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differently but I mean you can’t you
can’t get any more suffering than death
and loss like that you know that’s just
a that tears your soul you know that’s a
tearing away literally yeah and so I
think I think that we shouldn’t be
ashamed that we process it differently
or feel like well this one did it better
than I did or you know so I think
sometimes I just think about people
listening and and they’re thinking well
how should I process suffering you know
I mean I think the first thing we need
to do is run to the father that’s right
because he’s the only one that can help
us and to be truthful with him honest
and honest and open and
um you know a day that you could hear in
his in in in his writings you know he
was open he was honest with God but it
was as he began to talk he began to
shift yeah that’s right his perspective
that’s right and it was it was only by
the power of the Holy Spirit it was only
by God you know shifting that for him
and helping him see things in a
different way and Enlighten him in a
different way but I think that I can
just hear some people say well how am I
supposed to and I think you have to do
it by going to God and in your own
personal way that’s right that’s right
and and also the ministry of community
people who have suffered as you are
suffering I think that’s at least one of
the benefits that come out of tough
times in our individual lives is that we
come out of that tunnel to the other
side that we never thought we’d make it
through and then the Lord gives us
opportunity to comfort those with the
comfort that we have been given and to
give them that same hope that listen I
just went through this time someone made
it out let me tell you and let me show
you how the Holy Spirit helped me how um
prayer Works how you know Community
during my time of suffering was so
important people encouraging me now let
me offer that same encouragement to you
um
Victoria you know your your husband did
that for me he called me
while Mom was sick and I mean that man
encouraged me and just said you know we
we walked through real difficult times
as well so let me remind you of some of
the things that it’s so easy either to
forget or to just have so dulled and
pushed down underneath all of the the um
urgent sort of things that are that
you’re facing in the middle of a crisis
it can be so dulled that you just need
someone to come alongside of you and say
let me remind you of who Jesus is that
he still is who he says he is that he is
still able and fully capable of covering
you and your family to have people’s
voices in your ear who can remind you of
that and can also give you perspective
from their own seasons of suffering
it buoys you up and keeps you going to
the next 24 hours like nothing else like
nothing else yeah you know I I always
think
going through suffering and hardships
and people dying that you’ve believed
God for yeah I mean we’ve we’ve all put
our faith on the line for so many things
and just God please you know please let
this happen and and to think that Jesus
got the fathers no as well you know he
he got he got God’s no
and so I think praying that gethsemane’s
prayer it’s it’s God I know you can I
know you can deliver me I know you can
do this I know you’re the great
physician I know you you know you are
the the father to the fatherless and the
husband to the husbandless and all the
things that you are you’re the great
physician
and I know you can do it
but if you don’t thy kingdom come thy
will be done and Jesus had to do that
please let this cup pass from me we can
we can say who God is and then we can
pray God please don’t make me do this
don’t let don’t let me and my children
have to walk this road
but then
it’s but not my will but thine be done
you know and and knowing the
faithfulness and the love of God
and the comfort of the Holy Spirit to
take us in the grace and the mercy of
God to bring us out of those times to to
to to strengthen us I mean think about
some of the hardest things you’ve gone
through it makes you who you are today
absolutely the tenacity I mean if it’s
given me nothing but tenacity to believe
God even harder the next time
whether it happened or not it
it does something on the inside of us to
strengthen our faith I believe if you
don’t let go if you don’t stop if you
don’t give up and you know and don’t you
think that we have to re retrain our own
thinking and make sure we do this with
the children or the other people that
we’re discipling and pouring into as
Christians
we can tend to think or pretend that a
good life is mutually exclusive of pain
a painful life that those two things
can’t exist that we’re striving for ease
and happiness and we’re looking for that
and I know people that’s that’s kind of
a a western kind of perspective on on
being a believer that ease is what we’re
after that happiness is what we’re after
there are some people Christians in
other parts of the world
um I remember someone saying to me that
that lives in another part of the world
that when there is suffering happening
amongst them that their first prayer is
not deliverance from that suffering they
pray that too but that’s not the first
prayer the first prayer is Lord help me
to glorify you in this suffering yeah
while I’m here since I’m here can your
name be made great somehow through the
suffering now Lord yes heal and deliver
and free and we know you can do all that
but why while you’re going to leave us
here in this moment for whatever time
frame it is a week or a month or
whatever Lord would your name be made
