Betrayal

How do you recover from a hideous betrayal? One of my dearest loves just this past weekend was the victim of such unspeakable evil, that it takes my breath away. It came to light that a man that was planning to marry her has in fact been keeping women all over the country, and the worst part, is that he used You Lord, as a way to manipulate his way into her heart--AND the heart of her child. Yet, in the midst of it all, one of the other women, who is also a believer, is actually reaching out to my friend, and they are grieving together, talking of You, as they continue to discover, blow by excruciating, astonishing blow, how this man has betrayed them, played them. Is it possible Lord, that you want to minister to these women through each other? I told my friend tonight, that this woman is her ministry--this woman who is young and living the same life my friend has lived before. My dear one screamed and cried that the pain is too deep, that she isn't strong enough to love this woman who has been loving the same man. That she needs time to mourn. I cried with her, Lord. What lesson in this, Lord? How could You allow this man to proclaim You so he could violate someone else--someone who had been praying faithfully for a Godly man to love she and her daughter? Lord, how deep was your pain when you allowed us to betray you? How profound your anguish? Does my friend feel an inth of what it must've felt like to allow yourself to be beaten, mocked, misunderstood, scorned, rejected, wounded--killed...all for the sake of loving us?

Lord, my friend has been through more hardship than almost anyone I've met. So much loss, so much abandonment. I pray that you would restore what the locusts have eaten away in her life. I see that her destiny in You must be a bright, burning fire, because the enemy has tried so hard to destroy her. I ask Lord, that you would bind up the broken-hearted, as You promise in Your word. I ask that you would be the Balm that eases her pain. I ask that You would use her mightily in the life of this young woman who would look for hope in her relationship with this man who doesn't deserve her, or my friend. I ask that they both would find peace and comfort in You. I ask that they would both rise up, a shining light, and would not be extinguished by this onslaught of the enemy. I ask that You would be glorified and give beauty for ashes. All these things I ask in Your name.