These scriptures on hopelessness will give you hope and will build your faith. Confess and meditate on them to win the fight against hopelessness. The whole fight is about not losing Hope. Allow the hope of God to flow into you. Remember, there is a real Person (God) behind each and every one of these promises. He promised them to you for a reason – to help you.
Depression is the emotional result of hopelessness. Joy is the emotional result of hope. Peace is the emotional result of faith.
God’s hope encourages, motivates, and keeps you on the road to faith, peace, and victory. Hopelessness breeds and creates the ‘feeling‘ of depression. Fight it with the Word of God. And if you suffer from deep ongoing depression, PLEASE READ THIS – Helping Others Is God’s Prescription for Depression. Send me a comment, we love you and we want to help you. You are important and you have value. You will get out of this hole.
Anyone who is among the living has hope. Ecclesiastes 9:4
Surely there is a future, And your hope will not be cut off. Proverbs 23:18
No one whose hope is in you will ever be put to shame. (Psalm 25:3)
You are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. (Psalm 25:5)
May your unfailing love rest upon us, O LORD, even as we put our hope in you. (Psalm 33:22)
Those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land. (Psalm 37:9)
Why are you downcast, o my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. (Psalm 42:5)
In your name I will hope, for your name is good. (Psalm 52:9)
Find rest, o my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. (Psalm 62:5)
You answer us with awesome deeds of righteousness, O God our Savior, the hope of all the ends of the earth and of the farthest seas. (Psalm 65:5)
For you have been my hope, O Sovereign LORD, my confidence since my youth. (Psalm 71:5)
But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. (Psalm 71:14)
I have put my hope in your word. (Psalm 119:74)
Sustain me according to your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed. (Psalm 119:116)
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. (Romans 15:4)
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. (Romans 15:13)
Therefore, since we have such a hope, we are very bold. (2 Corinthians 3:12)
I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. (Ephesians 1:18-19)
There is one body and one Spirit – just as you were called to one hope when you were called– one Lord, one faith, one baptism; one God and Father of all, who is over all and through all and in all. (Ephesians 4:4-6)
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word. (2 Thessalonians 2:16-17)
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ form the dead. (1 Peter 1:3)
Scriptures Against Depression – Scriptures Against Worry – New Testament Scriptures on Faith & Believing – Do God’s Promises Cover What You Want?
Comments
Adam,
I know I am a little late on this reply, buy I read this and couldn’t pass without replying.
Have you read Job in the Bible?
The thing is God doesn’t need to punish us because Jesus died for our sins so we could be FORGIVEN. God doesn’t punish us.
Resenting God will not make any of this easier sweetie.
God tells us we can lay our burdens upon him and He gives us rest and serinity in times of trouble.
Without that, yes, it is going to be EXTREMELY hard to make it through all these trials. So come back into the loving arms of God. He loves all of His children dearly and just want a close relationship with each of them.
Things aren’t going to be easy in this world. We live in a broken, dark, cruel world but all the terribly hard trials in this wold lead to eternal life with the Father if you keep your eyes on Him.
I am praying for you!
I dont know how I came across this blog… But just thanking God for your minstry and how He is using you for His Glory… Glory to God.. As you help others in the times of depair, hopelessness and abandonment especially when people walk out in troubled times, may God of Love, Hope and Peace overflow His mercies upon you .. Be blessed.
My hope has been greatly diminished. I’m at a midlife mental breaking point. Largely due to a lack of sleep because of bed bugs. God is punishing me and I resent him for it. My blessings are being taken away as well as my sanity. I don’t even believe I’m real or that I’m dead or will soon be dead. My dark night of my soul has allowed me to see the ugliness of myself. When I stare at myself in the mirror. I see people that are not me and some horrible demon. These things have possessed me and I want to kill people and myself. That is the evil in my mind that won’t leave me alone. Spirits have touched my body and haunted my home. These tactile hallucinations are no joke and I suspect it’s something more. My futile attempts to cast them out has failed and I won’t set foot in a church cause I get horrible pain in my ribs. I am being influenced by demons to murder suicide and I’m at a fastly approaching a breaking point. Hope is futile and God has failed to intervene. My bitter response to my circumstances has shut me into an isolation away from others since I’m a infection a lepor a sex offender and scum and scourge of the earth. I have found my own prison and hell and others are rejoicing and dancing for my demise.
