When you see a comment or post requesting prayer in your ministry, be careful to remove it, and in its place, leave a loving and gentle reminder:
"When we are hurting and desperate and reaching out for prayer, the only ONE to bring you comfort and who promises to take care of the situation is the Lord, who says He will reward you with the 'peace that surpasses all understanding.'"
This is what He says, "Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty and marvelous and wondrous things, which you do not know…things to come, things you could never figure out on your own, remarkable secrets…“ Jeremiah 33:3
Why not just keep it there so the other women reading it can join together in prayer?
Why not, as the Minister, pray in reply to the comment or email her privately with a prayer?
Whatever you allow and encourage breeds more of the same. When we nurture a woman in response to their post or privately, I guarantee it will result in no one knowing Him more personally. Instead, it will result in more women (and the woman who posts) having a greater need for prayer in comments and new posts.
What's worse is that it will rob them of His promise for a reward: "But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you." Matthew 6:6
If the post has resulted in a response, also include (and should He lead you to contact the woman privately) the links to the Power of Prayer, which is the page they land on after submitting a prayer request, which is spoken about in the RYM book and why we have a means to request prayer.
Be sure your ministry's menu includes this 🙏🏻Prayer Request🙏🏻 that's located on the bottom of the contact page—along with other helpful links. And refer to the blog post "Asking for Prayer" #RMIManual
Finally, my Husband said that since most are seeking help in their marriage, you can also share the prayer at the end of RYM Chapter 1.
“Dear Lord, please guide this special sister during the trouble in her marriage. And her ears shall hear a word behind her saying, this is the way, walk here, when she turns to her right and when she turns to her left (see Isaiah 30:21).
“Please reassure her when she sees a thousand fall on her right side and ten thousand at her left; help her to know that if she follows You, it will not happen to her (see Psalms 91:7). Hide her under your protective wings.
“Help her to find the narrow path that will lead her to life, the abundant life you have for her and for her family. Lord, I pray for a testimony that you can use for Your glory when this troubled or broken marriage is healed and restored! We will give You all the honor and the glory. Amen.”
In the RMI ADM Manual, it mentions that it's important to "bridge" documents, and one of our LMF Blog Policies states to be sure to "Bridge the Source." Since then, our Commander-in-Chief, the Lord of Hosts, has continually reinforced the need for a NET.
“'Come with Me. I’ll make a new kind of fisherman out of you. I’ll show you how to catch men and women instead of perch and bass.’ They didn’t ask questions, but simply dropped their nets and followed.” Matthew 4:19
Envision there being a NET to catch those who are falling or being swept out to sea by the current wave of social trends— along with the lies we each fell into.
A single island, a post or instructions should never stand alone like an island—with no bridge to get off or connect you to any way of finding your way back to the mainland. This is why our lesson chapters now have a book, which, when clicked, can take you back to the list of lessons.
Like everything, if you're working with Him, and you ask Him, after embracing this policy, then He will surprise you with "things you could never figure out on your own" and "remarkable secrets…“ you can share with us. The perfect example is the protocol for NEW additions to one of our RMI Manuals:
Rather than just adding something new to the manual and creating a bridge with a link on the List of Content for both ADM and Ministering, this Creating a NET policy will be added to the RMIOU blog, or when it's an ADM, to the RMIOUFT blog.
The blog posts may have an instructional video or screenshots, but will always include #tags, and all this will be added here—to the Manuals!
By the Word of Their Testimony
"And they OVERCAME, TRIUMPHED, DEFEATED, CONQUERED, were VICTORIOUS over him because of the blood of the Lamb and because of the WORD of their TESTIMONY." Revelation 12:11
To strengthen our RMI Ministering Manual, please comment with YOUR testimony to help enlighten and confirm the policy, procedure, or protocol. If used, we will add it to our manual in blue. THANK YOU!
I will never forget there was a time that I was so broken that I just wanted everybody to pray for me, that I even searched on the internet for forms to submit my prayer requests (because I would think the Lord is going to listen to other’s prayers for me and not my own and if I think about it now that wasn’t actually trusting the Lord or building on our personal relationship). I would run more to others for prayer and comfort and I remember one time running to my friend Yvonne (because I had received a phone call from my ex husband at that time, that upset me) and while running I heard the Lord say I wish you would run that way to Me, I know ouch! Now I know the Lord does answer my prayers to Him and He loves it when I run to Him with everything.