God understands our pain. It is good to share your
heart with Him. Tell Him how you feel, and what you need. He is a friend to us,
and is ready to listen to us.
Reflect
and ponder: Has your faith decreased or your ability
to trust God lessened because you have been waiting for God to come through for
you?
Counselor’s
Corner: I
love to read through the book of Psalms. I often can relate to many of the
Psalms that cover deep heart issues whether questions are posed to God like, “Where
are you God?” or “ Don’t let me be ashamed because of my enemies.”
I would suggest writing out your own “Psalm” to the
Lord. There is great benefit in writing out what is in your heart so what is
hidden can be exposed to the light of truth, hence for healing.
Here is an example of a “Psalm” that I wrote:
Lord, how long will you keep me this way? I am desperate for breakthrough. My heart has
many desires that have gone unfulfilled. Lord, I have waited for you, let me
not be ashamed for waiting on you.
Do you hear me Lord? Are you there? Don’t you see how
my enemies have taunted me? I have seen my desires upon my enemies. Grief has
struck me like a tidal wave, and my eyes have grown tired from crying. My heart
aches for your promises to be fulfilled in my life. I am desperate for your
touch. Lord, how much longer will you keep me this way?
God, I hurt so deeply at times, and feel
misunderstood. I have been rejected by family and friends. Why are you so afar
from me? Why has your presence left me? What have I done Lord, just show me so
that I can make this right. Who on earth can I run to but you Lord?
Can you make this pain stop? Can you restore me God?
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, God my heart is sick. My hope has vanished
like the night air. I don’t have the strength nor the faith to even pick myself
up again, but I know you can Lord. I believe you can make these dry bones live
again.
Lord, have mercy on me. I have grown weary from the
continued trials and testing of my faith. I have felt like Job at times, and
have wondered will you restore the things that have been taken from me? I want
to believe that I am waiting for restoration like Job and Ruth. I have waited
for years for your promises to be fulfilled in my life. I have waited for you
Lord. I have never lost hope in you Lord.
I am desperate. I am afflicted on every side. Troubles
have come my way as I wait on you Lord. I have been broken, refined by the
fire, taken into the wilderness, and pruned over and over again. Is it over yet
Lord? Oh, Lord, I have waited patiently for you.
I feel alone and abandoned, but yet Lord, I know you
have never left my side. Why does it feel like I have been forgotten at times,
looked over? Do others know what I have been through, do they even care? Do
they even ask if there is anything they can do, or offer to take me for a
coffee? Or do they judge me for the things they do not know, and offer unsolicited
“words from the Lord” to me? Does anyone truly see me but you Lord? And Lord if
you fail me, where shall I turn? God,
what shall you have me to do? Please Father, not another day waiting in
brokenness.
Father, I trust you, even though I don’t understand
your ways for me most of the time. I have felt the stings of rejection since my
youth, and I have felt I have lived more cursed than blessed at times. I have
felt misplaced and misjudged, and have seen my enemies get the very things that
I have been praying for. I have felt “slapped in the face” so many times, yet,
I still hold onto to you Lord. I have lived with shame because my prayers go
unanswered for a time, while my enemies get the desires of their hearts. I have
waited in thanksgiving and waited in offering sacrifices of praise. But now
Lord, my waiting is becoming like a vice grip to me, and it is strangling the
life from me. The enemy has tried to get me to turn from you, and say, “Your
ways are not good.” I know that is a lie.
Thank you Lord that I can come to you and share my
heart. I know you have not forgotten me. I will wait for you. You alone are my
hope. You are a good and faithful Abba Father. You are good all the time.
Cry out to the Lord in your desperation. He hears your
cries. Talk to Him like your very best friend. He is waiting to hear from you
today.
MEDITATE
ON THESE SCRIPTURES:
I
waited patiently for the Lord; and He inclined to me, and He heard my cry.
Psalm 40:1
Therefore
the Lord longs to be gracious to you, and therefore He waits on high to have
compassion on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; How blessed are all those
who long for Him.
Isaiah
30:18
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