Your Purpose 5—Lament, Listen, Learn, Love

(Lament, Listen, Learn, Love—credit to Pastor Ron Giles of Palo Alto Vineyard, 5/2020)

Pray that we increasingly live by the Scriptural rhythms of Lament, Listen, Learn, Love. Pray the following portions of Lamentations 3 as both Lament as well as Rejoicing in God’s great love, mercy and faithfulness:

Lamentations 3

19 I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall.

20 I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.

21 Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:

22 Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

23 They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

24 I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”

25 The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;

26 it is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.

…40 Let us examine our ways and test them, and let us return to the Lord.

Reflect:

·        What do you need to confess to God and, with His help, turn from?

·        How can you rejoice today in God’s “great love” for you and his never-failing compassions?

·        Take a moment to list 10 ways that God has shown you His great faithfulness in recent days.

·        Commit today to “return to the Lord.”

Shirley Giles Davis, author of the God. Gifts. You. Your Unique Calling and Design workbook, Your Unique Design Class Guide, Your Unique Design Facilitator Guide, and Gifts-Calling-Purpose blog, is a consultant, coach, facilitator who has worked with faith-based organizations, nonprofit agencies, and leaders in a diversity of fields for over 30 years. She has also been EquipConnectServe Director at her 1,200 member church since 1999.  Contact Shirley.

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