Gebet Aus Der Tiefe (German) — Richard Wurmbrand

Dear brothers and sisters and very beloved children. I always say very beloved children because I have never seen a child in prison for 14 years. And for me it is a special joy to see children. In the Gospel of Mark, chapter 11, we are given the example of a prayer.

Learning the Prayer “Hosanna in the Highest”

Today is a prayer day. How do you pray? Praying is a great art for which a whole life is not enough to learn. But we can learn something from this art. Here is a very interesting prayer that each of us has already said.

In the name of the Lord, let the kingdom of our father David be glorified. And then comes the interesting prayer in four words. Hosanna in the highest. What does Hosanna mean in the highest? If you ask the average German believer, what does the word Hosanna mean?

So let there be praise of God, that is one opinion. Who knows something else? What is Hosanna? Blessed is he who comes. Who knows something else about the word Hosanna? Hosanna is a summary of two Hebrew words that are still sung in the synagogue.

Hosha-na. Hosha means help. And na means please. Hosha-na is a prayer. Please help. Now here it says Hosha-na or in German Hosiana. Hosiana in the highest. What does that mean? God please help, but in the highest.

How can you get help in the highest? In the first book of Moses, chapter 49, verse 25. I'm glad that so few people know the Bible. Most people here know the Bible by heart. In the first book of Moses, chapter 49, verse 25, it says Jacob, bless your son.

Your father's God helped you, and you were blessed by the Almighty, with blessings from above and blessings from below. There are two kinds of blessings. Blessings from above and blessings from below.

And the Jews had both kinds of blessings. And now that they knew both, they made a choice. And they said, we choose the blessing from above. Hosha-na, please help, but in the highest. Please help in the highest.

Hosiana in the highest. What is this Hosiana, this help in the highest? The circumstances of my life were such that for many years I knew the world of thieves, robbers, murderers. My wife knew the world of prostitutes and thieves well.

Prayers from the Depths: Self-Interest and Personal Blessings

If someone wants to see hardworking beggars, he should look for them among the thieves. What a thief prays. Before every thief, the really classic thieves, those who are worthy of this name, before every big thief or bank robber, they pray.

I have seen them pray all night long, but according to the orthodox way, if you know it, you throw yourself to the ground in front of the Lord, then you get up again, you hit big crosses, then you throw yourself down again for nights.

You go, if you are orthodox, as it is with us, or Catholic, you go to the church and light candles and pay for masses and say the rosary. You pray for blessings in the depths. You pray for your theft to succeed.

And if someone does not give the tenth, but gives abundantly, for God's sake they are thieves. After they have stolen, they give a lot to the church. And they also give to the poor. They live in a blessing in the depths.

It should not be a word, an ugly word about religion, about Jesus, or even more about Mary, speaking in front of prostitutes. They do not allow that. They lead their own lives, but have reverence for God.

There is such a prayer in the depths. I was a lot in playhouses. You will be surprised, I still go to playhouses now. In America there are big playhouses, and I immediately draw attention to myself. They call me, what are you doing here?

I say, I have never seen a priest in a playhouse. They answer, maybe we have seen him, but he did not wear such a collar. And then I can speak to them about the Lord. In the playhouses a lot is prayed.

When money is placed on the roulette, one prays, oh, may the number 34 come out, and the other prays for number 8. And even the dear God cannot make this ball hold on to several numbers at once. And businessmen do not always pray for pure business.

In the war, a lot was prayed. Not only in Catholic or Evangelical churches, but also in free communities. In French communities, for the victory of France. In the Russian church, for the victory of Russia.

And in German churches, of course, for the victory of Germany. And here the dear God could not make it that everyone should win together in a war. There are prayers in the depths. When disputes arise in a family, or in a business, or in a community, or between different communities, or between different missions, disputes sometimes arise.

And then the mission directors pray. I have seen both sides praying. And each side prays that they should keep the law. But both cannot keep the law. And priests pray without having exactly checked if the religion they are propagating is the real one.

Even modernist priests pray. Even those who say that God is dead catch their service to God with prayers. One denies the Bible, and one catches, and one closes with prayer. Just like in communities where one really preaches the Bible.

There are prayers from the depths. There is a Hoseana in the depths, a Hoseana not in the heights. Help me God on this low level on which I am. I don't want another level. I am satisfied with this. And help me on this level.

