121 Days of Prayer

The People Began to Complain to the Lord About Their Troubles

The purposes of this prayer are: Sustenance, Resist Temptation, Holiness/Righteousness and Increased Faith.

Righteous God, in the second month of the second year after being led by Moses out from captivity in Egypt, and having encamped around Mount Sinai during that time, the Israelites finally started on their journey toward the promised land when “the people began to complain to the Lord about their troubles. When the Lord heard them, he became angry and sent fire on the people. It burned among them and destroyed one end of the camp. The people cried out to Moses for help; he prayed to the Lord, and the fire died down. So the place was named Taberah, because there the fire of the Lord burned among them. There were foreigners traveling with the Israelites. They had a strong craving for meat, and even the Israelites themselves began to complain: ‘If only we could have some meat! In Egypt we used to eat all the fish we wanted, and it cost us nothing. Remember the cucumbers, the watermelons, the leeks, the onions and the garlic we had? But now our strength is gone. There is nothing at all to eat- nothing but this manna day after day!’” Numbers 11:1–6 (TEV). Lord, it is easy to become unfaithful grumblers when going through periods of adversity. Help us, we pray, to resist the urge to become distrustful. May our faith in Jesus always be resolute. May our gratitude for your blessings be unwavering. Amen.