I invite you to pray with me, would you pray?

Father in heaven, we at this moment need you.

I need you to help me to speak with truth according to your word,

with clarity, with appropriate affections for what is great and what is horrible, with love and

with humility, and these young people need your help, to understand, to penetrate through

words to realities, and to feel the weight of those realities and to be transformed by them.

I pray that your meticulous providence would be understood and would become an integral part of their lives so that they have amazing boldness in this world, ready to lay down their lives because their God rules everything.

I ask this in Jesus' name. Amen. On April 20, 2001, a fighter jet in over Peru, part of the

Peruvian Air Force, locked in on a missionary aviation plane carrying a young family and a pilot

and open fire, mistaking, supposedly, the plane for drug trafficking.

One burst of shots went through the legs of the pilot

who put the plane into an emergency dive

and landed it in a river,

and everybody was able to get out before it sank, but another bullet had gone by the husband's head,

Jim Bowers was his name, and shattered the windshield, and another bullet went into his

wife's back, came out the front, went into her seven-year, seven- year seven month old daughter sitting in her lap

and killed both of them what would you say at the memorial service? If you were the husband, having lost your wife and your seven-month-old daughter, what would you say?

There are thousands of people today.

I'm tempted to say millions who are being taught by high profile people in this country

who would say you ought not to be looking for a divine purpose.

I'll give you a quote.

When an individual inflicts pain on another individual, one should not go looking for,

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