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The greatest antidote against all the troubles of
this life, is fervent prayer.
"Lord, in trouble have they visited You; they
poured out a prayer when Your chastening
was upon them." Isaiah 26:16
"They poured out a prayer." Before, they would
say a prayerbut now, they poured out a prayer.
Saints never visit God more with their prayers
than when He visits them most with His rod.
Saints never pray with . . .
that seriousness,
that spiritualness,
that heavenliness,
that humbleness,
that brokenness,
that fervency,
that frequencyas they do, when they are
under the mighty chastening hand of God!
A sincere Christian never prays so sweetlyas
when under God's rod. When a Christian is in
troublethen prayer is his food and drink.
Oh, what a spirit of prayer was . . .
upon Jonahwhen he was in the whale's belly; and
upon Danielwhen he was among the lions; and
upon Davidwhen fleeing in the wilderness; and
upon the dying thiefwhen he was on the cross; and
upon Jacobwhen his brother Esau came to meet him
with four hundred bloody cut-throats at his heels!
When a Christian is under great troubles, deep distresses,
and most extreme dangers; he should pray . . .
more for the sanctification of afflictionthan its removal;
more to get off his sinsthan to get off his chains;
more to get good by the rodthan to get free from the rod;
that his afflictions may be a purifying and refining fire,
that his heart may be low and his graces high,
that he may be more weaned from this world,
that he be more ripe for eternal glory.
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