Powerful Hands

There are powerful hands that are ready to lift you up. These hands are ready and able to strengthen, heal, and lead you. The owner of these hands created all that exists and even knew you and your present issues before the birth of time.

So As you walk forward and learn to heal from the pains of life, there are provisions that you will need. You may look at the world and wonder where your help, strength, and provision will come from. You might scan the horizon and see nothing but loss or impossibility stacked upon impossibility.

Yes, He knew this, and He made a plan for you; a way forward even though you can’t see a way forward. And even when you can’t hope, that way forward is still there. Even now when you can’t see, He is leading you.  So now is a great time to listen, look, search and remember all the leadings, promptings and nudgings of His Spirit. Keep a notebook starting right now. Come on, get off that couch right now and find a notebook. At the top of the page put the title, "God is Speaking Now". Write every note, nudge, leading and inspiration He gives you. Now, your eyes may fail you, just like mine once did, but His Spirit will never fail to lead you in His paths. 

Father, we have had our lives disrupted in profound ways far beyond anything that we ever expected or were prepared for. Now we must learn to depend on You to lift us up, lead us forward, and make us strong again. Help us to accept this as a real opportunity to learn to trust You like a little child. Give us the eyes to really see You and understand Your love so that we can grow in faith and trust.  

We know that some of our pain is the result of things that were set in motion during our childhood. Some is the result of misfortune, and some may be the result of immaturity, inexperience, or our own sin. Some of it is simply the result of life and living in a wildly wicked and perverse world.

Father, please forgive us for the mistakes we have made, and help us to learn to forgive those who have hurt us or hurt the ones we have loved. Help us now to learn to live with the mighty and most fearsome faith of a little child.  For it is that pure faith that is so terribly dreaded by the demons of hell itself. So we ask this in the name of the one who kneels right here beside us right now, the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the living God. Amen!

Psalm 18: 16−19, NIV:

¹⁶ He reached down from on high and took hold of me;
  he drew me out of deep waters.
¹⁷ He rescued me from my powerful enemy,
  from my foes, who were too strong for me.
¹⁸ They confronted me in the day of my disaster,
  but the LORD was my support.
¹⁹ He brought me out into a spacious place;
  he rescued me because he delighted in me.