The fact that you are writing on this site says you are crying out for help. You need to take it a step farther and seek out professional help IMMEDIATELY! Thoughts of wanting to harm yourself or others is a serious sign of mental disturbance. Do yourself and others a service and go to the hospital emergency room right now and get admitted to psych. care unit. You need help from others and isolating yourself is not the way to go. Push through the destructive voices and reach out to others. Take action and DO IT NOW! If you can’t do it for yourself then do it for the others you might potentially harm; they do not deserve your emotional pain and anger inflicted on them. Take responsibility right now, admit you are not thinking rational, and get yourself to a hospital. Peace.
Please pray for my husband. He’s a surgeon and is completely worn out.insurance companies barely pay and take up to 6 months to pay or longer. His practice costs more than he makes. Especially with all the new rules and codes they have to go by.
He is in a private practice and is so run down. He started out working for a hospital but wasn’t treated with respect there. He had to take the patients they sent him. He asked the hospital if they would provide certain things for his patients they said no and why are you asking?
He had a law suit which devastated him. He gave good care and was deemed to have not caused any harm.
The attorney made him settle out of court anyway.
We are not from this area and moved here from the west . He felt there was a good opportunity here. Looking back, it really wasn’t.
Now we learned his malpractice insurance will go up to where we can’t afford it.
He hasn’t been able to do surgery for a month now and we cannot go on.
He just wants to move back to home out west and Join a group where they can handle so much more than he can so he could just take care of his patients.
He is a kind and gentle soul.
He’s been taken so much advantaged of he is getting really down.
I am scared for him. This is what he does and really loves it but, it seems he’s being torn down.
Ive prayed so much and it doesn’t seem to get better.
His father died about 6 months ago and they were close.
We need help and prayer.
He said he’s ready to give up.
I’m afraid my prayers , after years, won’t be answered. And if a bit of them are-it’s too late .
Heisenberg – That is just the hopelessness in you speaking. Fight that stuff. Hopelessness is a spiritual blindness to the hope that is around you right now. It a dark place by design. It is a lie from demons. It is actually never too late in God. God is pretty much the God of the last moment. The years mean nothing, nothing at all. And that is the God’s truth.
Go to him in repentance and ask for mercy. I don’t care if you’ve done it thousands of times before. Do it again. Even if you disrespected Him for years. Go again. Go to Him and mean it. Get some of the scripture lists from this site and speak them out. They will comfort you and change you, a little bit at a time. If you will not listen to your feelings and the old lies of despair, they will turn your life completely around. We love you. God’s mercy is sufficient. It really is. Rex
Realise that all thoughts of fear, anxiety, negativity and depression are demonic mental attacks. If you continue to entertain them, your situation will get worse. Deuteronomy 30:14-15
But the word is very nigh unto thee, in thy mouth, and in thy heart, that thou mayest do it.
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;
Choose today between life and death. Hear it now do that you may do it. Receive this as a word from The Holy Spirit in me. Be blessed.
We must get vigilant and aggressive with this.
Please pray I have been depressed for probably about 9 to 10 years now and I have fasted and I’ve sought the Lord and it just seems like it’s getting worse and worse. People are coming against me family, friends, enemies. I’ve turn the other cheek for so long that I feel like I’m unable to anymore and I’m starting to explode on them when they attack me. I feel alone and I’m about to the point where I’m just fighting back and this is not the person I want to be and I’m afraid I keep praying and I’m so afraid that I don’t belong to God anymore thank you?
@Tammy — Our God will never leave nor forsake you. We are here for you — cling to the Promises of Our Lord & Saviour — let Go and let God
Excuse my bluntness but sometimes prayer is not enough or even the answer. Get into a support group and/or seek professional help. Get on medication if necessary. If you keep doing the same things and keep getting the same results, well, it’s time to consider a new game plan. One way to look at it is God works through others to help us, if we are willing to reach out and take hold. Peace be with you.
