The Power of Prayer: When I Make Noise

Today we learn about the power of prayer from one the Psalmist as they testify that God heard my noise and He deserves my praise. Join us as we PRESS through the book of Psalms.

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Press means to apply force. When God said press, prayer reaches every single situation. He gave us permission to apply force to every situation that we will go through.

And in this podcast, we are going to learn to apply force to what's applying pressure to us. Greetings, everybody. Welcome to the Press Movement Podcast.

Glad you can join us today. God is good. We are nearing the end of a year.

Can hardly believe it. But I do think the Psalm that I'm looking at today is appropriate as we round out this year. Let's go to Psalms 116.

Now, this Psalm is not necessarily a prayer, but it's the testimony of what prayer can do. I love that the Psalmist takes so much time to just testify how good his God is in response to In the church I attend, we sometimes have praise service or testimony service, and it's a time of literally sharing what God has done for you with somebody else. That is so effective because God doesn't just give us stories to keep them to ourselves.

He gives us testimonies that we might encourage one another, that we might know it's possible through him. The Bible says that they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony. What you've seen God do, it is important to say it.

So today, the Psalmist is going to teach us how to testify. Let's read it and then we'll go through it together. And then as always, go back, study it, take out the parts that pertain to you.

The Bible says, I love the Lord because he has heard my voice and my supplications, because he has inclined his ear unto me. Therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. The sorrows of death come past me and the pains of hell get hold upon me.

I found trouble and sorrow. Then called I upon the name of the Lord. O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my soul.

Gracious is the Lord and righteous. Yea, our God is merciful. The Lord preserveth the simple.

I was brought low and he helped me. Return unto thy rest, O my soul, for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee. For thou hast delivered my soul from death, my eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. I believed, therefore have I spoken. I was greatly afflicted.

I said in my haste, all men are liars. What shall I render unto the Lord for all his benefits towards me? I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord, now in the presence of all his people.

Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his saints. O Lord, truly I am thy servant. I am thy servant and the son of thy handmaid that has loosed my bonds.

I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving and will call upon the name of the Lord. I will pay my vows unto the Lord, now in the presence of all his people, in the courts of the Lord's house, in the midst of thee, O Jerusalem. Praise ye the Lord.

We'll just look back through some of these verses briefly, but as we look at this chapter, it starts off with, I love the Lord because he heard my voice and my supplications. I thank God that he knows how to hear not just the big cries, but the little requests. Supplications tend to speak more towards begging or the intensity with which we ask, but the word voice there just means he heard my noise.

When I couldn't even get all the words out, he heard my noise. He knew I needed him and I'm grateful for the times of supplication where it's an earnest prayer and he lets me intensely seek him, intensely beg him. But sometimes you just need God to hear your noise because you can't even emotionally or mentally sometimes get to the place where you know how to cry, but God hears your noise.

Today, I encourage you make noise. Because he had inclined his ear, he leaned in. He leaned into listening to what I was saying.

When I couldn't be loud, he bit down to make sure he knew what I was saying. And the Psalmist concludes, so I've got to call him for as long as I have. Why? Because he cares about even my noise.

We get to learn a little bit about the Psalmist testimony because he talks about being compassed of death and how close he was to almost dying. He could feel hell reaching out to get a hold on him. He said, I found trouble and sorrow, but I thank God for all of the moments he has delivered, not only the Psalmist from his almost, but us from ours as well.

Another passage in Psalms, I believe it's Psalms 94. It says, when I said my foot slippeth, thy mercy, O Lord held me up. God knows how to deliver us in time.

In fact, if we go up a verse in verse 17 of Psalms 94, it says, unless the Lord had been my help, my soul had almost dwelt in silence. When I said my foot slippeth, thy mercy, O Lord held me up. Meaning when I was just about to count myself out, count myself as dead, the mercy of the Lord swooped into my life.

And what almost happened couldn't happen because God dealt with my almost. So the Psalmist concludes, I found trouble, I found sorrow, I found hell, but then I called on the name of the Lord. And I asked him to deliver my soul.

This is important because he didn't just pray to get out of his situation. He prayed to get his soul out of where it was. We have to remember God has always been in the business of saving souls, more than your flesh, more than your money, more than your house.

