A Prayer to Overcome Hardships – Your Day by day Prayer – February 2
A Prayer to Overcome Hardships
By Kelly Balarie
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Bible Studying: “I pray that the eyes of your coronary heart could also be enlightened so as that you could be know the hope to which he has known as you, the riches of his superb inheritance in his holy folks…” – Ephesians 1:18 NIV
Sitting at nighttime, I couldn’t see something. I couldn’t see the lake I knew was in entrance of me. I couldn’t see the timber that stood on the left aspect of the horizon. I couldn’t see the grass that’s usually there.
I closed my eyes to contemplate how darkness is nothingness. If I didn’t know higher, I’d assume nothing was there.
The identical goes for onerous instances. Once we assume the whole lot is simply hopelessness and darkness, we assume nothing is there. We assume that, due to the darkness of the season – God has nothing for us, that He’ll do nothing with us, and that it should be as a result of He’s offended at us.
Within the darkness of a tough season, what’s earlier than us can’t be seen. It’s black. It’s grim. It’s foreboding even.
I consider that is why Paul prayed, “I pray that the eyes of your coronary heart could also be enlightened so as that you could be know the hope to which he has known as you, the riches of his superb inheritance in his holy folks…” (Eph. 1:18 NIV)
Solely when the eyes of our hearts are enlightened will we see hope. Gentle brings hope. Gentle lets us see what’s forward, “the hope to which He has known as” us, “the riches of his superb inheritance.” Once we see these items, we see life come again into us. Gentle that enables us to see the lay of God’s land brings wanted life again into our hearts, even when we’re struggling by means of the darkest days.
This can be a key to overcoming. If we solely see what’s unhealthy, what is tough, what’s dim, what’s hopeless, what’s nugatory – we are going to journey like sojourners on a darkish highway, bumping into the whole lot.
However, when God enlightens the eyes of our coronary heart, we are going to then say issues like, “Wow, God is utilizing the onerous instances to make me wiser and stronger…”, “This check is the making of an ideal testimony…”, “Highly effective ministry comes from damaged locations, healed”, “Whoa, God is constructing one thing that endures by means of eternity.”
God is all the time as much as one thing extra; gentle provides us eyes to see it.
Then, when objective arises out of what was as soon as a deathly downside, the sunshine of hope comes speeding proper into what was as soon as a darkish room
Let’s Pray:
Father, like Paul prayed, I ask that you just enlighten the eyes of my coronary heart, so that I could know the hope to which you will have known as me. I ask that you just assist me to see the hope of my superb inheritance in Christ Jesus. Might I see and perceive what you might be doing. Father, flip my darkish days into gentle, by the facility of your ever-working grace. Give me eyes to see and a coronary heart to grasp, spiritually. In Jesus’ mighty title. Amen.
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