Hi Tammy – I can relate!
I was in a similar place. But can I suggest this….I noticed that depression erases your faith in everything – not just God. The longer you are depressed the more faith it erases. You lose faith in family, friends, yourself, your future, your country…..etc etc. Then when people say “have faith in God” – it becomes pretty much impossible. You cant have faith in God if you have zero faith in your world. Which is terrible because faith in God will solve every and any issue you have – including depression.
So maybe try this: try having faith in everything, everyone, every situation, every person, yourself etc. Essentially you flood your life with faith. Why? Because God said he would rescue you. If God said he will rescue you – then by definition every single thing in your life from that point onwards is being used by God for your betterment. But we cant always see that – especially when depressed! There are scriptures that support this approach. It worked for me. All the best.
Please pray for Ron to be healed from back issues and throat,and hips also hd a trailer run over his foot rehurt his back again and orau he had no broken bones and the oain will stop that happenef today. He will be delievered from hopelessness which seems big time and depression ,God give him.peace please.
Lindsay – Thank you and I agree with most of what you write. Except that, I don’t agree with the thought that God brings these calamities into our lives to ‘strengthen and fine tune us.’ God is a free will God and He will allow it but it is the Devil that brings the ‘stealing, killing, and destroying’ into our lives. Our job is allow the word to grow in us and be obedient to His voice and will so that we can walk in the abundant life of faith. That does not mean we will not have to go through though trials, especially when we get off into sin, but He will guide us and speak to us to that we can have His will ‘on earth as it is now in Heaven.’
This takes effort, work, and spiritual warfare. Our rest comes later. We love you. Rex
it may take time but remember that material suffering is temporary (but still difficult!) and that Love will not be defeated over time…I come from being about a week away from being homeless myself in 2010…I had to decide to surrender and get help with my meth/alcohol addictions (not implying these are the only routes to homelessness, btw 🙂 and after a long journey that seems short now I’ve gone from 150lbs at 6 foot one and almost fired no family to now 200 lbs, 2 kids , 85k/yr as a web developer all bc I decided to ask God for help. What can I do, as an emissary to such blessings that I am grateful for, for you? where are you? do you need someone to talk to (eg a real converation not confined to a textbox 🙂 ??
Blahbinski – thank you for that. I needed to hear it. I have a good life and I think God for blessing me with it. Just like you I was into stuff I shouldn’t of been and lost sight of God and have suffered greatly for it. But God’s grace is sufficient, and His power is made perfect in weakness. Like you said material suffering is temporary but man does it hurt when you have a hard time seeing the end. I’ve been praying for months now and even though I am trying to trust God with this I keep wondering when it will end. His silence is both a blessing and painful. I am on a roller coaster of emotions right now between trust and doubt. Thank you for responding and offering to talk with me. I’m talking to my grandfather who is a pastor and have grown up with him in my life. Thanks brother! God bless you
no problem. I am humbled to have helped just by sharing some of my “story”
I am sorry sir to borther u with my question..do i still have hope?
I am broken. I can’t take anymore. My heart cries out to God but He is silent. My faith and trust are broken. Doubt, confusion, and worry fill my head. I don’t know what to do. I am overwhelmed. I will be homeless in a week. I have no where to go and no money to move. I am drowning in debt. I don’t want a handout, I want God to guide me, to talk to me but He is silent. I don’t know if I am being tested and tried like Job or if God doesn’t hear my prayers. I pray 5-6 times a day now asking God for wisdom and guidance. I pray with Mark 11:24 but I get nothing. I need help. Please pray for me.
Chad – I don’t know what to say except that I will pray for you. I will. I speak peace to your soul and light to your understanding. You will get out of this in Jesus Name. I cry out the the mercy and favor of God on your behalf. Something will happen. Chad, expect that with me. God will speak to you. Something will happen. I will pray for you. God bless you. We love you and God loves you. Rex I have to say it again – You will make it.
Thank you for your prayer and support. It was hard getting out of bed this morning but I feel very at peace and happy today even though my world is falling apart. I truly believe in God and His promises and I know that He loves me and cares for me. I stand on Romans 15:13 – Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.
