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Finding God in Grief and Loss,

The Pathway to Wholeness


Frank Meadows, LCSW
MeadowsHealingPrayerCenter.com
Big House Church
October 13, 2013
1.Dealing with grief
and loss is the
essence of why
people come for
healing and
counseling
sessions.
a.# Death of a parent, spouse, child or loved one,
stillborn child, abortion
b.# Aging, Sickness, childhood disabilities, illnesses
c.# Lost Opportunities: I wish I would have...., I wish I
would have finished college, I wish I had been
there for my children more often, Regrets, divorce, lost
opportunities
d.# Life transitions: entering adolescence, leaving home,
getting married, moving, military transitions, beginning
college, leaving college, midlife crisis, separation and
divorce, children being born, children leaving home,
retirement, old-age
e.# Lost Kingdom opportunities: I wish I would have gone
into the area of ministry I was called to. Life compromises,
missed Gods' best for me. Marrying the wrong person, etc.
2. The problem is that we bury,
suppress, deny, spiritualize
our pain and grief.
3. So what do we do? How do we
effectively process our grief, walk by
faith and live life to the fullest?
4. Grief and Loss Timeline
Exercise
0 15 30 60 45
5. Stages of Grief
6. Biblical Kingdom Perspective
about Grief and Loss:
3 Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the
Father of mercies and God of all comfort,
4 who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to
comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with
which we ourselves are comforted by God.
5 For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so
also our comfort is abundant through Christ.
6 But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if
we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the
patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer;
2 Corinthians 1:3-10 (NASB)
7 and our hope for you is firmly grounded, knowing that as you are
sharers of our sufferings, so also you are sharers of our comfort.
8 For we do not want you to be unaware, brethren, of our affliction
which came to us in Asia, that we were burdened excessively, beyond
our strength, so that we despaired even of life;
9 indeed, we had the sentence of death within ourselves so that we
would not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead;
10 who delivered us from so great a peril of death, and will deliver
us, He on whom we have set our hope. And He will yet deliver us,
7. Finding meaning in loss:
1 He has sent Me to heal the
brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty
to the captives, And the opening of
the prison to those who are bound;
2To comfort all who mourn,
3 To console those who mourn in
Zion, To give them beauty for
ashes, The oil of joy for
mourning, The garment of praise
for the spirit of heaviness;
Isaiah 61:1-3 (NKJV)
1 Now a certain man was sick, Lazarus of Bethany, the
town of Mary and her sister Martha
3 Therefore the sisters sent to Him, saying, Lord,
behold, he whom You love is sick.
4 When Jesus heard that, He said, This sickness is not
unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of
God may be glorified through it.
5 Now Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus
9 Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day?
If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble,
because he sees the light of this world.
8. The Story of Lazarus
John 11:1-40 (NKJV)
10 But if one walks in the night, he stumbles, because the
light is not in him
14 Then Jesus said to them plainly, Lazarus is dead.
15 And I am glad for your sakes that I was not there, that
you may believe. Nevertheless let us go to him
17 So when Jesus came, He found that he had already
been in the tomb four days
21 Then Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if You had been
here, my brother would not have died.
22 But even now I know that whatever You ask of God,
God will give You."
23 Jesus said to her, Your brother will rise again.
(Note that she had faith but lacked a kingdom perspective)
24 Martha said to Him, I know that he will rise again in the
resurrection at the last day.
25 Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life.
He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.
26 And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do
you believe this?
32 Then, when Mary came where Jesus was, and saw Him,
she fell down at His feet, saying to Him, Lord, if You had
been here, my brother would not have died
39 Jesus said, Take away the stone. Martha, the sister of
him who was dead, said to Him, Lord, by this time there is a
stench, for he has been dead four days.
40 Jesus said to her, Did I not say to you that if you would
believe you would see the glory of God?
43 Now when He had said these
things, He cried with a loud voice,
Lazarus, come forth!
44 And he who had died came out
bound hand and foot with grave
clothes, and his face was wrapped
with a cloth. Jesus said to them,
Loose him, and let him go.
45 Then many of the Jews who had
come to Mary, and had seen the
things Jesus did, believed in Him.
41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the
dead man was lying. And Jesus lifted up His eyes and said,
Father, I thank You that You have heard Me.
42 And I know that You always hear Me, but because of
the people who are standing by I said this, that they may
believe that You sent Me.
He is despised and rejected by men, a Man of
sorrows and acquainted with griefSurely He
has borne our griefs and carried our sorrows,
Isaiah 53:3,4 (NKJV)
Youve kept track of my every toss and turn
through the sleepless nights, Each tear entered
in your ledger, each ache written in your book.
Psalm 56:8 (MSG)
How long will You forget me, O Lord? Forever? How long
will You hide Your face from me? How long must I lay up
cares within me and have sorrow in my heart day after day?
How long shall my enemy exalt himself over me? Consider
and answer me, O Lord my God; lighten the eyes [of my faith
to behold Your face in the pitchlike darkness], lest I sleep the
sleep of death, Lest my enemy say, I have prevailed over him,
and those that trouble me rejoice when I am shaken.
Ive thrown myself headlong into your armsIm
celebrating your rescue. Im singing at the top of my
lungs, Im so full of answered prayers.
Psalm 13:1-4 (AMP)
Psalm 13:5,6 (MSG)

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