The Cry from the Depths

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 Basilea 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. 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. You've been listening to a program by Baselia Schlink of the Little Land of Canaan. If you contact us, we would be happy to send you a free inspirational booklet.

God bless you.