Crisis doesn’t create character–it reveals it. In a crisis some people step up and help, while others think only of their own advantage and trample over others.
Last week an evil and delusional man murdered young children as they began their school year acknowledging God. Making it worse, babblers who lie for a living and politicians who refused to provide the public safety their jobs exist for, used virtually identical words to sneer at millions of kindhearted Americans who reached out to intercede for the grieving and traumatized.
On national TV democrat talkers and politicians attacked the kind who reached out in support, sneered at them for praying in support of the grieving, and promoted their power-grabbing, criminal enabling policies that enabled the murderer, daring to use their propaganda media platforms to spit in God’s face, and fostering the doubt that grief brings, by broadcasting the devilish lie that prayer does not work.
The book of Job, the first book written, reveals Satan as the source of all evil, and God’s will for us as abundance and peace. Job was a godly man, and protected by God, until obsessive and constant fear about his children, built in his mind from what he saw around him, opened the door for evil to attack. Job 1:10 Hast not thou made an hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.“ That was Job’s life as God blessed him. But when fear festered in his mind, Satan struck with full force. Job 3:25, 26 For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me. I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet….”
Job’s struggle with his grief and with “miserable comforters” who insisted that he must have done something wrong shows the depth of his love for God despite their discouraging words and his circumstances. Ultimately, God tells them to shut up and have Job pray for them. Job 42:10. And the Lord turned the captivity of Job when he prayed for his friends. Also the Lord gave Job twice as much as he had before.”
We also benefit when we pray for others. When we pray for others, our minds stop focusing on our problems and focus on God’s ability to deliver, which enables Him to help us as well.
King David wrote many Psalms that were prayers to God in critical situations of his life: the death of his first son with Bathsheba, enemies trying to steal the kingdom God ordained him to lead, and betrayals, including by one of his own sons. Prayers are in the moment communications pouring out one’s heart to God, acknowledging His greatness (Jeremiah 31:17: “I am the Lord God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for me?”) and asking His aid for things that are too hard for us. God is always willing and able to deliver, but each person, in each situation, has to permit Him to act in their lives. To get results, every time you think about your situation, thank God that your deliverance, promised (Matthew 21:22) by Him Who never lies and never fails, is coming to pass.
Don’t allow doubt or fear to linger and break a hole in the hedge of protection He would give you. When you pray believe. Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him: for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. To get your prayers answered, believe that God is both willing and able to do what needs to be done. A tepid acquiescence that God exists is not enough. Our minds and hearts need to be focused on the promises He made to meet all our needs. (Philippians 4:19).
Support and strengthen others by prayer, upholding, comforting and encouraging them where their believing falls short. Matthew 18:19 “Again I say unto you, That if two of you shall agree on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven.“
The babblers and politicians who disparaged millions of men and women of faith, who have blatantly lied that prayer is useless, need to apologize, then sit down and shut up and stop sowing salt in the wounds.
Who are you going to believe: Jesus Christ, or the professional liar Psaki and the mayor and governor who were forewarned about security needs at non public schools and refused to do the job the taxpayers (including the parents who pay for two schools) pay them for?
Judith Niewiadomski, Yonkers
