Releases: Lamentations: Prayers and Poetry

                Releases 

                Heedless of jeers

                scoffing voices

                she releases pride

                accepts her justice

                prostrates in dust

                silent prayer

                hoping in promise.

Psalm 37:19: "they are not put to shame in evil times, in the days of famine they have abundance."

                

                

Reflection: Within: Lamentations: Prayers and Poetry

 Reflection Questions:

                1. How difficult is it to acknowledge the attitudes within our selves that are prideful?

                2. In what situations do you find yourself resisting coming to the Lord in silence to listen?

                3. What aspects of your current circumstances feel unbearable to you? Are you resisting the trial, submitting yourself to it, or trusting in the Lord to carry you?

Share: How might your heart change if you choose to accept the difficulty rather than fight?

Within: Lamentations: Prayers and Poetry

 Reading: Lamentations 3: 28-30: "Let him sit alone and be silent. Since he has laid it on him."

Within

Lord, please quiet our thoughts and emotions and possibilities from swirling within us. Especially when they scatter our hearts and thoughts and actions away from You. And let our response put up barriers towards You.

Please keep us walking firmly on the plans and paths as You choose.

When the anxiety and fears whirl around us and within us please remind each of us to pause and pray and listen for Your words only. As You guide.

Moment by moment.

Your thoughts,

Reflection: Within: Grace in the Wilderness: Prayers and Poetry

Reflection Questions

1. What are some excuses we make to block God’s words to us personally?

2. What are some false distortions we need to learn to recognize?

3. How has the Spirit guided you in a season of fear and confusing?

4. What enabled you to recognize His guidance?

5. How might we learn to listen as naturally as breathing?

Within: Grace in the Wilderness: Prayers and Poetry

Jeremiah 31: 33, “But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days,” declares the Lord, “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.”

Within—on our hearts,

No longer an external legal commitment that can be shredded or ignored, but an internal ink written into our every breath and pulse. That will not be removed.

Through the gift of His Holy Spirit to protect our hearts and speak truth into us.

Even if we remain deaf or dismissive to these words, they will speak into our lives continuing to bring light. Our hearts will listen and eventually we will begin to recognize the Spirit’s guidance.

Even when in frustration or ignorance we act like rebellious toddlers clarity will come, false beliefs will be revealed, and restoration will grow.

Lord, please keep writing Your words into our hearts and open our eyes to see and ears to hear Your voice to follow wherever You choose.

Your thoughts,