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Grief is real. It's a natural response to losing someone or something important to you.
A heartfelt talk on understanding and overcoming grief through faith, biblical examples, and trusting God's promises.
Key Takeaways
- Grief is a natural process that must be acknowledged and properly managed.
- Biblical faith offers comfort and hope during times of loss.
- Expressing emotions honestly to God is important in healing from grief.
- Jesus’ victory over death assures believers of eternal life and peace.
- Living a life grounded in faith prepares one to face death without fear.
Summary
- Grief is a natural and real response to loss, often experienced during events like the COVID pandemic.
- There are stages of grief: denial, anger, depression, and acceptance.
- Improper handling of grief can negatively impact physical, mental, and spiritual health.
- Biblical stories such as the widow with Elisha, Naomi, and the sisters of Lazarus illustrate grief and faith.
- Jesus understands grief personally and offers comfort and promises of eternal life.
- Believers are encouraged to openly express their grief and anger to God without fear.
- Faith in Jesus Christ provides hope, assurance, and strength to overcome grief.
- Grieving should eventually transform into gratitude for the life of the lost loved one.
- Facing death with confidence is possible through knowing Jesus Christ as Savior.
- The video urges viewers to live rightly now and share the message of Jesus with others.
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And I'm sure many families would have gone through this period of grief during this COVID time.
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Very often we don't understand why this separation. You may feel a variety of emotions like sadness and loneliness.
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There are stages of grief. One is denial. I am not going through pain, I'm not going through grief.
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The second stage is anger. We really get angry, why did it happen to us?
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Why now?
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The third stage is depression. When the grief hits us, we go through loneliness, we go through depression, we don't want to meet anybody, we want to be alone.
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The fourth stage is acceptance. It's not wrong to grieve.
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Nowhere in the Bible you read that you should not grieve.
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Grieving is real, we are all human. When we value relationships and when there is separation, it hurts.
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But the problem with many is they live in grief throughout.
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If you and I do not handle grief properly, it can hurt us, it can hurt us in all areas, our physical health will deteriorate, we go through mental illness and also it affects our spirituality.
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In the Bible we read of families that went through pain and grief. The Bible talks about this young widow.
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She lost her husband and so she came running to the prophet Elisha and said, my husband has gone, my husband is dead, and he has left behind a huge debt and the debtors are standing there to take my sons away.
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We also read of Naomi who lost her husband and two sons. And Naomi was going through grief, and added to that there was famine in the land, she cannot even lean on anything to support her.
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Then we come to the New Testament, we find the two sisters sending the message to Jesus saying, the one whom you love is sick. And Jesus delayed, by the time Jesus came to that place, Lazarus died.
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You know, all of us know what grief is all about, what grieving is all about.
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And I do not know if you are still grieving. Maybe there is anger, anger towards God, why did God do this to me?
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How long should I go through this pain? My Bible says, Jesus looked at the disciples and said, let not your hearts be troubled, believe in God, believe also in me.
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In my Father's house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I go to prepare a place for you?
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You know, let me place few things from God's word.
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And from my own experience.
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When we want to overcome grief, let us go to the right place to be comforted. Human words are limited.
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They can only give their time and it's very limited. But the only one who understands the pain of grief, the pain of grieving is our Lord.
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Because he knows what it is to be separated from his mother. And looking at his mother he said, woman, behold thy son, and son, behold thy mother.
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He knows that something needs to be provided. And then the promise in John's Gospel chapter 14, you find there is a promise of a place.
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I go to prepare a place for you. There is a promise of his presence. I will come and take you to be with me.
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What a beautiful assurance. The Bible says that you and I need to turn to God. All these people, Mary and Martha cried out to the Lord, fell at his feet and said, Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.
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Don't hide your emotions. Tell the Lord as it is. Don't fear. The Lord understands our grief, the Lord understands our pain, the Lord understands your pain.
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He's the only one who can wipe your tears. He's the only one who can understand your tears. He's the only one who can interpret your tears and understand the heaviness of heart. Maybe you're going through that time now.
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Your friends are not there. You do not know to whom you should turn. And there is always this pain and there is anger.
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May I invite you to tell the Lord your concerns.
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Share with him your pain.
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And believe on the promises of God.
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But then for us who are left behind, may I say this, the best way for us to have this confidence and to face death is to know that the Lord Jesus Christ defeated it on the cross.
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Death is only an entrance to celebrate our permanent residence with the Lord. And if you do not know this Jesus Christ as your personal savior, this is the time for you to say, Lord Jesus, come into my life.
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Lord Jesus, stay with me. Lord, strengthen me. And what a place it will be when you celebrate it with the Lord Jesus Christ. Share your grief with him, believe on the word, read his word, draw strength from his word.
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And the Lord said, I will never leave you nor forsake you.
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You know, grief is real.
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Grieving can go on for some time.
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But every time you think of that person, maybe after a month or few years, turn it into an act of praise and say, Lord, thank you for the life of my father, my mother, or my child, whoever it is. Now they are not perfect, but look at their life, one thing that you want to thank God for and say, Lord, thank you.
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And then for you and me, any day we will receive the call, we will face it with confidence and say, I am going to be with the Lord, for he has prepared a place and there is presence is promised and also his promise is real.
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He said, he is preparing a place for me. Now, let me close with this. If you and I have to die rightly, we have to live rightly. And if you and I need to have a place in eternity, the time is now. Nothing can be done after we die.
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You know, sometimes people pray saying, I want to go and pray for his peace so that his peace will find rest. Nowhere in the Bible I read, you can pray for the dead, nowhere.
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But if you and I are concerned about those who are living, the time is now. Share with your loved ones about Jesus Christ, so that they too can face death confidently and say, I will face death and there's no longer grief, but the grief will be there for some time, but don't keep on grieving because Jesus Christ is the answer. God bless you.
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