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Psalm chapter 28 verse 1.

To you, O Lord, I call, my rock be not deaf to me lest if you be silent to me I become like those who go

down to the pit what a great picture of the importance of prayer.

Importance doesn't even seem to be a strong enough word necessity of prayer,

our extreme total dependence on prayer. The whole picture

here in Psalm 28 is if God doesn't hear us then we will go down to the pit.

That is true.

Like if God doesn't hear me crying out for him to save me from my sins.

If God doesn't hear you crying out for you to save you from your sins,

then I, you, we will go down to the pit.

We will be lost forever.

We would spend an eternity in hell if God did not hear our cries for mercy.

And the same can be applied in every other facet of life.

If we're walking through decisions that we're making,

we're asking God for help, if he did not listen to us and answer us, we would not make the right decisions.

We're walking through challenges and we are at the low point in our weakness and our struggle, if God did not hear us, then we would continue to go lower and be weaker with no strength in the struggle.

Our lives are dependent, like every moment of every day and

ultimately for all of eternity our lives are dependent on being heard by God.

And the good news is you get down to Psalm 28-6. So Psalm 28-1, he says, if you're silent to me, if you're deaf to me,

then I will become like those who go down to the pit. You get down to verse six and Psalma says

blessed be the Lord for he has heard the voice of my pleas for mercy.

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