This post will be about Lamentations 3; we’ll explore some very pertinent issues and try to find answers to them. Let me begin with a question: How do you keep your chin up when all your hope is gone? Do you just go through the motions, pondering in your heart: – Who cares?

Do you feel like this situation is too much for you? Are you fearing missing God’s will for your life? If so, we’re in the same boat. I want to invite you to come with me to explore this Bible chapter that is so impactful for me when I feel God isn’t willing to help me.

I´m going to explain to you how it will work out. Let’s together engage in some verses and pray over them together. At the end of this post, I humbly instruct you to write down what’s in your heart, let’s be real with God and shed the masks once and for all.

Lamentations 3:1-3

I am the man who has seen affliction
    by the rod of the Lord’s wrath.
² He has driven me away and made me walk
    in darkness rather than light;
³ indeed, he has turned his hand against me
    again and again, all day long.

Prayer:

For how long must I have sorrow in my heart and this overwhelming confusion in my mind? Why am I going through this situation? Why do I need to be strong when all my strength is gone? Jesus, I can’t do this alone…

Amen.

Lamentations 17-18

¹⁷ I have been deprived of peace;
    I have forgotten what prosperity is.
¹⁸ So I say, “My splendor is gone
    and all that I had hoped from the Lord.”

Prayer:

Jesus, I haven’t prayed that much. If I can be honest, I’m trying to be joyful and patient in my trials. My days have been purely exhaustion and stress; I am anxious about my future, not living exactly what I was hoping to live. Maybe someday, Lord, I will know what it all means.

Give a bit of faith to trust in You.

Amen.

Lamentations 3: 49:50

⁴⁹ My eyes will flow unceasingly,
    without relief,
⁵⁰ until the Lord looks down
    from heaven and sees.

Prayer:

I know, God, that for some people what I’m going through is purely made up by my own mind. But, Lord, you still want to listen to me. Have pity on me! Straighten my paths, instruct me in all my ways. Deliver me from immoralities, revenge, evil thoughts, insults, and from everything that is blocking me off from you.

I need you! Give me a heart that desires you and a spirit that voluntarily seeks your presence.

Amen.

Lamentations 3:54

⁵⁴ the waters closed over my head

Prayer:

Feeling the weight of my faulty existence, I do not feel innocent. I’ve made some bad mistakes; I have some desires that don’t match your perfect standard. I’m pushing through as hard as I can, but maybe now is the time to change my lens and learn something new about you.

Lamentations 3:28

²⁸ Let him sit alone in silence,
    for the Lord has laid it on him.

Prayer:

This Silence Is Different…