Prayer topic: Comfort for survivors of disaster, tragedy
We live in a world that is hurting. But, we are not without hope or comfort because of Jesus Christ’s great compassion and guidance through even the toughest circumstances. Today we humbly ask that you pray for comfort for the survivors of disaster and tragedy.
Will You Pray?
Here’s a simple prayer to guide you:
Lord, your word assures us that you are good and quick to provide comfort in times of unthinkable loss, pain and suffering. Please come alongside those who are hurting today because of a disaster or tragedy. Help me to seek you in prayer as a reaction to difficult news and to share with others the comfort that you have shown me. Thank you for being the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort. Amen.
Key Bible Verse
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 (NIV): “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”
Read in Context: 2 Corinthians 1:3-11 (NIV)
Praise to the God of all Comfort
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. 5 For just as we share abundantly in the sufferings of Christ, so also our comfort abounds through Christ. 6 If we are distressed, it is for your comfort and salvation; if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which produces in you patient endurance of the same sufferings we suffer. 7 And our hope for you is firm, because we know that just as you share in our sufferings, so also you share in our comfort. 8 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers and sisters, about the troubles we experienced in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired of life itself. 9 Indeed, we felt we had received the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us again. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us, 11 as you help us by your prayers. Then many will give thanks on our behalf for the gracious favor granted us in answer to the prayers of many.
Read more from the book of 2 Corinthians.
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