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The Interpreter
I had this really cool analogy I was gonna make about the scripture this morning. Unfortunately I can’t even do it because I just got word that an old friend of mine passed away yesterday. She was in a comma since August and all the complications caught up with her. Long story short… she was hit by a drunk driver in a head on collision. There were three passengers all together including an infant. The other adult had minor injuries and the baby was carried away without a scratch THANK GOD! But my friend Melissa on the other had been fighting for her life every since. Therefore this scripture is dealing with me another way than it was when I started writing it last night. She was about the same age as my wife and her husband is around my age as well. They also have small children as I do. There are so many things to pray for at this moment that I am spiritually speechless! I need the Holy Spirit to intercede for me right now in accordance with Gods will.
Mark, Sorry for your loss. You have an awesome big heart that seeks after the Lord and he is faithful to bring to an end the work he started in you and your family. We are blessed to have you at CCC.
Last week I got a call at 3:58 in the morning that started a series of events that words can’t fully explain and in my humanness, I really didn’t know what or how to pray for the situation. I mumbled a prayer and I remember confessing to Pastor Alan, that I cannot remember what I said. It is times like these that I know that God loves us so much, because in my weakness, he was there to take over the battle.
Knowing that the spirit was interceding for me turns a mumbled prayer over a situation that looks hopeless into living hope and great peace. He is the creator of the universe and he knows us to the point of our needs.
Mark, thank you for sharing with us. I will join you this morning in “groaning” to the Lord for the loss of your friend, and her family that is in mourning. There are no words, and we truly need the Holy Spirit to intercede for us.
Mark, I am so sorry for your loss. Know that Jesus is hanging on tight to you even if you have no strength to hang on to Him.
Father, we lift up Mark to you right now. Please fill him with an awareness of Your love for Him. Let Your Spirit be hope in him. Let Your Spirit be peace in Him. Comfort him. Let him know that You are in control and You’re hanging on tightly. Lord, thank you that you’re always in control…that we can rely on you especially during the times we feel farthest from you. Let us focus & bank on the Truth of Your Word rather than our feelings.
I pray all this in the name of Your son, Jesus, Amen.
When I was 16 my father died. I was a Christian. My father was a christian. But my mother was not. My Aunt and Uncle who were praying for their entire family shared Christ with my mother. She became a believer. I pray that God will be with you Mark and with your friends family. That He will comfort you and them and the Holy Spirit will give you the words to reach out to them. It is a very difficult time.
My husband died when I was 36. People asked me how I got through. It was Jesus who carried me. When I didn’t know how to pray or was so overwhelmed with feelings He interceded for me. I had a faithful friend who set her alarm clock for 5:00 a.m. and prayed for the Holy Spriit to fill me with peace. That was my most difficult time of the day. Keep lifting up your friends family even though you are over whelmed. Remember that God can move mountains.
Thank you Jesus for sending us the Holy Spirit Who intercedes on our behalf.
Mark I Pray with Chris that God will wrap you in His loving arms as you come along side your friend in his time of need. I will also pray your wife sees your peace and asks how and why. I pray she will understand none of us know how many days we have on earth and that one day we will all meet our maker. I pray she makes the decision that effects her eturnity before it is too late. I praise God that when I die Jesus will stand with me and claim me as His own.
I love the verse that follows today’s passage. God does work all things together for good.
God, send your Holy Spirit this morning to fill Mark and his friend’s family. Give them comfort, peace and strength as the mourn their friend together and try to move on. God let your peace that is beyond our understanding guard their hearts and minds today. In Jesus name, Amen.
Lord, we praise you for Mark’s family and the protection you have provided for them, and for all of us, throughout the years. Thank you for all the blessings of LIFE Lord…allow us to all live LIFE to the fullest for your name and renown. Lord, even when we don’t understand the way LIFE sometimes pans out for others, we know that you are IN CONTROL and we thank you for taking care of us…
Mark, thanks for being so transparent by sharing your heart. I appreciate your vulnerability and your willingness to cry out to God in times of need. As brothers and sisters in Christ, we are here to carry you when the burden seems too hard to handle….Jesus will carry us all when we don’t have the strength to stand….this is why we can ALL stand together.
Mark,
There is no analogy, no matter how ell crafted, that can explain this verse better than you just did. Only God knows our heart. And only God fully knows God. So who better to pray for us then God, the Spirit Himself. Sometimes just kneeling, without a word spoken, in a listening and receiving posture is the best we can do. But thank God, the Spirit of God, who lives in us lifts our broken hearts and groans to God on our behalf.
Thank you Holy Spirit for giving voice to us to God when we are unable to give voice for ourselves. You know us perfectly and you act always for the Kingdom’s best. Help us to know that in our hearts. And I ask that you’d bolster up Mark and this young family who has lost their wife and mother. Help them to seek you and to find you sufficient for the ache in their souls. Amen.
Mark, thanks for sharing this morning and for putting yourself out there. We will be praying for you.
Mark,
My family and I have prayed for you and your friends family and we will continue to. It is a terrible situation in our worldy minds but if she was a believer like you and I, she sits with God and waits for all of us to come home as well. It really makes me realize we should take complete advantage of every moment we have here with our family and friends because we are not promised tomorrow. Thank you for sharing this with all of us and may God bless you.
Mark thank you for sharing your thoughts. I am so excited about you and your wife’s walk. I am sorry to hear about your friend. There are so many times when I getready to talk to God through prayer, I start of focused and I just wander off right in the middle of it. I get distracted and I rush through it as if it is a formality. But what is great is that God already knows the joys and pains of my heart. How awesome is it that I can just sit there in the moment and just pour my heart out and never say a word….because he already knows. Sometimes I think many of us run out of things to praise him for. But when I cannot think of anything I praise him for the wonderful unspoken, unscripted conversations with an awesome God who already knows.
Thank you to everyone that has commented on this blog…I really appreciate it. It’s a great thing to know that other people are praying for you. Me and my family thank you. May God continue to bless all of you……
Hey! I’m one of those who are playing catch up. – I missed this entry.
I have to say it’s my fault. But is anyone else no longer getting their daily F1A email? I haven’t had my daily feed one another email at all this week.
Anyway, Faithfully God has still used your “yesterday’s” words to speak right to my heart. God is the amazing OMNI – omnipresent, omniscient … despite my failures in being perfect.
Lord, I just thank you for using Mark and Asuka to bless CCC.