I'd like to encourage those who may not have the strength to go on. It is at times like this that God sends His children, His ministering angels, His saints to intervene on our behalf. It is at times like this, the bleakest of the bleak, the seeming hopeless chasm yawning, ready to swallow us up, that His grace manifests itself in the form of those who pray for us.
It is those who I am praying for now. THose who are at their wits end and beyond, those who cannot see past the shroud of darkness that is engulfing them, those who are tasting the 'valley of the shadow of death' and feel forgotten, cast aside.
Father You allow our very foundations to be shaken to the core. It is for a reason we cannot see, nor comprehend. Grant the grace necessary to bear what we must. When our legs buckle bear us up and carry us if necessary. Discouragement is powerful and clouds and muddles our vision and at times, shuts us down. WE are weak. YOu know our frame. WE are but dust. You knew us before the very foundations of the earth were put into place. YOu know our purpose. Grant us a glimpse of the greater picture so we can be encouraged that it is for a season that we are cast down. Enable us, by YOur grace, to go on, one step-at-a-time. Send yOUr ministering angels to us in those dire moments that stretch our very souls almost beyond what we can bear, and preserve us. for the sake of Him, Who paid the price for us, for the sake of Him, Who loves us beyond what we can comprehend, for the sake of Him, Your only begotten Son, I ask it, amen.
MyLiLyInMyValley, thanks
..God bless....