Healing. Faith. Hope. Peace.

This evening I spent some eternal moments with some eternal friends speaking to and listening to the eternal God.

We were in a room together, us human beings and the Holy Spirit. Filling the space was the sound of individual voices speaking to our Father in heaven. As distinctly different as each voice sounded, the heart of our words were the same.

On behalf of our sick friend Jeremy Erickson and his steady wife Jen, and their three young boys, Aedan, Eli, and Jo Isaac; we prayed.

We asked God for healing.
The Creator of us complex humans understands why sometimes our bodies don't work right. We humans don't always understand much of anything. We want God to fix the chromosome in Jeremy that isn't working properly. This is clear.

We asked God for faith.
There are times when our Creator works in His time and His ways; which tend to stand far beyond our human comprehension. It is here where we need Him to give us faith that He is with us. During the times of uncertainty and pain we need Him to put a mustard seed's worth of faith in us. Jeremy and Jen have a faith that comes straight from the Father. We want them to receive more of that faith every moment of everyday. Little moments of faith bring us through big moments of life. This is clear.

We asked God for hope.
When circumstances seem hopeless, our Creator brings us hope. A quick scan through Scripture shows us that our hope is found in no one else than our Creator. God. Yahweh. Emmanuel. Jesus. Father. Son. Holy Spirit. When hope is rooted in the deep love of our Father, it is tapped into someone infinite, perfect, and trustworthy. Hope is expectant of results. We hope in a God who can do the unexpected. This is clear.

We asked for peace.
Our Creator first made us to live in perfect peace. The Deceiver crept in, brought sin, and broke the relationship built upon peace forever. Peace has been destroyed. Our sense of utopia and bliss is clearly distorted by pain, sickness, and death. Throughout history, we see peace being restored. For the triune God, peace is His story. This is a time where we want to see spiritual peace transform lives, physical peace restore life, mental peace make life a little more clear, and emotional peace calm hearts that may be filled with fear. In Christ alone we find peace. This is clear.

As an overwhelmed, humbled man sitting at a keyboard; I type words that communicate the smallest fraction of what went down tonight. Only God knows the details of every prayer that was spoken tonight. Only God knows how He will respond. We want healing. We receive faith. We have hope. We long for peace.

Thanks for joining all of us in prayer.

 for additional details see
2 Corinthians 1:8-11

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