Prayer of Lament
written for lament service at RCC
6/11/2018
Dear Sovereign, Holy God,
We Thank you that you are our heavenly father and that we can come to you just as we
are
.We gather tonight to know you more by surrendering to you all our pain, hurts, fears, anger
and tears
Holy spirit open our hearts up, the tight spaces that have difficulty in receiving your love
and pouring it back out
Teach us how to give you all,
Lord God,Teach us to lament.
To cry out from our worldly imprisonments, the entanglement of this world that
permeates our lives stagnating, our growth in you.
We cry out from our poverty of body and spirit, with nothing left to give
We cry out from our lonely desolate places, our broken relationships that seem beyond repair.
We mourn the grip of cancer, sickness and death in us and our loved ones.
We are saddened by the careless destruction and pollution of our lands as well as the
devastation from natural disasters
We cry out for the lost and destitute and for our communities
overwhelmed with the needs around us.
We weep for the war torn nations
Where hunger and thirst abounds,
We sigh in sorrow for those entrapped by the cycles of addiction
We come to you with our unanswered questions
Lord God when will the injustice of Domestic violence, racism and sexual abuse stop?
Why does evil appear to prevail?
When will our cities stop being filled with death and hopelessness?
Why does hate and greed seem to win the day?
How can we even make a dent in all the sorrows that surround?
How can we the church be so blind?
Why do we feel so helpless?
Lord we invite you to come and overwhelm us with your presence. We surrender our
fear that we are not enough and that you are not enough,
and we say come and have your way.
We are a broken people
grafted into the body, being made whole by your blood and your spirit..
Help us to surrender To You knowing we can find safety in the arms of the one who
knows pain, who carries our pain, and nails it to the cross
We come before you with no answers but simply with our sadness, hurt, bewilderment,
anger, anguish,pain and questions.
Help us tonight to come and bring it all before you Lord, trusting you to hold it and
bring life from dead places.
We ask in Your Sons name, the one who suffered for us,
Jesus Christ our Lord and Savior.
Amen.