Now there are other prayers as well. There are really saints who got rid of these things, but somehow kept the I. And they ask, what is wrong with a personal prayer, I have a husband, a drunkard, or a son, a drunkard.

What a terrible tragedy this is. Or a woman who betrays me, or a man who beats me, or I don't know what. All kinds of things happen. And one prays for oneself. God, help me so that my husband changes.

Don't help the man so that he changes. But help me so that I am not tormented by this man anymore. Don't help him so that his soul should be redeemed. But help me so that I don't be tormented by his sinfulness.

God, you see how difficult it is for me with my son. Not how difficult and dangerous his sinfulness is for him. But how much I torment myself, how much I cry. And please help me. This is also a prayer.

In the Reformation, the Protestants got rid of the holy images. And we are no longer used to praying for a picture of Jesus or a picture of Mary. But usually we have a picture in our prayer in front of us.

My own picture. There I stand, Richard Wurmbrand. I have my picture in front of me. And now I ask Richard, what are your most urgent needs? What are your most urgent desires? And I pray to Richard Wurmbrand.

And I bring to God what Richard Wurmbrand wants for himself. A Canaanite woman came to Jesus. And she complained to him that she was very tormented because her daughter was possessed by the devil. She didn't say, the daughter is possessed by the devil, help her.

But help me. It is, of course, a terrible torment to have a daughter possessed by the devil. But she didn't think of the daughter. She thought of the I. And therefore Jesus denied her at the beginning, also the granting of her request.

Prayer in Prison and the Struggle to Deny the Self

We were asked this question in communist prisons, where there are still many prisoners today. There are probably a few hundred thousand prisoners today. Ten thousand in Vietnam alone. Ten thousand in Mozambique, in communist Africa.

Nobody knows how many in Ethiopia, in Angola. In Red China, brother Wang Mingdao has been in prison for 34 years. We read in the newspapers about the liberalization in China. He has not yet experienced this liberalization.

He is still in prison. And in Russia, brother Mikhail Ershov has been in prison for 45 years. So there are these many prisoners. And in prison life, you are very pushed to a prayer from the depths, to a prayer for the I.

If I can tell a personal experience. In the beginning we were in solitary cells. In a prison called Malmaison. This was one of the most terrible prisons you can imagine. The terrible thing was that you were guarded by dogs.

Big shepherd dogs. They took you to the bathroom, to the toilet, to an examination. Or you were transferred from one cell to another. Everywhere on the corridors, these big dogs guarded you. These dogs were very well trained.

They jumped on the gurgles of the prisoners. They never bit. They only jumped on the gurgles. But imagine how it is. We didn't know he wouldn't bite. You can train a dog so much, but in the end he can bite.

And when such a dog jumps on your gurgles. It was so, so terrible. At that time I couldn't, and probably the others couldn't either. I couldn't talk to the others because I was in solitary cells. I couldn't say the words, our father.

I said, our father, you are in heaven. Your name will be sanctified. Your kingdom will come. Your will will come, as in heaven, as on earth, in all things except one. My will must come in one thing. I must get out of this prison.

If you want me in another prison, that's fine. But in this prison with the dogs, I don't want to stay. Your will will come in heaven. Do you want to push the devil out of heaven? Do you want to take him into heaven and not take the other into heaven?

Do you want to take everyone into heaven? Do whatever you want with heaven. On earth, whatever you want will happen. One should be rich, one should be poor, one should be sick, one should be healthy. Everything is fine for me.

Except one thing. My will must come in this one thing. I must get out of this prison. Ultimately, this is the prayer of all people. This is the prayer of all people. Everyone has one thing, or two, or three, in which he keeps his will.

Everything else I leave to God. What will happen to the devils in Iran? There is a great God. God will take care of these devils. In Cambodia, three million people are starving. I leave that to God. But there are one or two questions that oppress me.

That I am being watched by dogs, or that my husband is not doing well, or whatever else. My will must come in this. And I and the others, we had a hard fight to get rid of this point. Who prayed that I must get out of this prison?

I did. But how could there be such an I? Jesus had taught us, if someone wants to follow me, he should deny himself. I should have given up long ago. Such an I should not have existed. And there is always a lack of self-denial.

It is the fact that we did not give up the I, which makes this I, this damned I, the root of every sin, appear again and again. Our saviour taught us a prayer. In this prayer the word I does not appear.

