Meditation Of A Prayer Analysis

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As I write this meditation for your prayer consideration, I greet you in the name and steadfast love and righteousness of God the Father, Jesus his Son and our Savior who is gracious and merciful, and God our Helpful and Healing Advocate standing and empowering all chosen and called to speak and proclaim their Living Word to the voiceless and rejected so that they may know a better word and world without prejudice and discrimination as the church and community of faith and service to all humanity. Amen!
This has been a most hard and difficult week for all of us as our nation, as our allies especially the people of Britain, and of course all the world suffer loss at the hands of violence. As we the people of society and of the church keep dealing with repeated violence all around us, it is imperative that we hold tightly to the word of God that is most healing and helpful to all who continue to experience grief upon grief. Even as we cannot even begin to comprehend the reasons and causes of senseless acts of hate, the word of God still sustains us, soothes us, and saves us. You and I choose to claim the word of God as our freedom from the bondage of sin; the word of God is our vision and victory
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Quite frankly, the gospel of Jesus Christ is not meant for entertainment, but empowerment. The grace of the gospel gives us the empowerment to make confession, to be convicted in one’s belief and in the righteousness, redemption and renewal of God. The goodness and the glory of the gospel enables us to love and serve one another as community to know that we do not need to live by violence, but that we have victory through the cross of Christ and him

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