LAMENTATIONS 5 - A CRY FOR PRAYER

This chapter provides a warzone prayer. It gives us 'grooves to run down' in scripture when we want to pray in difficult times.

There are four main movements

1) Appeal - (5:1-2) we appeal to God and ask him to act for His names sake.
2) Repentance - (5:7;16) we say sorry for our sin
3) The Sovereignty of God - (5:19) we trust in God being so power that he is totally in control
4) Questioning - (5:20-22) we reverently ask God questions about the suffering we see around us. This should eventually lead us to the cross and resurrection.

Questions:
Describe the challenges of developing your prayer life?

Application:
Choose a situation around the world to pray for together using the four movements
Watch this amazing video on prayer by Terry Virgo (founder of Newfrontiers) if you want to learn how to pray.
http://vodpod.com/watch/1804876-elijah-prays-for-rain-a-sermon-by-terry-virgo