A Prayer about When God Seems Silent
To you, O Lord, I call; my rock, do not be deaf to me, For if you are silent to me, I will become like those who go down to the pit. Psalm 28:1
Merciful God,
We beg you, do not be silent.
Hear our prayers,
and speak your gracious response.
We confess, at times,
we feel we have prayed and prayed and prayed,
maybe about a loved one’s illness or our own,
about the need for a job,
or about the longing for a spouse or a child or a loved one’s salvation,
and we think we’re listening,
but we hear nothing.
We urge you,
“Hear the voice of our pleas for mercy,
when we cry to you for help,
when we lift our hands
toward your most holy sanctuary” (Ps. 28:2).
Lord, thank you for the thousands of words
you’ve given us in your Word
that answer us
when we can’t hear the answer in our lives.
Your Word gives voice to our lament.
Your Word reminds us
that you are always “the strength of your people…
the saving refuge of your anointed.”
Because of your Word become flesh,
our Savior Jesus,
we have heard an answer to all of our prayers,
“It is finished” (John 19:30).
You have taken us for your own,
and one day, we will be with you,
and our desperate need for an answer
will slip away in the sound of your welcoming voice.
In Jesus’ hope-giving name. Amen.
Read Psalm 28.
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Yes, please, Lord, do open doors for Martina! Amen.
I feel nothing more can encourage me to hold out anymore. Done everything prayer and charity. I think I am close to giving up really. Divine silence is dangerous to souls as when they see even the just lamenting, sinners are not encouraged to take that path. Why can’t the Lord vindicate my faith, hope and charity?
I pray you can hear his affirmation of you in the suffering, death, and resurrection of Jesus for you, Stephen.