Have you ever prayed and prayed then everything seem to get worse?
It seems as if it has been especially hot this year so we find ourselves asking GOD for rain. Therefore, I smiled when I got an email with the words, “If you are going to pray for rain, be prepared for mud!”
But as I went on with my day that statement came to mind and the LORD whispered to me, “Sharon, you asked me to work in ‘those lives’, so expect and be prepared for some mud. It is par for the course but look at it this way-the mud is evidence that I am at work answering your prayer.”
“…For our light (by comparison) affliction (problems), which is but for a moment (and will pass), works (achieves/ produces) for us a something that far exceeds the pain of today and will last eternally” 2 Corinthians 4:16-17.
“For the moment, all discipline seems not to be pleasant, but painful; yet to those who have been trained by it, afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness” Hebrews 12:11.
Those words lifted my spirit for it reminded me the mud I was seeing was just revealing that GOD is at work answering my prayers.
Hugs
Sharon
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