Based on Mark 9:14-29, Jesus healing a boy with a destructive spirit. If you’re using this in a group setting, consider having one voice on the regular print and all voices on the bold print.
Jesus, we ask with half a heart
One eye open
Fingers crossed
The situation is so impossible
So great
So desperate
Have mercy on us in our unbelief
The suffering is so deep
So dangerous
So complete
So far beyond control for so long
We’re so heartbroken
So tired
So disappointed
So hopeful, only to fall again
Nothing works
Nothing changes
We have tried and failed and tried and failed and tried…
Have mercy on us in our unbelief
We come with our if’s
If you can save
If you can heal
If you can do anything
Have mercy on us in our unbelief
Give us courage to trust and hope
To try again
To come and ask expecting something new
Give us courage to believe
Fully
Faith-fully
Again
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In Our Unbelief © 2018 Lisa Ann Moss Degrenia
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