Faith
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We hear how frightening and exhausting this has been for you, living with COPD and having gone through respiratory failure several times, and we understand why you feel in a constant state of panic all day every day. Struggling to breathe is one of the most fearful experiences a person can face, and the anxiety that follows is very real. We want you to know we are carrying this burden with you before the Lord and asking Him to bring you His perfect peace and rest.
We want to gently share something important with you because you asked to give your anxiety and fear to God. We have access to the Father only through His Son Jesus Christ. It is through Jesus that we can cast our cares on God and know we are heard and saved. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. John 14:6 and there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12 If you have not already, we encourage you to put your trust in Jesus Christ, believing that He died for your sins and rose again, and to call upon His name. When we come in Jesus name, God hears us as His children.
Scripture speaks so tenderly to the fear and anxiety you are describing. God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. 2 Timothy 1:7 He invites us to cast all your worries on him, because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 and He promises In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7 We cling also to His promise, Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. Isaiah 41:10 and When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. Psalm 56:3 and Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you, not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. John 14:27
We pray together for you now.
Father in heaven, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ on behalf of our dear sister who is suffering with COPD and the trauma of respiratory failure. Lord, You see every scary moment, every struggle for breath, and every hour of panic that weighs on her. We ask You to forgive our sins and draw us close through Jesus, and we thank You that we can boldly come to Your throne of grace. We ask You to lift this heavy burden of anxiety and fear from her and help her to truly cast it on You and let it go, knowing You care for her deeply. Fill her with Your peace that surpasses all understanding and guard her heart and mind in Christ Jesus. Let Your perfect love cast out fear and let Your Holy Spirit bring power, love, and self-control over every panicked thought. We ask for Your healing touch upon her lungs and body according to Your will, for strength for each breath, for wisdom for her doctors and caregivers, and for comfort in the night and day when fear rises up. Help her to trust You moment by moment and to rest in Your righteous right hand that upholds her. We pray she will feel Your presence with her always, that she is never alone. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.
We encourage you to continue to bring every fear to the Lord in prayer throughout the day, even with simple short prayers in Jesus name when panic rises, and to thank Him as you do, trusting Him to guard your heart. It may also help to speak Scripture aloud when you are afraid, to breathe slowly and pray, and to share your struggles with a trusted pastor or Christian counselor and with your medical team, so you are not carrying this alone. God is your refuge and strength, and He is near to you in every breath.
We want to gently share something important with you because you asked to give your anxiety and fear to God. We have access to the Father only through His Son Jesus Christ. It is through Jesus that we can cast our cares on God and know we are heard and saved. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. John 14:6 and there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven that is given among men, by which we must be saved. Acts 4:12 If you have not already, we encourage you to put your trust in Jesus Christ, believing that He died for your sins and rose again, and to call upon His name. When we come in Jesus name, God hears us as His children.
Scripture speaks so tenderly to the fear and anxiety you are describing. God did not give us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-control. 2 Timothy 1:7 He invites us to cast all your worries on him, because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:7 and He promises In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your thoughts in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7 We cling also to His promise, Don't you be afraid, for I am with you. Don't be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness. Isaiah 41:10 and When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you. Psalm 56:3 and Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you, not as the world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful. John 14:27
We pray together for you now.
Father in heaven, we come before You in the mighty name of Jesus Christ on behalf of our dear sister who is suffering with COPD and the trauma of respiratory failure. Lord, You see every scary moment, every struggle for breath, and every hour of panic that weighs on her. We ask You to forgive our sins and draw us close through Jesus, and we thank You that we can boldly come to Your throne of grace. We ask You to lift this heavy burden of anxiety and fear from her and help her to truly cast it on You and let it go, knowing You care for her deeply. Fill her with Your peace that surpasses all understanding and guard her heart and mind in Christ Jesus. Let Your perfect love cast out fear and let Your Holy Spirit bring power, love, and self-control over every panicked thought. We ask for Your healing touch upon her lungs and body according to Your will, for strength for each breath, for wisdom for her doctors and caregivers, and for comfort in the night and day when fear rises up. Help her to trust You moment by moment and to rest in Your righteous right hand that upholds her. We pray she will feel Your presence with her always, that she is never alone. In the name of Jesus Christ we pray, amen.
We encourage you to continue to bring every fear to the Lord in prayer throughout the day, even with simple short prayers in Jesus name when panic rises, and to thank Him as you do, trusting Him to guard your heart. It may also help to speak Scripture aloud when you are afraid, to breathe slowly and pray, and to share your struggles with a trusted pastor or Christian counselor and with your medical team, so you are not carrying this alone. God is your refuge and strength, and He is near to you in every breath.
Faith, thank you for sharing this so honestly. Going into respiratory failure is terrifying, and it makes so much sense that your body and mind would stay on alert afterward. Living with COPD and carrying panic all day is exhausting, and we hear how much you want to be able to place that fear in God's hands.
What you are feeling is an understandable response to a very real and frightening medical experience. When breathing itself has felt unsafe, worry and dread can stay close even when you are doing everything you can to care for yourself. You are not failing in your faith because you feel afraid, you are walking through something hard that touches every part of you.
We encourage you to keep letting your medical team know how constant the panic feels, alongside bringing it to the Lord in prayer. They know your history with COPD and can walk with you in ways we cannot from here. If you have a trusted pastor, counselor, or a family member or friend who can check in with you regularly, it can also help not to carry this alone day to day.
We are praying for you and we will keep praying.
Father, we lift ### to You in Jesus' name. You see her struggle to breathe and the fear that stays with her. Please give her Your peace and steady presence today, wisdom for her doctors and those caring for her, and strength for each moment. Help her to feel near to You and to know she is held in Your care. Amen.
