Proverbs 3:24-26

Now that I have lesions on my brain, which causes me changes in mood, personality, behavior, mental ability, and concentration. I asked the Doctor to not put me on anxiety and antidepressants, I will lean on God's word.  God lead me to Proverbs 3:24-26 (ESV) If you lie down, you will not be afraid; when you lie down, your sleep will be sweet.Do not be afraid of sudden terror  or of the ruin of the wicked, when it comes, for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.

Did you know, when we go to sleep we feel helpless and defenseless, our mind is racing a mile a minute. I myself only get 4 hours of sleep, because I wake up in chronic pain. That's why we have so many sleep disorders, we lie exposed and are most subject to frights. 

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The Good News said…
How much Bible study is required to find out what our heavenly Father wants for us? What amount of prayer? What quantity of time? The answer is simple: Whatever it takes to hear from God. He will answer. The question is, Will we wait?
May 23, 2019 at 2:40 PM
The Good News said…
Are you in the dark right now in your circumstances, if so, then remain quiet. If you open your mouth in the dark, you will speak while in the wrong mood— darkness is the time to listen. Don’t talk to other people about it; don’t read books to find out the reason for the darkness; just listen and obey. If you talk to other people, you cannot hear what God is saying. When you are in the dark, listen, and God will give you a very precious message for someone else once you are back in the light.
After every time of darkness, we should experience a mixture of delight and humiliation. If there is only delight, I question whether we have really heard God at all. We should experience delight for having heard God speak, but mostly humiliation for having taken so long to hear Him! Then we will exclaim, “How slow I have been to listen and understand what God has been telling me!” And yet God has been saying it for days and even weeks. But once you hear Him, He gives you the gift of humiliation, which brings a softness of heart— a gift that will always cause you to listen to God now.
May 23, 2019 at 3:02 PM
The Good News said…
You have to hurt in order to know, fall in order to grow, lose in order to gain. Because most of life’s lessons are learned in pain.I’m going through a painful trial of my own right now. In spite of my pain, God still allows me to be sensitive and comforting to others who are suffering.
May 26, 2019 at 2:26 PM
The Good News said…
" Pain doesn't enter our lives just because “that’s the way things are”, nor does it stay in our lives because we haven’t found the magic solution for making it go away. Pain is intentionally brought into our lives by a God who dearly loves us and wants us to have a treasure that only pain can bring us. "...When our current experience is intense pain, we don’t care about anything else but getting immediate relief. Yet when we bind our souls to God, we must realize that His focus is on the future. He cares about where we are right now, but He cares even more about where we are going. God has weighed out the costs and rewards of the path He currently has you on, and He knows the rewards are far greater. Our pain is so important to God, that He never spends it trivially. He is always working towards gaining us rewards that are a thousand times greater than the pain it will cost us along the way. It is by His own brilliant designs that physical, emotional, and psychological suffering can end up gaining us priceless spiritual rewards..
May 26, 2019 at 2:29 PM
The Good News said…
Our trials are not about us, they are there so that we my encourage and comfort someone else who may be experiencing the pain. I can give God praise in every situation, even the painful ones.
May 26, 2019 at 2:43 PM
The Good News said…
I don't know were it comes from, but "self pity" creeps in and before I know it... the sorrows are so great that silence is the only thing that is appropriate.
After enduring multiple deaths in the family, and years of little to no work, it is hard to imagine seeing the goodness of God in the land of the living. Yet, by faith we offer a sacrifice of praise and believe that God is good, all the time. We do this, not because we see a pillar of fire, but simply because we read that God is good and by faith we hold desperately to what we read (even if the experience isn't in agreement). It is what keeps us clinging to hope in the land of the living.

Paul had some kind or thorn in his flesh, to keep him from pride and boasting.2 Corinthians 12:7-9 (KJV) And lest I should be exalted above measure through the abundance of the revelations, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, the messenger of Satan to buffet me, lest I should be exalted above measure. For this thing I besought the Lord thrice, that it might depart from me. And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. When we are so concern with what was Paul's torn..God is saying we know what it is that God doesn't allow, to keep HIM from us.
June 3, 2019 at 2:10 PM
The Good News said…
God makes us go through issues in our lives not to make jest of us but to show us to lean on Him so that at the end of it all, we may have the purpose to give Him all the praise and glory and honor after the surprise solution He’ll put to solve our problems.
My eyes are upon you O Lord.
June 3, 2019 at 2:40 PM
The Good News said…
God’s work is often behind-the-scenes, hidden from our view. He doesn't give a play-by-play on everything He is doing to coordinate the details of His providential plans. In fact, often His work is most clearly seen in the rear-view mirror. But I've looked back enough times to see and trust that my life is not a product of good or bad luck, or of random coincidences. It is divinely shaped and guided by the providential hand of God toward a wonderful conclusion.
June 3, 2019 at 2:57 PM
The Good News said…
Proverbs 3 verse 26 speak to me that confidence in God rejuvenates that assurance of strength when I'm spiritually depleted trying to rely on my own efforts.We have to examine where we have become sluggish, where we began losing interest spiritually, and we will find that it goes back to a point where we did not do something we knew we should do. We did not do it because there seemed to be no immediate call to do it. But now we have no insight or discernment, and at a time of crisis we are spiritually distracted instead of spiritually self-controlled. It is a dangerous thing to refuse to continue learning and knowing more through the confidence that God got by back....
June 8, 2019 at 2:22 PM
The Good News said…
I had to take some time to meditate and pray on your words that cut so deep. You have gone through the valley of death this pass year. I know your so private..you suffer in silence which magnifies your strength even more.. (Lam. 3:48, 49): as I read over your words once again my eyes runs down with rivers of water,only to be held back by pools of tears that swell up as I look over each word.My weeping; trickles down and doesn't cease, so constant now the weeping, without any intermission, (Lam. 3:51), “My eyes are affecting my heart. 😭
July 4, 2019 at 2:27 PM
The Good News said…
Proverbs 12:25 says, "Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad." .... even if your spouse says, “I don’t love you anymore” and walks away. Or if, after faithfully working 35 years for the same company, you are laid off. Or if your child receives a diagnosis of terminal cancer. In all these agonizing situations, God is with us to relieve the awful sense of sorrow, brokenness, and despair. When we know and trust God’s nature, we’ll realize that He always works for our best, even through affliction. Our biggest problem in dark valleys is that we struggle to believe God is enough.

The best response to adversity is to say, “Lord, I’m all Yours. Do whatever You choose with me and my situation. I’m trusting You to encourage and comfort me through this.”
October 5, 2020 at 1:55 PM
The Good News said…
Dear Lord, I’m so thankful that through You we can be free of the burdens of the past—the mistakes, the pain, the sins—that hang so heavy. We don’t need to carry around regret or shame. We can leave them with You. Whether we are sinking in a sea of pain or anxiously seeking a taste of God’s living water, the Lord hears our cries. And He says again, “He will call upon Me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble; I will rescue him and honor him” (Ps. 91:15). When we put our problems in God’s hands, He puts His peace in our hearts.
October 5, 2020 at 2:57 PM
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