Psalm 88 Devotional: When God Feels Silent, Keep Praying | 7-Step QT

During Our Darkest Days ⛔

7-Step QT

1. 🙏 Quiet Time
2. 📅 July 4, 2025
3. ✝️ Psalm 88:1-18
4. 📖 But I, O LORD, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you (v. 13).
5. 📝 Psalm 88 feels dark—but it’s not the end. Even in silence, God is near. He never gives up on us. This psalm is proof that faith keeps praying, even when it hurts. Don’t stop. He will answer—in His time.
6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?
7. 🙏 Share below, and let’s encourage one another in prayer!

7-Step QT Notes

1. 🙏 Quiet Time

Pause.

Take a deep breath.

Even if you feel nothing, even if life feels heavy—God is still listening.

2. 📅 July 4, 2025

Today is a new opportunity to bring your pain, not just your praise, into God’s presence.

3. ✝️ Psalm 88:1–18

This psalm is raw.

There’s no happy ending, no resolution—just a cry in the dark.

But even in the silence, the psalmist keeps praying.

4. 📖 Key Verse

“But I, O LORD, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you.” (v.13)

5. 📝 Reflection

Psalm 88 is often called the darkest psalm.

There’s no breakthrough, no “but God” moment—just pain, confusion, and silence.

But here’s the miracle: the psalmist still prays.

💡 Think about this:

• What if faith isn’t about feeling God—but choosing to talk to Him anyway?
• What if the silence isn’t absence, but invitation?
• What if your darkest prayer is still worship?

The psalmist doesn’t give up. He keeps crying out.

And that’s what faith looks like in the valley.

God may feel silent, but He is never absent.

He hears. He remembers. He will answer—in His time.

6. 💬 What does this passage speak to you today?

• Have you ever felt like God was silent?
• What would it look like to keep praying anyway?
• How can you trust that He’s still working, even when you can’t see it?

7. 🙏 Share below, and let’s encourage one another in prayer!

“Lord, even when I don’t feel You, I choose to cry out to You. I believe You are near, even in the silence.
Help me hold on until the light breaks through.”

Scriptures

📖 1  O LORD, God of my salvation, I cry out day and night before you. 2  Let my prayer come before you; incline your ear to my cry!

3 For my soul is full of troubles, and my life draws near to Sheol. 4  I am counted among those who go down to the pit; I am a man who has no strength, 5  like one set loose among the dead, like the slain that lie in the grave, like those whom you remember no more, for they are cut off from your hand. 6  You have put me in the depths of the pit, in the regions dark and deep. 7  Your wrath lies heavy upon me, and you overwhelm me with all your waves. Selah

8 You have caused my companions to shun me; you have made me a horror to them. I am shut in so that I cannot escape; 9  my eye grows dim through sorrow. Every day I call upon you, O LORD; I spread out my hands to you. 10 Do you work wonders for the dead? Do the departed rise up to praise you? Selah 11 Is your steadfast love declared in the grave, or your faithfulness in Abaddon? 12 Are your wonders known in the darkness, or your righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?

13 But I, O LORD, cry to you; in the morning my prayer comes before you. 14 O LORD, why do you cast my soul away? Why do you hide your face from me? 15 Afflicted and close to death from my youth up, I suffer your terrors; I am helpless. 16 Your wrath has swept over me; your dreadful assaults destroy me. 17 They surround me like a flood all day long; they close in on me together. 18 You have caused my beloved and my friend to shun me; my companions have become darkness (Ps 88:1-18, ESV).

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