June 25, 2022 … Deep Prayers For Dark Moments …

Berry Patch Devotions in 2021 - Day 176 

Devotional Song: ... GO TO THIS LINK ...   take the time to take in song and lyrics from Matt Boswell and Matt Papa singing … Lord From Sorrow Deep I Call …poignantly singing (from Psalm 42) of how believers in the Lord can bring our sorrows to Him in prayer with hope eternal.   

Deep prayers for dark times ... 

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Highlight Passage [Context]: …  Psalm 143:11 [NLT] …  <

11 For the glory of your name, O Lord, preserve my life. Because of your faithfulness, bring me out of this distress. <

… David prays for God’s help in a time of great distress.                         

Highlight Passage [Context]: … Psalm 143 [NLT] … USE THIS LINK … 

… King David goes to God for help in a time of desperation.                                                          ===============                                

Reference Passage: …  Job 1:20-22 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Job declares his faith in God in the darkest time in his life.  

Reference Passage: …  Psalm 23:4 [NLT] … 

4 Even when I wall through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for You are close beside me.Your rod and Your staff protect and comfort me.  

… David sings of his confidence in his God during the darkest times of his life.   

Reference Passage: …  Isaiah 41:10 [NLT] …  

10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.I will strengthen you and help you.I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.  

… God promises, thru Isaiah, to lift all true believers up in our weakest times.  

Reference Passage: …  Matthew 11:28-30 [NLT] …  USE THIS LINK … 

… Jesus promises His faithful followers His strength to all who put their faith in Him.  

Reference Passage: …  1Peter 5:7 [NLT] …  

7 Give all your worries and cares to God, for He cares about you. 

… God, thru Peter, calls Christians - even in their darkest moments - to bring their (our) cares and concerns to God, Who cares for His chosen ones. 

                                                                                 

My Devotional Journal: Today's Our Daily Bread author, Arthur Jackson … AT THIS LINK …  tells of a popular actress who contemplated suicide during the isolation and fears during the COVID epidemic, and was quoted as saying,  “I had a dark moment.”

We’ve all had, … or are having, .. or will have … our own dark moments, won’t we, … where we feel deeply down or weakened for a time.  So, in those dark times, fellow Christian, where do to we go for strength or comfort?  Well, I don’t know about you, my fellow Christian readers today; but I’m bolstered and lifted up by the linked song and the truths shared above in the Scriptures I’ve referenced today.  

So, if we’re in a place like David was in Psalm 143 or Job was (see Job 1:20-22), let’s all just take Jesus’ promise (see Matt 11:28-30) as truth and bring our dark moments to You, Lord, … knowing (as Peter promised in 1Peter 5:7) that you care, Lord, and will lift us up (as God promised in Isaiah 41:10). 

And we’ll be okay, my friend, … even in the darkest of times.      

My THANKFULNESS: ... Oh, Abba Father, thank You, King Jesus, … for giving me Your enabling grace to make it thru even my darkest moments.       

My Prayer Today: Oh Abba Father, ... King Jesus, ... . I pray that all reading here will join me, …  to receive Your grace, Lord, to help us thru any of our dark times.  … Amen

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