A Prayer for Persistence for the Good God Guarantees
By Keri Eichberger
Bible Studying
“I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; due to this fact I’ll await him.” The LORD is sweet to these whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him.” – Lamentations 3:24-25
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It’s been a extremely laborious 12 months. One of many hardest I can keep in mind truly. And proper now, the hope-light inside me appears to be dimming a bit of extra every day. I do know God is sweet. I do know he has me in his arms. However, as the frustration and difficulties linger longer and longer, my persistence thins. How can we maintain on? How can we swell with hope and pleasure when our damage appears to overpower the encouragement we desperately attempt to cling to? I don’t find out about you, however I’m actually good at sporting a smile. I imply, who needs to be pals with a Debbie Downer anyway? However on the within, no matter how justified I’m to really feel defeated and deflated, the lengthy struggles of life can eat me alive.
Do you’re feeling any of this? Have you learnt God is sweet and belief he has good in retailer for you, however proper now, via a troublesome season or state of affairs, you might be actually struggling to relaxation in persistence for his guarantees to prevail? For specks of the goodness you lengthy for. For aid from the wrestle and deep breaths of refreshment to resume your sorrowful soul? I do know. Me too. All of us need the nice God has promised. And all of us want we might be extra affected person. So what can we do? I imagine we have to hold clinging… to God.
Persistence is extraordinarily troublesome for me too, however I need to hold clinging. I lately positioned a bookmark in my Bible, in Lamentations 3, highlighting verses 24 and 25 to remind me that the Lord is our portion. All of us want to recollect this. Holding on to reassurance that he’s and can present our actual wants every day. True, perhaps not all of our needs—although some might come our manner—however he supplies the right parts we’d like now, and he’ll present each needed portion for our tomorrows. These days and locations forward that deep down we query will maintain any gentle in any respect.
Subsequently, we’re to attend for him. As a result of we all know—and his reliable phrase says so— that God’s portion is now and then. That is the hope we will cling to. He is the hope we will cling to. A hope that can fortify our persistence as we maintain tight to it. And we hold searching for him. As a result of these phrases of fact additionally remind us that the Lord is good to those that do. And sure, we are going to discover goodness even immediately as we search him, cling to him, hold inserting our hope in him.
Let’s pray:
Father God, You’re a good, good father. A God of fine, good guarantees. I do know this, however so usually I get overcome with persisting, painful circumstances and seasons. Seasons my persistence turns into so skinny that I discover myself past annoyed by the wait. Weak, deflated, and generally down within the dumps of defeat. I place a smile on my face whereas I roam the world round me, but inside I really feel so determined to bear witness to your provision I might burst. However Lord, you might be my portion this very day. You’ve got offered all I’ve ever wanted, and also you received’t cease. Give me confidence on this fact. For this, I’m so very grateful. Lord, I’ll search you, cling to you, place my hope in you. And I do know you might be good to those that do. For this additionally, I’m so very grateful. In your offering identify, Amen.
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