Prayers & Promises for Grief and Loss E-Book

BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC

• Herausgeber: BroadStreet Publishing Group, LLC
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Prayers & Promises
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2020

Seitenzahl: 99

Beschreibung

Everyone experiences difficult seasons in life. Loss, pain, sickness, doubt, and loneliness can lead to discouragement or a feeling of hopelessness. Prayers & Promises for Grief and Loss is a topically organized collection that guides you through themes of assurance, compassion, inspiration, comfort, and more. Encouraging Scriptures, heartfelt prayers, and prompting questions give you an opportunity to think more deeply about the hope found in God's Word. God is the best source of comfort you will find. He knows your heart and he is full of understanding for every situation. Let his strength be yours as you cry out to him. Bask in the calming peace of his presence and take comfort in knowing that he will always be with you.

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CONTENTS

Abandonment

Ability

Acceptance

Anxiety

Assurance

Authenticity

Beauty

Belief

Blessing

Boldness

Change

Comfort

Compassion

Composure

Confidence

Consolation

Contentment

Courage

Deliverance

Depression

Encouragement

Eternity

Faith

Faithfulness

Fear

Forgiveness

Freedom

Friendship

Goodness

Grace

Gratitude

Grief

Guidance

Health

Hope

Identity

Inspiration

Joy

Justice

Life

Loneliness

Loss

Love

Patience

Peace

Perseverance

Praise

Prayer

Promises

Protection

Provision

Purpose

Reconciliation

Relaxation

Reliability

Relief

Restoration

Reward

Safety

Salvation

Strength

Stress

Support

Trust

Truth

Understanding

Victory

Wholeness

Wisdom

Worry

INTRODUCTION

Everyone experiences difficult seasons in life. Loss, pain, sickness, doubt, and loneliness can lead to discouragement or a feeling of hopelessness.

Prayers & Promises for Grief and Loss is a topically organized collection that guides you through themes of assurance, compassion, inspiration, comfort, and more. Encouraging Scriptures, heartfelt prayers, and prompting questions give you an opportunity to think more deeply about the hope found in God’s Word.

God is the best source of comfort you will find. He knows your heart and he is full of understanding for every situation. Let his strength be yours as you cry out to him. Bask in the calming peace of his presence and take comfort in knowing that he will always be with you.

ABANDONMENT

“The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”

DEUTERONOMY 31:8 NIV

The LORD loves justice and fairness; he will never abandon his people. They will be kept safe forever.

PSALM 37:28 TLB

God has said, “I will never fail you. I will never abandon you.” So we can say with confidence, “The LORD is my helper, so I will have no fear.”

HEBREWS 13:5-6 NLT

“I will not abandon you as orphans—I will come to you.”

JOHN 14:18 NLT

 

Lord, you have called me by name and I am yours. In the midst of suffering, knowing that you are my perfect Father fills me with peace. You meet me in my mess every time; I don’t have to hide from you! Thank you for loving me so completely. I find hope in the promise that you will never abandon me or leave me to sort things out on my own.

When I struggle to see the light in the middle of the darkness of my circumstances, draw closer, Holy Spirit. Surround me with the embrace of your love and whisper your comforting words straight to my heart again. Like a mother’s lullaby soothes her child, so lull my heart into peace as I lean into you. Calm my heart again in your presence.

How would you face today differently if you were absolutely convinced that God would never leave you?

ABILITY

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 CORINTHIANS 12:9 ESV

After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.

1 PETER 5:10 NASB

Take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees. Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong.

HEBREWS 12:12-13 NLT

We are not saying that we can do this work ourselves.

It is God who makes us able to do all that we do.

2 CORINTHIANS 3:5 NCV

 

Gracious God, you are so loving. Your strength is my source when I have no resources of my own left. Your Word says that your power is perfected in weakness; may I find this to be true in my life! When I am weak, then I am really strong because I am leaning into your power that is beyond anything I could muster up. While the rest of the world is bragging about their strengths, may I not fall into that trap. Instead, may I revel in the power you give in my weakness.

I am so limited, Lord. What a mystery that in your kingdom that actually is a benefit! Keep my heart humble in your presence that I would glory in your grace made evident in my life. Have your way in my frailty today.

Do you believe that God can make you able to do what he asks?

ACCEPTANCE

“The Father gives me the people who are mine. Every one of them will come to me, and I will always accept them.”

JOHN 6:37 NCV

The LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.

