Father,
There comes a time in all our lives when we seek for others to have what we have tasted, and that time has come for me. I sure know that hurt people hurt people, so too do healed people heal people. I am so thankful for the healed persons that worked on me, so today I can be a healed person who works on others. And all this work is done through your Spirit, whether we give you credit and thanks or not. YOU are the Great Healer!
My prayer is for the safety of those who are hurting just now; the one who is reading this who is broken-hearted and overwhelmed by betrayal and grief. This person’s dilemma starts at confusion and has no obvious end. They exist and yet they don’t know why. Father, you know that I have been there, so my prayer is that that person will hold on and won’t give up even though there are dozens of times when they will be tempted to. I pray by your Holy Spirit that you impel such a person forward by a hope they cannot explain but just must believe in. So, my prayer is the safety, that this person will be kept alive and saved from physical death. Provide a powerful word into the forefront of their minds when they are tempted to end their life. Give them another alternative when they are tempted to self-harm. And I also pray that they won’t become prey to spiritual abuse at any time. Make it so that they would never be judged for behaving inappropriately when they are so vulnerable that inappropriate behaviour would be expected. Stop the words from the mouths of hurtful ministers. And give empathy into the mind and heart of would-be helpers.
For the one who is calling to you, answer them, Lord, by a powerful sign that they know can only be YOU. Make it that they cannot help knowing you are the true and living God. Give them a salvation experience whether they’re ‘saved’ already or not. Take them deeper into the journey of the grace and of the provision and of the knowledge of you. Indwell them with a hope beyond any semblance of despair, to know that if they cannot be conquered in this heart-break, they cannot be conquered, period. Make it so that this thing that is supposed to completely demoralise them actually becomes the impetus for their purpose now and forevermore. Give them a taste of the phoenix that always rises from the ashes; better still, the risen Lord Jesus having suffered on that nailed cross. Most of all, give them a human voice that speaks to them as God speaks. Give them such an indelible hope as if to say, “I will live to fight another day!”
Blessed be YOUR name, God, for all power and all glory and all blessing are YOURS.
In Jesus’ name, AMEN.
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