How is your prayer life? Are you weary of repeating the same longings for your loved one? Do your words feel rote, your pleas lifeless? Has the roller coaster of prayer left you in a valley where shadows of unbelief and hopelessness threaten to overtake you? Does the lostness of your loved one stir sorrow so deep it escapes through groans and bitter tears?
The fall of 2024 felt like one of the busiest seasons I’ve walked through…I honestly wasn’t sure if I would be able to do it all without feeling completely overwhelmed.
“…for he has said, ‘I will never leave you nor forsake you.’ So we can confidently say,
‘The Lord is my helper;
I will not fear;
what can man do to me?’
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
-Hebrews 13:5b-6, 8
“And they will look to the earth, but behold, distress and darkness, the gloom of anguish. And they will be thrust into thick darkness”. The chapter ends. The page of my Bible ends. And so my life should end, in the darkness I’d chosen….Then, at that definitive, crushing conclusion when all hope is lost, a word appears: but.
Have you ever felt trapped in a period of waiting, wondering if you should move on from hoping for a change? Have you ever watched others seemingly take for granted something that you are desperate to enjoy? Have you ever felt like God is answering so many prayers…just not your specific petitions?
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