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“FATHER, I HAVE a problem.
It’s weighing heavy on me. It’s all I can
think about, night and day. Before I bring it to you in prayer, I
suppose I should pray for those who are less fortunate than me—those in
this world who have hardly enough food for this day, and for those who
don’t have a roof over their heads at night.
I also pray for families
who have lost loved ones in sudden death, for parents whose children
have leukemia, for the many people who are dying of brain tumors, for
the hundreds of thousands who are laid waste with other terrible
cancers, for people whose bodies have been suddenly shattered in car
wrecks, for those who are lying in hospitals with agonizing burns over
their bodies, whose faces have been burned beyond recognition.
I pray
for people with emphysema, whose eyes fill with terror as they struggle
for every breath merely to live, for those who are tormented beyond
words by irrational fears, for the elderly who are wracked with the
pains of aging, whose only ‘escape’ is death.
“I pray for people who
are watching their loved ones fade before their eyes through the grief
of Alzheimer’s disease, for the many thousands who are suffering the
agony of AIDS, for those who are in such despair that they are
contemplating suicide, for people who are tormented by the demons of
alcoholism and drug addiction.
I pray for children who have been
abandoned by their parents, for those who are sexually abused, for wives
held in quiet despair, beaten and abused by cruel drunken husbands, for
people whose minds have been destroyed by mental disorders, for those
who have lost everything in floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, and
earthquakes.
I pray for the blind, who never see the faces of the ones
they love or the beauty of a sunrise, for those whose bodies are
deformed by painful arthritis, for the many whose lives will be taken
from them today by murderers, for those wasting away on their deathbeds
in hospitals.
“Most of all, I cry out for the millions who don’t
know the forgiveness that is in Jesus Christ . . . for those who in a
moment of time will be swept into hell by the cold hand of death, and
find to their utter horror the unspeakable vengeance of eternal fire.
They will be eternally damned to everlasting punishment. O God, I pray
for them.
“ That's Strange. I can’t seem to remember what my problem was.
In Jesus’ name I pray. Amen.”
Thankful? You bet I am!
Let's join hands and hearts together and pray this prayer as one today as we go and visit those who make us thankful.
Happy Thanksgiving friends and family, God bless you all and above all else......... .................. LoveEachOther and trust in Jesus!
Prayer "I Have a Problem"-- (Author unknown)
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