I need help

[Leonard]

May the Lord be especially comforting to you at this time. +

[Guest Workman(2 Timothy 2:15)]

ENCOURAGEMENT FROM GOD's WORD TO YOU:

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Jeremiah 8:18

"O my Comforter in sorrow, my heart is faint within me."

Psalm 119:28

"My soul is weary with sorrow; strengthen me according to your word."

Psalm 31:9

"Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am in distress; my eyes grow weak with sorrow, my soul and my body with grief."

Psalm 88:9

"my eyes are dim with grief. I call to you, O LORD, every day; I spread out my hands to you."

Psalm 139:1-2

"O LORD, you have searched me

and you know me.

You know when I sit and when I rise;

you perceive my thoughts from afar."

Psalm 13:2

"How long must I wrestle with my thoughts and every day have sorrow in my heart?"

Psalm 10:14

"But you, O God, do see trouble and grief; you consider it to take it in hand. The victim commits himself to you; you are the helper of the fatherless."

Lamentations 3:32-33

"Though he brings grief, he will show compassion,

so great is his unfailing love.

For he does not willingly bring affliction

or grief to the children of men."

THE LORD KNOWS YOUR PAIN:

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Luke 7:12-17

"As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out

[His Ambassador]

jac:

I noticed you chose not to share any information about yourself with us. That, of course, is your right. But it help us to minister to you when we know a little about you.

My father died in '77 and my mother died in '94. I never felt a "loss" or wept because the Lord told me I would be seeing them again as they were with Him. Was you dad a Believer? If so, you KNOW where he is.

May God grant you peace.

[dakota190]

i don't always know what to say to others in their grief. i know what works for me and maybe some of that will help you. my heart breaks for you and my spirit urges me to share this with you. know i will pray for you in this time, but also consider this. i lost my father years ago to cancer. i was not living for the Lord at that time and so i did not turn to him. that is the first thing i advise you to do. remember a prayer does not have to be fancy or sound pretty, a prayer is what you feel, in your soul, it is your broken heart and your tears, it is the sound of your groaning, in your pain, it is the sound of your loss and the anguish that no one other than God can trully share. prayer is your cry to God for relief from what you don't feel you can carry, it is a desire from you to God to be embraced by him in his love, to be acknowledged as his child, who is in pain.

it will enable you to bear the pain by his love, until you can spend less time in pain and more time remembering your earthly father for all he was for you and all he did for you and his impact on others lives even the small ways that in time will become the truly special memories. never forget your father was a gift to you from God as you were to him and never stop thanking God for what he blessed you with.

my father, long dead, but always in my memory. i remember he was never perfect and flawed in many ways, as is his #2 son. but one day i realized he did the best he could with what he was given to work with by life and he loved me and i always knew he would give his life for me in a nano second, without a second thought or a regret. and i gave him plenty of reason for regret. to think i was only an adopted child and he was all of this and more. i still miss him but i know him now as i am an adult, flawed in my ways, willing to die for my children without regret.

God Bless you and may you grow in God's perfect love!

Dan Shamrock