Crying to the Lord

What happens when we cry to the Lord
Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress. He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death, and burst their bonds apart.
Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!
For he hath broken the gates of brass, and cut the bars of iron in sunder.Psalm 107:14-16. ESV

Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble, though before perhaps they had neglected him. Prisoners have time to pray, who, when they were at liberty, could not find time they see they have need of God’s help, though formerly they thought they could do well enough without him. Sense will make men cry when they are in trouble, but grace will direct them to cry unto the Lord, from whom the affliction comes and who alone can remove it.
Their deliverance out of the affliction:
They cried unto the Lord, and he saved them, Psalm 107:13. He brought them out of darkness into light, welcome light, and then doubly sweet and pleasant, brought them out of the shadow of death to the comforts of life, and their liberty was to them life from the dead,

Were they fettered?
He broke their bands asunder. Were they imprisoned in strong castles? He broke the gates of brass and the bars of iron wherewith those gates were made fast he did not put back, but cut in sunder.
When God will work deliverance the greatest difficulties that lie in the way shall be made nothing of. Gates of brass and bars of iron, as they cannot keep him out from His people (he was with Joseph in the prison Gen.37:27,28; Gen.39&40; Paul and Silas Acts 16:19-25, Peter Acts 12: 3-19, Daniel, Daniel:6; Daniel:3 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed–nego), so they cannot keep them in when the time, the set-time, for their enlargement, comes.
If The Lord God did it for them, you can be most assured that He will do it for you. The return that is required from those whose bands God has loosed (Psalm 107:15): Let them praise the Lord for his goodness, and take occasion from their own experience of
it, and share in it, to bless Him for that goodness which the earth is full of, the world and those that dwell therein.
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