered. But
they were answered and it was because of prayer that the answers
came. Then we have the case of Peter
when he was shut up in prison. Herod had already killed James
with the sword and he put Peter in prison and after Easter he
was going to bring him out to the people. The same night that
he was to be brought out, and Peter was asleep, he was shackled,
he was guarded, the doors of the prison were shut, and the
angel of the Lord came and smote him on his side, raised him up,
his shackles fell off, The doors opened of their own accords.
The keepers became, as it were, dead men. He was just brought
out and led right out of prison. And Peter, he goes and he goes
to the house of Mark and to the brethren where they were praying. The church was praying, praying
for his deliverance. But again, what a reminder to
us. Yes, they were praying. It's
a great blessing, they were. And Peter's deliverance was an
answer to prayer. But they could hardly believe
it when Rhoda went to answer the door. She heard his voice. She recognized him. But for gladness,
she didn't open it. She went in and she said, is
Peter at the door? They said, they aren't mad. It
is his angel. And Peter, he continued knocking.
We can be like that. We can be praying, but so unbelieving. But God didn't treat them as
to their unbelief in their prayers. He still answered their prayers
and set Peter free. And yet that again is a remarkable
time of an answer to the church's prayer and cry to God and deliverance
of Peter. Then we think of Paul and Silas
in prison at Philippi. And at midnight they sang praises
to God and prayed. And what did God do? He sent
an earthquake. The doors of the prison opened. The jailer, he went to kill himself,
thinking the prisoners were escaped. But Paul cried out, do thyself
no harm. We are all here. And it was a
means of a conversion of the jailer and his whole house as
they heard the word of the Lord. the beginning of the church at
Philippi. You can read of Paul's letters
to the Philippians and the blessing that the Lord gave really in
answer to prayer. And so we have so many of these
accounts and no doubt you can think of more throughout the
Word of God and they're all given. They're given to us as these
testimonies and witnesses. These are real sinners, just
like you and I. And they have prayed and called
upon the name of the Lord. And the Lord has heard them from
heaven, like David testifies in this Psalm 18. And the Lord
acted. He did things. He sent answers
in answer to prayer. And as we've quoted before in
Ezekiel 36, I will for this being quiet of by the house of Israel. to do it for them. It is the
great privilege of the people of God to pray. On to then thing, lastly, remembering
personal answers to prayer. So already we've had to remember
to pray and thinking of the prayers that are in scripture and how
the Lord has answered them. But now in this last point, to
think of our own lives, to go back over our own paths. Has the Lord taught us to pray? I hope he has. And when we have prayed, have
we those things that we can clearly see? have been in answer to prayer,
when we have been in want in our souls, when we've been under
conviction of sin, when we've cried unto the Lord
for mercy, for forgiveness, has He not given answers to prayer,
appeared for us in the ministry, appeared for us through the Word,
blessed our souls, set us at liberty, as we wrestled in prayer, perhaps
then grown weary of prayer, had to return to our labours and
what we were doing, and yet the Lord used means to bring us back
again to pray and to cry unto the Lord, and then blessed our
souls. What about those times that we've
had things in Providence, that we've looked that the Lord would
appear for us, maybe in the sale of a home, or maybe in the job,
or a provision of a wife, or perhaps a church to attend, or
what we should do, where we should go. Those things that we have
brought before the Lord and asked Him to appear for us, things
that we may have been exercised over for years, exercise of the
ministry. Maybe we've been in bondage,
in darkness, we've cried unto the Lord in our darkness, and
in His time and way, He's lifted that darkness, appeared for us
and helped us. Maybe it has been our loved ones,
And we prayed and maybe prayed for years. Seemingly there's
been no real answers. And then the Lord has clearly
shown us that our poor, poor prayers have been answered. Healing
has been given. Relief has been given. And we've
seen it. We've rejoiced at it. We thank
the Lord for it. But we can so soon pass over
it and forget those times. that the Lord heard and answered
our prayers. Those times that we've heard
others praying, maybe on their deathbed, crying to the Lord,
begging to the Lord that He would appear for them, and He has appeared. He's given them such quietness,
such joy. They spoke so lovingly of the
Lord and what He is to them. We've seen it, we've heard it.
We've heard their prayers, we've heard their praise, we've seen
their deliverance. Those things that are very personal
to us. You might say others cannot enter
into, but the Lord has given us those times of prayer and
those times of answers to prayer, that if we were to write them
down like dear David does here and put them on record, We would
have a record just like him, of where prayer stands in the
middle, stands in between the trial, the difficulty, the uncertainty,
the troubles of our mind, and then that quietness and the deliverance
and the helps that we now stand in possession of. Sometimes it
does us good to wind, as it were, the clock back, Many times, Satan,
he would just say, oh, it wasn't anything anyway. It would have
happened anyway. It has nothing to do with prayer.
And I find it's a very good thing to just wind back the clock a
few maybe days or weeks or months and think, well, what was I several
months ago? What position was I in? And you
might look back and you think, oh, I was in such turmoil of
mind. I was so full of anxious fears. I didn't know what to do. I didn't
know what way to take. And then you think of what you
are now. Now you know what to do. You know what way to take. The Lord has appeared and it's
all open before you. You're not in trouble now. You
were before. And you think of those prayers,
and the Lord says, I gave you that in answer to prayer. The
peace, the helps you have now are in answer to prayer. I did
it. Your poor prayers, and you feel
your prayers, poor, I know, but they were answered, not for your
merits, but for the sake of Jesus. Because of his intercession,
it is his power, his merits that have prevailed. They're wonderful
tokens. They're very encouraging things
for poor sinners to have, as it were, in the cup of their
salvation. David, he says, I'll take the
cup of salvation and render praise to the Lord. And then my cup
runneth over. And if we had a cup, a cup of
salvation, How much would we put into that of time to distress
and answers to prayer? Prayer and answers to prayer. May we be encouraged this evening
in prayer. May we continue in prayer and
watching the same with thanksgiving. May the Holy Spirit, the Remembrance,
shine upon the work that He has done in us and for us and the
answers to prayer that He has given us. Maybe we have to go
home and even take a piece of paper and start writing down
some of the things that have happened in our lives and those
things that have been answers to prayer. And then we can, as
it were, write our Psalm 18 as well. And we can say, in my distress,
I called upon the Lord and cried unto my God. He heard my voice
out of his temple and my cry came before him even into his
ears.