Friends and Warriors,
I would ask that you stand with me in prayer for a dear family friend of mine who has been hit with two insurmountable (it seems) events in their lives in the span of two days. I would ask that you stand in agreement in my request to the Father.
Heavenly Father,
You created the span of the heavens and the girth of the earth. Everything that exists, exists because of Your Hand and Your grace. Dearest Father, Abba, I cry out to You now for one of Your own who is in pain and those who know her in anguish as well.
Lord, You know Your child, Elizabeth, and the pain that she has endured fighting the cancer that has assaulted her body. Lord, You know that she is in what seems to be the final portion of her life. With the Doctor's prognosis, they have removed her off the chemo treatments due to the aggressiveness of this tumor that has destroyed all of her stomach. Heavenly Physician, if it is Your will please heal Your daughter from this and give her many more days in which to be a blessing to those who know and love her. But God, I ask if this is not Your will, that You free her from the extreme pain that she is suffering from. Give her the grace and peace to know that You are with her and await with loving and compassionate arms to bring her to Your Kingdom. Give the hospice volunteers the necessary compassion and grace to minimize the pain of the family who suffers through this also.
Father, Your son suffered on the Cross for us and the sins in which we were eternally separated from You and set us free. And, as Paul, we consider it an honor to suffer to the small degree that we do for the Saviour. But dearest Father, hear my plea for my sister in Christ, who is suffering a heartbreak with her grandmother's ailing health and who has had to deal with the loss of her husband's brother in Bangkok, Thailand just yesterday. Abba, Father, wrap Your arms around her and give her the comfort to cry out to You, to give to You her sorrows and sadness. Cast those burdens far from her, Lord, and give her the peace and wisdom that comes from Your knowledge of the future and the destination of her grandmother into Your waiting arms. Give her the comfort of Your will and the knowledge of Your mercy.
If it is Your desire, it will be Your will. If it is in accordance with Your will, it will be done. I ask for the wisdom to give comfort to those who are suffering, grace to allow the pain to flow into healing, and knowledge to affirm in the merciful and peaceful ways Jesus taught that You are with all who are suffering in this.
In Christ's name, on bended knee,
AMEN
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