Prayer of the Desperate | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | October 10, 2025

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🗓️ 10 October 2025

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0:00.0	You have taken from me, friend and neighbor.
0:03.9	Darkness is my closest friend.
0:06.5	Psalm 88.18.
0:11.9	Welcome to this daily encouragement from our daily bread.
0:16.3	Prayer of the Desperate was written by Tim Gustafson and read by Stephen Tabor.
0:23.4	Psalm 88, verses 1 and 6 through 18.
0:28.1	Lord, you are the God who saves me. Day and night, I cry out to you. You have put me in the lowest
0:36.8	pit, in the darkest depths. Your wrath lies heavily
0:41.1	on me. You have overwhelmed me with all your waves. You have taken from me my closest friends,
0:48.1	and have made me repulsive to them. I am confined and cannot escape. My eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, Lord, every day. I spread out my hands to you. Do you show your wonders to the dead? Do their spirits rise up and praise you? Is your love declared in the grave, your faithfulness in destruction?
1:12.9	Are your wonders known in the place of darkness, or your righteous deeds in the land of
1:18.0	oblivion?
1:19.7	But I cry to you for help, Lord.
1:22.3	In the morning my prayer comes before you.
1:26.0	Why, Lord, do you reject me and hide your face from me? From my youth I have
1:31.9	suffered and been close to death. I have borne your terrors and I am in despair. Your wrath has
1:38.8	swept over me. Your terrors have destroyed me. All day long, they surround me like a flood.
1:46.3	They have completely engulfed me.
1:49.3	You have taken from me, friend, and neighbor.
1:53.1	Darkness is my closest friend.
1:58.4	Prayer of the Desperate
2:00.1	Charles had sunk into depression.
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