The Valley of Vision is a book of Puritan prayers and meditations collected and adapted by Arthur Bennett. You can pray them verbatim in your time of spiritual retreat or as part of a daily rhythm with God. Alternatively, you can use them to inspire your own prayers or paraphrase them in your own words....
Month: August 2024
Closing Liturgy
As you wrap up your time of spiritual retreat, writing a short liturgy is a great way to synthesize the key themes and takeaways from your time with God. This not only allows you a moment to reflect on what has been significant today, but it also gives a concrete and easy way to return...
Learning-to-Lament Worksheet
Use this template to gather phrases and verses from the lament psalms that connect to your heart and situation. Then, use these excerpts to help you express and write your own prayer of lament to God. Click here for a printable PDF version of this worksheet. Movements of Lament Psalm _______ My Lament Turn to...
Praying Difficult Emotions
The lament psalms show us that the best thing to do with difficult emotions is to run to God. In the laments, we see that God welcomes us to express our hearts honestly to him and to look to him for help. In this activity, we use the psalms of lament to help us express...
Lament Passages Sorted by Type
Jump to lament component: 1. Turn to God Hear And Answer Me! Have Mercy I Seek the Lord In Anger Remembering Previous Faithfulness Turning with Complaint 2. Bring Your Complaint Why? How long? Complaints against God Voicing Troubles Abandoned or Betrayed The Attack of Enemies Against the Wicked My Emotions and Distress My Sin Injustice...
Lament Psalms Sorted by Emotion
Sorrow and Grief: 102 – Languishing away in sorrow, feeling God opposes me.I mingle tears with my drink… For you have taken me up and thrown me down. 6 – Moaning because of opposition and personal sin.My eye wastes away because of grief. 13 – Mourning and oppressed, feeling God is distant.How long, O Lord, shall...
Introduction to Lament
The following activities borrow heavily from the book Dark Clouds, Deep Mercy – Discovering the Grace of Lament by Mark Vroegop, used with permission. For a more in-depth exploration of biblical lament, we highly recommend this book. Around a third of the psalms in the Bible are prayers of lament – people crying out to...
Part 7: Lament
This is Part 7 of our Let the Thirsty Come retreat series, which highlights different aspects of spending extended quality time with God. In the darkest valleys, lament helps us draw near to our shepherd and follow him through the darkness on toward hope. Josh shares about boldly taking our difficult emotions to God, from...
Parenting Liturgy
The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in loveThe Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love The Lord is compassionate and merciful, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.He will not constantly accuse us, nor remain angry forever.He does not punish us for all our...
Prayers from A. W. Tozer
The following are prayers written by AW Tozer in his books The Pursuit of God and The Knowledge of the Holy. Prayers from The Pursuit of God Public domain – accessed December 2023, https://www.gutenberg.org/files/25141/25141-h/25141-h.htm Following Hard after God O God, I have tasted Thy goodness, and it has both satisfied me and made me thirsty...