What Is Your Response?

10 Woe is me, my mother, That you have borne me, A man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent for interest, Nor have men lent to me for interest. Every one of them curses me.

ENEMIES

Psalm 42:6 NKJV

6 O my God, my soul is cast down within me; Therefore I will remember You from the land of the Jordan, And from the heights of Hermon, From the Hill Mizar.

KING DAVID DESCRIBED HIS DEALINGS WITH KING SAUL IN

2 Samuel 22:6 NKJV

6 The sorrows of Sheol surrounded me; The snares of death confronted me.

SICKNESS

Job 10:1 NKJV

1 “My soul loathes my life; I will give free course to my complaint, I will speak in the bitterness of my soul.

SIN

Psalm 31:10 NKJV

10 For my life is spent with grief, And my years with sighing; My strength fails because of my iniquity, And my bones waste away.

IN PSALM 116, THIS UNKNOWN PSALMIST DESCRIBED HIS PLIGHT IN VERSE 3

Psalm 116:3 NKJV

3 The pains of death surrounded me, And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow.

VERSE 6 HE SAID THAT HE WAS BROUGHT LOW

VERSE 8 SOUL WAS ABOUT TO DIE

HE WAS ABOUT TO CRY

HE WAS ABOUT TO FALL

Psalm 116 NKJV

1 I love the Lord, because He has heard My voice and my supplications. 2 Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live. 3 The pains of death surrounded me, And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then I called upon the name of the Lord: “O Lord, I implore You, deliver my soul!” 5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; Yes, our God is merciful. 6 The Lord preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me. 7 Return to your rest, O my soul, For the Lord has dealt bountifully with you. 8 For You have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling. 9 I will walk before the Lord In the land of the living. 10 I believed, therefore I spoke, “I am greatly afflicted.” 11 I said in my haste, “All men are liars.” 12 What shall I render to the Lord For all His benefits toward me? 13 I will take up the cup of salvation, And call upon the name of the Lord. 14 I will pay my vows to the Lord Now in the presence of all His people. 15 Precious in the sight of the Lord Is the death of His saints. 16 O Lord, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds. 17 I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call upon the name of the Lord. 18 I will pay my vows to the Lord Now in the presence of all His people, 19 In the courts of the Lord’s house, In the midst of you, O Jerusalem. Praise the Lord!

I. In Distresses

Psalm 116:3–4 NKJV

3 The pains of death surrounded me, And the pangs of Sheol laid hold of me; I found trouble and sorrow. 4 Then I called upon the name of the Lord: “O Lord, I implore You, deliver my soul!”

A. Call of Anguish

B. Call of Acknowledgement

C. Call of Asking

II. In Deliverance

Psalm 116:1–2 NKJV

1 I love the Lord, because He has heard My voice and my supplications. 2 Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.

Psalm 116:6 NKJV

6 The Lord preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me.

Psalm 116:8 NKJV

8 For You have delivered my soul from death, My eyes from tears, And my feet from falling.

Psalm 116:16 NKJV

16 O Lord, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds.

A. Analyzed

Psalm 116:12 NKJV

12 What shall I render to the Lord For all His benefits toward me?

HOW CAN I REPAY?

B. Announce

1. His Practice

Psalm 116:5–6 NKJV

5 Gracious is the Lord, and righteous; Yes, our God is merciful. 6 The Lord preserves the simple; I was brought low, and He saved me.

2. My Position

Psalm 116:16 NKJV

16 O Lord, truly I am Your servant; I am Your servant, the son of Your maidservant; You have loosed my bonds.

C. Agreement

Psalm 116:2 NKJV

2 Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.

Psalm 116:13 NKJV

13 I will take up the cup of salvation, And call upon the name of the Lord.

Psalm 116:14 NKJV

14 I will pay my vows to the Lord Now in the presence of all His people.

Psalm 116:17 NKJV

17 I will offer to You the sacrifice of thanksgiving, And will call upon the name of the Lord.

D. Adoration

Psalm 116:1–2 NKJV

1 I love the Lord, because He has heard My voice and my supplications. 2 Because He has inclined His ear to me, Therefore I will call upon Him as long as I live.

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