For the last five days I’ve looked at very practical and common sense ways to support those who are in mourning, with the last one not only being a no-brainer, but in all reality, should have been the first thing I wrote about. We need to lift the grieving up in prayer. In Paul’s letter to Timothy, he instructed him in the various aspects of prayer, “I urge, then, first of all, that requests, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for everyone.” (I Timothy 2:1) We have in our prayer arsenal many different types of prayer…from supplication, petition, and graditutde…to actually standing in the gap for that person.(Ezekiel 22:30) So we need to employee all these as we cover the person in prayer from the very start…asking the Holy Spirit for enlightenment and illumination rather than being nosy or a gossip. And whenever the Lord brings that person to mind… pray…for you may never know about their unspoken cries of the heart…but God does…and He’s given you the great honor of standing in the gap on their behalf.
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