I’m trying very hard to completely trust God but it what I am struggling with is His timing. Do I keep trusting him up to the day I have to move and have no where to go or will He show me where he wants me to go before then? I feel like my head and heart are in a constant state of trust and faith to doubt and uncertainty which I know isn’t pleasing to God. Thank you again for your prayers. I know God will see me through this and I will be better because of it. =)
Chad – Speak the word out over your situation. Be bold. God is on your side. If you have sinned – repent – and then go on. Allow the fight to get back into you. Read these articles – Making Miracles Happen in Your Life – Speak Your Future To Your Future – She Spoke Her Miracle Into Being – Scriptures To Encourage Yourself In the Lord – God Looked On Their Heart, Not Their Actions – He Healed – You Cannot ‘Out Think’ the Devil But You Can ‘Out Speak’ Him. Do your homework and build faith into your heart.
God is not doing this to you. The Devil is trying to destroy you. Don’t let him. He will use our sin and disobedience to hurt us. Stop it, repent, and then BOLDLY believe God for his mercy. Read this too – Mercy – Bending the Rules of God. It is one of my favorite articles. God bless you. We love you. Rex You are going to make it in Jesus Name.
Dear Anonnon, I pray that God gives you rest and you can find the strength in Him. You are His child and He doesn’t want to see you hurting in this way. I pray that you see that He can give you light in the darkness and He shows you a way out of all the dark tunnels we find ourselves in. You are loved, please don’t do anything you will regret, and ending your life is one of those, thank you so much for calling a help line!!!!!
Dear people struggling with the loss of a job and where Is God. Please pray for me
Donna – You have hope and that of which is in Christ and Him alone. Your life belongs to Him. You are more precious to Him that the birds of the air and every living creature on this earth (Read Matt 6:25). He will take care of you. Don’t forget; everything that you need to regain hope and encouragement are in His Holy Word. He Loves and cares for you (Read I Peter 5:7). I will pray that He brings you to His place of His peace and His comfort during this time as well. Keep fighting the good fight!
In Christ,
Michael
Praying For You Right Now Donna I too need a job at this time but I’m gonna pray for you finding a job with the same spirit as if I was praying for myself and I’m going to let the blessing on me fall on you and in the name of Jesus Christ we all will be blessed Amen In the Name of The Father in The Name Of The Son And The Name Of The Holy Ghost Gods power to Over come……..Amen Again
i called a suicide hotline today. the lady who answered was a volunteer, a real embodiment of (gods?) love. im still hopeless but at least i did not drink or lash out etc as i wanted to prior to calling. i still think being unemployed with a screaming baby, wife-who-is-abusive-sometimes-and-is-never-wrong, and a 4.5 yr old is enough to make anyone lose hope sometimes. two more second interviews this week; i hope my love for the work there will show and one of them will want to water me and get the fruits of that love so i can support my family.
Anonnon – I pray for favor, hope and protection over you in Jesus Name. Try to find a spot and a time where you can get away from the turmoil and noise. Read some of the other articles and scripture lists on this site. God bless you. Know that God has a plan for you. Read the scriptures and let God speak to you. He will lead you out. We love you. Rex
Please, please pray for me to trust in God, to know he makes the best choices for me and that he truly loves me. I feel so alone and so lost. Everything I have known for years was just suddenly changed, with no warning. Trying to adjust and need to find some normalcy and stability. Waiting on hearing from a job that could make us or break us. Just so much at once and my mind constantly racing. Please, if you could pray for us, it would be so appreciated…
Amy,
First and foremost, know that you are not alone. Many if not most of us who follow this blog have been or are in the same place right along with you. But, as with all things Godly, we have been brought together here in Him. He is always with us and is always there to listen and hear our prayers and the fact that you found us is proof that he is with you and wants to provide comfort and support. We will certainly pray for you and lift you to Him and trust that He will guide you, protect you and provide for you.
