Integrity through Prayer Today's Three-minute Bible Study Print, Study and Apply Title: Integrity through Prayer ------------- Date: 12/21/1998 Keywords: "affliction" "integrity" "troubles" "uprightness" Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you stand strong in the face of sexual temptation. Passage: Psalm 25:16-22* 16. Turn to me and be gracious to me, for I am lonely and afflicted. 17. The troubles of my heart have multiplied; free me from my anguish. 18. Look upon my affliction and my distress and take away all my sins. 19. See how my enemies have increased and how fiercely they hate me! 20. Guard my life and rescue me; let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you. 21. May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in you. 22. Redeem Israel, O God, from all their troubles! Questions 1. Look at verses 16 through 21, and list the things the psalmist is asking God to do: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 2. From the list you made, pick the ones you think you can do for yourself:   3. If you're struggling with Internet porn, do you really think you can kick the habit all by yourself?   Practical help Today we're wrapping up a short study of Psalm 25, which is actually a prayer for help. The man who wrote these verses clearly understood that he could do nothing without God's help. He didn't let a guilty conscience keep him from asking God for integrity and uprightness to protect him from future trials and temptations. Follow the psalmist's example; go to God in honest prayer right now. Acknowledge your dependence on Him and confidently expect a renewal of your integrity.  eXXit homepage Index of three-minute studies Copyright 1998 by eXXit *Scriptures are from The Holy Bible: New International Version © Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. All rights reserved.