Hope without wavering; for He who promised is faithful!
Learning to trust Him in the dark times.
But first…Prayer {Finding Hope in the Waiting}
In the last post (here) we saw King Ahaz respond to affliction the wrong way by turning to the world and striving after the wind. The result was devastation. Today I want to show you an example of another king of Judah from 2 Chronicles 20. This king knew his place...
How NOT to Endure Trials {Finding Hope in the Waiting}
Yesterday we saw that we are to wait upon the Lord in the midst of trials. Psalm 27 says, Wait for the Lord; be strong and let your heart take courage; yes, wait for the Lord." In times of despair and suffering we are to bring our requests before Him and know that...
Be still and know {Finding Hope in the Waiting}
When I was in times of deep anguish and despair, my mind would start working. I would cease waiting upon the Lord and would begin devising plans to solve the problem. Using human logic, I would race through the many possible ways to get out of the muck and the...
Finding Comfort in the Psalms
When I was deep in the muck and mire of waiting I would often turn to the psalms for comfort and encouragement. So many of them were written from a heart in anguish. When I didn’t have the words to pray, I knew I could pray one of the psalms and it would reveal my...
Correctly Bringing our Petition Before the Lord {31 days of Finding Hope in the Waiting}
Yesterday we saw that we should not be a complaining people. (You can read that here) But God also tells us to bring our petitions before Him. So what's the difference? How do we come before Him without complaining? Maybe we can draw more from the Numbers 11...
Hope does not complain {Finding Hope in the Waiting}
Way back when we only had three children who were all very young, Chris and I had the desire to stop renting and buy a house. But our income was meager meaning that what we could afford was also meager. We ended up in a double-wide mobile home situated on an acre of...
How to Find Hope in the Waiting Times
Do you feel as though you are in a “wilderness” of waiting right now? Are you struggling through a financial crisis, health issue, or maybe the death of a loved one? Maybe you are struggling through something else entirely and are wondering if it will ever end and if...
Hope in Winter Seasons of Life
As I sat in my living room after New Years with a blanket wrapped around me to keep out the cold, I gazed out my window into the grey, dreary day whose frigid air kept me bundled up in my house with no desire to go outside. Those kind of days have an effect on my...
New Beginnings
Yesterday was the first day of school for most of the kids in my area. However, it was not ours. Rather, yesterday was the turning point into a new season in our lives. We have spent the last two and a half years waiting on God to show us the next path in our lives;...
Six Actions that will help you Endure a Hardship without Losing your Mind!
We will all have to endure a hardship at some point in our lives. It may be small or great; long or short; life-altering or temporary. They are as varied from one another as there are people in this world. One commonality between them is that they are all hard! Nobody...