Are you feeling hopeless in these days of troubles of covid-19 ?

Are you feeling hopeless in these days of troubles of covid-19 ?

After all the battles and efforts, you are unable to do what is expected of you?

Or perhaps you have no strength and feeling poorly ? or even a hopeless case, spiritually; the chains of sin are getting tighter.


Can you still hear the steadfast love of God ? Can you still believe that God know the way that you should go?


God is love.

In love He ( God ) predestined us for adoption to Himself as sons and daughters through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will, to the praise of His glorious grace, with which He has blessed us in the Beloved ( Jesus Christ ).-Ephesians 1:5-6


Yes, God the Father love us through Jesus Christ !


Yes, God the Father in His love, has planned for every area of our life, including our weakness and inability !


Yes, God the Father in His love, allows us to suffer for our bondage !


Yes, through this breaking process, God The Father‘s purpose strengthen the new man in us, in order that, we be conformed to the image of His Son


As Jesus have said before:


For whoever would save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake ( Christ’s sake) will find it. -Matthew 16:25


For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul? -Matthew 16:26


For the Son of Man ( Jesus ) is going to come with his angels in the glory of His Father, and then He ( Jesus) will repay each person according to what he has done. -Matthew 16:27


Do we lose our life for our sake or for Christ’s sake?


It is time that we live for Christ’s sake


When we are feeling hopeless?

Do we feel pressed down?

Are we groaning silently ? Do something heavy weigh us down? Do we feel dry in these times of trouble?


Similarly, David have written this in psalm:

For when I ( David ) kept silent, my bones wasted away through my groaning all day long. -Psalms 32:3

For day and night Your hand ( God the Father’s hand ) was heavy upon me;

my strength was dried up as by the heat of summer. Selah ( Pause to reflect) -Psalms 32:4


What David have done to get out this situation? David prays:


I acknowledged my sin to You( God the Lord),

and I did not cover my iniquity;

I said, "I will confess my transgressions to the LORD ( the Lord Jesus Christ)," and You forgave the iniquity of my sin. Selah -Psalms 32:5


What answer David find ?


Therefore let everyone who is godly offer prayer to You (God) at a time when You ( God) may be found;

surely in the rush of great waters ( troubled waters),

they shall not reach him. -Psalms 32:6


What David confess about this spiritual experience?


You ( God ) are a hiding place for me; You ( God ) will keep me from distress;

You ( God ) surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah -Psalms 32:7


What God the Holy Spirit have said:


I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;

I will counsel you with My eye upon you. -Psalms 32:8


Be not like a horse or a mule, without understanding, which must be curbed with bit and bridle, or it will not stay near you. -Psalms 32:9


Many are the sorrows of the wicked, but steadfast love surrounds the one who trusts in the LORD. -Psalms 32:10


Be glad in the LORD, and rejoice, O righteous, and shout for joy, all you upright in heart! -Psalms 32:11


Yes, indeed God the Holy Spirit have spoken about His steadfast love that we may hear!


Yes, God the Holy Spirit have instructed and teach us in the way we should go !


Also, David reaffirm this:


Good and upright is the LORD; therefore He ( the Lord Jesus Christ) instructs sinners in the way. -Psalms 25:8


He leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble His way. -Psalms 25:9


All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness,

for those who keep His covenant and his testimonies. -Psalms 25:10


For your name's sake, O LORD, pardon my guilt, for it is great. -Psalms 25:11


Have we humbled ourselves before the Lord Jesus Christ for acknowledging our sins everyday ?

Have we keep His covenant of love and goodness ?

Have we kept in our hearts what He have testified ( said ) ?


Have we seeked out God’s mercy?


What David do when he felt oppressed and the troubles of his heart are growing:


My eyes are ever toward the LORD, for he will pluck my feet out of the net. -Psalms 25:15


The troubles of my heart are enlarged; bring me out of my distresses. -Psalms 25:17


Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins. -Psalms 25:18


Consider how many are my foes, and with what violent hatred they hate me. -Psalms 25:19


Oh, guard my soul, and deliver me! Let me not be put to shame, for I take refuge in you. -Psalms 25:20


Yes, when our eyes are ever toward the Lord, that is, when our desire rest on our Lord Jesus Christ,

Yes, our Lord Jesus Christ preserve us in perfect peace.


