Week 35 Crying Out to God for the

Week 35 Crying Out to God for the Young (Lamentations 2:11-19) Lamentations 2:19 Arise Cry out

In the night Pour out your heart like water For the lives of your children Jeremiah is familiar Jeremiah 1:4-9 Jeremiahs call as a child

Jeremiah is familiar Israel forsook God Jeremiah 2:1-2, 5 1 The word of the Lord came to me: 2 Go and proclaim in the hearing of Jerusalem: This is what the Lord says: I remember

the devotion of your youth, how as a bride you loved me and followed me through the wilderness, through a land not sown Jeremiah is familiar Israel forsook God Jeremiah 2:1-2, 5

5 This is what the Lord says: What fault did your fathers find in me, that they strayed so far from me? They followed worthless idols and became worthless themselves. As fathers and mothers when we stray from the Lord we change our

childrens spiritual trajectory Why does this happen? The people of God take His Word very casually We allow sin to prosper in our midst We turn inward and just live

for ourselves We lose the burden of the Lord! Why does this happen? Lamentations 4:1-4 1 How the gold has lost its luster, the fine gold become

dull! The sacred gems are scattered at every street corner. 2 How the precious children of Zion, once worth their weight in gold, are now considered as pots of clay, the work of a potters hands! Why does this happen?

Lamentations 4:1-4 3 Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my people have become heartless like ostriches in the desert. 4 Because of thirst the infants tongue sticks to the roof of its mouth; the children beg for

bread, but no one gives it to them. Why does this happen? The people of God take His Word very casually We allow sin to prosper in our midst We turn inward and just live

for ourselves We lose the burden of the Lord! We cease to be people of prayer Vs. 19- The Burden of the Lord Its TIME to pray! To awaken and rise up For those who are not only

next but now Judges 2:10 After that whole generation had been gathered to their ancestors, another generation grew up

who knew neither the Lord nor what he had done for Israel. What can we do?