This article argues that there’s a link between the health, wealth, and prosperity “gospel” and the disappearance of the Psalms from our worship. The disappearance of lament, which is prevalent in the Psalms, from Christian worship has normalized positive feelings and attitudes while leaving mourning and desperation out of the normative Christian life. We should learn the Psalms in part to have a vocabulary and grammar of lament, but also to seek to have our prayers match a more biblical model.