“Dear friends, do not be surprised at the fiery ordeal that has come on you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you. But rejoice inasmuch as you participate in the sufferings of Christ, so that you may be overjoyed when his glory is revealed” 1 Peter 4:12,13.
I’m surprised. Perhaps you’re experiencing a great trial as well. Our minds are in a battle to focus on faith in God, our physical bodies are taxed beyond understanding. But God is greater than anything we can face.
“My God is so big, so strong and so mighty, there’s nothing our God cannot do!” I pray God enables us to stand in faith and not enter fear.
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and of a sound mind” 2nd Timothy 1:7.
Join me to fight this battle on our knees.
What is our comfort in this time? Psalm 119:50 tells us, “Your Word has given me life.”
I share an hour’s worth of prayer to meditate on so we can think on “things above, not on things of the earth,” and because we have believed in Jesus, and have “died” to this world, “our life is now hidden with Christ in God” Colossians 3:3.
Together, today, all who are in great trial, we choose to:
“Therefore humble (y)ourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,
casting all (y)our care upon Him, for He cares for you. Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil walks about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour” 1 Peter 5:7-8.
But God is greter. We will seek His presence and choose to think on His truth.
“This is the voctory that overcomes the world, even our faith” 1 John 5″4.
Jesus alone is our peace. Our hope. Our everything.
Let’s keep our minds in a safe place, “rejoiocing in hope, praying without ceasing, and giving thanks in everything, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for us” 1 Thessalonians 5: 16 & 17.