October 25, 2015
5:40 AM pst

Our Gracious Lord, words cannot express our heartfelt joy and gratitude to You for sparing the lives of these two Pickens County Sheriff’s deputies.  Once again, we are thankful that a Kevlar vest saved the life of one of these two deputies.  As both deputies are being treated at a local hospital, we come before Your wonderful Throne of Grace to lift up both of these wounded peacemakers into Your loving arms.  May You continue to pour out Your wisdom and insight upon the medical staff in order to diagnose and treat their injuries and restore them to full health.  May both deputies intimately come to know Your love, grace, peace, mercy and comfort as You carry them through the emotional rigors of this near-death encounter.  May Your amazing grace also be with the family members of both deputies as they were very likely emotionally traumatized when they learned of this incident involving their loved ones.  As both deputies likely had to use deadly force and a suspect died, we know this can be emotionally and spiritually traumatic.  So Lord, may Your Presence be ever so real in their hearts and souls.  May You be their Rock, Fortress and Deliver and an everlasting comforter to them.  May You also be with the family of the suspect who lost his life and sustain them with Your arms of love.  May the deputies and anyone struggling echo these same words as David, “In my distress I called to the LORD; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.”  May Your Holy Spirit reveal to these wounded deputies and their co-workers that now is the day of salvation.  And if any deputy does not know You personally, may You reveal to their hearts that you love them and will forgive their sins and grant them eternal life.  May You grant the investigators wisdom to piece together all of the facts surrounding this incident.  And as a result of this single incident, may many be drawn to the love of Your Son, in the name of Jesus we pray, Amen.

News link:
http://www.11alive.com/story/news/local/2015/10/24/two-deputies-shot-pickens-county/74569260/

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