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12/15/2012 recording date. audio/video is 7 minutes takes a few minutes to load so be patient please. Or just read ahead. Also the following week it is air on utube on turtle30cshell channel. Just type in website name when you got to utube. God of All Comfort Coming from turtle30cshell I am your host Christina Farris. Today I want to share a passage of scripture with you on the comfort of God. The events of this Friday’s shooting in Connecticut in stills in all of a since of grief and frustration of not having the ability to stop the shooting to prevent innocent lives being taken. Does these shooting have any purpose for us. Is there any light in such tragic circumstances. There be some that will not want to here this today, but even so I hope this message will help people to understand God allows things to happen for a purpose. His purpose is not always understood as justice. 2 Corinthians 1:1-7 KJV (1) Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, unto the church of God which is at Corinth, with all the saints which are in all Achaia: (2) Grace be to you and peace from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ. (3) Blessed be God, even the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies, and the God of all comfort; (4) Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of God. (5) For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. (6) And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. (7) And our hope of you is stedfast, knowing, that as ye are partakers of the sufferings, so shall ye be also of the consolation. God allows us to suffer at the hands of the enemy so we can help someone else suffering at the hand of the enemy. If you never been hurt, you never can help someone else who been hurt because you have not felt their pain. No one wants to feel the pain of a mass shooting. No one wants to feel the pain of being hit by train which I was. No one can tell me what it was to feel a train hit me, but those that face that same thing. I can not tell you what it is like to be hit by a tractor trailer or to dive off the New River Gorge bridge with a bungee cord tied to a harness to protect me. Yet I can tell you what it feels like to be hit by train. I can also tell you that since my wreck there been things I gone through that were worse then my wreck. I was hit in the driver side door of my car when crossing a piece of track that was blocked by another train. My car stalled. I was hit. Peace I felt during my accident I know was God, for I cried out to Him. I said Jesus you can stop that train, but He did not. Here is the point God does not stop everything that He could, but allows us to go through it and allows us to come out the other side victoriously. Yet in the process we feel sorrow, pain, misery, discomforted at times and not least heart ache. Right now Connecticut is experience a lot of heart ache and anger. America hears their cries and feel powerless to do much in one since because each state has it’s own government even though connected to a united government called federal. Certain laws concerning mental illness need to be federal and not state. Yet it takes laws to enact this. States agreeing on these things, even if state still rules on different issues and people. As a nation we can do something we can ask congress to do something federally. We can ask our states to agree. This enforced by government will help protect but will never fully protect the innocent. Today I calling out all lawyers to work on this issue. Whether they hear me, I don’t know. But I know it takes legal people to figure out something that will work to protect. Nothing is full proof. However I do know the solution to every problem and that is Jesus. If our nation will fall on their knees and turn from their wicked ways, God will heal our land. Have you sought God, because as our nation refuses God we will see the world continuing to get worse and not better. When we allow sinfulness of the minority to rule our land it is a corruption of government. Let us enforce the laws we have. Let us turn to God and repent of sin. Let us follow the word of God in love and mercy to all. To show the love to those suffering at the hurt of the lose of their children in Connecticut. These children were beautiful young people with dreams and values and adults no doubt had a lot going for them to, until their life was taken from them. As we mourn let us not forget to love, even if we do not fully understand their sorrow or their grief from such tragic act of murder suicide. Let us offer the hope of a better tomorrow by making changes in our land and giving them the key of hope which is found in Christ Jesus. God is the God of all comfort, His love surrounds us still and if for no other greater purpose but to help the next person that goes through such anguish of lose in murder suicide. Dear Heavenly Father I am asking you to wrap your arms around those suffering in Connecticut. To enable them with the peace only you can bring to their families in difficult time loss of a innocent love one. May you grant peace and hope to those families as well as the family who love one did the shooting. In Jesus precious name, Amen. |