The hardest part of faith is trust and without one the other can’t survive. Over the years, I too have been in the deepest throws of despair and worry with seemingly no light to see my way out. During those days I felt as hopeless and alone as any one human could. In fact, there were days that I began to see little value in continuing. I felt that I was so far down in the depths of despair, stress and worry that nothing could reach me. There was nothing that I could see in my path that could bring a solution to the problems and worries I lived with each day. The key words there were “that I could see”. He not only saw but had a plan for me to find solutions and work through the problems. It had to come in His time and with His plan and that required trust. We have to trust that He is there, His love is greater than anything we’ll encounter and He does love and care for every single one of us. There is NO darkness that He can’t illuminate.
The best thing we can do when we are in such places is the very thing our minds tell us not to do. If we could only trust His word and “be still and know” , there we can find the beginning of peace. Relax your mind, open your heart and just let His love dwell there. Know that He is there and all of us are praying for you and with you in your journey. As His family we are side by side in every step of the way.
Be blessed and know that things will be ok. Things will work out and a brighter day WILL come.
David
Hi, my name is Josh, and as much as I want to say this has helped, It just shows my lack of hope. These scriptures make me ambivalent to the idea that I will have hope again. I have been a Christian for 4 or 5 years now, and people want to make it sound so easy, like it is a decision you have when you wake up in the morning (brush your teeth, eat breakfast, have a little hope). It may be this way for some people, but it would be a cheap fix if I just decide I am going to think happy thoughts. Suffering is painful, but it is what, at least I, know I deserve. Yes, God cares, but neither is he some magical band-aid that you can put over a grievous wound.
I appreciate the scriptures, and they are uplifting. However I just do not feel this helps.
Josh – I agree with most everything you said. That said, there is an answer. There is no cheap fix but there is a fix. It is taking the scriptures and putting them into yourself by confession. It is the Word of God and it will change you but you will not feel it until it really starts to work. Go to our main page and look for this article – You Cannot ‘Out Think’ the Devil But You Can ‘Out Speak’ Him.
There are other articles such as this one – You’ve Got to Have Hope and this one – Depression Is a Spirit – It Must Be Fought with the Word of God.
In one sense there is no fix all solution, on the other side, a combination of the word of God and Spirit of God will do everything. Just finding out that you need hope is a start but you don’t just choose hope. It must be put back into you. You do not deserve this and God is not doing it. He is the answer. We just have to figure out how to get there. More to come.
Josh–I hear you! If you will look to Jesus and trust Him to save you He will!! He will comfort you as only He can do!! Praying for you!!! I have been where you are, and know how you feel!!
Josh you have to believe than God helps you it is magical he is real he will never give up on us his children he feels,pain,happiness to like you and me his our heavenly father worship in group and alone you will be helped by our heavenly father God
I’m sorry I wrote the wrong name the message is from Lindsay
Hello I just wanted to say thank you Rachel for your words. It is true often times we get suck ed into things and not even know that we have. I have been taught by my pastor to stay away from tarot readings and to stay strong and pray. But I did one tarot reading and it almost felt like I couldn’t go on a day without doing it. I always feel so sad all the time and it’s hard trying to talk to someone who doesn’t quite understand why you feel the way you feel. I even got to the point that I can’t really even pray anymore because I’m always so stressed out and unhappy, there is a man I love so much but instead of conveying that to him I just do a lot of fussing now we have broken up and it’s like he was one of the few things in my life that kept me sane but I just kept pushing him away and now he doesn’t want to talk to me at all and it hurts. But my biggest hurt is the fact that I don’t know where and when I stopped trusting God and fell into this sadness that seems like I can’t get our of. I ran across this sight while searching for prayers just to lift me up out of this gloom and while reading your message I started to cry because I never wanna be outside of God’s love or make him feel I don’t love him but I just don’t know how to get back where I once was loving church, praying, singing, praising. It’s like I can’t do nothing but get up and when I can make myself laugh and play with my three kids that are my heart and the reason as bad and sad as I feel that I keep pushing on. But I am having a reflection on at least where to try to begin because or w in a lot of areas I’m lacking and I just wanna say thanks.
