This is one of the reasons why I always talk of being an embodiment of the Word of God because being embodiment of God’s word is the only time you can speak as David did saying…Your law is within my heart; how many of us can proudly say that in reality in life? We are seeing that when we try to follow our own way instead of the way into which the divine Shepherd (our Lord our God) wants to lead us, we often finish up being self–defeated and self –disrupted with confusion and frustrations here and there but still we will not realize that it is because we are following our own way. As one writer puts it: ‘If you won’t live according to God’s way, you can’t even live with yourself.’ A cartoon I once saw shows a doctor taking the pulse of a very sick world. He shakes his head and says: ‘You are in a bad way –you are allergic to yourself.’ You see, if you insist on going your own way, and self-interest and self-concern become the driving force of your being, then you will eventually be driven into conflict with yourself. You will find yourself with all kinds of problems and complexes –you will be allergic to yourself; because you are not following the good Shepherd, the Owner of the universe Who only the orderly created things obeys and be in peace! Learn how to follow Him and you will not only find peace but you will be in peace. A woman once said to me: ‘I’ve insisted upon having my own way all my life, but now I am middle-aged it has caught up with me. I’m empty, incapable of accomplishing anything.’ You can get away with having your own way for a while, but in the end it will catch up with you –that which is whispered in the ear will be shouted from the housetops (Matt. 10:27, “What I say to you in the dark, tell in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim upon the housetops”). A Christian who has never learned to go God’s way rather than his own way gets nowhere –and everybody can see it. Lord Jesus penetratingly said: ‘For whoever wants to save his life will lose it’ (Luke 9:24, “For whoever would preserve his life and save it will lose and destroy it, but whoever loses his life for My sake, he will preserve and save it [from the penalty of eternal death]”). Notice, He did not say, ‘whoever saves his life will lose it’, but ‘whoever wants to save his life will lose it’. He wants to save it, but he loses it –it goes to pieces. Why? Because the law of the universe decrees it. Life will not back the person who refuses to take God’s way, for the person’s way is not the Way. The way is God’s Way!

Now let us read Psalm 40:1-17; 1 I waited patiently and expectantly for the Lord; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. 2 He drew me up out of a horrible pit [a pit of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay (froth and slime), and set my feet upon a rock, steadying my steps and establishing my goings. 3 And He has put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many shall see and fear (revere and worship) and put their trust and confident reliance in the Lord. 4 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who makes the Lord his refuge and trust, and turns not to the proud or to followers of false gods. 5 Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us; no one can compare with You! If I should declare and speak of them, they are too many to be numbered. 6 Sacrifice and offering You do not desire, nor have You delight in them; You have given me the capacity to hear and obey [Your law, a more valuable service than] burnt offerings and sin offerings [which] You do not require. 7 Then said I, Behold, I come; in the volume of the book it is written of me; 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God; yes, Your law is within my heart. 9 I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly [tidings of uprightness and right standing with God]. Behold, I have not restrained my lips, as You know, O Lord. 10 I have not concealed Your righteousness within my heart; I have proclaimed Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I have not hid away Your steadfast love and Your truth from the great assembly. 11 Withhold not Your tender mercy from me, O Lord; let Your loving-kindness and Your truth continually preserve me! 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about; my iniquities have taken such hold on me that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me and forsaken me. 13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, make haste to help me! 14 Let them be put to shame and confounded together who seek and require my life to destroy it; let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor who wish me evil and delight in my hurt! 15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame who say to me, Aha, aha! 16 Let all those that seek and require You rejoice and be glad in You; let such as love Your salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified! 17 [As for me] I am poor and needy, yet the Lord takes thought and plans for me. You are my Help and my Deliverer. O my God, do not tarry!