great while we’re here and I just
thought it’s important for me and then
as even as I talk to my sons about what
it means to to walk with the Lord and be
a believer and be a Christian it doesn’t
mean ease it means that when there is
pain and suffering God can still be
glorified through your life and that he
is fully able to turn the situation
around but since life is going to come
with difficulty and it is you don’t have
to go looking for the storms of life you
just keep living and the storms somehow
find you so since that’s going to happen
then we at least need to be mindful of
praying okay Lord why have you allowed
me to be in this pocket yeah and would
you be glorified through the way I
respond the decisions I make the way I
treat others while I’m in it let me
glorify you while I’m here we think
about prayer sometimes we grow up in a
house where prayers are said before
dinner bless us O Lord for these thy
gifts which we are about to receive
through Christ Our Lord amen or uh you
know
flippantly rub it up dub thanks for the
grub gay God and yet prayer is something
that Jesus did he commands us to do
um how has your understanding of prayer
grown over the years well you’re right
mine started off I was born in a little
fishing town on the west coast of
Scotland and my grandfather would lead
prayer after Sunday lunch and it was
always for what we’re about to receive
may the Lord make us truly thankful
truly so I thought there were correct
words but as I’ve grown in my own faith
I realize that it’s not about in fact
John Bunyan said it better he said it’s
better to have a heart with no words
than words with no heart I think God
listens to our heart and that’s what
I’ve discovered prayer is this ongoing
conversation with the one who knows his
best and loves us most I love that
um what do you think are some of the the
reasons that people don’t pray
I think one of the main reasons is if
they’ve prayed before and God didn’t
seem to answer in a way that they hoped
he would I remember having a discussion
with a woman who said you said two
things on the platform tonight and they
can’t both be true and I said what did I
say and she said you said that God is
all-powerful Sovereign and God is love
and I said I believe both of those and
she said well I’ve buried two sons so
you’re gonna have to pick one either God
is Almighty and I’ve buried two sons so
he’s not loving or he is loving and he
would want to intervene but he wasn’t
powerful enough to do and that Kirk to
me is the greatest challenge of Faith
living with those two truths to be true
and yet not always understanding the way
that God works yeah
and and that’s a picture of what we see
at the Cross isn’t it yeah we see an
all-powerful God who has not only
allowed but sent his son to suffer and
die on the cross but the result is
salvation for the whole world so maybe
God knows something in all of this that
we don’t yeah and you know I think for
me the the greatest gift of prayer is
knowing a that I mean when I wake up
every morning my as soon as I’m aware of
being awake awake I’ll say good morning
Lord I don’t know where you’re going
today but wherever you’re going I am
coming with you and I see it as this
adventure not as this it used to be on
my to-do list I was raised as a you know
little Baptist Scottish girl and prayer
was on my to-do list and my quiet time
now it’s on my who I am list
it’s like the thought that I get to talk
to the one who’s holding every no matter
what the news said the one who’s holding
everything in place the one who’s in
control and who wants to communicate
with me that just blows my mind
I got to remember that taking prayer off
my to-do list and putting it on on my
who I am list that’s great I love that I
think it was Charles Spurgeon who said
uh and it’s usually Charles Spurgeon
usually yeah usually John Bunyan’s good
too but he’s he said something like when
I cannot trace the hand of God I can
always trust his heart yeah absolutely
and I think one of the things about the
Life of Christ that is
humbling to me I have a hard time
reading this passage because Christ
shows us how to pray when it’s hardest
to pray you know in the Garden of
Gethsemane Jesus doesn’t pretend that
the road ahead is going to be easy he’s
fully God and he’s fully man and so he
literally sweats blood it’s a condition
known as hemotohydrosis and the other
place that shows up today is when people
are being walked to their execution he
was an absolute agony of Soul so what
did he do he processed his pain in the
presence of his father he didn’t he
poured everything out and to me when you
tell God the whole truth you make space
for Grace so often if we’re going
through a difficult situation we almost
pull back no if you’re angry tell God
you’re angry if you’re broken tell God
you’re broken and I have discovered and
you know what I learned it most on the
floor night one in a psychiatric
hospital when I had come to the end of
myself and I actually wrote in the back
of my Bible that night I never knew you
lived so close to the floor I’m used to
praising God and His Majesty as we
should but Psalm 34 said the Lord is
close to the Brokenhearted and cares for
those who have lost their the will to
live Sheila why do you think prayer is
important to God why does he want prayer
from his children so much he knows what
we’re thinking and feeling and knows
what we need he’s Sovereign all these
things why does he make it such a big
deal
y and today and forever.” – Hebrews 13:22 #tbn #womenoffaith #priscillashirer #joycemeyer #lisaharper