Comfort and Compassion

May your unfailing love be my comfort,

according to your promise to your servant.

Let your compassion come to me that I may live,

for your law is my delight.

Psalm 119:76-77

Heavenly Father,

You are the comforter. Your compassion pours out on your children. I pray that you would pour out your comfort and compassion on the Eaton family as they grieve the loss of a loved one. I pray especially for the kids. How hard it must be for them to understand. There is no way to comprehend why something like this would happen. We live in a fallen and imperfect world. It’s not what you had planned for us, but our free will and free choice led us down this path. In spite of our sin and disobedience, we are your children. You have made a way through your own Son for us to be called sons. Let your compassion fall on your children in this time of need. Help us all to always look to you for answers and comfort and whatever we need.

I continue to pray for my brother. I pray the vision you have put in him would collide with his career. I pray that monetary support would come from somewhere for him to be able to carry out that vision. I pray you would make things very clear to him what he should do.

I pray for the kids at camp. I pray for the speaker that he would be anointed. I pray you would put the message in him that so many kids need. I pray that you would break bonds that are forming. The age is so tender. It is such a hard time to be so tender an age. Help them find you this week and build a solid foundation that they can start a new life on. Give them new hope for their future. Give them strength and vision for their future. Give them purpose for their life besides the usual things 13 and 14 year olds do. Empower them with your presence. Let them know there is more out there than video games and dating.

I pray for those in my Sunday School class. Be with Travis at work. Help him to show love to those he works with. Be with Taz and his wife and their health issues. Touch their bodies. I pray for April as she will be at camp next week. I pray for Scott’s uncle who hasn’t been feeling well. I pray for his friend that he is going to talk to in a few weeks. I pray that you would prepare him to hear the truth. Give courage and wisdom to Scott as he talks to this man. I pray for Barb’s son as he is trying to make a new path for his life. Encourage him and surround him with support in friendships. I pray for Kelly as she steps out of her old life. I pray you would protect her from old patterns and relationships. Begin to heal those wounds that led her into that lifestyle.I thank you for hearing these requests. I thank you that you care about even the littlest detail of our lives and you hear our cries, and you see our tears.

It’s in Jesus name I pray,

Amen