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Mothers, Babies, and Church Families
This morning, as I approached the parking lot for jury duty, I saw the orange-jumpsuited prisoners being escorted into the courthouse building. It made me sad as I remembered our pastor's challenge yesterday to pray for bereaved mothers. It isn't just the mothers of the innocently harmed who are bereaved by bullets -- it is the mothers of the guilty, the mothers of the unjustly charged, and the mothers of those who fear the next bullet. I began to pray in earnest, and was encouraged as I remembered the words from our pastor's sermon about the family of God.
Is There a Prayer Effect?
Prayer is complex. I used to try to figure out how it works, but I gave up. I just know what the Bible says about it and what I've experienced. And that is, "The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much" (James 5:16). Now, what is it exactly that effective prayer accomplishes? Let me give you a few examples from the experience of the Inward Ministry last night.
Mothers Bereaved by Bullets
A brokenhearted mother was called to the scene of her son’s murder. Her 14-year-old lay sprawled in a neighbor’s front yard, the parish coroner’s vehicle close at hand. Friends steadied her as a New Orleans police officer poured the contents of the child’s pockets into her ...
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