Sermon
Praying Psalms of Lament: Psalm 13
Stonebrook Community Church
Speaker: Brad Barrett
June 16, 2024 · 39 min
Summary
Using Psalm 13 as a template, the sermon teaches that biblical lamenting—honestly expressing pain, sorrow, and anger to God—is not sinful complaining but a spiritual discipline that moves believers from grief to trust. The four elements of lament (turning to God, complaining honestly, asking boldly, and affirming trust) model how to process suffering while deepening faith in God's goodness and sovereignty.
Highlights
God actually gives us permission to speak such things to Him, and I want to emphasize, speak them to Him.
Biblical lamenting is to move from grief to belief, to take our pain and our sorrow and our complaints to God, and the ultimate goal is to trust Him more.
We won't trust Him if we don't know Him. We need to be growing over the months and years to know God better, because it's that knowledge and confidence in who God really is that enables us to trust Him in our pain.