Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ... Please take the time to take in song and lyrics from Steven Curtis Chapman singing His Strength Is Perfect … poignantly singing of how we find strength from God’s Spirit when we are weakened or suffering.
Rehabilitation from a stroke ...
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Highlight Verse[s]: Job 1:21 [NLT] ... 21 …The Lord gave me what I had, and the Lord has taken it away. Praise the name of the Lord!”
… Job’s reaction to the suffering God allowed Satan to bring on him was trust in the Lord.
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Highlight Passage [context]: Job 1:20-22, 2:7-10, 3:1 [NLT] ... USE THIS LINK ...
… Job’s initial response to his suffering was faith and trust in in His God; and yet, even unto despair (see Job 3:1), he pursued knowing God more intimately.
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Reference Passage : …Proverbs 3:5-6 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… How do we respond to suffering or trial … with faith or despair?
Reference Passage : … Matthew 11:28-30 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK …
… Jesus invites us to rest (i.e., trust) in Him and pursue His strength to lift us up in times of trial or suffering.
Reference Passage : … 1Corinthians 10:13 [NLT] … 13 The temptations [also translated “tests, trials, troubles, or tribulations”] in your life are no different from what others experience. And God is faithful. He will not allow the temptation to be more than you can stand. When you are tempted, he will show you a way out so that you can endure.
… God’s promise to believers that God will give us what it takes to get thru the trials of life.
Reference Passage : … 2Corinthians 12:9 [NLT] … 9 Each time He said, “My grace is all you need. My power works best in weakness.” So now I am glad to boast about my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ can work through me.
… The Apostle Paul humbly learned from Jesus that our Lord would give us His Spirit’s empowering grace when he (or we) were feeling weakened by the suffering of life.
My Devotional Journal: Today's ODB author, Poh Fang Chia, relates a story about a man found God’s strength, as did Job, to deal with a major trial of suffering in his life. … The ODB author wrote: MingTeck woke up with a severe headache and thought it was another migraine. But when he got out of bed, he collapsed onto the floor. He was admitted to the hospital where the doctors informed him he’d had a stroke. After four months of rehabilitation, [see photo] he recovered his ability to think and talk but still walks with a painful limp. He often struggles with despair, but he finds great comfort from the book of Job.
It’s no wonder that many Christians who’re dealing with physical or emotional setbacks or suffering get some comfort from the journal of Job in the Bible. Job was a righteous believer who was felled by a God-allowed Satanic attack which took everything but his life from him, … his children, his well-being, and his health. And yet, in spite of the despair of wanting to die, Job marched on with faith to pursue his relationship with God and an understanding or his suffering.
We all are going to face set-backs in life, … i.e., some degree of suffering which takes away our strength - physically or emotionally. It is then - perhaps now for some reading here - that our ability to trust our God is tested. And if we take in the linked song and the Scriptures shared above, prayerfully we’ll realize that God has given us what it takes to come to Him for His strength to cover our time of weakness or trial; … and I pray today that we do just that !!
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My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh Abba Father, ... thank You, Lord, … for giving me Your Spirit to move on in these fearful times of trial.
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My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... I pray, Lord, that all reading here are will join me to press onward relying on the empowering grace our Lord offers us in times like these. Amen
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