Embracing Sufferingနမူနာ
![Embracing Suffering](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F22185%2F1280x720.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Story 3 – Prayer in Suffering
Jill was just a baby Christian when her young daughter Sally first got sick. Being a teen mom to an infant and a toddler while trying to survive in a squatter community was tough enough, but sickness makes everything harder. Sally was the first one to get the measles and was hospitalized soon after.
The measles led to meningitis and pneumonia, and the hospital environment led to tuberculosis. Sally was put on feeding and breathing tubes and still has a tracheostomy two years later. The image of her gaunt body restrained and intubated in the crowed public hospital ICU is forever etched in my memory.
I was afraid to touch her, but she must have felt dreadfully frightened and alone. Jill and Sally had lived with our family for the first six months of her life, and she knew my voice. I knelt down on the cold hospital tile, gently caressed her tiny two-year-old foot and began to pray.
Even though I was sure Sally was going to die, I prayed. I prayed with Sally, and I prayed with Jill. Our family prayed. Our church prayed. We asked other missionaries to pray. We posted Sally’s picture and asked people around the world to pray.
By God’s grace, Sally survived! She still has her tube, but she is active and sassy and growing up in a squatter village with her mom, dad, brother and baby sister.
But this story isn’t about the power of prayer. Sally is not alive because we hit a target number of prayers or because of geographic range or even the earnestness and tears that poured out of my wife and I that first night we called out to God for mercy. Sally is alive because of God’s grace.
This story is about learning that there is a God in heaven who hears and who has mercy. It’s about a teen mom, helpless and disgraced, who found out that depending on God gives freedom and life. It’s about our shy Jill being overwhelmed by God’s mercy and ministering to the other moms in the ICU, even those whose babies did not recover. In one night, all the babies in the ward died except Sally and one other, and Jill prayed with those moms because she knew that the God of all comfort hears prayers. It’s about a community where a church was forming— being taught to pray rather than consulting with the local witchdoctor for serums and spells.
The same God who spared Sally is calling all people everywhere to come and depend on him and commune with him. Start building your prayer life today.
Reflection Questions
What prayers do you know from the Bible?
Consider reading about how Paul prays in Arthur Pink’s book “Gleanings from Paul.”
What is your first inclination when you encounter suffering?
How can you build a habit of consistently turning to prayer?
ဤအစီအစဥ္အေၾကာင္း
![Embracing Suffering](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F22185%2F1280x720.jpg&w=3840&q=75)
Missionaries, pastors, and the average Christian will encounter suffering in their lives and the lives of those they love and serve. This devotion is designed to look at real-life stories illustrating how God uses suffering to teach, guide and mold us to be more like Jesus. By God’s grace, we can glorify God as we embrace suffering in our lives, knowing that Jesus willingly laid down His life for us.
More
ဆက္စပ္ေနေသာအစီအစဥ္မ်ား
![ကျေးဇူးတော်သီချင်း](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F45619%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
ကျေးဇူးတော်သီချင်း
![သောကမီးမှ လွတ်မြောက်ချမ်းသာ](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F45189%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
သောကမီးမှ လွတ်မြောက်ချမ်းသာ
![ဆာလံကျမ်း၌ ကျက်စားခြင်း - ဆရာကြီးချားလ်စ်းစပါးဂျန်းမှ (၅) ရက်တာ ဖတ်ရှုဝတ်ပြုအစီစဉ်](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F32894%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
ဆာလံကျမ်း၌ ကျက်စားခြင်း - ဆရာကြီးချားလ်စ်းစပါးဂျန်းမှ (၅) ရက်တာ ဖတ်ရှုဝတ်ပြုအစီစဉ်
![ယေရှု၏အနာရောဂါငြိမ်းစေတော်မူခြင်း](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F41993%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
ယေရှု၏အနာရောဂါငြိမ်းစေတော်မူခြင်း
![ကလေးများအတွက် သမ္မာကျမ်း](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F36338%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
ကလေးများအတွက် သမ္မာကျမ်း
![ယေရှု၏ပုံဥပမာများ](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F41994%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
ယေရှု၏ပုံဥပမာများ
![ခရစ်တော်၌ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏ဖြစ်တည်ခြင်း — စစ်မှန်သောအချက် (၃၁) ချက်](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F35403%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
ခရစ်တော်၌ ကျွန်ုပ်တို့၏ဖြစ်တည်ခြင်း — စစ်မှန်သောအချက် (၃၁) ချက်
![လက်ဝါးကပ်တိုင်တော်၊ ကျွန်တော်တို့၏ ဘုန်းအသရေ](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F43734%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)
လက်ဝါးကပ်တိုင်တော်၊ ကျွန်တော်တို့၏ ဘုန်းအသရေ
![လင်မယားများအဖို့ (၁၀) ရက်တာ ဆုတောင်းခြင်းစိန်ခေါ်မှု](/_next/image?url=https%3A%2F%2Fimageproxy.youversionapi.com%2Fhttps%3A%2F%2Fs3.amazonaws.com%2Fyvplans%2F34082%2F320x180.jpg&w=640&q=75)