All of us are faced with situations that we can’t predict what the outcome will be. From a high school student attending a new school and worrying about making friends to person facing a difficult financial, marital, or health situation, all those situation are scary. So what do you do. Pray.
Prayer is more than just telling God what you need. Prayer is more than asking God to help someone or heal someone, it is a relationship. Paul helps us here with his words in Phil. 4:6 when he says, “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understand, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. This is about relationship. Trusting God in the midst of difficulty.
Imagine the difficulty of the New Testament Christians as they face the lions in the Colosseum in Rome. How can anyone be prepared for such a terrible situation? The are however, numerous examples throughout history where believers have faced terrible situation of physical trials with supernatural grace from God.
Last week a friend of mine Joyce Silver died after a battle with cancer for 15 years. She was amazing. She was given 18 months to live and she just kept saying she wasn’t going until God said that she was to go. She encouraged me so much. She demonstrated this grace of God under trial. Wow. She is a modern-day hero of the faith that could be placed in Heb. 11.
When trials come, pray and trust God with your life. What what God does in you. See ya. Pastor Bob
Pastor Bob 