A Prayer for Energy to Face Challenges within the Coming 12 months
By Keri Eichberger
Bible Studying:
“Within the day after I cried out, You answered me, and made me daring with power in my soul.” – Psalm 138:3 NKJV
Hear or Learn Beneath:
I’ve had seasons of long-seeming weak point. Relentless overcast, dim days that rolled in like continuous salty waves on a chilly misty seashore. Little mild or heat in sight. However by the grace of God, ultimately, rays of brightness at all times peeked by. And the Lord would once more present me bits of ardour and power streaked with hope and specks of pleasure. But one cloud continued to stay: understanding laborious days would quickly return.
Because it stands right now, I simply wrapped up a 12 months that felt like one of many hardest I’ve had. In reflection, I’m staring again at a rollercoaster of highs and lows, the place the valleys felt so much like bottomless pits at their worst, and the peaks undoubtedly didn’t cross as mountaintop moments. Actually, it form of appears the lows outweighed the highs. And what I’m combating proper now’s a bit of dread to tackle a complete new 12 months if it’s going to appear like the final.
Do you have got some issues about potential challenges forward? Positive. All of us do generally. The previous tells us life has had its actually laborious moments. Watching the lives of others, we discover there are more durable moments that might be had. And naturally, the bible reassures us there completely will probably be bother and struggling on this life. Which will be form of scary at occasions. And why? As a result of we flat out don’t really feel like we’ve got what it takes to deal with the struggles and difficulties we’re dealt. Possibly you’re feeling such as you already haven’t dealt with among the robust stuff you’ve walked by properly.
We have to know God will assist us. If solely we knew certainly that he would strengthen us in our time of weak point, want, and desperation, possibly we wouldn’t fear a lot. Possibly we’d stroll a bit of lighter, with a bit of extra pleasure, and rather less weight of what if.
Properly, right here’s what I need to encourage us each with right now. Simply because the Lord gave us every adequate power to come back out of all our previous pits, he’ll do it once more. Hear, I do know what it feels wish to surprise if I’ll ever see a real smile mirrored on my face once more. I do know what it feels wish to need so badly for God to shine in and thru me with only one small burst of sunshine. I do know what it feels wish to cry out and wait and wait and wait. However one of the best information I can testify to is that I do know what it seems like when God exhibits up.
God at all times exhibits up. God provides adequate power after we name on and keep shut to him.
As you look on the path earlier than you—stepping out onto a street which will look scary, steep, stuffed with shadows, or clouded by uncertainty—keep in mind God is headed there with you. Keep in mind that each single time you name on him, he hears you and provides you with simply the power to deal with every laborious scenario, wrestle, and season. Be inspired as you look forward. Let your coronary heart and soul sing and smile with the hope of your good God main and by no means leaving you.
Let’s Pray:
Father God, You might be so good. You hear me cry after I’m in want, you give me power when I’m weak, and also you provide mild after I really feel misplaced in the dead of night. I do know some seasons appear to tug me down greater than others, and I admit I can worry the return of such struggles. However give me confidence in your unfailing faithfulness. The reality that you simply’ve lifted me out of the shadows earlier than, and you’ll decide me up repeatedly. And due to these unchanging outpours of compassion, I can stroll in freedom and peace. I can dwell inspired that with you, as I name on and lean on you, I’ll make it by. And so I can have pleasure now. And lots extra then, with you as my regular and strong power. Forevermore. In your Son’s wonderful title, amen.
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