In Isaiah, chapter twenty-six, verse sixteen, “LORD, in trouble have they visited thee, they poured out a prayer when thy chastening was upon them.” Isaiah recalls the times when God chastened His chosen nation, and those who remained loyal to God called upon Him in earnest prayer. There is a phrase that goes like this, “It is easy to begin, but hard to maintain.” Many people who accept Jesus Christ as Lord and Saviour begin serving Him. However, as time progresses, those converts serve God in their own way, and not necessarily as the Word of God declares.
Poured out a prayer is for those who strive to serve God. Believers, who desire to know and are dependent.on Him, will continue to cry out to Him daily because they lean not on themselves but look for the Lord to direct them.
Every creature, every business, any way serviceable to our comfort, God makes to be so; He makes that work for us which seemed to make against us. They had been slaves of sin and Satan, but by the Divine grace, they were taught to look to be set free from all former masters. The cause opposed to God and His kingdom will sink at last. See our need for afflictions. Before, prayer came drop by drop; now they pour it out, it comes now like water from a fountain.
Afflictions bring us to secret prayer. Consider Christ as the Speaker addressing his church. His resurrection from the dead was an earnest of all the deliverance foretold. The power of his grace, like the dew or rain, which causes the herbs that seem dead to revive, would raise his church from the lowest state. But we may refer to the resurrection of the dead, especially of those united to Christ.