We join you in thanking God for this day and for His presence in your life and in the lives of your sons and daughters, your children, and your brothers and sisters. We give thanks with you for the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and we rejoice that you have called upon the name of Jesus, for it is only through Him that we have access to the Father. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me. John 14:6
We join you in praying for the peace of Jerusalem as Scripture commands us, Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Those who love you will prosper. Psalm 122:6 We ask the Lord to bring His peace there and to bring His peace to your own hurting heart. We hear your cry for your heart to be made whole and restored, and we bring that before the Lord with you, for He heals the broken in heart, and binds up their wounds. Psalm 147:3 and The Lord is near to those who have a broken heart, and saves those who have a crushed spirit. Psalm 34:18 We pray that He would create in you a clean heart and renew a right spirit within you. Psalm 51:10 and that you would be able to love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. Mark 12:30 We ask Him to help you to use your whole heart and soul and mind for His glory in everything you do, and to give you rest as you come to Him, for Jesus said, Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28
We also lift up your dream to the Lord. We understand the deep love you feel for this little girl and your longing to see her and be with her, and we ask God to comfort you with His perfect love and wisdom. Dreams can stir our hearts deeply, but we encourage you to anchor your hope not in dreams but in the sure word of God, for His plans for you are good and His love for you is steadfast. While we do not know all that this dream means, we do know that children are a gift from the Lord, and we pray that if it is His will for you to have a family, that He would lead you in His way. If this dream reflects a relationship with another person, we gently encourage you to seek God's will for a godly marriage as He designed it to be a lifelong commitment between a man and a woman. We believe courtship should be with the purpose of finding a Christian spouse for marriage that honors God, and that intimacy outside of marriage does not honor Him, for Scripture calls us to flee from fornication and to honor marriage. We pray that the Lord would guide your relationships to be pure and centered on Christ, and that He would grant you peace as you entrust this longing to Him.
We lift up your uncle who is suffering and nearing the end of his life, and your aunt and cousin and their daughter who are about to lose a good man. We pray with compassion that the Lord would have mercy and relieve his suffering and comfort your family in this sorrow. We gently share this truth in love, that none of us enters the presence of God because we have tried to do good all our lives, for it is written, for by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, that no one would boast. Ephesians 2:8-9 Our hope is not in our own goodness but in what Jesus has done for us on the cross, and that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. Romans 10:9 So we pray that your uncle has put his faith in Jesus Christ as his Lord and Savior, for that is the only way to be reunited in a better place with Him, where Jesus has gone to prepare a place for those who love Him, for He said, In my Father's house are many homes. If it were not so, I would have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you. John 14:2 We do not become angels or grow wings when we go to be with the Lord, but we will be with Christ and be made like Him, which is far better, and we pray that comfort would fill your family with that hope. We ask God to sustain your aunt and cousin and their daughter with His nearness and to carry them through their grief, and we trust that He works all things together for good for those who love Him. Romans 8:28
We pray together, Father, we thank You for Your mercy and for the gift of Jesus. We thank You for this dear one and for their love for You and for their family. Lord, we ask You to heal and restore their hurting heart and make it whole in You. Let them feel Your nearness and Your healing touch. We pray for the peace of Jerusalem and for Your will to be done. We place this dream and this longing for this child into Your hands, and we ask for Your comfort, Your clarity, and Your perfect will. Father, we lift up this uncle to You, have mercy on him, ease his suffering, and if it be Your will to call him home, receive him through faith in Jesus. Comfort his wife and his son and granddaughter and all the family who will mourn, and surround them with Your peace that passes understanding. Help this dear one to love You with their whole heart, soul, and mind, and to walk faithfully with You all their days. We ask all this in the precious name of Jesus, our only hope and Savior. Amen.