James 1: 27 “Pure religion and undefiled religion before God and the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself unspotted from the world.”
Dear God,
I thank You for Your everlasting love and mercy toward me, as well as all care and provision for all my needs. I am absolutely grateful for salvation through Christ Jesus, along with the peace and security that is given, and interventions, that despite myself, bring me to rest in Your love, no matter what happens around me. Of late I have battled to retain Your peace, and have found my only answer, is to again consciously surrender myself to You, and cry out in my need, sometimes all through the day, and I am immensely grateful, for You always answer with Your peace; that stays or goes quickly according how I keep my mind stayed upon You.
Psalm 102: 1, 2 “Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to You. Do not hide Your face from me in the day of my trouble; incline Your ear to me; in the day that I call, answer me speedily.” Because I have found that You give us comfort and peace when we pray in surrender and need, I do desire that others, who are afflicted in any way, would also realise and experience Your care and blessing upon them. Some people that I know who are afflicted, although they still believe in You, have not followed You truly or asked for help at this time. Please lift them up to Yourself and fill their mind and heart with the desire to surrender themselves to You in prayer with belief and the patience to wait for Your peace, as they put themselves and their sins aside.
Please fill my heart and mind with Your wisdom, love and thoughts, so that if impressed by You, I can help another by sharing Your love, care and help. Take away any inhibitions, so that I can be Your agent to any other person; who is as I am Your creation and precious in Your sight.
I also pray that when appropriate, that anyone who is the situation to help the ‘fatherless and widows’ will be willing to be Your human agent powered by Your supernatural power, and we who claim to be Your children, will not forget to pray for them often, for You have a 1000 ways to answer their need that we know nothing about. For every one who is afflicted in anyway, I desire that they also would have the comfort and promises of Your scriptures. I have seen that sometimes You use a person to introduce another to Your word by miraculous interventions; which may also be independent interventions by the Holy Spirit alone.
Psalm 102: 17, 18 “He shall regard the prayer of the destitute, and shall not despise their prayer. This will be written for generations to come, that people yet to be created may praise the Lord.”
I rest in the assurance that You never leave us alone and we truly, are cherished by You.
Amen