Month: December 2018

Comfort

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Part of learning to live with a chronic illness understands God’s comfort is available for you.

Have you ever been overwhelmed by your thoughts of how you will be able to handle or manage your chronic illness? Have the “what ifs” overtook you? Are any of your thoughts confused and even torturing you with the cares and fears about the future?

Today we will see how God’s comfort delights our soul. His promises, contained in His word (the Bible), and the memory of our past experiences of His care and kindness to us, afford us comfort. They can restore our discouraged mind.

Today’s Bible Verse:

Psalm 94:19 (KJV), “In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.”

What the Verse Means:

When we are worried because of considering various possible outcomes and scenarios, listening to ungodly counsel from well-meaning friends, or just drowning in self-pity, we need to return to the Lord for real rest and comfort.

God’s comfort satisfies my soul. Focusing and meditating on His Word and teachings comfort me and delight me. True satisfaction only comes from God’s Holy Spirit!

Personalized Prayer Using Today’s Scripture:

  • Heavenly Father, I confess too often my thoughts are filled with various and confusing ideas. Protect me from the negative thinkers and their contrary
  • Lord Jesus, I confess at times I am tortured with cares and fears about my future due to my chronic illness.
  • God Almighty, I praise you because your comfort delights my soul.
  • I have heard your promises taught in Sunday School as well as heard them preached in church, and have read in the Bible. They comfort me.
  • Lord, the memory of my experiences of your care and kindness to me, affords me such comfort as they restore my at times discouraged mind.

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Thy Will Be Done

Today’s blog post is from the book “Thy Will Be Done: 60 Prayers for the Chronically Ill” by Jimmie Aaron Kepler. It is available in print and on Kindle for Amazon at Amazon Print or Amazon Kindle.

If you are an Amazon Kindle Unlimited member, the book is available to read for free in Kindle format. Over the next two months, I will publish each chapter as a blog post

Shelter and Tower

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Part of learning to live with a chronic illness understands God is there for us as our strength and a place of shelter. Sometimes the daily struggles of living with a chronic disease overwhelm us.

At these times, we need a place of retreat, a place of refuge. The Believer in Jesus Christ has such a situation. It is to come before God. We can do this by reading the Bible, praying, and being still as we wait and listen for God’s still, small voice.

Today’s Bible Verse:

Psalm 61: 3 (KJV), “For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.”

What the Verse Means:

Today’s verse reminds us of God’s faithfulness to King David in times past, how God has delivered us. As a Christian, we too can remember God’s faithfulness in our life.

We know the comfort we have felt from his presence and how we have found safety in His word and presence. We also know because of God’s faithfulness to us in the past and His unchanging nature.

He will not leave us now. He is a high tower of protection for us from the enemies we face.

Personalized Prayer Using Today’s Scripture:

  • Father in Heaven as I reflect on your Word I remember your faithfulness to me in times past.
  • Lord Jesus, I thank you for your protection and provision in the past.
  • God of the Heavens and the Earth, I know you are eternal and that your nature is unchangeable. It is because of this I ask you to deliver me from the illness that is consuming my life.
  • I ask for this deliverance Lord because I have seen your work in my own life and know that only you have the power to deliver me from this malady.
  • I ask this also because my experience is and has been that you are here ministering to me in my time of need.
  • Since you do not sleep, slumber, or change who you are, I know you will not leave me alone as I daily face the illness.

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Today’s blog post is from the book “Thy Will Be Done: 60 Prayers for the Chronically Ill” by Jimmie Aaron Kepler. It is available in print and on Kindle for Amazon at Amazon Print or Amazon Kindle.

If you are an Amazon Kindle Unlimited member, the book is available to read for free in Kindle format. Over the next two months, I will publish each chapter as a blog post