"Bring Me Out Of This!"

"When I was desperate, overwhelmed, and about to give up, You were the only one there to help." Psalms 142:3a

In the prison of problems, distress, adversity and challenges, know that there is light at the end of the tunnel. Life can cave in on you in such a way that it can confine you to the circumstance. It can surround you and distort your outlook on life and God.

In this Psalm, David is confined in a dungeon or (cave), a man with the anointing to be king, hiding from Saul a man he loved and served, who has lost his mind and is hunting him with an army trying to kill him. In this place he cries out to God begging him for mercy spilling out his heart. Declaring to God that he is trapped and alone and the only hope he has in life is Him. "Lord Your all I have, my only hope in this life, Your my last chance of being rescued." He talks about how the people he loved disowned and deserted him, that when he had favor in Saul's court everyone took interest in him but when he was outcasted, no one was willing to stand in defense of his innocence.

Many of us may not have a circumstance like David but have been trapped in a dungeon of insecurities, failures, setbacks, anxiety, depression, fear, sickness, brokenness and uncertainty. Perplexity has had us all trapped at some point in our lives, the inability to deal with or understand the complicated areas of life, those baffling situations, those states of entanglement and confusion. There are those of us who have been so low for so long that you can see the light, but are too weak to get to it.

The dungeon represents a confined and desperate and overwhelming state, that you alone are no match for. Like the psalmist declare's in an echoing voice, Lord, "Bring me out of this dungeon so I can declare Your praise!' Some of you may be trapped in a dungeon of depression, fear, anxiety, etc.... but make a declaration to this stronghold or this grievous impediment, that it will not imprison you any longer for God is bringing you up out of this! God is exchanging the gloom of your dungeon for the glory of His wonderful work in your deliverance. He is bringing you out of sickness, brokenness, out of every setback, and out of every attack. He will provide the way of escape and destroy everything that tried and is trying to destroy you, He is bringing you out of this, so I challenge you to declare His praise!