Church, open your Bibles to the book of Psalms 130, Psalms 130. I spent a little time this afternoon reading in the book of Psalms, and the Lord had seemed to put me there and searching a few things out. And the Lord seemed to birth a message in my heart tonight out of the book of Psalms. And it really got a hold of my heart when I read the first verse in Psalms 130. is where God seemed to birth the thought from in my heart. And David said in Psalms 130, if you have your place say amen. David said, out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. I begin to meditate on that thought and I really want to preach on the night when you find yourself in deep places. When you find yourself in deep places. David prayed and cried out of the depths and In life, you're gonna find yourself in circumstances and situations where the situation seems deeper than you can survive. So I don't know what's going on in your life tonight. I don't know if the Lord's giving us a message for future situations or the Lord's speaking to somebody's heart tonight. I know this, the good shepherd's willing to leave the 99 to go after one in trouble. And so I don't know really, really what the Lord wants to. I know what he wants to do tonight if we'll all let him. But you live long enough as a Christian, you're going to find yourself in some deep places at times, different circumstances, different things. Look with me and we'll come back here. Look in Psalm 61. This is what David said. David found himself in the book of Psalms so many times in deep places. And here's really the thought, the concept of deep places. Psalm 61, David said, Hear my cry, O God, attending to my prayer. From the ends of the earth will I cry unto thee. When my heart is overwhelmed, lead me to the rock that is higher than I. For thou hast been a shelter for me and a strong tower from the enemy. When you find yourself in deep places overwhelmed, your heart is overwhelmed, And it has the idea of being in deep places, sinking in deep places, feel like you can't survive, you're not going to get out of it. One thing you better do according to Psalm 61 is you better get to praying. Praying. Prayer is of necessity. And then asking God to lead you. You know you need to get to higher ground and the only way to get to higher ground is get to Christ. He's that rock that you can stand on. But then realize that He's been a shelter for you. He's been a strong tower in the past. But then He said this, I will abide in thy tabernacle forever. I will trust in the cover of thy wings. Get as close to Him as you can get. when you find yourself in deep places. See, Jeremiah was in a pit. When he was in a pit, he was in deep places, but you know where Jeremiah found himself getting victory? When he began to turn his heart to the Lord and praise the Lord. He was accusing God of being in the pit. If you read the book of Lamentations, He's accusing God of doing this to him. He's blaming God for all the bad things going on in his life. And finally the Lord drew near to him and said two words. Only God spoke two words in the midst of his problem. He said, fear not. And when God spoke that word of fear not to him, everything turned around when he grabbed hold of that commandment. And he began to go from accusing the Lord to praising the Lord while he was in the pit. And so we can face circumstances that seem overwhelming. It's kind of like the idea of being in the ocean and the waves crumble you under and bouncing you off the bottom and you try to come up from breath and before you can get up and grab a breath, the next wave takes you under. And life can seem to be like that sometime. You're like, man, what more could happen? And so verse four said, make your mind up that you're going to stay in church. Realize how of necessity the house of God is, and then make your mind if you're gonna trust in the Lord, the cover of his wings, that means during that time you better get as close to God as you can get, because that's the only way you're gonna survive, getting close to the Lord. Now go back to Psalm 130, and then we'll go to three different Psalms looking at this message. Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord. The prayer is, Lord, hear my voice. Let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my, will you say that next word? Okay, it did not say supplication, in case some of you missed the S. Supplications. Supplications means to give a humble, earnest and treaty, a humble request, a humble prayer in treating God. And so I told you in Psalm 61, when you find yourself in those deep places, You're gonna find yourself that you're gonna need to be praying. The only way to come out of it is through prayer. Because prayer does not only get a hold of the heart of God, but prayer fix your heart. Prayer get your focus right. You begin to pray to the Lord and sow supplication. So it's the idea of praying and keep on praying. Praying and keep on praying. I've heard some Christians tell me, well, preach, I prayed about it and nothing changed. Well, how long did you pray about it? How many times did you pray about it? The Bible says we ought to always to pray and not to faint. And the Lord gave the idea of that little woman to be, you know, avenged. OF