Kentucky School Shooting: How can we lovingly give effective help?

It is sad, no devastating, to once again hear of a school shooting. Each one of us must bring our spiritual light to this situation to promote healing both physically and emotionally for those directly affected. Truly, this kind of thing affects every one of us more directly than we might realize. The link below will take you to CNN online to see the report.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/23/us/kentucky-high-school-shooting/index.html

Let us offer some Light of Truth and Love. Comforting is not an easy thing, but comfort comes from divine Love, and its gentle power holds us to Itself through the storm. It's an emotional storm. First, offer the stillness of holding one another silently in the presence of Love. Wordless comforting in prayer. Feel after the healing power of Love for those physically hit, and for those emotionally devastated. Silent, still, holding in Love. Know the Christ-presence is there and it is operating as Law.

Pray that the Christ enters in to the individual consciousness of each one connected to this tragedy, and that Christ is working in the perfect way, in God's own way for each one.

"Be still and know that I am God," (Psalm 46:10).

Floods and Severe Damage Neutralized by Prayer

Thousands need immediate help as floods in West Virginia have washed away homes and left an 18-person death toll with many more unaccounted for at this time. Rescue workers need our prayerful support as they are lovingly compelled to search for and help any remaining victims.

One story, reported by the Associated Press, enumerates the increasingly shocking steps a desperate woman took as water filled her home. Speaking with her husband by phone, she told of climbing up into the attic to escape the water, and then smelling natural gas. She managed to get out through a vent and then hold tight to a tree for hours until finally rescued. Let us pray that any other brave souls who might still be clinging to life are found and saved.

In an effort to comfort and strengthen any one in a similar position as the woman holding to the tree, please take a few minutes with me to affirm the presence of the gentle Love of God, the universal I AM. Love "casts out fear," the Scriptures assure us, and "God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and love, and a sound mind' (II Timothy 1:7). God, Love, is present; fear is abated, gone. Let the gentle presence of Love enfold all those holding on who are in scary circumstances, never expected, and give them comfort and strength. Let the divine Intelligence guide the rescue workers to go exactly to the right places and have power to successfully help.

Let us also prayerfully affirm that the hand of God, Good, is over each county that has suffered from the flooding, and that restoration be quick.

Urgent Need: Christian refugees held in Thailand

Please see the news article on BBC. 
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35654804

The Christians held in Thailand after fleeing Pakistan

By Chris RogersBBC News, Thailand26 February 2016
There is a very urgent need for practical, powerful prayer in behalf of Pakistani Christians who have fled to Thailand, but are now incarcerated or kept in dire living conditions. The U.N. is to investigate each case, but one family that has been there for a very long time, and is in extreme suffering, must wait until 2018 for this to occur. Although these hundreds, or thousands, of Christian Pakistanis are UN-registered asylum seekers, supposedly under UN protection, they still find themselves in long-term suffering through separation from families and/or imprisonment. 

Police in Thailand, tired of waiting for UN help, break into the overcrowded, dingy rooms where asylum seekers live, often taking the husbands and fathers from the family. An example is given of a ma who has lived in a "small, sparce room with no kitchen or toilet" with 10 family members for two years, and who was arrested and taken from the family two months ago. He explains that in Pakistan "a gang threatened to kill [his] family if they didn't convert to Islam." 
A 19-year-old's comment probably speaks for  the majority when she says that they do not have any faith in the United Nations, but they "only have faith in God. He will bring us freedom." We need to be moved with compassion and help with powerful prayer and voicing of Truth in their behalf. The Scriptures give us examples that parallel situations such as these. Of the many to consider, there is the well-known narrative of Moses who freed the children of Israel after 400 years of hard slavery. They were held by Pharaoh who would not budge in his decision to keep them in bondage. But the Law of God was present, and the Spirit of Truth inevitably brings freedom. Man is not made to be held in bonds or to be imprisoned. 
The result of Moses' obedience to whatever God told him to do or say was that hundreds of thousands were freed and walked out of Egypt in plain sight. This law of God is present today with the Christians in Thailand. They are holding to forgiveness and to Christ's example. Good is powerful, and ever-present. Love frees. God fills all space and is in the prison and in the simple shelters. "Where the spirit of God is, there is liberty." Let us hold to this prayer until we see a break in this situation and the people are freed. Let us know that there is no power to hold up right action in the UN -- that there is nothing to delay God's Law, justice and mercy, so the people can be free, the families can reunite, and the conditions for living be normalized. Let us pray to realize the presence of Love and power of Good. 
Again, "Where the spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty." And Spirit fills all space!

World News: Follow Blogs to Add Your Spiritual Power to Help Others Worldwide

Dear Blog Followers,

Please post any world news issues that you would like to see addressed from a spiritual viewpoint, and I will respond with practical ideas on how to help through applying spiritual truths and God's Law. Our collective focused thought rests on those in need and situations adjust, people get help, healing happens. Bring your unselfish intent to this blog and let us help one another around the world.

Abby