Precious Princess, Bear All!

"Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much (James 5:16 KJV)."


My dear friend Annie has struggled with one issue in particular for so very long she probably cannot remember what her life was like without the issue. Nor can she probably imagine what her life would be like with freedom from it. She is a beautiful princess in my eyes, a precious friend with a heart of pure Godly gold, yet when she looks in the mirror she cannot see the princess like I can. She recently asked me to pray that she would be delivered from this challenge, and declared that she no longer wanted to carry the burden alone. She would tell her new women's Bible study group and ask the ladies to pray, she announced, and she asked me to pray that she would have the courage. 


When I asked her how the women responded to her bearing her heart to them, she said she had decided not to go. But God had other plans. Within 24 hours, in a random store in a large city, she ran into the wife of her pastor - from a very large church. What a small world! Rather, what an awesome God! 


Annie opened her heart to the pastor's wife, and together they prayed - right in the store. Annie's issue is no longer a secret, thereby allowing the devil to stomp all over her with condemnation. Instead, my dear friend who was created to be a princess has taken the first great step in being able to look in the mirror and see the lovely woman the Lord created. She has confessed the fault she did not want the world to see, she has been prayed for, and I believe with all my heart she soon will walk free. 


Please, dear Princesses of God, do not hold your troubles in the dark. Bear them into the light, where your sisters will meet you and stand in faith with you, and the Lord will heal.