Sometimes in life we find ourselves in pits of God's design, they are to serve a purpose but they are not to become our places of residence. We stay there for a moment, learn all what God wants us to learn and at His appointed time He brings us out of the pit having being made strong and knowledgeable, and part of the knowledge must be that we have learnt and found out that the only way forward is yielding to God’s leading! We get bogged down by responsibilities. The way out is first to act responsibly, second to tell others what God is doing in you, and ultimately to yield ourselves to God’s way and will. That is to say, whenever you are bogged down in life, know that you have somehow selfishly led yourself in your own way and the way out is ultimately to yield ourselves to God’s way and will. Each time we experience God’s deliverance by ultimately yielding ourselves to God’s Way and Will we stand in amazement and wonder. God’s deliverance is abundant! We need God’s deliverance in many ways at various times. God’s deliverance is available; especially when we are bogged down in life! He will deliver you in some things and He will deliver you from other things, but ultimately, the believer in the Lord Jesus Christ will experience God’s deliverance from sin, self, Satan, suffering, and sorrow. What a day that will be! When He delivers you in things, try to be patient knowing that your deliverer is around and that He has a good divine purpose and plan for letting you in there, do not mar the plan and the purpose by acting otherwise! Dr. Warren W. Wiersbe shares the following insight by way of introduction, “Hebrews 10:5-9 quotes [Psalm] 40:6-8 and applies the passage to Christ, which makes this a Messianic Psalm. Going through Psalm 40, some see the birth of Christ in verse 7, His sinless life in verse 8, and His sacrificial death in verse 6. However, it was first of all a Psalm about David and his needs and how the Lord met them, but the historical setting is obscure. David may have written it during his difficult exile years or perhaps during the early years of his reign.” But you can see how it set out everything that could be witnessed in a divinely lived life from birth to the end how one is expected to live life on earth and obtain the blessing of God. Our text encourages us to seek God’s deliverance in everything that we do. I. LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TO REVIEW THE PROOFS OF GOD’S DELIVERANCE. (PSALM 40:1-5) 1 I waited patiently and expectantly for the Lord; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. 2 He drew me up out of a horrible pit [a pit of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay (froth and slime), and set my feet upon a rock, steadying my steps and establishing my goings. 3 And He has put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many shall see and fear (revere and worship) and put their trust and confident reliance in the Lord. 4 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who makes the Lord his refuge and trust, and turns not to the proud or to followers of false gods. 5 Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us; no one can compare with You! If I should declare and speak of them, they are too many to be numbered. There is a two-fold emphasis of the first five verses of our passage; first, we will focus on deliverance from God and secondly, we will focus on confidence in God. A. Let’s focus on deliverance from God. (Psalm 40:1-3) In the book of Acts (1:3) we read about “many infallible proofs” or evidence of the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ. We see David’s practice of recounting God’s deliverance in 1 Samuel 17:31-37, where we read, “Now when the words which David spoke were heard, they reported them to Saul; and he sent for him. Then David said to Saul, ‘Let no man’s heart fail because of him; your servant will go and fight with this Philistine. And Saul said to David, ‘You are not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for you are a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.’ But David said to Saul, ‘Your servant used to keep his father’s sheep, and when a lion or a bear came and took a lamb out of the flock, I went out after it and struck it, and delivered the lamb from its mouth; and when it arose against me, I caught it by its beard, and struck and killed it. Your servant has killed both lion and bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine will be like one of them, seeing he has defied the armies of the living God.’ Moreover David said, ‘The Lord, who delivered me from the paw of the lion and from the paw of the bear, He will deliver me from the hand of this Philistine.’ And Saul said to David, ‘Go, and the Lord be with you!’” In Psalm 40 we find more proofs of God’s deliverance or the evidence of God’s deliverance recounted by David. Note David recounts what the Lord did for him. We read in Psalm 40:1-3, “1 I waited patiently and expectantly for the Lord; and He inclined to me and heard my cry. 2 He drew me up out of a horrible pit [a pit of tumult and of destruction], out of the miry clay (froth and slime), and set my feet upon a rock, steadying my steps and establishing my goings. 3 And He has put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God. Many shall see and fear (revere and worship) and put their trust and confident reliance in the Lord. David also writes in Psalm 37:7a, “Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him.” Dr. M. D. [Moses Drury] Hoge (1818-1899) pastor, editor, and chaplain of the Confederacy, writes, “Some may remember the feeling of disappointment with which in their youth they read the last line of Longfellow’s ‘Psalm of Life.’ And thus ‘Learn to labour and to—wait.’ Anyone could understand the difficulty of labour, but how easy if one had only to wait! But experience has taught us a great lesson that all labour is light as compared with the labour, the stress, the suspense and the weariness of ‘waiting’. The word ‘patiently’ is not in the Hebrew but it is implied. Such waiting is full of heroic elements—fortitude, resignation, faith, expectation, perseverance.” Dr. H. P. [Henry Parry] Liddon (1829-1890) states, “The greatest heroes among men are they who ‘wait patiently’.” On the phrase “I waited patiently”, Dr. John Henry Jowett (1864-1923) comments, “His being was collected and all fixed in intense expectancy on God.” This is exactly what is meant by “I waited patiently”! Recently, I read, “A quaint country preacher used [Psalm 40] verse 2-3 for a sermon text, and his "points" were: God brought him up, God stood him up, and God tuned him up!” We see the effect of God’s deliverance. David writes, “Many shall see and fear (revere and worship) and put their trust and confident reliance in the Lord” (Psalm 40:3b). Through the years I have read many accounts of how pastors and missionaries have faced a great challenge to their ministry, an impossible situation. Then, after God’s deliverance comes, people come to faith in Lord Jesus Christ in great numbers. In all of these, “I waited patiently” was put in practice! How about you? Do you normally wait patiently on the Lord? If you don’t, please learn how to wait patiently on the Lord because that is the only time you will not be disappointed. For example, Dr. Billy Graham shares the following, “The Reverend John G. Paton [1824-1907], pioneer missionary in the New Hebrides Islands, told a thrilling story involving the protective care of angels. Hostile natives surrounded his mission headquarters one night, intent on burning the Patons out and killing them. John Paton and his wife prayed all during that terror-filled night that God would deliver them. When daylight came they were amazed to see that, unaccountably, the attackers had left. They thanked God for delivering them. A year later, the chief of the tribe was converted to Lord Jesus Christ, and Mr. Paton, remembering what had happened, asked the chief what had kept him and his men from burning down the house and killing them that faithful day. The chief replied in surprise, ‘Who were all those men you had with you there?’ The missionary answered, ‘There were no men there; just my wife and I.’ The chief argued that they had seen many men standing guard - hundreds of big men in shining garments with drawn swords in their hands. They seemed to circle the mission station so that the natives were afraid to attack. Only then did Mr. Paton realize that God had sent His angels to protect them. The chief agreed that there was no other explanation. Could it be that God had sent a legion of angels to protect His servants, whose lives were being endangered?” This is exactly what God does for His people protecting and delivering them from the hands of their enemies unknown some times to His people! The effect of God’s deliverance can produce similar results in the lives of laymen too. Mark Kelly shares how a “Government worker’s faith touches 8 villages with gospel”. Kelly tells about a rural development agent from Benin, West Africa, named Kouton Pierre. Kouton came to know the Lord Jesus Christ after a decade of faithful witness on the part of his brothers. This was remarkable due in part to the fact his mother led an African fetish cult. After surviving a three week battle with pneumonia, Kouton became convinced his brothers were right. When he gave his life to Lord Jesus, he started reading the Bible he received earlier from his brother. He also began attending a Baptist church and rapidly grew as a Christian. Only six months after his conversion, Kouton received a transfer from his government supervisors to Tchetti. Here he worked among the Ife, a people group who knew almost nothing about Lord Jesus. As Kouton traveled sharing more effective agricultural techniques, he also shared his newfound faith in Lord Jesus Christ. Mark Kelly reveals, “One day a rainstorm delayed his return home. When he arrived, he found a large crowd surrounding his house. He noticed several fetish leaders talking excitedly with the people. ‘My house had been struck by lightning, and people had called the fetisher for the lightning god,’ Kouton recalled. ‘He told me the lightning god had struck my house and I needed to make a sacrifice to him.’ His refusal to offer the sacrifice frightened and angered the crowd. ‘They told me, 'You'll die if you don't make this sacrifice.’ I said, 'Fine. I'm a Christian. If I die, I'll go to heaven.’ ‘Everyone thought I would die,’ he said. ‘When I didn't, they believed God was strong because he protected me from the lightning god. People invited us into their homes and asked us to tell them about Lord Jesus because they had heard what happened at my house.’ Visitors from outlying villages also saw what happened that day and invited Kouton to come tell them about this Lord Jesus.” Do you see, this is exactly what God wants from us, believing in Him and living our lives for Him. But today, our believe is so hypocritical that we rarely get any reply from our God when we pray, ‘you pray and receive not because you pray amiss’. In one village 11 people came to faith in Lord Jesus Christ, while in another 20 people became Christians. In yet another village 7 people believed on the Lord Jesus Christ. Kouton received invitations from at least 8 villages to tell them what the Lord Jesus did for him. This is exactly a life of testimony, how about you, is your life a testimony unto others?

4 Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who makes the Lord his refuge and trust, and turns not to the proud or to followers of false gods. 5 Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us; no one can compare with You! If I should declare and speak of them, they are too many to be numbered. First, we see the beatitude about confidence in God. David writes, “Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) is the man who makes the Lord his refuge and trust, and turns not to the proud or to followers of false gods.” (Psalm 40:4). After reading this verse, we remember beatitudes of Psalm 1. Here, the Psalmist writes, “1 Blessed (happy, fortunate, prosperous, and enviable) is the man who walks and lives not in the counsel of the ungodly [following their advice, their plans and purposes], nor stands [submissive and inactive] in the path where sinners walk, nor sits down [to relax and rest] where the scornful [and the mockers] gather. 2 But his delight and desire are in the law of the Lord, and on His law (the precepts, the instructions, the teachings of God) he habitually meditates (ponders and studies) by day and by night. 3 And he shall be like a tree firmly planted [and tended] by the streams of water, ready to bring forth its fruit in its season; its leaf also shall not fade or wither; and everything he does shall prosper [and come to maturity]. 4 Not so the wicked [those disobedient and living without God are not so]. But they are like the chaff [worthless, dead, without substance] which the wind drives away. 5 Therefore the wicked [those disobedient and living without God] shall not stand [justified] in the judgment, nor [b]sinners in the congregation of the righteous [those who are upright and in right standing with God]. 6 For the Lord knows and is fully acquainted with the way of the righteous, but the way of the ungodly [those living outside God’s will] shall perish (end in ruin and come to nought).” (Psalm 1:1-6). We read in Jeremiah 17:5-10, “5 Thus says the Lord: Cursed [with great evil] is the strong man who trusts in and relies on frail man, making weak [human] flesh his arm, and whose mind and heart turn aside from the Lord. 6 For he shall be like a shrub or a person naked and destitute in the desert; and he shall not see any good come, but shall dwell in the parched places in the wilderness, in an uninhabited salt land. 7 [Most] blessed is the man who believes in, trusts in, and relies on the Lord, and whose hope and confidence the Lord is. 8 For he shall be like a tree planted by the waters that spreads out its roots by the river; and it shall not see and fear when heat comes; but its leaf shall be green. It shall not be anxious and full of care in the year of drought, nor shall it cease yielding fruit. 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly perverse and corrupt and severely, mortally sick! Who can know it [perceive, understand, be acquainted with his own heart and mind]? [Matt. 13:15-17; Mark 7:21-23; Eph. 4:20-24.] 