HERSELF, AND COMING TO THAT UNJUST JUDGE, AND SHE KEPT COMING TO HIM, AND COMING, WANTING TO SEE HIM. HE WOULD NEVER SEE HER, AND FINALLY HE SAID, LOOK, LET ME GIVE THIS WOMAN WHAT SHE WANTS, LEST SHE WEARY ME WITH HER CONTINUAL COMING. AND GOD SAID, WILL HE NOT AVENGE HIS ELECT THAT CRY AND PRAY UNTO HIM DAY AND NIGHT? SO HERE'S WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU FIND YOURSELF IN THESE OVERWHELMING CIRCUMSTANCES. You find yourself when life has seemed to knock you down and you find yourself in a situation that seems like it's got you defeated. What do I do preacher? Pray and keep on praying. Keep praying. I pray for two days. Well, it took Jesus more than three days to show up to Lazarus, so at least pray one more day, okay? Maybe he'll show up. But the idea is pray and keep on praying. And so verse three said, if thou, Lord, should mark iniquity, O Lord, who shall stand? Isn't that true? None of us would be able to stand before the Lord and give a petition or a request or supplication crying to Him. If He began to mark iniquity in our lives, man, it would begin to mound up real quick. And none of us would be able to stand before Him in confidence. So before you think that it's just all how good you're living while your prayers are always being answered, all of us have sinned. And if the Lord began to mark iniquity, none of us should stand. But the blessing is verse 4, when we do sin and acknowledge our sin, and sometimes in our prayer, sin will drive you to some deep places. Sin, your sin will put you in some deep places. And so if you'll pray and get repentance, if that's the situation that's got you there, thank God for verse four, there is forgiveness with thee. Thank God for forgiveness. And then he said that thou mayest be feared. Then he said, I wait for the Lord. My soul doth wait in his word. Do I hope here's what you better do when you find yourself in dark and deep places better get to the word of God. It's important. We're going to find out as we study two other Psalms, as we look at this one. Many times when we find ourselves overwhelmed, we find ourself in a deep place, we find ourself in a place it seems like we're never going to get out of. I'm going to tell you what can seem to happen. It can seem to happen that we get so focused inwardly about our situation that we lose an outward perspective about God. and how David brought himself out. We're gonna see a psalm here in a little bit. We're gonna look at it verse by verse and just get a thought out of each verse. How David brought himself out is yes, he prayed about his situation, he acknowledged his situation, he cried unto God for him to be delivered from the depths of the earth and God to bring him out, crying out of deep places, but yet in the middle of it, once he gave that to the Lord, he began to get his mind on a spiritual perspective of what he's supposed to be doing. reminding himself of the power of God and who God is, and reminding himself of what he's supposed to be doing. And see, we have a way when we have a problem that we turn inwardly and everything in life seems to be focused on our problem. And we lose our spiritual perspective. So if you're going to survive and come out of the depths, there's some things that you're going to have to do. So you're going to have to pray. You're going to have to get to the Word of God. Stay in the Word of God. Stay in the word of God, because if you're not careful, listen to me, you'll let your deep place lose hope. You'll lose hope. You'll feel like there's no need to pray. And when you do pray, you won't be able to pray in faith, because you feel like it's not gonna happen. There's no deliverance, it's always gonna be like this, nothing's ever gonna change. I still believe prayer changes things. I believe prayer, God still gets a hold of the heart of people and works in people's lives through prayer. God has a way of sticking his finger in your life and turning things around and getting you to where you're supposed to be. I still believe that pray. I mean, we pray for people to get saved. If we don't believe our prayers have an effect, then why even pray for people to be saved? If we pray for God to get a hold of somebody's heart, if we don't believe he knows how to get a hold of the heart of man and begin to move man in the direction he's supposed to go, I'm telling you, friend, God can do a lot in people's life when he starts bringing trouble in their life. It amazes us how God can change a man's spirit when he humbles him. Sometimes God has to bring us to a place of humility and through that humility begin to break our pride down and begin to break down these walls of self and these walls of what we've built up about ourselves and sometimes God has to strip all the facade off to humble a man and through humility God changes the man. So yes, pray and keep on praying. Get to the word of God. Hope in his word. Verse six, my soul waiteth for the Lord. So it's an idea of trusting God. It's an expectation. If you're waiting on the Lord, then you know he's gonna show up. You're waiting for him to do something. So he said, my soul waiteth for the Lord. What, more than they that watch for the morning. It talks about how much you want God to show up. If somebody's having a long, long night and they're thinking, boy, if the sun would just rise, this night's over with. This is past. And so he said, I wait for the Lord more than them that long for the morning. How bad do you want God to show up? If you get in a desperate, hopeless place and begin to put your hope in the Lord and begin to pray, it's the idea of I'm waiting on God, my soul does wait, I hope in his word. