title: Praying Today's Psalms - Yearning for God in Times of Despair
author: Michael Wolff
description: Michael Wolff s heart is for the many men who now sit languishing in the back pews of church buildings across America. He is an author, speaker, and leadership coach, and directs two ministries in Littleton, Colorado. Mike s great adventure through the Psalms began with personal struggles to find depth, passion, meaning, and connection to God in his prayer life. Since first being introduced to the practice in 1999, he has found his answers in making it a regular part of his daily devotionals. Michael is married to Tammi, and has three sons and three grandchildren.
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  ## Betrayal
  
  
    
  
  
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  ## Tim Marquitz
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Betrayal
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Betrayal
  
  
  
  
  
  ## (Scarlett’s Story)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  As I had every evening since I’d returned to Heaven, I knelt outside the
  throne room of God and prayed for his return.
  
  
  And as it had been every other night, my prayers went unanswered.
  
  
  My knees were stiff from kneeling upon the cold tiles, so I rose to my feet
  with an empty sigh, hearing others of my brethren doing the same around me.
  The flickers of God’s essence, which clung to the Kingdom, were more a
  vexation tonight than they’d ever been. Too great a presence to be completely
  scoured away, what remained was but the slightest hint of a scent, the flutter
  of a dying breath; just enough to remind me of what we’d lost. Tonight it
  seemed a glimmer more than usual, but it was no comfort.
  
  
  God was gone, and we were still alone.
  
  
  I glanced about the