Abba, I cry out to you right now. My head is in so much pain and I can't sleep. I haven't felt this bad in a while. I know your plan for me is perfect. I know that since your plan is perfect and since you are perfect, whatever your will is for me, is perfect too, and everything that goes alongside it. So Father, if you are allowing me to endure this pain for good, I trust that it is in your hands. I trust that you have everything under control. I know that it is far beyond my knowledge, so God, help me to persevere through this. Don't let me lose heart and help me to remember that you love me and you have overcome the world. God, through these last ten months of experiencing this pain, I have learned to rely on you in ways I never have had to before. So if this is what it takes, Father - if I need to endure this pain a little longer to draw closer to you, then let your will be done. But father, comfort me in this pain. It's almost unbearable and I just need to feel your loving touch.
Abba, show me your loving comfort.
Amen.
We have this treasure in jars of clay, to show that the surpassing power belongs to God and not to us. We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed; always carrying in the body the death of Jesus, so that the life of Jesus may also be manifested in our bodies. For we who live are always being given over to death for Jesus’ sake, so that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So death is at work in us, but life in you.
-2 Corinthians 4:7-12
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