Pray for those that have been afflicted to receive comforts.

Heavenly Father, I pray to send people that will be Christ's hand to help, Christ's ears to listen, Christ's arms to hold and Christ's voice to speak word of comfort into the heart of all who are in affliction with the menace of terrorist in Nigeria. In Jesus name we pray, AMEN

2 Corinthians 1:4 "who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God."

Our Father in heaven has a wondrous array of divine qualities, eternal attributes and godly characteristics that rejoice our heart and calm our soul, but perhaps one of His essential elements is that He is our God of all comfort - our Source of all consolation. He Who walked this earth and Who learned obedience by the things that He Himself suffered, is more than adequate to identify with our hurt and pain and to empathize with our sorrow and suffering. Oh yes..

He is more than equipped to comfort us in all our afflictions. And yet there is a deeper meaning, a wider purpose and a greater reason that our Father of mercies, and God of all comfort condescends to stoop down and comfort us in our affliction and to console us in our miseries, for He has purposed that we who are comforted of Him, may be ready and equipped to comfort and succor all those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort and consolation that we ourselves have received from our heavenly Father. Suffering in this life often feels meaningless. Scripture immediately brings a sense of purpose to our suffering.

Those who have been comforted by God—strengthened, encouraged, relieved of the burden—have opportunity to pass along comfort to others who are suffering. In that sense, God's comfort is reproducible and repeatable. God remains the source, but believers can keep distributing God's comfort to others who suffer as they have.

Who has more empathy and compassion for someone who is suffering, inwardly or outwardly, than a believer who has experienced that same suffering from that same cause? Who is better able to express how God comforted them in a similar moment than someone who has walked the same path?