Lord, What Should I Ask You to Give These People?


 Lord, What Should I Ask You to Give These People? - 

“Give them, O Lord—what will You give? Give them a miscarrying womb and dry breasts?” Hosea 9:14


This verse is not a gentle prayer—it’s a cry from a prophet who has seen too much. Hosea, burdened by the rebellion of his people, stands in the tension between divine justice and human frailty. His question - “Lord, what should I ask You to give these people?” - is not rhetorical. It’s the ache of a shepherd watching his flock stray into danger.


The imagery is stark: a miscarrying womb, dry breasts. These are symbols of lost potential, of nourishment withheld, of blessings forfeited. In Hosea’s time, they represented the severing of covenant, the consequence of spiritual adultery.


But today, they speak to something deeper still: the barrenness that comes when we disconnect from the Source.


So what do we ask for, Lord, when the people have turned away? When hearts are hardened, and altars are abandoned?


We ask not for punishment, but for awakening.  

Not for desolation, but for divine disruption.  

Not for dry breasts, but for the milk of Your Word to flow again.


Prayer:  

Lord, I stand before You with trembling lips and a heavy heart.  

What should I ask You to give these people?  

Not judgment, but conviction.  

Not barrenness, but the breaking that leads to birth.  

Give them tears that water the soil of repentance.  

Give them hunger that drives them back to Your table.  

Give them dreams that disturb their sleep until they seek Your face.  

Give them prophets who speak with fire and tenderness.  

Give them wombs that carry revival, and breasts that nourish generations with truth.


Let what was once dry overflow.  

Let what was once lost be found.  

Let what was once cursed be redeemed.


Declaration:  

I declare that even in the shadow of Hosea’s lament, there is hope.  

The Lord who disciplines is the Lord who restores.  

The womb will carry again.  

The breast will nourish again.  

The people will return, and the land will sing.


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