1 SAMUEL 16:7 NKJV

If God is for us, who can be against us?

ROMANS 8:31 ESV

Before he made the world, God chose us to be his very own through what Christ would do for us; he decided then to make us holy in his eyes, without a single fault—we who stand before him covered with his love.

EPHESIANS 1:4 TLB

 

Lord, I come to you with my life again today. You said that you wouldn’t cast out the one who moves toward you, so I trust that you welcome me in with your love. It doesn’t matter how little or how much time has passed, you are still as warm in your acceptance of me as you were the first time I was met with your mercy. I won’t hold anything back from you today.

There are no exceptions to your wonderful love; you always reach out in kindness. There is no debt or failure that you can’t more than meet with your mercy. You are skillful in restoration and unstoppable in redemption. I know that as I look to you, I will see how you are weaving your faithful care through even the most terrible situations. Here’s my heart, open before you. Heal me with your kindness and restore my hope in your affection.

Are you convinced that God will never turn you away?

ANXIETY

LORD, you are my shield, My wonderful God who gives me courage. I can lie down and go to sleep, and I will wake up again, Because the LORD gives me strength. Thousands of troops may surround me, but I am not afraid.

PSALM 3:3, 5-6 NCV

“Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me.”

JOHN 14:1 NLT

Give all your worries to him, because he cares about you.

1 PETER 5:7 NCV

I call out to the LORD when I’m in trouble, and he answers me.

PSALM 120:1 NIRV

 

Holy One, I come to you today with every worry, burden, and anxiety. Some days they are quieter than others; other days the noise level is too loud to hear anything else. I know that I don’t need to carry the weight of these on my own, and I am not responsible to mitigate every possible outcome in life. There are innumerable unknowns, but not one is a mystery to you!

Lord, you see the end from the beginning and every moment in between. Why would I continue to expend energy on assumptive possibilities when you offer me the peace of your all-knowing presence? I may not know what tomorrow holds, but you do. I will trust you, Lord; you can have all my worries! Give me the confidence that comes with your nearness. I know that you are with me.

Can you rest in the knowledge that God sees what you cannot?

ASSURANCE

To him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory...for ever and ever! Amen.

EPHESIANS 3:20–21 NIV

All of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!”

2 CORINTHIANS 1:20 NLT

I go to bed and sleep in peace, because, LORD, only you keep me safe.

PSALM 4:8 NCV

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

1 JOHN 5:13 NKJV

 

Lord, you are full of lovingkindness at every moment. Your mercy rushes like a full river from your heart. When I feel like my heart is breaking and there is no silver lining to be found, you pull me close into your compassion and keep me still in the center of your love. Even when I can’t feel you, I know that you are near.

When I have run out of ways to ask for help or the energy to reach out again, you remain faithful to your limitless love and perfect nature. In your mercy, Lord, move in ways that I can’t even imagine. Blow me away with your goodness and reveal yourself through your power at work in my life today. I wait on you.

How does believing God’s promises cause you to feel reassured?

AUTHENTICITY

“Remember this: If you have a lofty opinion of yourself and seek to be honored, you will be humbled. But if you have a modest opinion of yourself and choose to humble yourself, you will be honored.”

MATTHEW 23:12 TPT

What should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? I encourage you to surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship. Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes.

ROMANS 12:1–2 TPT

 

Father of mercy, in my sorrow I let myself come undone in your presence. I couldn’t hold myself together if I tried. You are patient to sit with me in my discomfort and hold me close in your compassion. You don’t expect me to process the pain I’m experiencing quickly or move on from my sadness rooted in loss. You are the closest comfort I’ve ever known and relief to my soul.

When you support me with your unfailing affection, the strength of your love keeps me rooted in who you are and in who I am in you. As I am loved to life, even in my darkest moments, I lean into your example of boundless mercy. As I experience it, so will I be able to offer it. I trust that in your time, nothing will have been wasted. Use every bit of this and turn it into beauty beyond my imagining.

How do you see yourself? How do you think God sees you?

BEAUTY

Your beauty should come from within you—the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit that will never be destroyed and is very precious to God.

1 PETER 3:4 NCV

Hold on to wisdom and good sense. Don’t let them out of your sight. They will give you life and beauty like a necklace around your neck. Then you will go your way in safety, and you will not get hurt.

PROVERBS 3:21-23 NCV

I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well.

PSALM 139:14 NCV