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[0:00] Psalm 50 and verse 15 Psalm 50 and verse 15 The previous verse Offer unto God thanksgiving And pay thy vows unto the Most High And then call on me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee

[1:01] We feel really verse 14 Needs looking at just for a moment or two Before we move on to the next verse Is there anything in our lives Is there anything in our history Is there anything that needs to be corrected So that we do not hinder our prayers We have that incident in the Gospels Where if thou bring us a gift to the temple First lie at the altar And go and be reconciled to thy brother or thy sister I haven't repeated it exactly in Scripture But yes it is there If you want to bring a gift Then make sure there is nothing that hinders that gift And that gift must be done out of an honest heart

[2:02] And so I feel with the opening verse 14 here Not to tarry with it But offer unto God thanksgiving And pay thy vows unto the Most High Is there a vow that's been vowed?

[2:16] Maybe I will do this if the Lord will do that I don't say that's a good way to make a vow But nevertheless That is the way a vow is made As it's been performed Remember an old gentleman At Lake and Heath He had arthritis bad And he vowed a vow That if the Lord would hear him Whatever the means He would be baptised And the Lord did hear him And I think he forgot What he The statement he made Until somebody came with a text Which spoke right upon it That's me he said That's me That's me I remember him walking all the way down To the chapel yard That's me That's me I vowed a vow

[3:18] That if my arthritis was cured I would be baptised And he went ahead with it Or the church did anyway If you vowed a vow Perform it If you've got a vow In your heart If you regard iniquity In your heart God will not hear you The Psalms tell us that He'll not hear you Have you got a vow That needs to be put right Before you see If it's A difficult matter To call upon the Lord of hosts How we should seek To make it less difficult And if we regard iniquity In our heart The thing that we pray for And desire we shall not have Purge me Oh Lord Wash me And I shall be whiter than snow Create in me A clean heart

[4:18] Oh Lord That's what we want Clean hearts Clean hands As we Bow before our maker Then to turn More particularly To our verse Here verse 15 And call upon me In the day of trouble I will deliver thee And thou shalt glorify me Really no Not It isn't often Many days Goodbye But there's something That causes a bit of trouble Sometimes more Sometimes less We sometimes dread The telephone ringing What will it bring When it does ring Another time We want a phone call Because we Wish to know How a matter is Our families Are ever before us And doubtless You are the same That have families Wondering how they are Wondering how things are

[5:21] With them Especially if they've Got grandchildren And it isn't often It isn't long Before there's something That causes us to pray While I say Causes us to pray I think of that hymn That goes long We either slight Or doubt him But when all the means We try Prove we cannot do Without him Then at last The hymn we cry He'll bring us To our senses Sometimes We can think We can get by Without calling Upon God Whereas he's Probably permitted Some trouble To come into our Pathway That he might Hear from us How lovely to hear Children talking And chatting together Some we've got Two at the back Of our garden And they talk Quite loudly Some of them Mummy Mummy Mummy Mummy And I suppose

[6:21] Mother thinks Sometimes Oh dear What is it now But yet there's A love in their Heart To hear the voice Of their child Calling How sad How sad How sad if it was Mute Untalking Not talking We do know An instance like That you see Where there's One that cannot Talk Because of Some failure How that mother Would long To hear her boy Say mummy Mummy Mummy And god Waits to be Gracious Looks forward To hear your Voice You know When I Just briefly Think upon It Is There is A reason Why We address

[7:23] Our prayers Lord God Almighty Big Big sounding Terms And ways Meaning Big things Is that The reason Why the Lord taught The disciples Our Father Such a Difference Our Father As opposed To Lord God Almighty We know That God Is Lord God Almighty But he Has taught His Disciples To pray Our Father Would you Not long For him Would it Not be Your prayers Lord Jesus Enable me To approach The Father And Use that Use that More familiar Term Our Father Which art In Heaven It's a Lovely Prayer You know I Conducted A funeral

[8:23] Some weeks Ago And we Didn't Have it In the Chapel But we Assembled Around the Grave And I Committed The body To the Grave To the Dust And ashes To ashes And I Said come On a Little Closer A little Closer We'll Now Say that Prayer Which is Taught The Disciples Our Father They Spoke it A little Bit Quick But it's A good Prayer And call Upon me In the Day of Trouble You've Put right Those things That were Wrong Your brother Is not Offended Against you Anymore You're At peace With With the World As far As you Can be At peace With the World As it Lies In Wickedness But Now Call upon Me And call Upon me In the Day of Trouble It isn't

