PrayerBits for Monday

PrayerBits

A bite sized devotional program
produced by the West Side Presbyterian Church

Monday

Scripture lesson: Lamentations 3:19-26 Being a refugee

Time to reflect: The Book of Lamentations are set of poems by Judaean exiles from Jerusalem bewailing their fate. They are actually, in the Hebrew, amazing pieces of literature.

Moving Through the Day: Pray from all the refugees around the world – regardless of why they are refugees and the politics involved.

Scripture:

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.