7 Bible Verses For A Difficult Season | Praying For Hope
Many of us walk into rooms and people will make automatic assumptions about our lives in the first seconds of looking at our physical state. If we are well dressed or have a look that seems “put together” we can be viewed as if nothing ever bad happens to us. If we are in drabs and our hair is dirty, we can be viewed as homeless and that, clearly something wrong with us! I don’t know about you, friend, but I also get caught up in seeing someone’s outer-self and making assumptions about them, although I’m making it a habit to not because it’s not my place! We have no clue of what is really going on inside their head, heart or spirit. For all, I know, EVERYONE is probably facing some difficulty they might not feel ready to talk about. So let’s give and receive hope, shall we!? Let’s lift eachother up instead of tear down. Let’s be honest with one another about how we feel for we all need a little help and hope from time to time.
I don’t know what you’re going through right now, but I know that I am facing some of the biggest challenges of my life right at this very moment. That my family is in the need of a lot of prayers and that I am honored to share with you some of the hope that God has given me in this time, so that you might feel hope for your life and your situation as well.
The other day as I cried out to Jesus in desperation for my situation I asked through some painful tears, “God all I want right now is for a little hope. Hope that you will restore and redeem this difficulty. All I want to see is a vision and hope for how you will turn these ashes into beauty.”
If you’re in need of encouragement right now, these Bible verses have given me so much hope. I pray that as you read them that they will become your anthem that you meditate on them, both in your heart & with your mouth! I pray that you’ll speak these verses out loud. You have no idea of the POWER that is in the word of God, spoken even through times of little-to-no, faith. When HIS word is proclaimed out of our mouths, we see miracles unfold before our very eyes! I have been a witness to this and know I’m not some special unicorn that God prefers. He is faithful to everyone who believes him at his word. If you get nothing else from this post, get this; His word is so powerful. You will not stay a victim to your circumstances you are not powerless, you will be VICTORIOUS by professing God’s word into your difficulty! See, we serve an incredible God that isn’t scared of our BIG emotions or doubts or fears. He is willing to sit with us in our mess and he can meet us exactly where we are at. In the depths of our pain, he is able to heal and restore our hearts as nothing else can. He is our medicine and our fortress and safely in times when we don’t know which way is up. If you’ve walked with God for many years or if you are just discovering who he is: this is true:
I have never walked this season, ever, so let me give my God the lead, for in his gorgeous presence, I discover more of him and more of me. - Libier
1.- “But the Lord has become my stronghold and my God the rock of my refuge.” Psalm 94:22
2.- “When ( I) cry for help, the Lord hears and delivers me out of all (my) troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.” Isaiah 34: 17-18
3.- “Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. (take a beat and have that sink into your heart. You are God’s. You are God’s. You belong to him and therefore you belong anywhere because of this!) When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overwhelm you; when you walk through the fire you shall not be burned, and the flame shall not consume you. For I am the Lord your God, the Holy One of Israel, YOUR SAVIOUR.” Isaiah 43:1-3
4.- “Let us come into his presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to him with songs of praise! For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods. In his hands are the depths of the earth; The heights of the mountains are in his also. The sea is his, for he made it, and his hands formed the dry land. Oh, come let us worship and bow down, let us kneel before our Lord our maker for he is our God, and we are the people of his pasture, the sheep under his care..” Psalm 95 1-7
5.- “But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.” 1 John 1: 7
6.-“You will keep (me) in perfect peace (when my) mind is stayed on you, because (I) trust you.” Isaiah (26:3)
This last verse is a long one, but such an important lesson for our hearts to see our suffering and troubles through a different perspective. See, when you tell me that my pain and suffering matters, I get a sense of hope that allows me to walk into painful seasons with a learning spirit. What do I need to learn here that will help me and others become even freer!? That doesn’t mean I don’t feel the pain, suffering, anger, grief, and sadness from difficult times, that means that I don’t rebel and buffer with cheap substitutes, like alcohol or drugs, food, shopping, to distract me from the pain. Instead, I’m learning how to run right into the emotions knowing Jesus is holding my right hand. If I’m honest, last night, I wanted to just drink some wine to forget how much pain I felt but I decided that it would be better to feel my feelings, anyway. Because the wine would have numbed my pain for a second and then I would be feeling it even more today. After saying no to buffering my emotions I learned that those feelings, even though TOUGH to bare, they don’t tell me who I am. I know my life and heart belong to Christ and he will work all things out for the good of those who love him. (Romans 8:28)
7.- “Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die. But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Since we have now been justified by his blood, how much more shall we be saved from God’s wrath through him! For if, while we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, how much more, having been reconciled, shall we be saved through his life! 11 Not only is this so, but we also boast in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received reconciliation.” Romans 5: 1-11
I love you, friend. May you know, that you know, that you know, you are not alone! God will give you his strength and this season will be over but you will have learned so much and your character will produce hope in your life and the life of those around you! Don’t lose hope and don’t give up! You are far too precious and valuable! See you next week!
