When It Feels Like God Doesn't Hear Our Prayers

Sometimes there are "seasons" where it feels like God doesn't hear our prayers. We may begin to feel God doesn't care. We may not understand what is going on. We may feel like we are in the dark. We may begin to lose hope.

Jeremiah had prayed and prayed for his nation. It seemed to him that God wasn't hearing his prayers. The things he didn't want to happen to his people had come to pass. In the book of Lamentations  Jeremiah wrote," He has made me to dwell in darkness like those long dead. He has walled me in so I cannot escape;he has weighed me down with chains.Even when I ...call out or cry for help, he shuts out my prayer"(Lamentations 3:6-8).


For those who are going through a difficult season, or maybe it has been going on longer than that. Let us remember the words that the writer of Lamentations wrote a few verses later, and with whatever hope is left cling to his words. "Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the Lord's great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail" (Lamentations 3:21,22).
 
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