How Psalms 64 and 67 Teach Us to Pray Honestly, Trust God in Trouble, and Hope for God’s Gracious Answer

During Lent, our confirmation students met with mentors to talk about faith and life—growing in identity, belonging, and purpose through caring relationships. Together they also co-wrote reflections on a Bible verse, and we’ll be sharing these devotionals throughout the Easter season as an invitation to embrace thoughtful dialogue and respond to God’s grace with love in the world. This devotional was written by Katelyn Knoll 6th Grade and Sandy Wittebort



Our devotional is about how we talk to God and hope for an answer or sign and that we need our voice to be heard by God. The psalms that we chose that really connected to this idea were psalm 64 Prayer for Protection from Enemies. The other psalm that we chose was psalm 67 The Nations called to Praise God. We specifically connected to the part in psalm 64 when it says ! Hear my voice, o God, in my complaint; preserve my life from the dread enemy. We connected to this part for two reasons because we saw how this person is complaining to God that they should be saved from the dread enemy. This made us realize that the dread enemy is someone that that person does not like, and they are asking God to save them from the cruelty that that person shows. I realized that this is stuff that we pray to God for all the time and when we think about it, just tell yourself that if your dread enemy is there, always know that God will be there for you in your time of trial. This led us to psalm 67 because we saw that it says , May God be Gracious.