"Dear God,
We’re not sure what you’re doing. We don’t know why you haven’t answered our prayer. We feel completely paralyzed, separated, and heartbroken. We wish we had more hope. We wish we had more faith. We wish we had more trust. But we feel hallow and defeated inside. Yet, somewhere, deep in the bottom of our hearts, we still believe you can change this situation. The sliver of hope and faith we do have, still believes you can heal mom. Yet, it is the unknown which scares us and causes us to detach and separate ourselves from the entire situation to protect our hearts and spirits from being completely shattered. Lord God, there’s a mountain on top of us that needs to be moved and a mustard seed of faith is all we have left.
Lord, you are the Hope for the hopeless. You are the Faith for the faithless. You are the Strength for the weak. You are Trustworthy. Therefore, what small amount of hope we still have, we put in you. What sliver of faith we still cling to, we turn over to you. You are our Father, our deliverer, our Peace.
Let us remember your words, “We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. We always carry around in our body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be revealed in our body. For we who are alive are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that his life may also be revealed in our mortal body. So then, death is at work in us, but life is at work in you. It is written: “I believed; therefore I have spoken.” Since we have that same spirit of faith, we also believe and therefore speak, because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you to himself. All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God. Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” - 2 Corinthians 4:8-18 NIV
We will praise you oh Lord no matter what. We will give thanks in all circumstances since this is your will for us in Christ Jesus. Renew us oh Lord. Strengthen us. Let us not lose heart. Set our focus on what is unseen and not what is seen. Let the life of Jesus be revealed in this situation. It is in Jesus name we pray, Amen."
Originally published to Facebook 9/7/17
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