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How to pray for hurting people, This is my prayer…

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Lord, many of your children are hurting today, confused and suffering spiritually, physically, as well as mentally.  A countless number are in pain feeling they have reached their rope’s end with no more hope. They have exhausted all possibilities and do not know what to do. Father, you know each soul and the burdens which plagues them so I ask in the name of Jesus that you would allow your Spirit to go door to door, hospital to hospital, prison, to prison and city to city across this great country of America, and then go over the waters into all foreign lands touching, anointing, saving, and healing every individual. 

Father God in heaven as you heal your children, I also pray for development of God loving and fearing relationships. Society has lost the meaning and understanding of the word, we have all become a selfish and self-centered community.  It is all about us, we don’t practice love or relationship skills with friends, family and especially not with you. We have taken people and you God for granted.  There is jealousy, hatred, envy and strife destroying the moral fiber of your people and for where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there will be disorder and every vile practice. Please heal this land from our transgressions, selfishness, and vindictiveness. Just as your word states in 2 chronicles; if we your children would turn from our ways seek your face and ask to heal this land you will do so.  Lord I am praying this day you will begin the healing process. Brake yokes which have weighed down the minds and spirits of your children.  Remove fears and doubts that lurk in our minds which cause people to not reach their full potential. Purge them of their troubles and sins that have encumbered them from being all that they can be in your name.  Remove the darkness and allow your light to strengthen them and may it make away for their lights to shine so that man can see your good works and to glorify your name! Through this process I ask and pray that your children will form a relationship with you.  Learn to be in prayer, supplication, praise and worship of your name.  I ask that you will touch and anoint your children igniting a burning deep inside and bestow them with wisdom and a loving spirit. 

Lord, I believe despite the bleak outlook so many of your children have on life there are still great days of hope ahead and that hopefulness is through you!  Your word tells us that as our Shepard you will go after lost sheep.  So I pray this day Father God, in the name of Jesus, you the Shepard will find and bring your children back to the fold joyously. Meet them at their crossroad of uncertainty and convey peace to their souls. For your word clearly tells us that you will never leave or forsake us at any time. This I pray in your son Jesus Christ name, Amen.

Tigner Rand

You are a Hoarder Time to take an inventory of your life

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Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.  Matthew 6:19

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Matthew 11:28-30

We all have seen or heard about the A&E network series Hoarders which allow viewers to see how people live who have a difficult time parting with their belongings or pets.  In some cases, individuals have carried so much junk from their past life they are on the verge of loosing home, family, friends, and mental stability. We cringe through episodes, converse amongst ourselves as well as cast some form of judgment as to how could a person get to this point, or I would never allow myself to keep stuff like these people and not to leave out these are some real crazy folk.   I hate to be a bearer of bad news; you are a hoarder and to blind to see it!

A&E states, some 3 million people suffer from some form of hoarding or holding onto objects.  This secret disorder can reach catastrophic levels which opens the door to evictions, demolition notices, and costly citations. Parallel to physical hoarding a myriad of Christians and non-Christians alike have a fixation of mentally storing all types of pain, suffering, lost dreams, hopes, loves and desires.  These setbacks or so called failures have inflected hardship on a person’s daily life. Longsuffering then breeds a spirit of withdrawal, depression causing an exclusion of God from problems. Often times these disappointments, self blame, or blame shifting to God have consumed a person’s strength and wellbeing which keep many from obtaining their destiny.

 Albert Einstein so eloquently stated “insanity is doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results.” The most excellent way to end mental hoarding is to get in line with God let pass adversities stay behind. Yes, you have fallen short of God’s Glory caused by problems that seem insurmountable but God’s desire for you is healing and restoration.  Whatever your mind is hoarding there is a cure-all which corrects past encounters, wrongdoings, and mistakes when you dump these burdens on God.   His word clearly states that for as high as the heavens are above the earth, as far as the east is from the west, so far has he removed our transgressions from us Psalms 103:12. Simply put, once God heals He forgives us and forget our past. Hallelujah! Now, if the creator of all living things can be so gracious to forgive why you can’t find it in your heart to forgive the past as well as your self? 

Through praying and seeking forgiveness this can remove barriers which appear to be immovable or impeded us from moving forward in life. So stop hoarding, rekindle your relationship with Christ He is always waiting on His children to return, seek, praise, honor and adore Him! When you stop and absorb these words one has to realize your past is truly your past!

Let us not fail to recognize hoarding is a physical, mental, and spiritual behavioral disorder and if not treated this disease can attribute to life lasting problems.  If you or someone you know has a hoarding problem; (object form or spiritual forms) please seek professional help.

Tigner James