Prayers & Promises for Comfort and Encouragement E-Book

BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC

• Herausgeber: BroadStreet Publishing Group, LLC
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Serie: Prayers & Promises
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Seitenzahl: 72

Beschreibung

Everyone experiences difficult seasons in life. Loss, pain, anxiety, and frustration can lead to discouragement and sometimes a feeling of hopelessness. Prayers & Promises for Comfort and Encouragement incorporates more than 70 themes to help you receive the assurance and inspiration found in the promises of God's Word. Uplifting prayers and journaling space offer the opportunity for deeper reflection. By staying connected to God, and believing the promises of his Word, you can live a fulfilling, blessed life in close relationship with your heavenly Father.

Leseprobe

CONTENTS

Ability

Acceptance

Adoption

Affection

Assurance

Authenticity

Blessing

Boldness

Comfort

Compassion

Composure

Confidence

Consolation

Contentment

Courage

Delight

Deliverance

Devotion

Encouragement

Enrichment

Eternity

Faith

Faithfulness

Fear

Forgiveness

Freedom

Friendship

Goodness

Grace

Grief

Guidance

Health

Hope

Inspiration

Intimacy

Joy

Justice

Kindness

Life

Loneliness

Loss

Love

Patience

Peace

Perseverance

Praise

Prayer

Promises

Protection

Provision

Purpose

Reconciliation

Refreshment

Relaxation

Relief

Restoration

Reward

Safety

Salvation

Satisfaction

Strength

Stress

Support

Sustenance

Trust

Truth

Understanding

Victory

Wholeness

Wisdom

Introduction

Everyone experiences difficult seasons in life. Loss, pain, anxiety, and frustration can lead to discouragement and sometimes a feeling of hopelessness.

Prayers & Promises for Comfort and Encouragement is a topically organized collection that guides you through themes of assurance, compassion, inspiration, purpose, and more. Encouraging Scriptures, heartfelt prayers, and prompting questions give you an opportunity to think more deeply about the hope found in God’s Word.

By staying connected to God, and believing in his promises, you can live a fulfilling, blessed life. Find your peace in his presence. Take comfort in knowing that he cares deeply for you and he will always be with you.

Ability

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 CORINTHIANS 12:9 ESV

After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen and establish you.

1 PETER 5:10 NASB

Take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees. Mark out a straight path for your feet so that those who are weak and lame will not fall but become strong.

HEBREWS 12:12–13 NLT

Sometimes, Lord, I question your call on my life. I deeply desire to follow you and do great things in your name, but I don’t trust my own humanity. Thank you for the numerous examples in the Bible of times you chose to use weak men and women to carry out your mission.

Thank you for the times in my life when you’ve used me in spite of my shortcomings. May they serve as a reminder that true strength is only found in you. Thank you for having grace with my inabilities and granting me the ability to proceed with what you have called me to do.

Do you believe that God can make you able to do what he asks?

Acceptance

“The Father gives me the people who are mine. Every one of them will come to me, and I will always accept them.”

JOHN 6:37 NCV

The LORD does not see as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.

1 SAMUEL 16:7 NKJV

If God is for us, who can be against us?

ROMANS 8:31 ESV

Before he made the world, God chose us to be his very own through what Christ would do for us; he decided then to make us holy in his eyes, without a single fault—we who stand before him covered with his love.

EPHESIANS 1:4 TLB

Father, sometimes when people act wrongly toward me, I struggle to forgive them and let the grievance go. I know you do not hold my sins against me but receive me in my brokenness.

Please give me the grace to likewise accept the imperfection of others and treat them the way I have been treated by you. Remind me, Lord, of the incredible price you paid for me and also for them.

How does God’s acceptance of you help you be more accepting of others?

Adoption

You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When we cry, “Abba! Father!” it is that very Spirit bearing witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

ROMANS 8:15–16 NRSV

A father of the fatherless and a judge for the widows, Is God in His holy habitation. God makes a home for the lonely; He leads out the prisoners into prosperity.

PSALM 68:5–6 NASB

The LORD will not abandon His people on account of His great name, because the LORD has been pleased to make you a people for Himself.

1 SAMUEL 12:22 NASB

Adoption speaks of inclusion, intentionality, and newness. It baffles me, God, that you would choose me to be your child! Thank you for pulling me from my lost state and placing me in your family.

Thank you for promising to never forsake me. When I consider what you have done for me, I feel accepted, cherished, and safe.

How does knowing that God has adopted you into his family make you feel?

Affection

I am my beloved’s, And his desire is toward me.

SONG OF SOLOMON 7:10 NKJV

You make known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.

PSALM 16:11 NIV

My beloved speaks and says to me: “Arise, my love, my beautiful one, and come away, for behold, the winter is past; the rain is over and gone. The flowers appear on the earth, the time of singing has come.”

SONG OF SOLOMON 2:10–12 ESV

Father, please help me cancel out the lies of the enemy which tell me I’m unlovable or need to be somebody I’m not. Your affection is hard to fathom because I struggle to see past my own depravity.

Your love, however, is not conditional of my deservedness but is an overflow of your goodness. Thank you for creating me to be the recipient of your affection.

Do you feel the affection of God in your life?

Assurance

To him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory…for ever and ever! Amen.

EPHESIANS 3:20–21 NIV

All of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ with a resounding “Yes!”

2 CORINTHIANS 1:20 NLT

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

HEBREWS 13:8 NASB

These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life, and that you may continue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

1 JOHN 5:13 NKJV

God, when all the worries of daily life engulf me, I begin to feel overwhelmed and anxious. When I change my focus and use your Word to light my path, my vision clears and my perspective accurately adjusts.

I do not wish to use this as a reason to avoid life’s problems, but I cling to the assurance that you are with me while I walk through them, each step of the way, no matter what.

How does believing God’s promises cause you to feel reassured?

Authenticity

“Remember this: If you have a lofty opinion of yourself and seek to be honored, you will be humbled. But if you have a modest opinion of yourself and choose to humble yourself, you will be honored.”

MATTHEW 23:12 TPT

What should be our proper response to God’s marvelous mercies? I encourage you to surrender yourselves to God to be his sacred, living sacrifices. And live in holiness, experiencing all that delights his heart. For this becomes your genuine expression of worship. Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes.

ROMANS 12:1–2 TPT

God, I am painfully aware of the imbalance in our relationship. There have been countless times when I was unfaithful to you and you still remained devoted to me. I do not pretend to be deserving of your love and loyalty, but I accept them gratefully.

You are not impressed by lofty, religious airs, as I may fool myself into imagining. What you ask me for is worship from a contrite heart, honestly aware of my need for you. That is how I will come before you today.

How do you see yourself? How do you think God sees you?

Blessing

Surely, LORD, you bless those who do what is right. Like a shield, your loving care keeps them safe.

PSALM 5:12 NIRV