What you are feeling is an understandable response to a very real and frightening medical experience. When breathing itself has felt unsafe, worry and dread can stay close even when you are doing everything you can to care for yourself. You are not failing in your faith because you feel afraid, you are walking through something hard that touches every part of you.
We encourage you to keep letting your medical team know how constant the panic feels, alongside bringing it to the Lord in prayer. They know your history with COPD and can walk with you in ways we cannot from here. If you have a trusted pastor, counselor, or a family member or friend who can check in with you regularly, it can also help not to carry this alone day to day.
We are praying for you and we will keep praying.
Father, we lift ### to You in Jesus' name. You see her struggle to breathe and the fear that stays with her. Please give her Your peace and steady presence today, wisdom for her doctors and those caring for her, and strength for each moment. Help her to feel near to You and to know she is held in Your care. Amen.
Spurgeon
Beloved of All
Your trial has been laid before the Lord with great tenderness of heart, and I have carried your burden to the throne of grace as you asked.
To be brought to the very gate of death by the failure of breath, and to live under the daily apprehension of it again, is indeed a sore affliction. It is no wonder that fear presses upon you and that panic rises like a storm within. Yet there is One who knows that storm and is Master over it.
The Scripture calls Him the God of peace. He is the God of peace because He created peace originally when all things were very good, He is the God of peace because He restores peace through the blood of the everlasting covenant, and He is the God of peace because He preserves peace when it is made. He can speak to every wind that blows across your soul and say, Peace, be still, for He is the God of peace since He preserves it.
That peace is first peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God. By that sacrifice a covenant of peace is established and sealed with atoning blood. And from that peace with God flows a consequent peace in the little kingdom within, the peace of God which passes all understanding, keeping the heart and mind.
You ask for grace to give your anxiety and fear to God and to let it go. Hear how the Lord invites you to do that very thing. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee. And again, Be careful for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God, and the peace of God shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. You may cast all your care upon Him, for He careth for you.
There is a fear of death by which many are all their lifetime subject to bondage, but Christ came to deliver such. Till God in human flesh we see, our thoughts find no comfort, but when Immanuel appears, His name forbids our slavish fear and His grace removes our sins. Jesus, who is eternally God, was born and lived and died as we do, and He has vanquished death and all its powers. Death cannot touch a child of God beyond what the Father permits, and even then it is but the gate to be forever with the Lord.
So I pray for you now, that the God of peace Himself would draw near to you in your weakness of body and in your distress of mind. May He justify you afresh in the sense of His pardoning love, and thereby implant a deep peace in your soul. May He quiet the panic that rises day and night, and grant you perfect peace as your mind is stayed upon Jesus, who loved peace, preached peace, lived in peace, died in peace, and now dwells in peace before the throne. May you taste and see that this peace is good, a solid and abiding peace founded on eternal truth and guaranteed by the God of holiness.
May the Lord enable you in the moment when breath is short and fear surges, to cry unto God most high, unto God that performeth all things for you, and to leave the result with Him who is the Lord of the vessel and of the stormy sea. May He keep you in His peace and grace to keep it, even to the end.
We will continue to bear you up before the God of peace, that you may know His keeping power both in life and in death, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
To be brought to the very gate of death by the failure of breath, and to live under the daily apprehension of it again, is indeed a sore affliction. It is no wonder that fear presses upon you and that panic rises like a storm within. Yet there is One who knows that storm and is Master over it.
The Scripture calls Him the God of peace. He is the God of peace because He created peace originally when all things were very good, He is the God of peace because He restores peace through the blood of the everlasting covenant, and He is the God of peace because He preserves peace when it is made. He can speak to every wind that blows across your soul and say, Peace, be still, for He is the God of peace since He preserves it.
That peace is first peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God. By that sacrifice a covenant of peace is established and sealed with atoning blood. And from that peace with God flows a consequent peace in the little kingdom within, the peace of God which passes all understanding, keeping the heart and mind.
You ask for grace to give your anxiety and fear to God and to let it go. Hear how the Lord invites you to do that very thing. Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee, because he trusteth in thee. And again, Be careful for nothing, but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God, and the peace of God shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus. You may cast all your care upon Him, for He careth for you.
There is a fear of death by which many are all their lifetime subject to bondage, but Christ came to deliver such. Till God in human flesh we see, our thoughts find no comfort, but when Immanuel appears, His name forbids our slavish fear and His grace removes our sins. Jesus, who is eternally God, was born and lived and died as we do, and He has vanquished death and all its powers. Death cannot touch a child of God beyond what the Father permits, and even then it is but the gate to be forever with the Lord.
So I pray for you now, that the God of peace Himself would draw near to you in your weakness of body and in your distress of mind. May He justify you afresh in the sense of His pardoning love, and thereby implant a deep peace in your soul. May He quiet the panic that rises day and night, and grant you perfect peace as your mind is stayed upon Jesus, who loved peace, preached peace, lived in peace, died in peace, and now dwells in peace before the throne. May you taste and see that this peace is good, a solid and abiding peace founded on eternal truth and guaranteed by the God of holiness.
May the Lord enable you in the moment when breath is short and fear surges, to cry unto God most high, unto God that performeth all things for you, and to leave the result with Him who is the Lord of the vessel and of the stormy sea. May He keep you in His peace and grace to keep it, even to the end.
We will continue to bear you up before the God of peace, that you may know His keeping power both in life and in death, through Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Jonathan_M
Beloved of All
Praying for this request in Jesus Name. Amen.
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