Choose one of the following activities to creatively express your love and thanks through art. A Picture of Safety You are good to me and I am secure in you Choose a psalm and spend some time meditating on it. What pictures or metaphors have been most helpful for you understanding you are secure in...
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Written Praise
Choose one of the following activities to focus on journaling or writing your thanks and praise through written prayers, liturgies, poems, or song. God is Mighty to Save You save your people from trouble Choose a psalm and take some time to meditate on it. Afterwards, write your own prayer, poem, or song thanking God...
Active Praise
In these activities, we use our actions and posture of our bodies in order to help us dwell on God’s beauty and express praise to him. Choose one of the following activities to physically express your love and thanks. Walking with Awe and Thanks You are a glorious creator and provider Choose a psalm and...
Part 8: Thanks and Praise
This is Part 8 of our Let the Thirsty Come retreat series, which highlights different aspects of spending extended quality time with God. Do we treat praise as a religious obligation, or like paying our taxes — giving what we are obligated to? In Psalm 145, we find a different picture! This month’s devotional encourages...
The Valley of Vision
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....
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 meI mingle tears with my drink… For you have taken me up and thrown me down. 6 – Moaning because of opposition and personal sinMy eye wastes away because of grief. 13 – Mourning and oppressed, feeling God is distantHow long, O Lord, shall...