This is the model of prayer. He is not my father, he is our father. He is also the father of the one with whom I do not agree. He is also the father of the one with whom I am in dispute. He is also the father of the one with whom I do not agree in the Bible.

He is our father. And then we say, give us, not give me, give us, that is also the Cambodians, and also the prisoners in the communist and Islamic camps, and also the American millionaires, and also the American revolutionaries, and every person, give us today our daily bread.

And do not forgive me my sin. I have really committed a great sin. In my life I may have stolen, killed, lied, and done my part, but I am not the only one who has sinned. Forgive us our sins. I am strongly tempted, and can fight very hard against this temptation, but I do not say, do not tempt me.

There are millions of people who are under the same circumstances. Do not tempt us. Do not tempt us. And do not free me from the evil, from the evil of a bad man, or a bad woman, or bad children, or from the evil of communism, or of Islam, or of a false religion.

There are hundreds of millions of people who are in this situation. One must, this image of the self, that must disappear. And this self is so great. I have spoken to great Protestant preachers in America.

I do not know how it is in Germany, but in America, there appear the magazines of Billy Graham, or Oral Roberts, or the great American preachers. They have in one or the same magazine, three or four times, their own photography.

The photography of Billy Graham, or Oral Roberts, and so on. And I asked these great preachers, would you publish a picture of Mary in your magazine? No chance. Would you publish a picture of Jesus? Also not.

But your picture. Was this poor young woman, Mary, not at least as holy and as good as you? And we have renounced the pictures of Mary. We have renounced the pictures of Jesus. And we all have replaced her with the picture of the self.

And in prayer, the center is the self, which comes from the depths, which should have long since disappeared. And our song is Hoseana in the depths. I have the self, because I like this self, I appreciate this self very much, if this self wants something, then it has to be right.

If I want it strongly, who can have better wishes than the self? And I pray to the self. There is another Hoseana, this Hoseana in the Bible, Hoseana in the heights. There one forgets the self, for the benefit of others.

The Lord’s Prayer as a Communal Prayer

We are all ready, for others I give 10 marks, or 100 marks, or 1000 marks, or I don't know how much, or 1 mark. I can give this to him. But he should not give the self, which exists. How much should I give?

You should not give anything. He should not give the self, which exists. The self should have long since disappeared. Here everything belongs to God. And God decides, out of his own budget, how much he wants to give for this purpose, how much he wants to give for another purpose, or what he wants to keep back, for the good of this family, or these children, and so on.

We have to get to this renunciation of the self, and think about the others. In Russia, our brothers are being arrested, recently, Yakunin and Velikanova. Not only that they are being arrested. Somehow, we belong to the same body.

We believe in one holy church. If one member suffers, then all others also suffer. But you don't see the suffering. If you were to be hit in the back, how would you look? What kind of face would you make?

Would you not scream? Would you not cry? But you are being beaten today. In your brother, in Yakunin, in Velikanova, and in all these others, they are being beaten. They are being held in forced jackets.

And something worse is happening. We now have evidence, that in Soviet prisons, young Christian prisoners, with bandits, are being locked up in the same cell, so that they are being raped homosexually.

And there is such terrible suffering. Children who are being taken away from their parents. And then, when you get out of prison. The Jews were in Egypt. They were freed from Egypt. They came out of Egypt.

But Egypt never came out of them. After they were freed from Egypt, they were still wearing the golden Egyptian robe. And who has spent many years in a communist or Nazi prison, will never be freed from prison.

You have nightmares. I still have nightmares. And there is this whole struggle. And this struggle is an attempt to come back to the self. I suffer so much. My children suffer. I heard something shocking from Mrs. Wintz.

You know who Wintz is. The General Secretary of the Russian Baptists, who was recently freed. And his wife told me, once I could talk to his wife, he was not there, and the wife told me, that she came with her two children to prison.

He had the children and the wife had not seen him for a long time. Maybe half a year. And now the children came. And the children did not want to go to the father. They said, this is not our daddy. Our father is beautiful.

But this man is ugly. We will not go to this man. And the conversation ended. And the children did not want to hug him. Can you imagine what a pain it must have been for Wintz, to see the children and not to be hugged by them.

Now they love him. Now they hug him. So there are other things, about which you can think, than about the self, with its suffering and its joy. You can also pray differently, than Hosanna in the depths.

There is a famous personality in the church, from the time of the Middle Ages, Katharina von Genua. At the end of her life she said, Heiland, you know, that for 30 years, I have never asked for anything for myself.

