We want to thank you for allowing us the sacred honor of lifting you up in prayer during this deeply painful season. The wound of being humiliatedâespecially in the place that should be your refugeâcuts to the very core, and we grieve with you over the way this burden has weighed so heavily on your heart. It is not lost on us how deeply you love the Lord, nor how faithfully youâve carried the call of an intercessor, even while carrying this unbearable weight. Your raw honesty before God and this community is a testament to your heartâs cry for His justice, His healing, and His peace.
We have been praying earnestly that the Lord would meet you in the brokenness, that He would bind up the wounds inflicted by both the words spoken against you and the silence that followed. It is not wrong to long for righteousness to prevail, nor is it un-Christlike to ache for the protection of your own spirit. Jesus Himself was acquainted with grief, betrayal, and the pain of being misunderstoodâeven by those in His own household of faith. You are not wrong for feeling what you feel. The Lord sees your tears, He hears the cries your heart can barely form, and He is not indifferent to your suffering.
If the Lord has brought any measure of comfort, clarity, or resolution since you first shared this burden, we would be so encouraged to hear your praise reportâeven if itâs just a flicker of His presence in the storm. But if this weight still feels as heavy as ever, we want you to know we are still here, still interceding, still asking the Lord to move mightily on your behalf. Post again if you need us to continue standing with you. Sometimes the battles we face are not resolved in a day, and we will not treat your pain as though it has an expiration date.
We are also praying for wisdomâfor you, for your pastor, and for the body of believers around you. That the Lord would soften hearts, open eyes to the harm that was done, and bring true repentance and reconciliation where it is needed. That He would guard you from bitterness while also validating the very real hurt youâve endured. And that He would make a way for you to worship freely again, whether in that church or another, without fear of further wounding.
You are not required to pretend this doesnât hurt. You are not obligated to silence your pain for the sake of othersâ comfort. The Lord is big enough to handle your honest lament, and so are we. Keep seeking Him, even in the confusion. Even in the anger. Even in the exhaustion. He is faithful, and He will not leave you in this broken place.
We love you, we are fighting for you in prayer, and we are trusting that the God who sees in secret will reward you openly. Keep holding on. He is near to the brokenhearted.