Missionary God and the Prodigal Prophet: Prayer From the Pit

We cry out for God from the pit.  1-2

2 and he said, “I called out of my distress to the Lord, And He answered me. I cried for help from the depth of Sheol; You heard my voice.

Psalm 40:1-3

1 I waited patiently for the Lord;

And He inclined to me and heard my cry.

2 He brought me up out of the pit of destruction, out of the miry clay,

And He set my feet upon a rock making my footsteps firm.

3 He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God;

Many will see and fear

And will trust in the Lord.

The pit is a place of distress.

The pit is a place to get stuck.

The pit is a place where God hears and answers.

We look for God in the pit. 2:3-6

3 “For You had cast me into the deep,

Into the heart of the seas,

And the current engulfed me.

All Your breakers and billows passed over me.

4 “So I said, ‘I have been expelled from Your sight.

Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

5 “Water encompassed me to the point of death.

The great deep engulfed me,

Weeds were wrapped around my head.

6 “I descended to the roots of the mountains.

The earth with its bars was around me forever,

But You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.

We see His sovereignty in the pit.

3 “For You had cast me into the deep,

Into the heart of the seas,

And the current engulfed me.

All Your breakers and billows passed over me.

We seek His Holy presence. 4

4 “So I said, ‘I have been expelled from Your sight.

Nevertheless I will look again toward Your holy temple.’

We worship God out of the pit.

We worship in hope.

6...But You have brought up my life from the pit, O Lord my God.

We worship when weary.

7 “While I was fainting away,

I remembered the Lord,

And my prayer came to You,

Into Your holy temple.

We worship with thanksgiving.

9 But I will sacrifice to You

With the voice of thanksgiving.

That which I have vowed I will pay.

Salvation is from the Lord.”

We wait for the salvation of the Lord in the pit.

9...Salvation is from the Lord.”

10 Then the Lord commanded the fish, and it vomited Jonah up onto the dry land.

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