Text: Psalms 13

Introduction.

• I.Q. intelligence quotient.
• E.Q. emotional quotient.
  The most complicated to control.
  Illustration: It is possible to float in a swimming pool. But the emotional disturbs.
• How I can control my emotional?

Psalms 13 says that through prayer is possible.

Psalms 13:1. "How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever,"...

• The psalmist is desperate. He fights with God.
• Feeling of abandonment, solitude. "For ever"?
• He creates in God, but he was not understanding why so much suffering. "I have unhappiness in my heart each day"
• Lives an inner fight, where the hope "hunts" desperation and vice-versa.

Psalms 13:3 "Look on me and answer, O Lord my God"...

• Humbly the psalmist lowers his voice.
• The suffering is there, but the emotional is being controlled.
• Appears the maturity.
• Leave the shouts, from lament to humbleness, to serenity.

Psalms 13: 5, 6 "But I trust in your unfailing love"...

• Psalms 13:6 "will sing to the Lord". I want to sing to the Lord.
• First the affliction, the shout of the soul.
• Afterwards the humbleness who leads to praise.
• We know that prayer is fundamental. Present ourselves to the Lord.
• We know that he puts our life in trails, but we don't use them.

Conclusion

• Illustrations: From a building. We cannot see the foundation, the base.
  From a tree. We can not see the depth of the roots.
• Jesus did not teach us to preach, to sing, but taught us to pray. "This, then, is how you should pray" Matthew 6:9
• Why? Because prayer is the base of everything.
• Jesus is our greatest model in this area as well.
• And he was the Son of God and he had no sin.
• Exodus 17: 8-12 To pray is not easy. Moses would get tired praying, Joshua would not get tired fighting.
• The psalmist in desperation. Prays and humbles himself. At the end, trusts, rests and sings.