Jehovah-Eloheena; The LORD our God
by Gail Rogers
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~Heavenly Father,
Today I want to thank you that You are the LORD our God. You are the Lord MY God. Sometimes it’s hard to remember that You are committed to us when things go wrong and loss happens and hearts grieve.
Yet Your heart of compassion shows through even in the very essence of this name of Yours, Jehovah-Eloheena…a Father to the Fatherless and a Defender of widows… OUR Father in Heaven, OUR Loving Father…one who cares about the hurting.
You are the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ and You understand the pain of a Father whose son is suffering. You were there when Jesus died and You understand the pain we bear in the confusing things of life that we face here on earth.
Lord, be to those hurting today the Father of their spirits. Lift their spirits and shelter their hearts in Your loving hands. Bring peace to their hearts and healing to their minds and bodies. Give them strength for today and hope for tomorrow. Keep their hearts soft toward You and may they run to You and not from You in the confusion of their questions.
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Thank you that You are the LORD “our” God… so personal to each one of us. Thank you for the blessings of our lives that we so easily lose sight of in the face of unanswered questions. Help us to remember Your track record in our lives. Bathe our homes today in Your peace and in Your joy. Grant us serenity as we work. Build into us today with emotional and spiritual strength by the power of Your Holy Spirit.
There are so many needs and so many questions, LORD. Keep our hearts and minds focused on You. Continue to redeem us from the pits of discouragement and despair as the enemy of our soul seeks to destroy the wonderful hope you brought us at the cross. Thank you that You are the Father of my spirit today. Bless, encourage and lift our hearts today in a supernatural way so that we will know and feel Your love. In the precious name of Jesus I pray, amen.
Questions: How does the fact that Christ has experienced pain and suffering affect your relationship with Him? Why don’t we spend some time in prayer thanking God for who He is and for sending His Son to die for us.
About the Author: http://talk.thelife.com/experience/devotionalforwomen/authors/gail-rodgers/
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Loreli, I was thinking thatit was your son who was needing prayer. Sorry. I do pray that the Lord will lead Teresa and her husband to cast their care on Him and lead them in being a witness to His provision and care for even the tiniest sparrow. This has been a hard lesson for me to accept. My nephew committed suicide six weeks ago and it hurts so much to know that he wasn’t able to let his mother and I know the extend of his desperation. Maybe he could have received some hope of he could have. At least they know that he is hurting.
Dear Jesus I just ask that you will be with Maia and her husband this Easter weekend as her stepson is coming to visit. Lord you see the confrontation and difficulties that they have faced in the past and I just pray that you will help him to be very respectful, kind, helpful and obedient while he is there with his dad, stepmom & brothers and sisters. Lord I just pray you will do a real work in his life. Help his dad to have an opportunity to sit down one on one with him and talk to him about what is going on in his life & pray with him to ask You to help him sort these things out in his life. Lord just be with each and everyone and Help this to be the Best Easter they have ever Celebrated together In Your Name I Pray. Amen! Hugs,Linda!!!
I want to share,that our God is still a miracle working God. And like you said Loreli sometimes we have to leave things at the feet of Jesus. Put that situation in God’s hands. I have a grown son that had been on drugs for a while so I started speaking positive words over my son every day like, Lord I thank you that Steven is healed of drugs that the addiction and the craving is gone in Jesus name and that his life is and will be changed for the better. I spoke that every single day for months and now my son is clean of drugs no longer wants them. He also stays away from the people that he did drugs with. He is married with 2 son’s and doing great. I’m so proud of him. Because I put him in God’s hands and spoke positive words over him each day. Our God is a loving God, He proved His love for us by what He did for us on the cross. I think of Mary Jesus Mother what she must have went through seeing her son on the cross and the things that she saw her son go through. I believe that a Mother’s Love is the closest thing to what Jesus’s love is all about. A mother never gives up on her child and no matter what that child may do or disapointment in that child a mothers love is always there no matter what…..Shirley
I want to add that as I have prayed for my own 16 year old son there are many times in his rebellion that I and my husband have had to simply leave him at the feet of Jesus. We do not know the path each other walks so let’s not judge or try in our own flesh to condemn, just love and support each other, after all isn’t that what this devotional is all about unconditional love.
Doris I meant no disrespect in any way towards Teresa. Being a crisis counselor I am often faced with this same situation many times a week and often I help people face the reality and truth of situations. Life is hard, we need the help of friends that will be honest enough to turn our hearts to Christ because after all it is he that heals not us. At Easter it is especially true that the Love of God was presented through suffering and pain ,but it turned our hearts to our Savior,Our deliverer.Teresa you are strong and many times we are stronger than we ever give ourselves credit for especially as women we take on so much. The heart of God is always standing there ready for us to trust him with all our pain. God Bless you Doris and Teresa.