[9:26] Long you See before Something Happens Something Takes Place And we Are We've Got Trouble Again Bunyan Said No Sooner One Doth Leave Him Another Doth Him See As soon As this Trouble Has Melted Away Something Else Takes Place And Job Speaks Like This We're Born Unto Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upwards And it's Born Of a Woman It's Born Unto Trouble As the Sparks Fly Upwards I Remember Hearing One Say Like This I'm Fed Up Well This Was Ralph War Voice Repeating What He Had Heard I'm Fed Up With England This That And the Other I'm Going Off To Australia And the Person And the Dear Friend You'll Find

[10:26] That The Sparks Fly Upwards In Australia Just The Same As they Do In England You Won't Avoid Trouble They have Undertakers In Australia As well As in England They have Doctors In Australia As well As in England And so On You Might Go Through The Whole Host Of Different Things That Are The Answers To Trouble And Call Upon Me In The Diary Of Trouble How Do We Call It Doesn't Say Try Unto Me It Says Call Upon Me In The Diary Of Trouble But We Read In Luke Or In Corinthians I Think It Is Men Ought Always To Pray And Not To Faint Let Nothing Hinder Your Prayers By Reason Of Underneath Men Ought Always To

[11:26] Pray Doesn't Mean That You Going Around Always Saying A Prayer And Yet The Psalmist Said In One Of His Psalms 109 I Prayer When I Walk I Walk I Walk I Walk I Pray I Pray Pray Without Ceasing There Are Times When There Is A Greater Necessity For Us To Pray Without Ceasing We We Don't Repeat The Prayers It Comes In Different Form The Essence Is The Same I Think That Word Pray Without Ceasing Means Pray Without Unbelief Leave Something Out Without Leave Something Out Leave Out Unbelief That We That

[12:27] God Is Not Honored By Unbelief Men Ought Always To Pray Not To Faint There Is One Other That We Read This Morning Men Ought Always To Pray Not To Faint There Are Many Times When You Might Say Our Hands Hang Down Feebly And Our Needs Tremble I Cannot Think Of Anything In Particular At The Moment Though It May Come Yet But There May Be Some Instances Where We Might Say I Prayed And The Lord Heard And Answered If I Hadn't Prayed It Might Have Been Different I Remember An Incident Some Years Ago Now Walking Down Our Road I Came Across My Sister In Law She Was

[13:27] In The Garden And I Hear Her Voice Was A Bit Strange And She Was Crying I Said Mary What's Wrong Her Two Nephews Were In A Car Crash The Night Before One Had Fifty Fifty Chance To Live The Other One Was Not Expected To Live She Said You Will Pray For Me Won't You I Said I'll Go And Do It Now I Got On My Bicycle I Was Will Turned My Bicycle Around And Went Home I Was Alone In The House My House I I Went To The Bedroom And I Knalled Upon My Knees And I Pleaded And I Pleaded And I Pleaded For That Boy Or Those Two Boys Especially The One That Seemed To Have No Chance At About About Three She Phoned And She Said The Tide Is Turned The Boy Will Live I

[14:27] Said What Time He Began To Improve About Eleven O'clock Which Is More Less The Time When I Turn The Bicycle Around To Go And Pray Pray Without Ceasing How Easy To Think Well It's Too Late Then May You Know The Devil Satan Is Ever Ready To Hinder Our Prayers I Think Of The Little Maid Of The Jair Jairus The Synagogue Ruler Ruler He His Little Daughter Was Very Ill And He Comes To See Jesus And Jesus Said Yes I'll Come To Start a Good Doctor Would You Know I'll Come No No Fitting Into The Appointment System I'll Come So

[15:30] They Too And With The Crowd About And Went Down I Always Think Slightly Down Hill Really But It May Not Be So And As He Went I Think A Woman Touched Him Through Virtue From Him Who Has Touched Me The Disciples Say They Says The Crowd About You And You Say Who Has Touched You Someone Has Touched Me Said Jesus And The Woman Came Out The Crowd And Told Why She Did It And How It Was Done Then They Resume Their Journey Down To The Synagogue Ruiners House They Resume Their Journey And Somebody Is Master Don't Bother Don't Bother The Little Maid Is Dead Waste The Time Coming But They Go And Jesus With Two His Disciples Go Into

