Let’s also pray for the parents and families of young children who are allowed by God to suffer and die. We can’t see the Big Picture, but we have to trust that God can, and that He has good reasons for staying His protective Hand.
Every night I pray that God will shift any bad thing that may happen to Baby Chan over to my account. Let me suffer, but spare him! I can’t imagine how I’d feel if something happened to our little fellow. I pray that God spares us such a trial.
Amen. May He shelter and comfort those suffering and those who have lost a young one.
God does see the Big Picture, you’re right.
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I ask God to cause my kids to dwell in the secret place of the Most High, under the shadow of the Almighty, to be their refuge, and their fortress, their God, in Whom they put their trust. And that He will deliver them from the snare of the fowler, and from any perilous pestilence. I ask Him to cover them with His feathers, and that under His wings they shall take refuge, and that His truth shall be their shield and buckler. That they shall not be afraid of any terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day, nor of the pestilence that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays waste at noonday. That even if a thousand fall at their side and ten thousand at their right hand, that it shall not come near them, but that only with their eyes shall they look, and see the reward of the wicked.
I ask that they shall make Yahweh, Who was King David’s refuge, (also mine), even the Most High their dwelling place, and that no evil shall befall them nor shall any plague come near their dwelling, that He will give His angels charge over them to keep them in all their ways. And that in the angels’ hands they will be borne up, lest they dash their feet against stones. I ask that He enable them to tread upon any lion or cobra, and that the young lion and serpent they shall recognize and trample under their feet.
I ask Him to work in their hearts so that they will always set their love upon Him and therefore He will deliver them, that they will know His Name, and that He will set them on high. That they will call on that Name, and that He will answer them, that He will be with them in trouble, that He will deliver them and honor them, and that with long life He will satisfy them. And that He will show them His salvation.
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