Seize the Moment – Day 1136
How to Pray When You Feel Like Job!
Good morning! This is Pastor Jerry Ingalls from New Castle First Baptist Church and today is Thursday, April 27.
What do you do when you feel like Job? How are you to pray when going through intense times of pain and suffering? David lamented of his sickness and suffering in Psalm 38:6-11:
I am bent over and greatly bowed down; I go mourning all day long. For my loins are filled with burning, and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am benumbed and badly crushed; I groan because of the agitation of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before You; and my sighing is not hidden from You. My heart throbs, my strength fails me; and the light of my eyes, even that has gone from me. My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague; and my kinsmen stand afar off.
Doesn’t David sound like Job in this Psalm? He was miserable in his suffering, but, like Job, he suffered with faith (Job 1:21-11). In Palm 38:15, David proclaimed his faith, “For I hope in You, O Lord; You will answer, O Lord my God.” He concluded in verses 20-21, “Do not forsake me, O Lord; O my God, do not be far from me! Make haste to help me, O Lord, my salvation!” Both David and Job had to wait upon the Lord to rescue them through their period of pain and suffering. Within their testimonies, we find the key to our suffering – securing our hope in God. Pray with faith through the dark nights of torment and the cold winters of suffering. Fight for hope with every ounce of your being. Faith brings light to dark places!
Seize the moment and pray Psalm 38, meditating upon the mercy of God – “The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness” (Lamentations 3:22-23).
God bless you!
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