Prayer of Comfort

Yesterday our congregation lost a long-time member so I thought that it would be only fitting to post a passage from Scripture that gives us comfort and strength in our grief and assures us of our hope through Jesus Christ.

“Do not let your hearts be troubled. Believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house there are many dwelling places. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and will take you to myself, so that where I am, there you may be also. And you know the way to the place where I am going.”Thomas said to him, “Lord, we do not know where you are going. How can we know the way?”Jesus said to him, “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." (John 14:1-6)

This is the passage that I read to this member earlier this week as she squeezed my hand. May God be with her family as they grieve her passing and may they find strength and comfort as we lift them up in prayer.

Yours in Christ, Emma.

For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor rulers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:38-39)