[16:30] The Room Where The Little Maid Is And Turns Out All The Wailers And The Weeping Women The Professionally Hired Mourners Shrieking And Weeping And Making A Lot To Do Thrust Them All Out And Indeed They Laughed These Things Up To I Don't Know What He Does Think He's Up To He Says All That Says She Couldn't Live Never Heard These So Ridiculous In My Life But He Said Little Damsel I Saturday Arise We Ended The Sermon Last Lord's Day In The Afternoon With That Verse Damsel I Saturday Arise Is There A Reason Why It Should Be Here This Morning Was There A Reason That It Should Be At Mount Be Last Week Damsel I Saturday Arise What

[17:30] Is Impossible With Man Is Possible With God Damsel Are You Listening Damsel I Say Unto The Arise Text In The Afternoon And Consider What Great Things The Lord Have Done For The And Have Had Compassion Upon Them Go Home To Thy Friends And Tell Them What Great Things The Lord Have Done For The And Have Had Compassion Upon The Damsel I Sound To The Arise We're Not To Mix Unbelief With Our Prayers Hebrews Puts It Like This And Whosoever Cometh To God Must Believe That He Is And That He Is A Rewarder Of Them That Diligently Seek Him You Must Believe That God Is God You

[18:34] I Don't Know I've Never Looked At It But You May Find That The Dictionary Has Many Interpretations Upon God God God God Or Some May Be Legitimate And Some May Not Be But When You Think Of God You Have To Think Of The Greatest Being God Is A Spirit The Greatest Being I'm I Didn't Pass My Eleven Plus So I Didn't Go To A Better School So I'm Very Limited How I Can Interpret This Word Very Limited I Am God Is Not Limited All That Is Eternal Good Great Mighty Loving Merciful Compassionate And The List Goes On And On And On Is This Great God You

[19:35] Must Believe That He Is And That He Is A Reward Of Them That Diligently Seek Him One Man Said If Thou Wilt Thou Canst Make Me Clean That Was The Leper In Mark Wasn't It Mark Chapter Two Or Chapter One One Of Those Two Chapters If Thou Wilt Thou Canst Make Me Clean He Was Full Of Leprosy You See He Came Seeking After A Care And A Heal From Jesus Jesus Said I Will And I Believe He Touched Him And He Was Immediately Clean We We We We Must Believe That He Is A Reward Of Them That Diligently Seek Him We Mustn't Limit God We Read In One Of The Psalms Concerning The Feeding Of The Multitude In The Wilderness Can

[20:36] God Can He Spread A Table In The Wilderness Which Is Barren And Rocky And Dusty And Nothing Grows There Can God Spread A Table In The Wilderness Of You've Got Something In Your Pathway At The Moment Can God Do This Can God Make Crooked Things Straight And Rough Places Plain God Soon Proved To Them That He Could Make A Spread A Table In The Wilderness He Brought All The Quails Over Multitudes Upon Multitudes I Like To Think Like This Every Egg Hatched That Year Not One Was Addled The Whole Lot Hatched Brought A Multitudes And Multitudes Of These Quails And Left Them Knee Deep Around Their Tents And Whilst The Meat Was In Their Mouth He Slew Them I'll Show You Who Is Boss One

[21:37] Lady Said To Me She Was A Pentecostal Lady She Said She Had A Stroke She Was Not An Old Lady When She Had The Stroke But She There You Are She Said You Go To Bed Well And You Get All Ill That Show You Who Who's The Boss Don't She Didn't Complain She Didn't Complain But I She Does Talk Like That A Little Bit Show You Who's The Boss Don't I Do We Know Who's The Boss Approach My Soul The Mercy See Where Jesus Waits To Answer Prayer Is That The Boss From Whom All Blessings Flow And Call Upon Me In The Day Of Trouble You're Not Calling Upon A Man Made Idol Remember Reading About

[22:37] A Little Boy Who Had A Banana In His Hand And His Mother And He Were Going To This Buddha And You Must Put Your Banana On The Buddha He Didn't Want To He Wanted To Eat His Banana God Is Not A Stone Made Buddha God Is Not A Gargoyle In Appearance Ugly Monstrous He's A God Of Justice God Of Love And God Of Mercy God When They Made Idols Out Of Their Wood And Their Trees And So For They Don't As Carved Them And They Carved Them Very Often In Ugly Way To Frighten The People It It Is Frightening Sometimes But

