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A prayer against depression by John Barnett.

The Lord himself goes before you and will be with you.

He will never leave you nor forsake you.

Do not be afraid. Do not be discouraged.

Deuteronomy 31.8.

If you've ever felt trapped, imprisoned, or helplessly caught by life, then you share the emotions of David in the midst of life in the cave of a dulum.

Things had gotten so bad that David makes a confession that is packed with meaning to us today.

In the form of an urgent prayer offered to God and captured for us on paper,

David explains that his soul is in prison.

The setting is so graphic. Look at it with me in 1st Samuel 22.

David is in the midst of his life on the run under immense stress in verses 1 to 4.

David therefore departed from there and escaped to the cave of a dulum.

So when his brothers and all his father's house heard it,

they went down there to him. And everyone who was in distress,

everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him.

So he became captain over them. And there were about 400 men with him.

Then David went from there to Mitzba of Moab, and he said to the King of Moab,

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