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning. Then he says it twice, I say more than they that watch for the morning. Let Israel hope in the Lord, for with the Lord there is mercy and with him is plenteous redemption. He shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities. Look in Psalm 61. I'm sorry, Psalm 69, I'm sorry. Psalm 69, then we'll go to Psalm 71 for the remainder of the message. Psalm 69, if you look at Psalm 69, I wanna look at a couple verses here. Look at verse one through three. David prays and says, save me, O God, for the waters are come in unto my soul. Now listen, he's not talking about literal waters in the passage. He's not inside the ocean or he's not in his house and the floods come raging in. He's talking about the troubles of life, circumstances of life. The waters are coming, flooding in unto his soul. He feels like he's about to drown. He can't breathe, he can't survive. And so David is explaining, if you find yourself going through trials, read the book of Psalms. You'll find David and Christ in similar situations. You'll find verses applicable to your situation. You'll find yourself, David, his soul gets disquieted, and whenever he's disquieted and loses hope, you'll find him losing hope and getting hope back in the same passage. Then you'll find him in the next verse losing hope again. Isn't that like us sometimes? Man, we begin to get discouraged and lose hope and then we get victory and then we slip and go back to losing hope. And then the next verse we get victory again. You'll find David going through that. You'll find him. We are flesh. The Lord knows we're but flesh. And so in Psalm chapter 69, save me, O God, for the waters are come in unto my soul. Look at verse two. I see in deep mire where there is no standing. Well, you'll get in deep places. You'll feel like all stability is gone. There's no standing ground. And here David finds himself sinking. He says, I can't find any. It seems like all stability of my life is gone. He said, I'm coming to deep waters where the floods overflow me. I am weary with my crying. Life was so bad that he just cried and cried and cried. And finally he got so weary of even crying. And then he said, my throat is dried. Seems like all moisture is gone. Mine eyes fell while I wait for my God. I believe he's saying he cried till he couldn't cry no more. Isn't that what the men did whenever Ziklag got burnt? Man, they cried till they couldn't even cry any more tears. You don't talk about being in a deep place, feeling like you've lost all hope. But I'm telling you, you'll find David in the middle of every one of his situations where victory comes. You'll find it without fail. Victory comes through prayer. It comes through prayer, it comes through praying. And so you'll find David praying, and he says, he says, they that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head, that they would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully or mighty, then I restored that that I took not away. Look at verse 13, look at verse 13. But as for me, here he says, my prayer is unto thee, O Lord. in an acceptable time. O God, in the multitude of thy mercy, hear me in the truth of thy salvation. Deliver me out of the mire, and let me not sink. Let me be delivered from them that hate me and out of the deep waters. Let not the water flood overflow me, neither let the deep swallow me up, and let not the pit shut her mouth upon me. Hear me, O Lord, for thy loving kindness is good. Turn unto me, according to the multitude of thy tender mercies. Hide not thy face from thy servant, for I am in trouble. Hear me speedily. In other words, when you're in that deep place, God wants you to cry out to him. Here's what you'll find in Psalms chapter 71. You'll find that you've never been in a situation. Look at me. You've never been in a situation that God didn't know about. You've never been in a circumstance that God didn't know about. You've never been in a place that God didn't take notice of where you're at in that situation. And so when we look at Psalm chapter 71, I'll just give you a couple of thoughts as we go through Psalm 71. Look at verse one. In thee, O Lord, now, you'll find in verse 20, if you'll look at it, read verse 20, we'll come back to verse one. Thou which had showed me sore, great and sore troubles, shalt quicken me again and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. The context, again, David's talking about being in deep places. And before we get back to this verse, we'll read it when we get there, but he's saying that I have seen great and sore troubles. If you're in a place of trouble, this won't be the only time you'll ever be there. Maybe a different kind of trouble, but David talked about God showing him sore troubles, these sore places and these