Prayer and Praise for Deliverance: Psalm 107-Supplication through the Scripture
Prayer and Praise for Deliverance Psalm 107 The Lord's deliverances are of the most complete and triumphant kind, he neither leaves the soul in darkness nor in bonds, nor does he permit the powers of evil again to enthrall the liberated captive. What he does is done for ever. Charles Spurgeon Psalm 107 begins the fifth and final book of the Psalms. It is a psalm filled with hope. Two verses are repeated throughout the psalm. “Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and he delivered them from their distress” (107:6,13,28), followed by, “Let them thank the LORD for his steadfast love, for his wondrous works to the children of man!” (107:8,21,31). Through various trouble, distress, fainting, longing, darkness, shadow of death, affliction, destruction, and storms, the people of God know on Whom they should call, and their God delivers. And “the Lord delights to come in when no one else can be of the slightest avail” (Spurgeon). The psalmist calls on whoever is wise t...