Experience the Power of Lament Prayer!

Job 3

Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Tuesday, January 10.

Lament is a form of prayer. It’s honest. It’s direct. It’s personal. Lament is not a pity party, as some would see it, because it is directed to God, like when a baby reaches out for its mom. There is a purpose to our lament just like there is a purpose behind a baby’s cry. A baby cries because it believes someone cares enough to answer. That is the true power of lament prayer – it is a declaration of our faith that the One we are praying to cares enough to respond.

Instead of cursing God as Satan argued Job would do (Job 2:5), and his wife advised him to do (Job 2:9), Job lamented. Job cursed the day of his birth, crying out in Job 3:1-5:

Afterward Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. And Job said, “Let the day perish on which I was to be born, And the night which said, ‘A boy is conceived.’ May that day be darkness; let not God above care for it, nor light shine on it. Let darkness and black gloom claim it; let a cloud settle on it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.”

You don’t need to worry about whether you are right or wrong in how you cry out to God in your suffering. The key is to trust that you have a relationship with the One to whom you are crying out. I heard a heartbreaking story of an orphanage where the babies no longer cried in their cribs. It wasn’t that they no longer needed anything, but they had learned that no one cared enough to respond. God loves you, and He cares enough to respond to your cries.

Seize the moment and experience the power of lament prayer – “casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7).

God bless you!

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