There are many unscrupulous individuals using today’stechnology to scam innocent people out of their resources. If you fell victim to one of these predators, please do not feel shamed. Do not feel ashamed for the ills inflicted on you by others. You did not request it. You did not initiate it. Then why are you internalizing other people’s shame? It is their ill thoughts that commit this shame. Do not take on the responsibility of other people’s shame. Tell the world what they did, for the power in any struggle is secrecy. When we hide from the ills inflicted on us, we cannot heal. Share yourstory, then forgive yourself. Forgiveness is a process. Start the process today. James tells us: Therefore, confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

After calling his twelve disciples to him Jesus gavethem authority to cast out demons. However, when they came to the crowd, a man approached Jesus and knelt before him. "Lord, have mercy on my son," he said. "He has seizuresand is suffering greatly. He often falls into the fire or into the water. I brought him to your disciples, but they could not heal him." "O unbelieving and perverse generation," Jesus replied, "how long shall I stay with you? How long shall I put up with you? Bring the boy here to me." Jesus rebuked the demon, and it came out of the boy, and he was healed from that moment. Then the disciples came to Jesus in private and asked, "Why couldn't we drive it out?"

In Acts we see the angel answered Cornelius and said: "Your prayers and gifts to the poor have come up as a memorial offering before God. Now send men to Joppa to bring back a man named Simon who is called Peter. He is staying with Simon the tanner, whose house is by the sea." When the angel who spoke to him had gone, Cornelius called two of his servants and a devout soldier who was one of his attendants. He told them everything that had happened and sent them to Joppa.