WHEN WE NEED COMFORT

2 Corinthians 1:3-4 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

Do you ever wish you had the right thing to say at the right time, to know when to shut up and when to speak up? None of us want to sound trite when people are distressed and hurting and all they can cope with right now is a hug, or maybe that’s you at this moment?

Jesus told us He came to heal the broken hearted, to set captives free, to heal the sick and so much more, and it’s good to remember He hasn’t changed no matter how much our circumstances change from day to day.

So can I encourage you to keep holding on to your faith when your heart is broken, when the illness is on going, when it feels like you’re in a dark tunnel.

It’s at times like that, when we’re tempted to despair, the best thing we can do is to keep running to God and not from Him, to allow Him to comfort and reassure us with His word, because He is the God of all comfort.

Maybe what looks like a setback in your circumstances is really a set up by God to take us into something which will really bless us, far more than we can imagine or even think at the moment. In the natural we can only see what is ‘now’ but God comforts and encourages us to ‘see’ by faith. 

Shut your eyes for a few minutes, and ask Him to help you ‘see’ yourself totally healthy, ‘see’ yourself  being able to do what you can’t do just now, see yourself in a job tailored made for you and prospering. God calls it walking by faith but we need to spend time with Him ‘seeing’ things first so He can bring them about.

If you need comfort today then we pray with you for His Holy Spirit’s comfort to be so real to you, for the Lord’s faith to inspire you afresh and new hope to rise up in you, for His angels to minister to you and His peace to settle in your heart and mind, as we believe with you for God to bring His best plan and purpose out of it all. Lord we praise and thank You for all the goodness You have already prepared for us and we receive it by faith in Jesus name. Amen.