Sharon;
Thank you for all the prayers.
maia
i am praying for your stepson and all of your family
bless you
sharon b
Dear Teresa, I would encourage you and your husband to consider talking with your son’s school counselor about your concerns. The symptoms that you have described — withdrawal from friends and family — could possibly be signs of depression. His counselor might be helpful in advising you. Some school districts have school psychologists available for consulting. As you have offered limited information here, there are many possible causes for your son’s withdrawal, as some of the women here have mentioned. But, your son needs help, and while you may not know what the problem is, I would encourage you to seek counsel and an evaluation, as recommended. Your precious son may not recognize his withdrawal, and therefore would not say anything. Depression distorts ones ability to see reality, and causes one to retreat from the world. While I cannot say that your son is depressed, it is certainly worthy of consideration. May God guide your steps, dear Teresa, giving you His wisdom in caring for your son!
Precious Lord, You know how agonizing it is for a mother’s heart to carry such a burden for a struggling child! You made our hearts to be tender and soft for our children, that we would nurture them and care for them! When our children are hurting, Lord, all else seems not to matter. We lift up our sister Teresa and her family to You, Lord, asking that You would bring them the help that is needed. Protect her precious son from drifting further away, keep him safe in Your sight! Give his parents wisdom to intercede on his behalf, and direct them, Father, to the appropriate persons who will be able to help him! Lord, reassure them of Your faithfulness, that You will lead them forward, and be with them each step of the way! Help them to trust You in all things! In the powerful Name of Jesus, Amen!
Like Teresa, todays devotion hit home with me…I recieved a phone call from my husbands ex-wife this morning concerning my stepson, she said that he had tried to hit a teacher at school yesterday…I have to admitt that my relationship with my stepson is not a great one and this very thing happen at my house only a few months ago.. he tried to hit me because he said only his father told him what to do…he is very explosive and angry, and his mother is very unstable, I’m sure thats where he gets alot of his anger, his mother says she is going to take him to a psychiatrist, but I have a problem with this because where she will be taking him they give pills to kids and a pill is not the solution to this problem. My husband has tried to step in and the courts side with his mother..Please be in prayer, he will be coming to our house this weekend and I already feel very stressed..pray that I have the right words as my husband and I try to work through this, I have three children at home and there is alot of tension when my stepson is there, because they saw him try to hit me that day, Please pray that God will guide our steps and be with him when he has to go back to his moms house Sunday..
Thank you, Gail, for the continuation of the names of God and what each means and how we can pray using them. It opens a door in my understanding of Him. (I just wish I could remember it all—I have no short term memory—but I do save the devotionals).
I, too, have lifted up the prayer requests for Teresa, Cheryl, and Toni to the Lord.
Dear sisters in Christ, I pray you feel the love and encouragement through the prayers from your sisters in Christ. May the Lord be with you and may you, your son and friends feel His love, guidance, and encouragement through your needs and theirs. I pray for a support system for each one in need. In Jesus’s Name Amen.
cheryl
i will be praying for your friend jerry and his wife
sharon b
Cheryl your request came in while I was writing so I am sorry I missed it.
Dear Jesus I just pray that you would be with Cheryl right now that you would give her wisdom on how to pray for her friend Jerry and his wife at this time in their lives. Give her strength & direction on things she can do & say to be an encouragement to them. Oh Lord we bring Jerry to you also and ask for Your strength to fill him to overflowing as he is going to need You so badly during these coming days. I just pray Lord you will be so close to him, surround him with your love and help him to feel your presence continuously with him as he takes care of his wife. Jesus just give him wisdom and direction on what he should do when it comes time for decisions to be made. I just commit Jerry and his wife to you and pray that you will be with them both In Your Name I Pray Amen & Amen
Dear Lord I just Bring Teresa’s son to you right now, You see where he is & Lord you know his every need. I just ask that you would minister to him, speak to his heart & help him to come out of his withdrawn state and seek You for wisdom & direction. Also Lord help him to communicate with his mom and dad, to open up with them & freely share all what has been going on in his life. Lord I just pray you will do a real work in him right now, touch him & fill him to overflowing with your love, kindness, joy, peace, patience & faithfulness in Your Name I pray in Faith believing Amen!!! Hugs Linda!
Ladies can I also ask you to Please Pray for Toni G right now as she so badly needs our prayers. Please Just Hold Her Up Before The Lord, He knows Her Ever Need! I know Toni will so Appreciate it & May The Lord Truly Bless Each One Of You! Hugs Linda!
