THOSE WHO NEED COMFORT

After having devotions with my niece, it was time for us to pray. Our prayer focus was “those who needed comfort.” I thought about the encounters  just this week I had of those who needed comfort:

1. a woman who had lost her sister and was not able to attend the funeral services.
2. another woman who was told by her doctor that the cancer had spread to her lungs;
3. a man whose marriage is failing;
4. a young woman with a chronic illness that debilitates her for long periods of time;
5. a woman whose husband has missed three days work because he is under spiritual attack;
6. an older woman who was involved in her first car accident at the age of 88;
7. a young woman who had surgery to her leg;
8. a mother who can’t seem to trust God for the welfare of her son;
9. a family traveling from Atlanta to Virginia with no money;
10. a woman of God who had been awake for 2 nights with chronic asthma;
11. another woman who was sitting in a credit counseling service because she is being overwhelmed by debt;
12. a young woman on whose heart the doctor found scar tissue–signs of a previous, undetected heart attack;

THAT WAS JUST THIS WEEK, but the list goes on! Apostle Paul called God “the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort” (2 Corinthians 1) My niece prayed something that I wish all of us could do, exhibit, manifest . . . show. She said, “Father help us to comfort others with the same comfort that you give us.” That’s exactly what Paul prayed: “…so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God” (2 Corinthians 1:4b).

PRAYER: Abba, Ava Rachameen/Father of Compassion, you comfort us in all our troubles. You promised that those who mourn would be comforted. Touch all your children who need to be comforted today, so that we, in turn, will be able to comfort others. Amen.

Be comforted by the anointed music of Dennis Jernigan, “When the Night is Falling”:

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