Today's Pause for Prayer 10-04-2017

  • Oct 4, 2017
  • Michael Blank
  • Category: Prayer Alerts

Ladies and Gentlemen, our hearts are broken once again.

It is difficult to imagine the horror of this pure evil that has 20,000 people singing on an outside venue – God Bless America – with patriotic military members being honored on stage, that turns into a rain of bullets and death for innocents.

LIFE IS PRECIOUS!  We must savor each moment and TRUST our lives to His never-failing love and care.

We Americans that have a conscience will ALL go through these seven stages of grief.

Shock – Denial – Anger – Bargaining – Depression – Testing – Acceptance

We were initially paralyzed at hearing incredibly bad news. We tried in vain to avoid the inevitable. We are FRUSTRATED with no way to expressed our bottled-up emotions.  We seek in vain for a way out. We become disillusioned as there appears to be growing sense of helplessness. A real concern or fear starts to move in our lives.  Then we seek realistic solutions. We give our blood. We raise money for the victims and their families.

Finally, we start to find a way forward, as we put up memorial stones to remember this lives loss.

Dear ones, whatever stage of grief that you are currently in, it will change because this is a process. Your spouse may be depressed while you are very outraged. Please avoid any confrontations at these times. Scriptures tell us:

Let no corrupt word proceed out of your mouth, but what is good for necessary edification, that it may impart Grace to the hearers. Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, clamor, and evil speaking be put away from you, with all malice. And be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you.

You can be angry, but do NOT sin! Do not let the sun go down on your wrath nor give any place to the devil.

Ephesians 4:25-32

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Holy Spirit of the Living LORD, we PRAY in agreement with Your Word that proclaims the Spirit of the Lord is upon me to HEAL the broken-hearted!

ONLY YOU LORD CAN HEAL OUR LAND!

Amen and Amen!