Father in heaven, there is no one like You, who can turn hearts and minds of the kings like the ribbons of rivers. You use the unexpected to bring about Your will. Just like that famous meeting between Jesus and Paul on the road to Damascus. The Lord turned the persecutor into the promoter of the gospel to the Gentiles. Use us, Lord. Give us Your heart for the broken. May we be those Second Corinthian servants who comfort others with the comfort You have rendered to us. I ask in the name of the One who came to heal the brokenhearted and to bind up their wounds, Jesus, according to Your good and perfect will. Amen.

“And I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers. But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb and called me through His grace, to reveal His Son in me, that I might preach Him among the Gentiles, I did not immediately confer with flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were apostles before me; but I went to Arabia, and returned again to Damascus.” (Galatians 1: 14-17 NKJV)

 

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Joy S. Taylor is a mother, grandmother, and great grandmother. Her workdays were spent using the Master of Science in Accounting degree she earned at the age of, well, greater than 40. She led a divorce recovery support group sponsored by her church for seven years, and spent more than a decade in leadership roles for Celebrate Recovery. Now retired, she concentrates on writing, yet devotes some of her time volunteering for Care Net .