troubles, and then it's interesting what he said, shout, quicken me what? Again. You know what David's remembering? This ain't the first time I've been in a bad place. And God brought me out of it last time, or the last two times, or the last three times. And so he's reminding himself that God will quicken him again and shall bring me up, what? Again from the depths of the earth. That isn't the only time he found himself in deep places. You live long enough as a Christian, you'll find yourself there repetitively. You'll find yourself People, it'll be situations with people. It'll be situations maybe financially. It'll be situations even spiritually in your life. A lot of different things that's gonna happen that's gonna seem to overwhelm you. When we become overwhelmed, we don't have to wallow in it. Right, we don't have to. We can feel it, may take us a little while to get victory, may take us days. I don't know sometimes how long it took David. I just know this, David continually resorting to the Lord. We're going to find in the text that David continually made the Lord his refuge. Whatever's going on in your life, let me say this, be sure you find time to get to God numerous times in your day. Get to him, look at Psalm 71. And thee, O Lord, do I put my trust. I wrote down that when we find ourself in deep places, we need to be sure that we trust him. Then never let me be put to confusion. Verse two, deliver me in thy righteousness and cause me to escape. Incline thine ear unto me and save me. Look at verse three. Be thou my strong habitation. You know what a habitation is? It's a place where you live. It's a place where you spend most of your time. It's what home is. That's where you live. You know what David's saying? Lord, I'm gonna make you my habitation. And not only just a habitation, but a safe place. A safe place. David, in the midst of all of his trouble, with all of his enemies, with all of his heartache, with all of his defeat, with all of his discouragement, with all of his hopelessness that's all around him, you know what he did? He made sure that he made God his habitation. So many people treat God like a spare tire. Everything, I'm driving all right, and Lord, I'll only get you when I really need you. And when I don't need you again, I'll put you back up in your place where nobody can see you. And then when I need you, it takes a little, you ever had one of those vehicles that you blew a tire and there's no way under God's heaven to figure out how to get that spare tire down? Okay, I'm not the only one that's ever been there. But you'll find. that the psalmist David is talking about, being in this place of making the Lord his habitation, where unto I may, will you say the next two words with me? Continually resort. If you're gonna make it, and you're gonna survive and keep your spirituality and keep your focus, you're gonna have to continually, we should be doing this, in other words, what you're supposed to be doing anyway throughout your day. Every day you ought to be resorting to the Lord. The Lord should already be your habitation. Therefore, whenever trouble comes, don't stop doing what you've already always been doing. Some Christians don't end up resorting to the Lord and making him their habitation until they get in trouble. And then now, you know, Lord now needs you. Put a place in your life where the Lord is your shelter. He's your strong tower. He's your habitation. He's your refuge. And continually resort to the Lord. Make that a part of your everyday. And then I'm going to tell you how you get through trouble. Keep doing what you've always been doing. To get you through it. So the Lord is his habitation. And then he said in verse four, deliver me, oh my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. Well, we're living in a cruel world, don't we? And people can be cruel, can't they? People can be cruel. And when you find people being cruel, you serve a God who's not cruel. When men are not merciful, you have a God who is merciful. So keep resorting to him, he'll see you through. Look what David said, for thou art my hope, O Lord God. Thou art my trust from my youth. I don't know if some of you have been saved from your youth, maybe you can't save from your youth, but you young people, look at the preacher. If you're here and you know God and you're saved, there's gonna come a time in your life, you may be in your 30s, 40s, 50s, whatever, that you're gonna be able to look back to God, and I want you to be able to look back and say, Lord, from my youth, I've served you from my youth. And be able to say, because David references it here, for thou art my hope, O Lord, thou art my trust from my youth. Be able to say that you've been faithful from the days of your youth. Stay close to God. You young people, if you can grab a hold of a verse, I don't want you young people in this church to someday have a testimony. Boy, when I was young and a teenager, I got saved. I fell in love with the Lord. I used to love church and everything. Then I got, you know, 18, 19, 20, got out in the world and went the way of the world and kind of went wild and became a prodigal. And then in your 30s or 40s, after you got a bunch of baggage and messed your life up, then you kind of come back to the Lord and find your way again. I'm glad people can find their way again, but hey, by the grace of God, you should have never left. Be able to say like David, from my youth, David didn't go from killing the giant to out in the world living in the tents of wickedness and coming back around to be the psalmist of Israel. He stayed faithful from the days of his youth. Stay faithful. Be able to have the testimony someday you can tell God from your youth. As David just said, thou art my trust from my youth. Verse six, by thee have I been holding up from the womb. Boy, acknowledge your dependence upon God. Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels. My praise shall be continually of thee. Not to thee, but of thee. Here's what I want to tell you. When you're going through your trials and you're going through overwhelming circumstances, you find yourself in deep places. You can have victory in deep places. Keep your relationship right with Jesus. When you may be struggling in a relationship with somebody else, or you may be struggling with hard times in life that seem to consume you, I'm gonna tell you what'll happen if we're not careful. We can allow carnality around us make us carnal. And when we lose a place of hope, we kind of forget the power of our God. We kind of lose focus of what we're supposed to be doing. Keep praising him in the midst of it. Keep your spirit right in the midst of your trouble. Stay close to God. Stay in his word. Keep praying. Keep trusting. That's what the text said. Keep trusting him. And then he said, by thee have I been holding up from the womb. Thou art he that took me out of my mother's bowels. In other words, he's acknowledging that it's God that gave him life. My praise shall be continually of thee. I am as a wonder unto many, but thou art my strong refuge. Now, not just a refuge, Church, but a strong refuge. You know what a refuge is? It's a place that is inaccessible to the enemy. It is a place in which you find shelter, protection from danger, protection from distress, and protection from calamity. Know what you better do? You better learn to make God your refuge. There's many times you may not find refuge in other people. You're going to have to find it in the Lord. Go to the Lord, let Him be your strong refuge. He's your... David found a safe place in the Lord. That's where he found it, in the Lord. So don't let deep places rob you of being close to the Lord. Did not the psalmist say, hey, thank God I'll never have to go to hell? But the psalmist did say, if I make my bed in hell, thou art there. I don't care what circumstance you're going through, the Lord's there. Draw nigh to him. Let my mouth be filled with thy praise. and with thy honor all the day. You see what David's saying? David's saying, Lord, I'm in this bad place, but I know what my mouth is supposed to be doing. I know, and I'm asking you to help me to let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honor all the day. That means continually throughout the day. He's trying to keep his spiritual perspective. Cast me not off in the time of old age. Now he may have been praying that present tense, but I'm praying that future tense. Amen? Old age. Cast me not off in the time of old age. Forsake me not when my strength faileth. Here's what David's saying. Lord, I may get to an age where I don't even know what I'm supposed to be doing. I may get to the age where I can't even put one foot in front of the other anymore. I can't even make my way to the house of God. I can't even get down to my knees and pray anymore. I get to the place that my mind may be feeble, but God I want you to know that I love you and I'm going to serve you until I get there. And when I get there and I can't do the things I know I'm supposed to do because my flesh has failed and my age is too old and my mind has left me, God, I want you to not cast me off even then. David's telling the Lord, I'm yours forever. I'm yours forever. So then he gets to the place, he said, for mine enemies speak against me, and they that lay wait for my soul take counsel together, saying, God hath forgotten him. Persecute and take him, for there is none to deliver him. Oh God, be not far from me. Oh my God, make haste for my help. I tell you what you're gonna have to do, continually acknowledge the fact that you need God's help. We can't handle the circumstances in this life on our own and in our own strength. Our strength fails us. Not one of us are strong enough to handle the trials of life, circumstances we find ourselves in. And I know that every one of us, every single one of us, if you're saved, and even, let me say this, many times as adults, we find ourselves looking at young people, and when they're going through a circumstance, you teenagers are going through something that seems to be overwhelming to you, we have a way as adults looking at it like, pfft, that's nothing. But it was very real to us when we were there. You can learn something from the older people that they can tell you, listen, I know it seems bad, son or young lady, but you're gonna be okay. God's gonna see you through. Because we've been there. And sometimes we have a way, you know, it's kinda like, it's kinda like, it's kinda like