Learning How To Rest In God Even While Enduring Hardness ...

Sometimes its hard.   It's hard to stand still.   It's hard to believe when everything seems to be going in the opposite direction of what you have been praying for.   It's hard when you feel as though you are being hit on every side.   But we are to endure hardness.   To endure means to suffer patiently.  It means to persist and to survive.  The only way that we can go through suffering patiently is if we have hope.  Romans 5:5 tells us that hope does not make us ashamed.   So when you suffer patiently in hope for God to move in your life, God will not let you be put to shame.   

It's time to stand strong in God and His Word.   For He said in our weakness, He is strong.  God said in that He would increase our strength when we are  tired.    We can't keep letting go and giving up when we are weary.  We have to stay in position and learn how to "rest" in God.   When you think about an arm "rest", you understand it is an object that is used to support your arm.   We have to take "resting" to that level and understand that God and His Word are there to "support" us.   To support means to bear all or part of the weight of something and to hold it up.   Learn how to "rest" in and on God and His Word.   Let Him bear the weight of your burden and let Him hold you up.  

2 Timothy 2:3

Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Isaiah 40:29 

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Worship For Today ...

"You Are My Hiding Place"

Ministered By Marantha

 REFERENCE:   You Are My Hiding Place - Maranatha! (Cover) with Lyrics. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UlkrMh9RAc