There is also such a self-denial. You should not only donate money, you should donate the I. The I should be given away, in favor of the other. For 30 years, I have not asked for anything for myself.

This is Hosanna in the depths. And our brothers and sisters, who go through difficult conquests, there are not only the external conquests, you are beaten, you are tortured. There is this inner conquest, to penetrate.

And even if you are tortured, you should not force yourself to give up the I. With the I, I am ready for everything. And you can still beat so much, and you can starve me, and I will never get the right of the I.

And he was sure that he had a blessing from God. Hitler was very sure that he had a blessing from God. There were three or four attacks against him, and none of them succeeded. And that gave him strength.

He knew that he was protected from the foresight. A communist investigator told me, if there is a God, then he is on our side. We conquer one country after another. He is not on your side. They are also blessed.

Blessed from the depths. There is a blessing from the heights. And that is the meaning of the prayer, Hosanna in the heights. And we should all learn today, because I am a Jew, and I can speak a little Hebrew, I always try to say a little of Hebrew in my sermons.

And we learn, therefore, Hosanna in the heights means, help me God, but not in the depths. Help me in the heights, help me to deny my self, to forget my own suffering. It is only a drop in the great sea of suffering, in which Jesus himself suffered, and all the saints.

And I take this burden on me, and forget about my self. I have noted from German songs, you probably know these songs, that every pulse would be a thank you, and every breath a song. You all sang that, didn't you?

Yes, if you really mean it, that every pulse should be a thank you, and every breath a song, Yes, where is Odem and a pulse for a lament? Where is Odem and a pulse for the bitter lament, look what happens to me, and God help me in this thing that oppresses me.

You don't have time for that. Every odem a song, and every pulse should be a thank you. Do you really want to live with Jesus? This is also from a German song. Do you really want to live with Jesus? Your own self has to go.

Let's take our songs seriously, and listen to the self, as the center of our prayer. This self is also from the depths. Now, how can you achieve this? You achieve this by seeing something valuable in other people, a small need.

Loving Those Who Oppress Us

Even those who oppress you, you have to see as a human being. And in this song, I know, I saw the scene in the film again, Martin Luther King, you probably heard about him, he was one of the famous black preachers, who was killed in America.

He preached once, and many of the white chauvinists and racists hated him, because he stood up for the rights of the black people. And once during the sermon, a white young man jumped on the podium, and slapped Martin Luther King in the face during the sermon.

The other black people were of course outraged, and wanted to lynch this white man. And Martin Luther King stood up for him, and said, wait a little bit, if you had been white, and if you had been taught from an early age, this dirty nigger, if you had sowed this with your mother's milk, and had been raised like this, then you would also be like this white young man, we should understand him, we should love him.

He didn't even allow him to be punished by the police, he forgave him. You can also do without the I, for the benefit of the other, and even for the benefit of the one who insults you, and who insults you.

May I once again tell an episode from my prison life? Not that I want to stand out, but somehow I know everything that happens to me, from the first source. The other things have been told to me. And to be sure, I tell from my experience, but it is exactly the same experience that other Christians have had in communist prisons.

Grace for a War Criminal

After years of solitary confinement, I was brought to a large cell. There were 100 prisoners there, and there was always the oldest cell, who gave you the place where you would sleep. And he said to me, there and there you share the bed with this man, I introduced myself, Wurmbrand.

Wurmbrand seems to be a good German name, like Siegfried, doesn't it? I said, my name is Wurmbrand. And then I also looked a bit German, I had blond hair. So, what are you, he asked me, I am an evangelical pastor, so an evangelical pastor of Wurmbrand can't be anything other than a German.

And I asked him, what is your name? He told me his name. I asked him, how long are you sentenced? He said, life imprisonment. I asked him, what did you do? He said, I killed 1432 Jews. He was a war criminal.

I told him, you have to suffer terribly. You probably don't sleep at night regretting what happened. He said, I really don't sleep for nights. I'm sorry I didn't kill more Jews. He was a man full of hatred.

The hatred was even angrier than the fact that I myself was a Jew. And now we were several believers in the same cell as him. We were very, very rare there. Once, I didn't wash for three years. Some of the boys here would like that.

So, one washed very rarely. And if one washed, when he came to wash, then the water in the basin remained very, very dirty behind him. And when this man washed, the Christians went and washed themselves behind him with the same dirty water to somehow identify with him.

