What is more devastating than knowing you don't have money to pay the rent or even feed your children? Or seeing someone you love walk out the door? Being diagnosed with an incurable disease, Failing in school, the death of someone you love, Or a mountain of debt you can't begin to repay?
We all experience times when life looks impossible. Not just hard, impossible. We lose the strength to go on. All too often we're alone at those times, with no one to help us. We desperately need someone to come alongside us, to pick us up, to comfort us, to give us hope, courage, and the strength to go on.
We need someone to share our burdens. Like you, I've had those days. Sometimes God placed people in my life to help me get through them. Other days, he did it Himself. The Greek word for comfort in the New Testament is parakaleo. It means to call to one side, to exhort, to encourage, to comfort or to urge.
God will come alongside you to encourage you, to give you hope, strengthen you, give you courage, and he'll console you to ease your grief and your trouble.
On those darkest of days, open God's word and meet him there. He'll be there, and he will help you. Psalm 23:4 Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I, uh, will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Psalm 34:18 the Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
2 Corinthians 13:4 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. Philippians 4:6,7.
now call out to God from a place of faith knowing that he's there for you and he wants to help you.