Lord, we thank you for Your many blessings to us and the
healing that comes as we pray for each other. We thank You that You are all we
need, that You are our all, our everything. If I had no voice to sing my spirit
would call out to You because You are the hope we are needing.
“You can be too
broken to be.” Ann Voscamp also talks about grief here:
“There is no fear in
letting tears come. Sadness is a gift to avoid the nothingness of numbness, and
all hard places need water. Grief is a gift, and after a rain of tears, there
is always more of you than before. Rain always brings growth.”
For me when there has been a recent death that affects
someone I know personally, it seems a bit harder to post, because I know their
pain and grieving will take time, much time. But it’s Saturday and the day we
focus on those families who’ve lost loved ones, maybe recently, maybe it’s been
a while but grief has its own timetable. We pray for strength for the journey,
comfort from the Lord and His people and for love to surround you through the
numbness of coping with what must be dealt with. Jesus, lover of my soul, bind
our wounds and make us whole. Praying for those whose loss is so new and tender
especially.
Show us how to live, one day at a time, giving You glory.
Your love never fails, though sometime our faith does. Help us to remember that
the same power that raised Jesus from the grave lives in us.
"In My Father’s house are many dwelling places; if it
were not so, I would have told you; for I go to prepare a place for you."
Jesus is not telling
us that heaven has compartments or that we will have little places in which to
live. In the ancient culture, a father's
house was where the extended family lived.
Rooms were often added on as the family grew through birth and marriage. What Jesus was doing was using the present
day illustration of a loving, tight, family community. So, Christ is saying that He is preparing a
place for us in heaven where we will dwell with God in close communion with Him
and that there is room in heaven for all whom God calls to salvation. (by Matt
Slick)
Quote of the day from YOUR WORDS ARE POWERFUL, BE CAREFUL
WHAT YOU SPEAK by Suzi Yelvington: “ The enemy will want you to pay attention
to your feelings; Jesus wants you to pay attention to His truth.”
Augustine said it stunningly: "In my deepest wound, I
see Your glory and it dazzles me."
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