the new mom. She has the first baby. What I know from having a first baby, even as a dad, not having it, but having it together, you know? How overwhelming that can be. You're like, oh my goodness, this baby, you know? And then you have the woman walks up who's had five, I'm like, pfft, that ain't nothing. You're like, really? Oh my goodness, nothing? Okay, hopefully I'll get there someday, right? So we've got a way sometimes looking at other people when we've come through it. We get on the other side like, oh man, that's nothing. But it's everything to whoever's going through it at the moment. And you young people, let me say to you, I understand things can happen in your world that seems overwhelming. What do you do? It may not be, to you it's on the same level as the adults that are facing what they have. I'm telling you, keep your relationship with God, stay close to Jesus, get under the cover of his wings, trust him, pray, get in his word, praise him, keep your spiritual perspective, he's your refuge. Say, preacher, nobody understands me. The Lord will. Get to him, tell him all about it. Amen, find your refuge in the Lord. So I don't discredit some of what you young people are going through. All right, you'll find your hope in Jesus. You'll find your answer in him just like the rest of us do. That's where you'll find it. And so he goes on to say, Make haste to be my help, verse 13. Let them be confounded and consumed that are adversaries to my soul. Let them be covered with reproach and dishonor that seek my hurt. But I will hope, how? Continually. I will hope continually and I will yet praise thee, say those two words, more and more. David made a commitment, I'm gonna take my praise to a new level. How do you get through it? Praise him through it. Praise him through it. Stay close to the Lord. Joy, I found in the Christian life, listen to me, joy is not dictated by circumstances. Your joy is found in God. Jesus was a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief, but you'll never find him without having joy in the Lord. And so when you're going through it, your heart's hurting, you're breaking, whatever you're dealing with, but in the middle of it, walk with Jesus. Walk with Jesus. Stay close to God. Do what's right. Do what's right according to the word of God. And it's hard, listen to me, it's hard. You got two Christians, two believers, maybe you may have a circumstance between them. One of you stay close to God, the other one doesn't seem to, but I'm gonna tell you this, God, when this thing winds up on the day of judgment, we really are gonna give an account to how we handle things in this life. We're gonna answer to the Lord. I will hope continually and will yet praise thee more and more, taking his praise to a new level. My mouth shall show forth thy righteousness. In other words, in the middle of all of it, still should be talking about how righteous God is and not only my mouth showing forth thy righteousness, but also thy salvation all the day for I know not the number thereof. So here's what David's saying all the day. That means all the day. for as many days I have left. I don't know how many days I have left, but however many they are, I don't know the number of them, but I'm going to keep talking about your righteousness and I'm going to keep talking about your salvation. Don't forget, we're here to bring glory to God. And somehow when we're going through struggle, We think God says, okay, okay, time out on my great mission of winning souls and time out, you don't have to be a testimony now and you don't have to be a witness now. I expect you to just be down there in your deep place and forget about all that I'm supposed to be doing in the earth and this thing's all about you right now. Okay, time out. No. We don't get a time out. We don't get, you know, break. I'm not going to be a soul winner. I'm not going to be concerned about souls. I'm not going to praise him. Lord, I'm in trouble. I'm supposed to keep doing the same things we're always supposed to be doing in the middle of it because that's what's going to help get us through it. That's what's going to help sustain us. The Lord, let him be your refuge. And David said in the middle of it, I'm not going to forget why I'm here. I'm supposed to be testifying about his righteousness, testifying about his salvation. That's what I'm supposed to be doing. I will go in the stream. Verse 16, I will go in the strength of the Lord God. You gotta realize you don't have the strength, you need his strength. I'll make mention of thy righteousness, even thine only. You wanna know why? Because, well, we don't have enough righteousness to even talk about. Need to talk about his. Oh God, oh God, thou hast taught me from my youth. Be able to say that, young people. And hitherto have I declared thy wondrous works. Now also when I am old and gray-headed, O God, forsake me not. Can you look at verse 18? David's in deep waters. He's in a deep place. And he's saying, Lord, when I'm old and I am gray-headed, forsake me not until I have showed thy strength unto this generation and thy power to everyone that is to come. You know what he said? Lord, just keep using me to my old age. Forsake me not until I have been able to