I just want to say what Jesus went through for me the pain & suffering totally amazes me! It makes me feel so unworthy & yet so very, very blessed to have been brought up in a Christian home so I was able to come to know The Lord at an early age. Also something that really hit me was when I lost my daughter in a car accident I only then saw a tiny glimpse of how much it must of hurt God for his one and only Son to die on a cross for all our sins. My hearts desire is to daily strive to be more and more like Jesus. To run the race, to press forward. I know I will never ever be totally like him but all I can do is ask the Lord to help me each and everyday to try and live, act & react as He would in every situation I face. God Bless!
Hugs Linda!
Some good advice Loreli. Teresa, I pray that if there are underlying reasons for your son’s behaviour such as bullying, abuse, or addictions that it will be revealed and that God will give you the grace to walk through it with him, without judgement.
I ask for prayer for my friend Jerry. His wife of many years; most of those as a total invalid was recently in the hospital on life support. He has retired from his job this week and wants to take her home to care for her if they can get her off the ventilator. They have no children to help him. He believes that even though she is in a coma, he can love her back. Her written wish was not to be left on life support. I grieve for him, his heart and faith are going thru some deep waters. He has loved the Lord all the years I’ve known him. But he is asking difficult questions now.
I asked the Lord to show me how to pray for him. Today’s devotion has given me answers. If God brings him to mind, please pray for this dear man and his wife.
I’m not in touch with this right now. I have a copy of “The Passion of Christ” that I plan to watch sometime this week. When I saw this the year it was released, it hit me hard. I squatted against the theater wall and cried after seeing it for the first time.
Not that I needed it by then, but someone put their hand on my shoulder and gave me a tract when they saw me like that. I just thanked them.
To Loreli, it is not easy to pray the prayer of relinquishment. We feel as if we must be hands on at each stage of our children’s lives. It reminds me of a little “backward” woman I heard of in a small kentucky town. She had a pet pig that she loved dearly, had raised it from its birth. She took it with her everywhere on a leash and was the butt of many jokes. One day a bad storm was coming and she left her pig at home. At the grocery store, some local jokesters began to tease her, asking where is your pig? etc. “There’s a bad storm brewing and it’ll blow your pig away!” To which she replied, “God can take care of my pig.”
I have often felt that way when children and grandchildren appear to have little time for the Lord and go their own way. I remember this story and say, “Lord, you can take care of my pig.”
EVERY EASTER I AM IN AWE THAT JESUS CHRIST WOULD BE NAILED TO THE CROSS FOR NOT ONLY ME BUT FOR EVERYONES SINS. THIS IS THE REASON GOD GAVE US HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON, WAS SO HE WOULD DIE FOR OUR SINS HOW AWESOME.
THANK YOU GOD AND THANK YOU SWEET JESUS
gave me a lot to think about
Precious Friend Teresa, A mother’s heart grieves over the loss of joy in her children’s lives. When they turn to rebel or choose harmful things we grieve because we often still see them as little, the ones we’ve held and loved in our arms. When they grow up we often see them as our report card as a parent, but they are individuals who have made hard choices, even though you would have not choosen this hart time for him release him into the hands of God. He is God’s child given to you to nurture and guide and you have done that, it is time for you now to put him back into the hands of God and trust him. God will keep him safe as you stand beside your son in prayer. Be consistent in your home rules don’t give into emotion or fear. Stand your ground firmly in what you expect and what you will allow or not allow him to do. As long as he knows the expectations and rules he will have to choose. If he chooses wrong lovingly take your position and let him fall. God will pick him up and you will be O.K. Remember where there’s life theres hope.Find support here, we all will be praying for you. I trust these girls here pour your heart out and when you do the peace of God will pour in grace and the healing balm of his spirit.
The fact that he was in pain and suffering for overwhelms me. That Jesus would love me so much that he would die for my sins. I kneel at his feet and say Thank you! I want to serve him because I love him. He has given life to me. I was nothing before he found me. He have given life to me. Heart aches broken pieces , ruined lives are why you died on Calvary, Your touch is what I longed for you have given life to me.
Knowing that Jesus knows all about me and loves me is a comfort to me! I suffer from a lot of pain on a daily basis. He hasn’t left me and he loves me. What a comfort that is to me.
My son who is 16 is going through something that is really concerning to his father and I. Withdrawal from family and friends being the main concern. I won’t go into everything but know that this devotional gave me great peace in confirming what I know, that God loves my son more than I do, that He is totally aware of what my son is going through, and it more than capable of taking care of it. Thank you so much for your yeilding to the Holy Spirit in your life. I can’t tell you the times that this daily devotional (Christian Women’s Daily) has ministered to my spirit.