10 I the Lord search the mind, I try the heart, even to give to every man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.” Second, we see the benefits of confidence in God. David confesses, “Many, O Lord my God, are the wonderful works which You have done, and Your thoughts toward us; no one can compare with You! If I should declare and speak of them, they are too many to be numbered.” (Psalm 40:5). David recalls God’s intervening works in his behalf. These are miracles of God’s love and grace. Reading about God’s innumerable thoughts, reminds us of Jeremiah 29:11, where we read, “For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Let me encourage you to review the proofs of God’s deliverance. As I have always said our problem is lack of our being embodiments of God’s Word, you cannot believe, live and practice what you do not know, what you have not used your life to test! So let us begin to learn to be embodiments of God’s word so that we can truly believe it, live it, and practice it with confidence knowing that God cannot lie, His Word is true. II. LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TO REMOVE THE PROHIBITIVE OF GOD’S DELIVERANCE. (PSALM 40:6-10) 6 Sacrifice and offering You do not desire, nor have You delight in them; You have given me the capacity to hear and obey [Your law, a more valuable service than] burnt offerings and sin offerings [which] You do not require. 7 Then said I, Behold, I come; in the volume of the book it is written of me; 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God; yes, Your law is within my heart. 9 I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly [tidings of uprightness and right standing with God]. Behold, I have not restrained my lips, as You know, O Lord. 10 I have not concealed Your righteousness within my heart; I have proclaimed Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I have not hid away Your steadfast love and Your truth from the great assembly. The Will of God is the central issue of this Psalm. In this portion, David addresses the Will of God as it relates to our worship and our words. We read in Psalm 40:6-10, “The will of God is the central issue of this Psalm. In this portion, David addresses the will of God as it relates to our worship and our words. We read in Psalm 40:6-10, “6 Sacrifice and offering You do not desire, nor have You delight in them; You have given me the capacity to hear and obey [Your law, a more valuable service than] burnt offerings and sin offerings [which] You do not require. 7 Then said I, Behold, I come; in the volume of the book it is written of me; 8 I delight to do Your will, O my God; yes, Your law is within my heart. 9 I have proclaimed glad tidings of righteousness in the great assembly [tidings of uprightness and right standing with God]. Behold, I have not restrained my lips, as You know, O Lord. 10 I have not concealed Your righteousness within my heart; I have proclaimed Your faithfulness and Your salvation. I have not hid away Your steadfast love and Your truth from the great assembly. This “man after [God’s] own heart” (Acts 13: 22), here stresses the importance of the condition of the heart as reflected in our worship and in our words. David prays in Psalm 51:16-17, “16 For You delight not in sacrifice, or else would I give it; You find no pleasure in burnt offering. [I Sam. 15:22.] 17 My sacrifice [the sacrifice acceptable] to God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart [broken down with sorrow for sin and humbly and thoroughly penitent], such, O God, You will not despise.” We read in 1 Samuel 15:22-23,”22 Samuel said, Has the Lord as great a delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying the voice of the Lord? Behold, to obey is better than sacrifice, and to hearken than the fat of rams. 23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as idolatry and teraphim (household good luck images). Because you have rejected the word of the Lord, He also has rejected you from being king.” We read in Isaiah 1:11-13a, “‘11 To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me [unless they are the offering of the heart]? says the Lord. I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed beasts [without obedience]; and I do not delight in the blood of bulls or of lambs or of he-goats [without righteousness]. 12 When you come to appear before Me, who requires of you that your [unholy feet] trample My courts? 13 Bring no more offerings of vanity (emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and futility); [your hollow offering of] incense is an abomination to Me;” We read in Micah 6:6-8, “6 With what shall I come before the Lord and bow myself before God on high? Shall I come before Him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old? 7 Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? Shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul? 8 He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly, and to love kindness and mercy, and to humble yourself and walk humbly with your God?” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) called the human voice "the organ of the soul!" In Psalm 40:6-10 we see the relationship between the heart and the mouth. Lord Jesus explains, “Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks” (Matthew 12:34). David says seven things about the Lord, note the word “Your”. David is consumed with God’s will, God’s law, God’s righteousness, God’s faithfulness, God’s salvation, God’s lovingkindness, and God’s truth. In many ways David is like his greater Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, who prayed, “Nevertheless not My will, but Yours, be done” (Luke 22:42b). Remember, Lord Jesus Christ is the One who is greater than Solomon and He was born into the house and lineage of David. “On “Duty a delight”, Dr. A. T. [Arthur Tappan] Pierson (1837-1911) explains, “In other words God’s pleasure is his pleasure.” Later he continues, “There must be a full surrender to God. No man delights to do God’s will whose whole will is not given up to God.” Let me encourage you to remove the prohibitive of God’s deliverance. Give God the whole of your will, which is when you are ready to do God’s Will! III. LET ME ENCOURAGE YOU TO REQUEST THE PROVISION OF GOD’S DELIVERANCE. (PSALM 40:11-17) David asks the Lord for deliverance. We read in Psalm 40:11-17, “11 Withhold not Your tender mercy from me, O Lord; let Your loving-kindness and Your truth continually preserve me! 12 For innumerable evils have compassed me about; my iniquities have taken such hold on me that I am not able to look up. They are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has failed me and forsaken me. 13 Be pleased, O Lord, to deliver me; O Lord, make haste to help me! 14 Let them be put to shame and confounded together who seek and require my life to destroy it; let them be driven backward and brought to dishonor who wish me evil and delight in my hurt! 15 Let them be desolate by reason of their shame who say to me, Aha, aha! 16 Let all those that seek and require You rejoice and be glad in You; let such as love Your salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified! 17 [As for me] I am poor and needy, yet the Lord takes thought and plans for me. You are my Help and my Deliverer. O my God, do not tarry!” Rev. Matthew Henry (1662-1714), the famous Puritan commentator of the 17th century, explains, “The best saints see themselves undone, unless continually preserved by the grace of God. But see the frightful view the Psalmist had of sin. This made the discovery of a Redeemer so required and welcomed. In all his reflections upon each step of his life, King David discovered something amiss. What about you and I, do we view sin and sinfulness with such frightfulness and readily require help and assistance from our Lord Jesus, our redeemer? The sight and sense of our sins in their own coluors, must distract us, if we have not at the same time some sight of a Savior, we cannot be true to ourselves. If Christ has triumphed over our spiritual enemies, then we, through Him and in Him, shall be more than conquerors. This may encourage all that seek God and love His salvation, to rejoice in Him, and to praise Him. No griefs nor poverty can render those miserable who fear the Lord. Their God, and all that He has or does, is the ground of their joy. The prayer of faith can unlock His fullness, which is adapted to all their wants. The promises are sure, the moment of fulfillment hastens forward. He who once came in great humility, shall come again in glorious majesty.” Renowned Bible commentators, Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown explain, “thinketh upon” [Psalm 40:17] can be translated, “or provides for me.” Let me encourage you to request the provision of God’s deliverance.

Let me encourage you to review the proofs of God’s deliverance. This will give you hope! Let me encourage you to remove the prohibitive of God’s deliverance. This will show us our restrains and setbacks and then give us a knowledge of how to remove them and free us! Let me encourage you to request the provision of God’s deliverance. This reminds us to always seek help and assistance from the Lord our God! Dr. Haddon W. Robinson shares, “A Chinese scholar who converted to Christ told this parable: “A man fell into a dark, dirty pit, and he tried to climb out but he couldn’t. Confucius came along. He saw the man in the pit and said, ‘Poor fellow. If he had listened to me, he never would have fallen in.’ And he left. Buddha came along and saw the man in the pit and said, ‘Poor fellow. If he can climb up here, I’ll help him.’ And he too left. Then Christ came and said, ‘Poor fellow!’ And He jumped into the pit and helped him out.” May you experience God’s deliverance.