Yes, our foes are many, like the evil spirit of The Valley, the evil spirit of oppression, the evil spirit of hate, anger, shame, guilt, bitterness, rejection, etc.


This is what we are encouraged to do:


Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. -Ephesians 6:13


Yes, we need to take up the whole armor of God that we may be able to withstand in the evil day, having done all,


to stand firm in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ that He forgive our sins


and yes, we trust in the power of His name, that His steadfast love surround us every day


and yes, in the power of Jesus Christ’s name, we push down our foes.-Psalms 44:5


Yes, we trust in His holy name:

In the power of Jesus Christ’s name,

we push down the evil spirit of the valley, evil spirit of oppression, hate, anger, shame, guilt, bitterness and rejection.


Yes, when we resist our enemies, the enemies shall flee.


For we have been admonished:


To you, O LORD, I lift up my soul. -Psalms 25:1


O my God, in you I trust;

let me not be put to shame;

let not my enemies exult over me. -Psalms 25:2


No one waiting for You ( Lord Jesus Christ) will be disgraced;

Disgrace awaits those who break faith for no reason.-Psalm 25:3


Therefore, it is important to keep our faith when we felt times of despondency;


For everyone who has been born of God overcomes the world.

And this is the victory that has overcome the world'our faith ( in our Lord Jesus Christ). -1 John 5:4


O my Strength, I will watch for you, for You, O God, are my fortress.

My God in His steadfast love will meet me;

God will let me look in triumph on my enemies.-Psalm 59:9-10


To God be the glory forever.

Amen

Dave G. said:

Just to answer the question posed in the title of the thread: No

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Hope you can share your experience.

Dave G. said:

This is a time for hope. It couldn't be clearer today our mission and with a shortage of time in the long haul perhaps but yet this opportunity appears in the here and now. Many already have come to know the Lord in these times. Yes terror is in the streets, Leviathan is loose out there, the lost acting more satanically lost than ever but it makes it easier to see those who need a witness and are just desperate for that witness. This is a time to preach Jesus Christ, the door behind us is shut, there is only one door open in front of us. We need to take all we can with us through that open door that reveals Christ and in Him is everyone's comforter that comes in the form of peace that surpasses understanding, even in the midst of trouble......

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Glad that you share.
It is our Lord’s burden that we share and endure for His love that He has revealed at the cross.
Yes, in Christ, we have received God’s comfort in all affliction.
Our Lord’s peace will preserve us.
GBU

Joined2krist said:

Sing Psalms

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Could you share your experience ?
We would be glad to hear.

Dave G. said:

There is a segment of population right now with open ears to hear, who previously had closed ears. Only the Spirit opens ears to hear and eyes to see, hearts to receive. I believe others have been closed off, a switch flipped sometime in the last months to where there is delusion on those people. This is a time of harvest for those ones who have prepared ears.. The truly lost may well be lost forever going forward. I'm believing more and more that time is short. People are being raised up to speak truth to those who have been prepared to hear.. This is not a time to wallow, be that in fear or in truth. To sit and rest is not now. Yes we have the comforting truth of Christ, we can wallow later. Amen

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This is what I have heard from the Lord :

And the Lord said: "Because this people DRAW NEAR with their mouth

and honor Me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me,

and their fear of Me is a commandment taught

by men, -Isaiah 29:13

Also:


No one can come to Me unless the Father who sent Me DRAWS him. And I will raise him up on the last day. -John 6:44

From the book of Hebrews, is REVEALED :

And without FAITH it is impossible to please him, for WHOEVER would DRAW NEAR to God must BELIEVE that He exists and that He rewards those who seek Him. -Hebrews 11:6

Therefore, there is THE GRACE OF GOD to WHOEVER draw near to God through faith in Christ Jesus and that those people must BELIEVE that God exists and that God rewards those who seek God through faith in Christ Jesus.

As apostle Peter has expressed:

The Lord is not slow in keeping His promise, as some understand slowness. He is patient with me, NOT WANTING ANYONE TO PERISH, but everyone to come to REPENTANCE.

This is the evident that the GRACE of GOD STILL AVAILABLE to those who DRAW NEAR to God through FAITH IN CHRIST JESUS.

GBU