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Afflictions Made Beneficial in Leading Us to Seek God in Prayer Judges 4:3

Then the Israelites cried out to the LORD, because Jabin had nine hundred chariots of iron, and he had harshly oppressed the Israelites for twenty years.

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Afflictions Made Beneficial in Leading Us to Seek God in Prayer Jeremiah 31:18

I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God.

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Afflictions Made Beneficial in Leading Us to Seek God in Prayer Lamentations 2:17–19

The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes. / The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest. / Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

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Afflictions Made Beneficial in Leading Us to Seek God in Prayer Hosea 5:14, 15

For I am like a lion to Ephraim and like a young lion to the house of Judah. I, even I, will tear them to pieces and then go away. I will carry them off where no one can rescue them. / Then I will return to My place until they admit their guilt and seek My face; in their affliction they will earnestly seek Me.”

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Afflictions Made Beneficial in Leading Us to Seek God in Prayer Jonah 2:1

From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,

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