To break his ego. To realize, I'm not any better than this man. I experienced grace. If it hadn't been for grace, I could have been like him. He is also a man. A man whom God loves. If he hadn't loved him, he wouldn't have created him.

A man for whom Jesus died on the cross. And he's not just a man. He has a guardian angel. And the angel wants to see him. And how beautiful it would be in heaven if he would come to heaven after so much murder.

And he was loved so much by people who had forgotten the ego. Who sang a hosanna in the heights. And not a hosanna in the depths. In the depths, we could have prayed that he should creep. That he should creep.

After all that he did. And that would have been a prayer. There are many such prayers. During the war, it was prayed like this. The other one should creep. It wasn't expressed like this. It was said with holy words.

The Frenchman should creep. The Russian should creep. And one answered with another prayer. No, the German should creep. There are also such prayers. Prayers in the depths. And the Christians didn't pray to get rid of the curse.

I should get rid of the curse to sleep in bed with such a person. To be together with such a person. But he should get rid of the curse. To appear before God with so much sin. And this person really turned around.

There was a hosanna in the heights. And after he turned around, we in Romania and in Russia, the brothers who lived there, there are also brothers here who go to these countries and know. There is a lot of kissing.

The brothers kiss each other there. There is this holy kiss. There are other customs in Germany. But we don't have it without a kiss. Without the holy kiss. So brothers and sisters, as often as they meet, kiss each other three times.

And one says, may God's peace be with you. And the other, may God's peace be with you too. I had a community in Romania with an average of 500 people every Sunday morning. At the end of the holy service, everyone kissed each other three times.

That lasted an hour. We didn't have cars in front of the door. Nobody was bad. I didn't even have a bike in my life. We didn't have that. Why do I need it? I have time to kiss my brothers because the car was outside.

And we kiss each other three times. And I got 1 ,500 kisses every Sunday. That when it was an average sermon. Sometimes I managed to hold a sermon that was particularly well regarded. Then I got a supplement of kisses.

And then the jaws hurt afterwards. Well, I don't want to introduce any Russian customs in Germany. The importance of the holy kiss, I just want to tell you. Tertullian, one of the great Christian teachers from the 3rd century, said that every service that ends without a holy kiss is not accepted by God.

Now, what is the meaning of this holy kiss? I once sat at a table with a young man. He ate bacon. And he said to me, I love bacon with garlic. But I'm going to my bride now. And there I will get kisses.

And therefore I can't eat garlic. And Christians in Russia know when I go to the service of God, I will be kissed by 500 saints. I'm not allowed to eat garlic there. This mouth will be kissed by saints.

There must be no bad word out of the mouth. No lying word. No jealous word. No word of dispute. No word of hatred. You keep your mouth clean for the kisses that you will get from the brothers. Now you could do it without kissing.

But somehow you shouldn't eat garlic if you know you will be with brothers even if you don't kiss on the mouth. And now to come back to this man. So this man turned around, the murderer. And then he kissed the brothers.

And he kissed me. And he said to me, I never imagined in my life that I would kiss a Jew. But you get an extra kiss. There is the possibility not to stay in the depths. There is a Hosea in the heights.

From Childhood Encounters to Christian Mission

You can be elevated to completely different areas than the ones you have known so far. I just want to tell you very briefly. Some of you may know how I came to believe. I am a Jew and in my parents' house I never heard a word about Jesus.

Neither a good nor a bad word. But two events occurred in my life that brought me to Jesus. You can't describe everything in books. I wrote several books. I didn't describe everything there. The books would be too long.

The first event was when I was 7 or 8 years old. I came from school with a friend. He was standing in front of a church. At that time I had no idea what the difference was between a Catholic church and a Pentecostal church or a Mormon church.

They were all the same to me. He was standing in front of a church. Now I know it was a Catholic church. And he said, wait for me. My father told me I should tell the priest something. I told him, I will go with you.

And so I came to a church for the first time. It was a Catholic church. I was very, very impressed. I saw a crucified man. My reason tells me I couldn't see a crucified man. I probably saw a crucifix.

But what remained in my memory was that I saw a crucified man. And I couldn't understand why they tortured this man so hard. You could see the wounds, the blood. You could see the pierced heart. You could see the head with the crown of thorns.

