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1 Out of the depths I cry to you, O LORD;
2 O Lord, hear my voice.
Let your ears be attentive
to my cry for mercy.
3 If you, LORD, kept a record of sins,
O Lord, who could stand?
4 But with you there is forgiveness,
therefore you are feared.
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5 I wait for the LORD, my soul waits,
and in his word I put my hope.
6 My soul wait for the Lord
more than watchmen wait for the morning,
more than watchmen wait for the morning.
7 O Israel, put your hope in the LORD,
for with the LORD is unfailing love
and with him is full redemption.
8 He himself will redeem Israel
from all their sins.
(NIV)
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Psalm 130:- This is the fifth of seven repenting psalms, (6, 32, 38, 51,102,130,143.) This was said to be a special favourite of Luther who based his hymn ‘out of the depths I cry to Thee’.
It is said that the Psalmist is hoping and praying for God’s help. He is pleading for Israel to put their trust in God.
I wonder, how much trust do we put in God today?
Do we pray expecting our prayers to be heard and answered? or have our prayers become words we say at night or in the morning and not expecting any answer to them.
Quite a few years ago I read about a church in America that was under financial threat and the leaders of the church sat in prayer all night. They waited until everyone of them had the same message from God about what they could do.
I do not see that any of our churches today.
would they sit for so long?
would they wait until God saw the time was right to answer?
Yet 30 years ago our vicar came at the end of service and said, there are bills to be paid and said there was no money in the bank to pay them. He then said let us pray for how these are going to be paid. We sat and prayed may be half hour to an hour then went home. On Wednesday we heard the money had come in and the bills were paid.
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