Psalms 142:2. I poured out my complaint before him:
As if it were in a vessel, and I turned the vessel upside down, and poured it all out. That is true prayer. It is the pouring out of what is really in; not an utterance of words which may, perhaps, go no farther than the mere lips, but the pouring out of whatever is within, whether it is praise or complaint. "I poured out my complaint before him" - realized his presence, and then told him my complaint.
Psalms 142:2. I shewed before him my trouble.
We must believe that God is, and that he is the hearer of prayer. We must be conscious that we are not only using proper words, and feeling proper thoughts, but that we are doing it before him. "I showed before him my trouble."
Psalms 142:2. I poured out my complaint before him:
As if it were in a vessel, and I turned the vessel upside down, and poured it all out. That is true prayer. It is the pouring out of what is really in; not an utterance of words which may, perhaps, go no farther than the mere lips, but the pouring out of whatever is within, whether it is praise or complaint. "I poured out my complaint before him" - realized his presence, and then told him my complaint.
Psalms 142:2. I shewed before him my trouble.
We must believe that God is, and that he is the hearer of prayer. We must be conscious that we are not only using proper words, and feeling proper thoughts, but that we are doing it before him. "I showed before him my trouble."