[23:38] God Is A Merciful God They That Come To Him Must Believe That He is a merciful God a just God who has made a way of deliverance for his people so we must believe that he is that he really is that whatever posture I form whether I kneel upon my knees or stand upon my feet to pray or I put my hands in the classroom together in whatever posture I have if I'm driving the car which I could be if I'm working in the garden which we could be and we feel the need and the desire to pray then pray believing that God is God that he is not ugly but merciful you are to bring the remedy for your for your imperfection and the remedy is the blood of

[24:47] Jesus Christ here everything is we say our prayers for Jesus Christ's sake that's why I come with my prayers because I believe there is a remedy for my imperfection my sin and the remedy is for Jesus sake that's why I come that's how I come I don't come in my own name and title I come in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and call upon me in the day of the Lord now this calling it may be is it lamentations also when I cry and shout he shutteth out my prayer he hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone he hath made my paths crooked he was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret places not quite what I was looking for but sometimes you seemingly roar earnest prayer is not quiet it depends on what you're praying for if you're praying for something that needs to two weeks time will be alright

[26:44] I don't mean this in a light way but I have to present it to you in two weeks time the answer will be acceptable but there are some things which I must have it now I must have it now I will not go into any details but there have been times when I felt like it must Lord be now I can't wait any longer maybe you've got something and then your your approach to the Lord will be a little different sometimes you will just gently pray another time it's ejaculations what an ejaculation it was God be merciful to me a sinner what an ejaculation when he said Lord save me Peter upon those waters can't wait two weeks can't wait any length of time must have it now God be merciful to me the sinner

[27:46] I like the language I opened my mouth and panted no words we have our prayer meetings some are longer than others but another the ladies are silent but you know God hears the prayers of the ladies as well as of the men and sometimes it's more urgent than others we sing sometimes mine's an urgent pressing case if you felt that the the law would crush you and destroy you in an instant for your sins you and it weighed upon you heavily there would be that earnest request God be merciful to me a sinner but call upon me in the day of trouble

[28:48] I will deliver thee but first of all I thought we ought to look at a few instances of what our God can do you believe that God is able to do exceeding abundantly for you above what you can ask or even think what a hard thing it was when he met the widow of Nain coming out of the city and her son laid in his coffin upon the bier what an impossible thing it was she was weeping she'd lost all she had but Jesus comes I can't think how he approached the lad really but I say unto thee a rhyme I would like just briefly before we finish

[29:52] I would like to just draw your thoughts to the almighty all powerful Lord God who is able to do exceeding abundantly for us above what we can ask or even think is there anything too hard for the Lord if you were in dire need you'd cling hold to the answer there is nothing too hard for the Lord is anything too hard for the Lord in one portion of scripture then there is nothing too hard for the Lord Jehoshaphat with his little family and his friends and his fellow countrymen had the dire news that the enemy who's coming amassed on your borders millions of them like grasshoppers more in number than you with Jehoshaphat and we read how he came with his wives and his children and the others the same and they stood before the new court and he made requests under God and his prayers like this neither know we what to do but our eyes are up unto thee we just don't know what to do we wring our hands they hang down feebly our knees tremble we do not know what to do but our eyes are up unto thee the enemy is still on the border still threatening and prayer is made and God answers set the battle in order as it were and the singers that should sing were put in front to praise the Lord for his wonderful works to praise the Lord for the work that is going to do listen to the psalmist my help cometh from the

[32:07] Lord dare we say it's on the way it's on the way my help cometh from the Lord Josaphat your help is on its way put the battle in order put the musicians and the singers in the front to praise the Lord from whom all blessings flow we are to expect great things from our God who is able to do better than what we think there are many things in our lives which we can look back to with joy because the Lord did them a car that I so badly needed each one is different you see I was not used to this kind of treatment a car that was badly needed because the other one was getting old and rusty and high mileage and I had my eye upon one that the boss had for his wife the boss was used to driving

[33:20] Jaguars this is a little Mazda and I knew she would never drive that car I knew by the way he talked to me she would never drive that new car then after a while it came on this well in that case it must be mine and I never said a word at all I watched and waited and prayed I had an accident in my car smashed the windscreen in did a lot of damage he knew about it he went home for his lunch came back with it in his car and he walked over the desk and he dropped the keys on the table and he said they're yours that's yours oh give thanks unto the lord for he is good for his mercy endureth forever but what was so beautiful about the car was this the exercise of prayer different times the devil would say ask him how much he wants for he'll tell you you ask him how how much he wants for it no devil