And I had a feeling of compassion and love for this man. I saw a young lady who looked at me with love. Probably it was a statue or a picture of Mary. And then came... The priest quickly finished with this other boy.

And then he came to me and stroked my hair, which meant a lot to me. I was an unkempt child. I was an orphan from an early age. And I wasn't stroked. I was a very, very poor child. In all my childhood I only ate one and a half cakes.

I stole one. I got half of it in a correct way. But I can still see it in front of me. I remember this one and a half cake. There is a baker in front of me. He can now compensate for what I didn't eat back then.

I didn't eat chocolate in all my childhood. When richer children ate chocolate, I put the paper behind them. I was the worst-dressed boy in the whole school. And so I was ridiculed. I was always beaten, because I was a Jew.

And in Eastern Europe you beat Jews. I was beaten. I didn't know what Jew meant. But I was beaten. And I wasn't used to someone stroking me. He touched my head and stroked it. Children were brought to Jesus so that he touches them.

We bring children to Sunday school so that they are taught. But they were brought to Jesus so that he touches them. His touch nourished them. There was so much love in this touch. That's what the prayer should be.

Touching someone who has a holy hand, a holy hand. Now it's not like that anymore. I remember his touch. It was so gentle and so loving and so deep. Over 60 years have passed and I can still feel it. And he asked me, little boy, what can I do for you?

I didn't say anything. I just came with the other boy. And he said to me, I am a younger Jesus and he taught us to never let anyone pass us without doing him a little good. It's summer. It's very hot outside.

Can I bring you a glass of cold water? And he brought me a glass of cold water. And Jesus turned this water into wine. I went out of this church drunk. For the first time I heard that there is such a mysterious being.

The name didn't tell me anything. But he taught me that you shouldn't let anyone, not even a Jewish, poorly dressed, ugly and weak orphan pass you. I don't have money for the child. I don't have chocolate for the child.

But I can stroke him and I can give him a glass of cold water. If there is now the Mercy Action of the Church in 50 countries and with millions of people by the underground church, here in this hall there is someone who has decorated more than 20 ,000 Bibles.

And we have a lot of such people. And if all this exists and families of martyrs are supported with large sums of money, if we can now do for Vietnamese and if we can now proclaim the word of God and if there are Jewish Christian communities in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Haifa, they all come from the fact that a young man, Jesus, stroked a child and said to him I can't let anyone pass me without doing him a little good.

A glass of water had this effect. The priest probably died and said to himself, I didn't do anything good in my life. Now you can find out his name was Giuseppe Cavani. And then my second meeting which brought me to this height, Hosiana in the height.

We talk to people and leave them in the depth. Or we sometimes talk to people and count them in the depth. And I met people who swung me up in the height. That was one. But I was a child and children forget quickly.

And later I remembered and when I was an adult I met, it was in the Hitler time, a German carpenter who in the Hitler time prayed like this he was 70 years old or so God, I have served you on earth and I want a reward here on earth that I don't die before I bring a Jew to faith because your son was born in the Jewish people.

But there is no Jew in my village. I am old, I am sick, I am poor. I can't go around looking for Jews. Bring a Jew to my village and I will do my best to bring him to faith. Now I am a special kind of priest.

I am a priest who believes that God never fulfills a prayer. It doesn't exist that God fulfills a prayer. If you ask a Jew from him, he will give you two. It is excluded from God to get as much as you ask from him.

He always gives you more or better. Not one Jew came to this village. I came with my wife and he brought us to the Lord. A man at the age of 70 an uneducated carpenter in Kronstadt and he brought me and my wife to the Lord.

Bringing People from the Depths into the Heights

Let's pay attention to this. When we meet a person he may not be a murderer or a thief but he is always bad enough. He is an ego. And this ego is bad enough. And this ego should be denied. My meeting with him should not be prosaic.

I can't teach him much. I can't teach him philosophy. I can't teach him the Bible. But I can give him a glass of water. I can give him a word. And this word can pull him out of the depth. Don't leave the people in the depth in which they are.

And don't push them into the depth. Sometimes we do this through our sins. But we lift them up in the heights. In prayer the prayer and the prayer should become one. We should rise up. What does this becoming one of prayer and prayer mean?

You know the verse in John 10, 34. Jesus says you are gods. To whom do you pray? Jesus says you are gods. And in Zechariah chapter 12 verse 8 At this time the Lord will send the people to Jerusalem and it will happen that whoever will be weak will be like David.