Thank you Sister Rachel, the Word that you have so compassionately shared is a blessing, love in Christ
I found my way here because I can’t sleep. I’m 34 and just moved to a new state so my husband and I can finally live together. I’m looking for a new job and he’s working a low paying one. We have no children but want them. I’m getting so discouraged because it seems so hard to find a job, I apply for jobs everyday and seem to be getting nowhere. The only response I’ve gotten is a rejection.The biological clock is always on my mind. Additionally, I have a history of uterine fibroids and removed 2 earlier this year. The Dr advised to try to get pregnant ASAP but my husband refuses until our financial situation is more stable. I earn more than he does, or I would if I was working. It just feels like it will never happen for us. Everyone around me is getting pregnant it seems. God has brought me through some tough situations but my faith waivers. One day I believe all is possible and then there are days like today when I feel all is lost.
Pay your tithing. Even on the little that you have. Give your faith to God and He will take care if you and bless you, especially when it seems impossible. He will make it possible.
See Malachi 3:10. In the King James Version the phrase says that He will “open the windows of heaven.”
David, beloved, indeed our hearts cry to God for you and your wife. This is very classic of God. We all understand what this feels like, although in different measures, we feel the same blows. We must always remember that in the bible God says that He is the One that causes prosperity as well as calamity. As Jesus says no one has power over us that God Himself did not give them. Our Father knows just what to do to give us just what we need. Take lesson from the trials of Abraham and Sarah, Moses, Paul, and even Christ Himself, “if You will take this cup from Me, may Your Will be done.” We are created to experience these feelings. The Lord prepares us to take up our cross and follow Him in sacrifice, He has fairly warned us that this world will be full of tribulation, but to take heart, that the Father knows what we need and has great and mighty plans for us. We are the clay on the potter’s wheel. This world and everything in it, the Holy One created for His greater magnificent Glory, and in His goodness alone has promised to share it with us, whom He says that even the greatest of us are like filthy rags, but loves us all the same, even the unjust. I’m pleading with you to keep the broader perspective. Treasure in your hearts what you believe God Himself treasures. Put His Will first, and lay your life down for Jesus. I tell you, there Is a way out of your circumstance. Stay in complete trust, without a doubt, forgive your grudges as God has done for you and do your part as an active Christian, spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ to all that will listen. Brother and sister, you can’t go wrong when paying full attention and trusting in the Lord. Remember that God is bigger than what your going through, as a matter of fact, He is testing you, which means He cares for you and wants to teach you strength and inner peace. Remember He is aware at all times. No wool could ever be pulled over His beautiful eyes, if you or I know it or think it, who are we to say we are keeping something from The Master and Creator of the universe. The devils a liar and the world is full of his followers. Jesus warns us to stay on watch and beware at all times and to be dressed and ready for His Glorious coming. Your strength is in the Lord, precious David and Mrs. Love in Christ, Lindsay
Lindsay, thank you for the encouragement, prayers and thoughts. Truly needed reminders of the larger perspective that is so easily lost when we are in the dark. Blessings to you.
I found my way here because I was seeking something, some source of encouragement, some hope, some light in a very dark place. To make a very long and arduous story more tolerable. I will abridge this story. Approximately five years ago my wife and I owned our own business. The recession was in full escalation and times had gotten hard. The business was failing and we tried everything to save it but to no avail. We lost the business completely. In addition, we were so financially strapped that we couldn’t survive in our daily life. We lost our home to foreclosure, our vehicles, everything. Through faith, prayers and the mercy and grace of a loving God we survived. We went through two years of living hand to mouth with a VERY minimal amount of income and a very sparse existence, but we survived than God! We were thankful just to have a place to sleep and food to eat, God was indeed good to us and kept us safe. Three years ago we had an opportunity for a new job for my wife. A good job, a job that would help us finally find a path back to a life a little more ordinary. For three years now we have worked hard, paid our bills, kept our hearts with God and with each other and been blessed beyond measure.