[34:32] I'm not asking how much he wants for it well just wait and see in the end we had it for nothing about two years later he bought it back for exactly the same money that my old car was worth when it was ridden off he bought it back and then he said to me you must have a company car I'd never had a company car in my life before so he bought me this company about three or four weeks he said I want you to go and buy a car I said oh alright I left it and left it and left it and left it I thought he might have been joking he said have you made up your mind what you haven't he said have what you like he said another little master will do you must believe that the

[35:36] God you call upon is able to do better than provide you with a car in the end of things the true thing is have I got a hope of salvation of mercy cry out aloud for that essential necessity saving grace so call upon me in the day of trouble Jesus in the blind man Jesus is that Christ is God I can about and for his people cares since I have prayed to him as such and he has heard my prayers yes Jesus Christ is God equal with the Father and the Spirit so when Bartimaeus hears the commotion he cries to ask who it is it is Jesus of

[36:36] Nazareth passing by couldn't stop him shrieking calling out Jesus our son of David this is prayer this is prayer God Jesus our son of David have compassion upon me and I read this morning or it was read and Jesus stood but I think it's recorded somewhere else and Jesus stood still the king of kings the lord of lords the eternal god the creator of the ends of the earth stood still at the cry of one of his poor needy people he waits to answer prayer he will hear I will bring another instance of the can

[37:39] God you remember how Daniel was tricked not Daniel the king was tricked into signing that decree that no request should be made other than the king himself they knew full well that Daniel wouldn't bow down to the king or any so he prayed as usual with his windows open towards the east they captured him oh we got you we knew we'd have you come on you fell on you they bundled him along and put him in the den that night the king couldn't sleep got up ever so early oh Daniel he cries through the opening around the cave or the pit oh Daniel is thy God whom thou serve as continually able just leave it there for a second able is your God able can he do anything one man with his son if thou canst do anything have compassion upon us oh

[38:53] Daniel whom thou is thy God whom thou serve continually able to deliver thee just give us a little silence hush shall I hear anything from the cave oh king live forever my God hath sent his angel my God think of that my God my God hath sent his angel and shut the lion's mouth oh the rejoicing of the amazement I didn't think I hear your voice again I thought you would be chowing it to bits and pieces but no where is those wicked people that put thee in the pit bring them hither put them in the pit exchange places ere they reached the bottom they were snapped to pieces that's my God able to deliver me and shut the lion's mouths but to deliver them to death and destruction is thy

[40:01] God able 30 mares feeding of 5,000 5,000 hungry people tummies rumbling nagging want have we got any bread here few loaves and a few small fishes what is that amongst so many bring it to me Jesus took the bread the loaves and the fishes and blessed it a crumb was a satisfaction I've noticed it like this it was like the widow's meal that wasted not the cruiser of all it failed not until the day the

[41:05] Lord sent rain in the country my God is able have you got anything that's nagging you now look for the best ask the Lord to give you the best thing possible without any vindictiveness you've got to cleanse your heart first you've really got to come to this Lord if thou hast dealt with me after my sins I've been cut off forever I'm not worthy of the least of thy mercies great is thy faithfulness you've got to cleanse your heart make sure there's no impediment in or anything in your history or pathway at the moment that should cause the Lord to close his ear we want the

[42:09] Lord to hear our requests let your requests be made known unto God well I think we've left we must leave the word this morning and call upon me in the day of trouble is there any trouble too small any trouble too great we mustn't pray with our prayers Lord do this do that do something else if the Lord will we shall go into this city and buy and sell if the Lord will this will be call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee Bartimaeus delivered the multitude delivered no hunger pangs any longer only amazing you know how the scribes and the

[43:12] Pharisees saw these things and they still derided him they knew what he did he said believe the very deeds that are done he said if you don't believe in me believe in the works that are done call upon me in the day of trouble I will deliver thee and thou shalt glorify me do you want to be brought into the last verse then thou shalt glorify me the last verse was a text I think that seemed to hang about me when I was baptized whoso offerth praise glorify me and to him that ordereth his conversation aright will I show the salvation of God may the Lord bless his word increase our faith increase our faith if thou canst do anything one man said like this

[44:12] Lord I believe help thou mine unbelief Amen amen for the coming week are as follows God willing there will be a prayer meeting on Wednesday evening and our pastor will preach next Lord's Day.

[45:03] Let's close with singing p.m. 380. O Jesus, thou fountain of grace, enlighten, enliven my heart and show the sweet smiles of thy face and from me bid evil depart.

[45:50] O pronounce, O pronounce, I am thine, a sinner once purchased by blood and may I forever recline on the bosom of Jesus, my Lord.

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