A Prayer about the God Who Guides Us
A Prayer about the God Who Guides Us
For this is our God forever and ever; he will be our guide even to the end.
Psalm 48:14
Our God,
How great are you indeed!
You were committed to dwelling with your people,
and long ago, you chose to dwell
in a man-made temple in a man-made city
as the mighty King of your people (Psalm 48:1-3).
Other kings caught one look at your might,
panicked, and ran away (Psalm 48:5).
Not only are you mighty, you are merciful.
The people rejoice as they consider
your “steadfast love” and “righteousness”
and wise “judgments” (Psalm 48:9-11)
Long ago, your people told of your greatness
to the next generation;
today, we praise you,
because you have deigned to make yourself
our God, forever and ever.
Not only are you our God,
you are our guide, today and tomorrow,
and to the end of our days.
Even at the end of our days on this earth,
in you, the end is only the beginning.
One day, our great King Jesus will return,
and we will dwell with you forever,
secure and safe in the eternal joy
of your everlasting kingdom.
What reason for rejoicing! Amen.
Read Psalm 48.
![Will you join me in lament for those with chronic illness?
For he has not despised or scorned
the suffering of the afflicted one;
he has not hidden his face from him
but has listened to his cry for help. Psalm 22:24
Good Father,
Today we lift up our friends
who have searched and searched and searched,
who have waited and waited and waited
…for health, for wholeness, for healing.
We join in their lament
using the words of David:
“My God, my God,
why have you forsaken me?
Why are you so far from saving me?”
[Don’t you hear my groaning?]
“O my God, I cry by day,
but you do not answer,
and by night, but I find no rest” (Ps. 22:2).
How we thank you, Heavenly Father,
that you have given voice to our lament
in your Word.
As David names his grief to you,
he remembers his reason to trust in you,
and he asks boldly and persistently for help.
We join him on behalf of all of our friends
who have suffered for years:
“In you our ancestors put their trust;
they trusted and you delivered them”
(Ps. 22:4).
“Be not far from me, for trouble is near,
and there is none to help”
(Ps. 22:11).
As we raise our cry for help,
may we remember that you are the good Father,
and may we join with David in praising you,
for we have even more reason to hope:
your Son, our Savior was forsaken on the cross
that we might be forgiven,
that we might one day live with you
in eternal glory,
in whole and healed bodies forever and ever.
Read Psalm 22.
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