The Worship Team Devotional podcast with Erick Sostre is written and produced for the Worship & Tech Arts Team of Fielder Church. This is our space to refocus, recharge, and realign our hearts, minds, and bodies as we learn to follow God together and point people to Jesus week to week. You can connect with the Worship Team on social media @fielderworship and with the church @fielderchurch.

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Reflection Questions

• Do you feel like you can truly be honest with God in prayer? Why or why not?  
• Have you ever walked through a circumstance similar to the author of Psalm 42? What brought you back to a place of hope?  
• Is there an unprocessed feeling or raw emotion you’re holding onto that you haven’t brought before the Lord? Take a moment now to start that conversation with Him. Be open to Him turning despair into hope.  

Prayer

Father, I confess that I often struggle to see where You are in my life. In those moments, fear grips my heart and anxiety takes up residence in my body. My mind is filled with questions and doubts, and I don’t feel like I can bring those things to You. But, I trust that You want me to take all things to You—the difficult, the messy, the raw—so that You can meet me in that place. Please Lord, transform my despair into hope and my tears into joy. I will still praise You, my Savior and my God. Even when I can’t see where You are, even when I don’t understand what You’re doing, I choose to follow the way of Jesus, who cried out in despair but ultimately put His hope in You. Today, I choose to put my hope in the living God, the only One who can give dead things new life. I put my hope in the resurrected Jesus. It’s in His name I pray. Amen.