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SURVIVING THE ROUGH SPOTS OF LIFE

by Donald Cantrell

Scripture: Psalms 142:1-7


Surviving the Rough Spots of Life
Donald Cantrell
Psalms 142: 1 - 7


I - David's Dark Place (1a)

II - David's Desperate Plea (1b - 2)

III - David's Divine Perception (3a)

IV - David's Dreadful Predicament (3b - 4)

V - David's Dependant Prayer (5 - 7)

This sermon contains a fully alliterated out, with sub-points. There are times when we feel surrounded by darkness, dreariness, loneliness, it is in those times that we must learn to lay out our fears and worries before the Lord.


Theme: ''Prayer will help you out of the rough spots of life''

Alone in the dark in the Cave

Back in my teenage years we would go exploring caves. One day five of us went cave exploring, we only had two flashlights but being young, we thought that was enough. We were deep inside the cave and I decided to climb up a shelf, while the others waited and held the lights for me to see. I was about thirty feet up the shelf when it began to slide, rocks were falling everywhere. My four companions with the two lights thought every man for himself and ran toward the entrance. Here I am thirty feet up a shelf in the dark with rocks falling everywhere. I soon began to think the worse, the thought came to me WHAT AM I AM DOING HERE. About twenty minutes later my comrades got their nerve up and came to check on me.

Living In Darkness

You could sleep for days and think it was a nap.

We take natural light for granted. We don't realize it, but it gets us up in the morning, takes us through our regular day, and its absence sends us into our nightly slumber. So what happens when our body is deprived of light? Very strange things, indeed.

Two cave explorers, Josie Laures and Antoine Senni, took on a particularly gloomy mission in the name of science - living alone in a dark, desolate cave for months to test the effects of isolation, loneliness, and darkness. They didn't even have the company of one another; they resided in separate caves a few hundred yards apart.

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