He wants your soul to be saved. He wanted it so badly that in the New Testament, he put on flesh. The word became flesh, according to John 1.14, and it dwelt among us.

And he was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit. That's in Timothy. He decided that when he saw that there was no other intercessor, according to Isaiah 59, that with his own arm, he would have to bring salvation.

He'd have to bring deliverance. Saving you was always his plan, but it wasn't for the temporal things. It was for the eternal.

And this Psalmist, which some say is David, asked for the right thing because he didn't just want out of his situation. He wanted his soul out. And when he began to call on the name of the Lord, he found out that gracious is the Lord and righteous.

Yea, our God is merciful. He preserved the simple. He keeps doing it.

That ETH implies he had to do this more than once. The preservation of me. He had to keep doing it.

And simple there means foolish or simple ones, the naive, the ones who just don't know that much. I'm really not that smart. You're really not that smart compared to God, but he knows how to make sure I am preserved.

And he goes on to explain even further. I was brought low and he helped me for those who were just offended because I said, you're not that smart. You need to understand that we're speaking relative to God and he has respect to those who humble themselves and understand when I'm in front of you.

You're right. I don't know that much. I've made mistakes in life and I've gotten into scenarios in life because I'm just not that smart.

But God, when I humbled myself, knew how to get me out. And so my soul is able to return to rest, declares the psalmist, because the Lord had dealt greatly with me, bountifully with me. He's rewarded me.

So he determines, God, you've kept my soul from death. My eyes from tears and my feet from falling. He knows how to save all of me, even in my details.

So I've got to walk before the Lord in the land of the living. I believed and I've spoken. I was afflicted.

I said in my haste, all men are liars. Now that's just an interesting scripture to me because a lot of us, when we are upset or have issues, start making these kinds of generalizations. But he backs off of this.

He said, this is just what I said when I was in the moment, but God, I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. But he has to stop and look at what shall I give God? What can I render to Jehovah for all his benefits toward me? What can I give him? He says, I will take the cup of salvation and call upon the name of the Lord. Again, the best thing you can give him is taking what he came to give you.

You need to be saved. And in the Old Testament, he was able to just say, God, I want to be saved. And he had to follow all these laws, over 600 of them.

But in the new, the Bible says, he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved. In Mark 16, 16 and 17. And it goes on to tell you more, like they shall speak with new tongues.

The Bible also says in Acts 2, 38, then Peter said unto them, repent and be baptized, every one of you, and you shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. It lets you know, if you believe and are baptized, you shall be saved. If you repent and are baptized, you'll get this Holy Ghost power.

The power to be saved. He does tell you, you have to confess with your mouth and believe in your heart. And none of those scriptures contradict each other.

They all work together to save you. Each scripture gives you a piece of what's necessary to walk with God in the New Testament. And I can tell you, don't leave out any piece of it because of your traditions.

Look at the scriptures and decide if you want everything he has to offer you, or you're trying to pick and choose, because ultimately he came to give you all of him. And he wants to have all of you. He wants you to take the cup of salvation.

The Psalmist goes on, I will pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people. And he keeps talking about precious in the sight of Lord is the death of his saints. Lord, I'm truly thy servant.

I'm the son of your handmaid, a slave, a bond woman, but you have loosed my bonds. The thing that had me bound, you set me free. And so his conclusion is, I will offer to thee the sacrifice of thanksgiving.

If I'm going to push to give you anything, it's not about my money. It's not about my status, but I'm going to give you my thanks, the action of my giving of thanks. And I will call upon your name.

And the other thing he says I would do is I'm going to pay my vows unto the Lord now in the presence of all his people. I'm going to make sure that everybody knows you did this. I'm going to see that they know it, even in the courts of your house, even when they're coming in to worship you, even when they're entering your gates, they're going to know God did this for me.

And he declares, praise him. Praise ye the Lord. Today, it's testimony time.

Make sure somebody knows that when you've prayed, God has reached your situation. That is how this whole press thing started. Had a miscarriage, lost my grandfather, was broken inside, but God reached me and he turned what was breaking me into a blessing, not only to me, but prayerfully to others as well.

And I've gotten to see what God can do with my testimony. Today press, keep praying and don't be afraid to say God has been good to me and declare that you are a believer, that prayer reaches every single situation. Be blessed.

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