Greetings Prayer Warriors,
Have you ever been frustrated in prayer, feeling like you are
doing all the talking, crying, or pleading and all you hear is silence? I would venture to guess that most of you
would answer, “yes”. We all long to hear
Godly locutions, but that isn’t how the Lord usually talks to us. He is much more subtle.
I was contemplating the silence (what appeared to be
non-response) when my soul seemed to hear.
I am in the silence. I endured my Passion in silence; stay with
me.
When you feel alone or
deserted, be with me in the Garden of Gethsemane.
Do you feel unloved
and the disdain of others? Be with me at
my scourging.
Are you a victim of
negativity and verbal barbs? Have you suffered humiliation and abuse? Be with
me as I am crowned with thorns.
Do you feel the weight
of the world upon your shoulders? Are
you being crushed financially, physically, emotionally, or spiritually? Unite with me and we will carry that cross
together.
Are you willing to
stay with me in the silence and surrender everything to the will of my
Father? Then stand at the foot of the
cross and console me. Look at the cross
and you will see and know Love.
Bring your troubles to
me. I am bearing them with you in the
silence.
So I ask you not to lose heart over my afflictions for you;
this is your glory. For this reason I
kneel before the Father, from whom every family in heaven and on earth is
named, that he may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be
strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self, and that Christ
may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, rooted and grounded in love, may
have strength to comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and
length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge,
so that you may be filled with all the fullness of God. Eph 3: 13-19
Today and all week long, pray for marriages that are crushed
by their burdens, tortured by their behaviors, and pierced by unkind words, for
they have lost their love. May they find
true Love at the foot of the cross.
Peace, Joy, and Love,
Janet
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