"There is a yearning for God to put things right, to replace human sorrow with joy, human tears with laughter, human fear with peace." (Henry French, 118) I am afraid now more than ever when I pray these final words. Why? After all I am the hired holy man, the pastor who is supposed to have all the answers, the cleric, the man who has his stuff together. Beloved I am terrified. If I pray for deliverance to happen and to be real in my life what happens then when I fall back into sin, when I fail to be that stellar super disciple, when I tarnish the office of pastor and fail to complete what people would hope me to be? Deliverance takes me stepping aside and asking for God to intervene and make things right again. To go from sorrow to joy, from tears to laughter, and from fear to peace. This is good news and the longing of this fumbling disciple.
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