HOW LONG OH LORD

Script for they year

Psalm 92:1 (NKJV) — 1 It is good to give thanks to the Lord, And to sing praises to Your name, O Most High;

Scripture for the year

Psalm 48:1 (NKJV) — 1 Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised In the city of our God, In His holy mountain.

Psalm 13 (NKJV) — To the Chief Musician. A Psalm of David. 1 How long, O Lord? Will You forget me forever? How long will You hide Your face from me? 2 How long shall I take counsel in my soul, Having sorrow in my heart daily? How long will my enemy be exalted over me? 3 Consider and hear me, O Lord my God; Enlighten my eyes, Lest I sleep the sleep of death; 4 Lest my enemy say, “I have prevailed against him”; Lest those who trouble me rejoice when I am moved. 5 But I have trusted in Your mercy; My heart shall rejoice in Your salvation. 6 I will sing to the Lord, Because He has dealt bountifully with me.

When you think that God has forgotten about you

Psalm 13 is in a group of Psalms called lament psalms

The psalms of lament are simply poems and songs that cry out to God in times of deep despair or distress.

In such psalms, the help and intervention of God are asked to help relieve people of the feelings of sorrow, loss, suffering, or failure.

The psalms of lament are expressions of trust in God that ask him to help bring hope, joy and victory.

The psalms often follow a general structure, this includes a form of language and focuses on motivating or asking for God’s intervention over a situation.

The possible parts of an average psalm of lament include the following:-

Address to God: here, the psalmist calls unto God to prove His sovereignty and almightiness.

Description of complaint: this is the place where the occurrence or trouble is mentioned.

Confession of trust: after making the situation known, the next statement that follows in a psalm of lament is often that which confesses trust in God and his saving grace.

The request: the psalms of lament also includes the part that specifically mentions what he expects or wants God to do concerning the situation.

Exclamation of certainty: here, statements of hope and trust in God are made.

Vow of praise: in the end, promises are usually made about offering thanksgiving to God once the problem or situation is taken care of.

Some examples of psalms of individual laments are psalms 13, 25:1-2; 16-21, 31, 44, and 86.

Communal lament, on the other hand, comes to play when a group of people, say a nation, laments over a common disaster or problem. The major difference between the two is the use of singular “I” for the individual lament and the plural “we” for communal lament.

Some of the examples of psalms of communal lament in the bible include psalms of chapters 44, 60, 74, 79, 80, 85, and 90.

Love , grief, sorrow are the most powerful of human emotions

We bring our laments before the Lord and we ask Him to inrervene and we trust Him for the answer

We do not pretend that the problem is not there, but we trust God for the solution

Sometimes ], God will not answer our prayers in the way we want

Instead God would instead change us instead of fixing the problem

Our lament is also an act of worship

We must bring our laments to the Lord

Our laments must be sincere and authentic (real)

Job 13:24 (NKJV) — 24 Why do You hide Your face, And regard me as Your enemy?

Psalm 6:3 (NKJV) — 3 My soul also is greatly troubled; But You, O Lord—how long?

Psalm 42:9 (NKJV) — 9 I will say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”

Psalm 44:24 (NKJV) — 24 Why do You hide Your face, And forget our affliction and our oppression?

Psalm 79:5 (NKJV) — 5 How long, Lord? Will You be angry forever? Will Your jealousy burn like fire?

Psalm 89:46 (NKJV) — 46 How long, Lord? Will You hide Yourself forever? Will Your wrath burn like fire?

Isaiah 54:9 (NKJV) — 9 “For this is like the waters of Noah to Me; For as I have sworn That the waters of Noah would no longer cover the earth, So have I sworn That I would not be angry with you, nor rebuke you.

Lamentations 5:20 (NKJV) — 20 Why do You forget us forever, And forsake us for so long a time?

Revelation 6:10 (NKJV) — 10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You judge and avenge our blood on those who dwell on the earth?”

Isaiah 49:15 (NKJV) — 15 “Can a woman forget her nursing child, And not have compassion on the son of her womb? Surely they may forget, Yet I will not forget you. Thank you Lord for not forgetting me

Psalm 66:12 (NKJV) — 12 You have caused men to ride over our heads; We went through fire and through water; But You brought us out to rich fulfillment.

My Father,my Father, thank you because I have come into my place of answered prayers

Hebrews 13:5 (NKJV) — 5 Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.”

Ecclesiastes 7:8 (NKJV) — 8 The end of a thing is better than its beginning; The patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit. Everything around me begins to hear that better is the end of a matter than the beginning

Job 2:7 (NKJV) — 7 So Satan went out from the presence of the Lord, and struck Job with painful boils from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head.

Every attack of the enemy we command them to collapse in the Name of Jesus

The Egyptians that you see today, you shall see them no more forever

Psalm 24:7–10 (NKJV) — 7 Lift up your heads, O you gates! And be lifted up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. 8 Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, The Lord mighty in battle. 9 Lift up your heads, O you gates! Lift up, you everlasting doors! And the King of glory shall come in. 10 Who is this King of glory? The Lord of hosts, He is the King of glory. Selah

Let doors be open, let access be made available

Doors to my next level, gates to my next level be lifted up, be open

Deuteronomy 28:12 (NKJV) — 12 The Lord will open to you His good treasure, the heavens, to give the rain to your land in its season, and to bless all the work of your hand. You shall lend to many nations, but you shall not borrow.

Psalm 27:7–10 (NKJV) — 7 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice! Have mercy also upon me, and answer me. 8 When You said, “Seek My face,” My heart said to You, “Your face, Lord, I will seek.” 9 Do not hide Your face from me; Do not turn Your servant away in anger; You have been my help; Do not leave me nor forsake me, O God of my salvation. 10 When my father and my mother forsake me, Then the Lord will take care of me.

Psalm 6:6 (NKJV) — 6 I am weary with my groaning; All night I make my bed swim; I drench my couch with my tears.

Proverbs 4:18 (NKJV) — 18 But the path of the just is like the shining sun, That shines ever brighter unto the perfect day.