show forth thy power. You know how you're gonna show forth the Lord's power? You'll declare his power in your life. what He's brought you through, what He's brought you from. You'll be able to declare it. You know how you'll be able to comfort other people? When you've been through the similar thing, that then you can speak comfort into their life. Be able to be a comforter. Be able to show the Lord's power, be able to show His might unto everyone that cometh, to the next generation. Thy righteousness also, God, is very high, who has done great things. Here's what I want you to remember when you find yourself in a deep place. Remember the great things God has done. Reflect on the great things. Remember what God's done in the past. Remember his hand in your life. We're gonna see the psalmist talk about that here in just a second. And then he said this, oh God, who is like unto thee? Don't forget who you're serving. He's incomparable. Nobody can compare to him. I mean, you can't put him on the same page. The Lord said, to whom shall you compare me? There's none like unto him. Don't forget the God that you're serving. Don't forget who you're serving. There's none like unto him. Let him be your joy in the midst of your trouble. Who is like unto thee? Exclamation mark. That which has showed me great and sore troubles. shalt quicken me again, and shalt bring me up again from the depths of the earth. Thou shalt increase my greatness and comfort me on every side. Do you know what I have found? That God exalts those that exalt Him. Humble yourself unto the mighty hand of God that He may exalt you in due time. And so he talked about increasing His greatness and then comforting Him on every side. The Bible says that the Holy Ghost is our comforter. Don't miss this. We're supposed to find comfort while we're in the trial. The comfort does not come once we're delivered from the trial. We want him to comfort us by delivering us from the trial. But the Holy Ghost gives us comfort while we're in it. That's a tough concept, isn't it? But it's true. He's supposed to be your comforter. Let him be your comfort. And he said on every side, comfort me on every side. I will also praise thee with solitary, even thy truth. Boy, stay to the word of God. Let the word of God be the very thing that causes you to praise him. Oh my God, unto thee, look at this, will I sing with a harp, O thou holy one of Israel. Here's what I wanna tell you too, church, look at me. Don't get in your deep place and lose your song. Singing will help you praise your way through it. How many times have you ever been down spiritually and a song, boy, lifted your spirit? A song seemed to bring you through. Song puts you in a mental attitude of praising Him. How many times have you been riding down the road and just life going along? And I mean, you know, you prayed that morning, you read that morning, and you know, maybe you had a good fellowship with the Lord, but it didn't seem to be the thing of where you just crying and praising Him. But all of a sudden, you know, you've had a good day, but you're riding down the road and you put a song on. And that song starts, and before you knew it, man, you're like, praise God. And the temperament, praise the Lord, I'm saved, I know the Lord. And that song ministering to you and you're crying and you're praising God, you just wanna call and FaceTime everybody, look at this. Man, you go, you say, man, let me tell you, I was just riding down the road the other day and I just put a song on and I'm telling you, heaven came down and glory filled my soul. Don't lose your soul. The devil wants to rob you of your song. Keep singing, keep listening to the right kind of music. Keep the right music playing. Songs of the blessed help a weary soul. They do, don't lose your song. Boy, Job said, the Lord giveth a song in the night. Whenever he was weeping, may endure for the night, joy came in the morning. I'm gonna tell you what happened. The Bible says God gave him a song. So keep your song, don't lose your song. He said, with a harp, O thou most holy one of Israel, my lips shall greatly rejoice when I sing unto thee in my soul, which thou hast what? You need to reflect on the fact God saved you. Don't forget you, don't forget you're a child of God. You've been redeemed, your sins are forgiven, your name's written down in the Lamb's Book of Life. You'll never feel the charred walls of hell, amen. I mean, heaven's your home. Never forget he's redeemed your soul. I'm not talking about him fixing the whole situation. I'm not talking about God making everything better in your world so that you have victory. I'm talking about having victory in the midst of trouble. The psalmist said, well, I'm gonna remember that you have redeemed my soul, that thou hast redeemed. Verse 24, and we're done. He said, my tongue also shall talk of thy righteousness. Here it is again, all the day long. You know what David said over and over and over, I'm gonna commit myself to keep my mind on the Lord, on his righteousness, and on what I'm supposed to be doing. For they are confounded. And he said, for they are brought unto shame that seek my hurt. Boy, just keep trusting him. The message tonight, when you find yourself in deep places.