Now, just a few days ago I got a certified letter that has once again turned our world upside down. A financial obligation from the old business that we thought had been resolved has reared its ugliness in a big way. We are now faced with potentially a very devastating situation. We are both just heartbroken, stressed, scared, hopeless and lost. More than anything we are just starting to ask “is there any end to this, is there any hope of ever having peace”? We both know and trust God and believe in his grace and power over things, but this is just taking our faith and beating it to pieces. Just when we thought life was finally about to find a bit ground and perhaps, just maybe, a little peace was in our path, now this. The fate of this situation is in stone yet and I am trying so hard to keep my faith that God will protect us and give us the strength to get through this. But, I must admit that we are both struggling, we are both so hurt, so lost and to be honest, a little hopeless that our lives are ever going to have any peace. I’m asking for your prayers in this. I know that God’s family is strong and His will is what we seek. I believe in His will and His power is limitless but our humanness is weak and fear is taking over again. We’ve lived through the darkest days anyone can imagine and we are so afraid those days may return and we’ll have to live there again. If that is His will then we will gladly go there but I just ask you all to pray for us that if that is His plan we can keep our faith, our hope, our love for each other and our will to live intact.
Thanks for taking time to read this and for perhaps saying a little prayer for us.
Be blessed.
I am Nigerian person in his early 30s. Having possessed my first degree in Accounting coupled with being a Professional Accountant under The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, acquiring that life changing job for 5 years now has been a great problem. This has also affected my meeting up with responsibilties as a father at home. As at present, I am living below $1 per day which is frustrating. This life remains a mystery to me. I never knew it would be this difficult sailing through the issues attached to life after I graduated in 2008. One thing I believe is this, God exists and He knows everything.
Can someone tell me how to heal my empty heart and my unstable faith. I’m angry and sad that God gave me a baby and is now taking it back. I will never get to hold or kiss my baby I’ll never get to see it grow up why would he hurt me with this ? why do I have to sit here a feel this wonderful miracle die inside me? How am I supposed to have faith through this.? I feel so lost.
Lisa,
I’m so sorry for what you are going through. I certainly do not have the answer as to why we must face the trials we do. This is a fallen world, and because of that, we do face illness, loss, and pain. God does not cause these things. When we cry out to Him in our anguish, He does hear us. We must draw near to Him at these times, and He will draw near to us. He can use all our trials for our good, even though we may not see it now. That’s where the faith and trust come in. Believe me, I am going through a painful trial now, too, and have found comfort in His Word. It is still not easy, but He promises to be with us as we go through it. There are many good devotional out there such as intouch by charles Stanley. You can find that online. If you don’t already have the Bible App, I highly recommend that you get it. There are many reading plans on it that have been helpful and comforting to me over the last few months when I sometimes felt the anguish to be unbearable. Find a good Christian counselor or pastor to speak with. God bless you as you reach out to Him for comfort.
Dear Sad and Brown,
God’s promises are for everyone, including you. We have all sinned, and that is why Jesus died on that cross. He paid ALL of our sin debt there. Yours, mine, and everyone who accepts His sacrifice. It’s a gift. You and I cannot earn it. It is the Devil who tries to make you believe you are not worthy. Those thoughts are all lies from the enemy. Ask God to protect you from the enemy by the power of the Holy Spirit and by the blood of Jesus. Just get down on your knees and ask Jesus into your heart. Ask God to forgive you of all your sins. Ask The Holy Spirit to come into your heart to guide you into right living. Then read The Word. Really read and think about it and meditate on it. Ask for strength to be a good wife and mother. Take one day at a time. Start each day with praise, prayer, and some quiet time with God. Bless you. Remember, God loves you so very much. You are precious to Him.
I have been married for 13 years and we have 3 kids. To make a long story short, 2 years I lost a great job due to substance abuse and it’s been downhill ever since. Nothing I try to do works out, I have no friends to talk to and I have no joy in life. Sometimes I don’t want to go to sleep because I can’t face another day. My husband is tired of paying most of the bills and I am too withdrawn to enjoy my kids. I can’t read the bible like I should because in my heart I feel as if those promises are for other people and not me. I have nothing to look forward to and actually envy people who pass away. I had an abortion shortly after I lost my job because i didn’t have access to birth control and I can’t even deal with that. I have emotionally detached myself from it but I think God is still punishing me for it. I feel useless and think maybe my family would be better off without me.