Guard our Terri with Your Holy Spirit of Grace, Filling her Heart with Your Comfort and Your Peace. We are Thankful she Drinks of the Living Water, because her Trust, Faith, and Hope are in You. Surround her with Your Presence, Sweet King, Bathing her in Your Mercy, and Baptizing her in Your Love. Strengthen her Family with Divine and Heavenly Power, Comforting their Souls with the Sweetness of Your Love.
We Lie at Your Feet, our Sovereign Holy One, Imploring Your Help for Your Precious Little Child. We are Thankful You are Lifting her Above her Fiery Trial, Holding her Close, and Telling her of Your Love.
We Await You, our King, as we Pray in the Name of our Savior, Jesus Christ, amen.
Amen and Amen ...
Holy Father,
We cry out in disbelief for Your child, Terri, and also for our beloved country. Evil is being called good, and good---evil. We wonder if we are in a foreign land where Your Name is not known or revered. Our hearts are heavy with a tremendous sense of loss for what once was----a time when life was respected, when Your Name was not "offensive," when children were loved and welcomed, when personal responsiblity was taught and expected, when schools were safe, when Sundays were reserved for Your worship and for rest. O Lord, how far we have fallen. We are all to blame, for we have incrementally accepted our slow but steady drift away from You and Your teachings. We have all contributed to the sins of the cross. We have all denied You far more often than Peter ever did. And then we reach a point of tremendous crisis such as this and wonder why so many hearts are blind and deaf to Your Will. Surely you cry over us, Father, just as Jesus cried for Jerusalem.
But we know, Precious Lord, that the very reason that our Savior died for us gives us hope. He died so that we might live. He died so that we could be free from all the devil's destruction. He died so that death would no longer have victory over us. Gracious God, look upon Your children now who cry out to You for forgiveness for this nation, for ourselves as individuals, and for Your Will to be done for Your beautiful child, Terri. Our eyes are lifted up. When we look around us we shudder. Only when are eyes are stayed upon You can we begin walking toward You---out of the darkness and into the light. Have mercy on us, O Lord, for the sake of Your remnant. In the Name of Jesus. Amen.