Pray For Nashville as the City Mourns

RPN

Mar 28

In the wake of another school shooting, Nashville turned to prayer Monday night, March 27th, opening her church doors for vigils around the city, mourning the loss of the 3 nine-year-old children and 3 adults who lost their lives in the attack.

The suspect, Audrey Hale, left behind a Twitter post saying she no longer wanted to live and that she planned to die by suicide. Audrey was in the midst of a gender transition. Though we do not know if she took hormones as part of her gender transformation, we know there needs to be more research on how hormones can affect an individual’s mental health. As a nation, we face a mental health crisis like we have never known. There are many broken and wounded people all around us. For some communities, trauma has become so embedded that the result is a rise in mental health issues, which in some cases erupts into more violence, perpetuating the cycle. More trauma has been released on untold families due to this school shooting. And now these families and children need our prayers.

Psalm 127 reminds us, “Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman stays awake in vain.” We are in a battle for our nation’s children! It is time to join ranks with other believers to cover our schools, our churches, our police, our cities, our states, and our nation in prayer. Locked doors did not keep this lone shooter out, nor did the threat of a responsive police force. Ephesians 6 says, “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” It is time to take this battle on for our children!

Pray with us:

We war for the protection and the healing only Jesus can bring! Lord, bring comfort to these traumatized school children, parents, and the shooter's family. Help us be vigilant to the needs of the broken and hurting as we seek You on how to keep our children safe. Let us not be complacent but give us a fighting spirit! Amen.

Contributed by,

Marion Farrar
Tennessee General, Reformation Prayer Network
Founder, Nashville Women's Conference

Marion has been involved in leadership for the prayer movement, particularly in the state of Tennessee for many years, across many networks, and spheres of authority in many roles. Her current assignments include pursuing racial reconciliation in Nashville and addressing government overreach in the educational system of TN. Marion is the founder of Heart of Intercession Ministries and is an ordained minister. Marion has been married for 40 years to Russ Farrar and has 2 grown daughters.

1. Fox News: https://www.foxnews.com/us/nashville-school-shooting-officers-took-out-suspected-covenant-shooter-identified
2. ibid

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