When we are walking through difficulties, all God is asking us is to have faith and simply obey Him at His Word. Our God is a faithful Father and He never leaves us or forsakes us (Hebrews 13:5). He has more in stores for us than we can dare imagine. Even if your life feels like it is straight up in ruins? Our God is more than capable of raising to life our dead lives. He Himself is a consuming fire (Hebrews 12:29) and brothers and sisters, do not ever lose sight of the fact that we belong to a kingdom that cannot be shaken. “See to it that you do not refuse Him who is speaking. For if those did not escape when they refused Him who warned them on earth, much less will we escape who turn away from Him who warns from Heaven. And His voice shook the earth then, but now He has promised, saying, “Yet once more I will shake not only the earth, but also the Heaven.” This expression, “yet once more,” denotes the removing of those things which can be shaken, as of created things, so that those things which cannot be shaken may remain. Therefore, since we receive a kingdom which cannot be shaken, let us show gratitude, by which we may offer to God an acceptable service with reverence and awe; for our God is a consuming fire.” Hebrews 12:25-29

Even in your trials, please? Fight to stay in reverence and awe of God. For He is a God who never changes and just because your life circumstances are hiding His goodness doesn’t mean God stopped being good.

In Jesus’ name, I pray that you stand in God’s strength, “for the eyes of the Lord move to and fro throughout the earth that He may strongly support those whose heart is completely His” (2 Chronicles 16:9).

I pray the below words mightily encourage your heart to steadily hope and trust in God alone.

The following words are from the devotional Streams in the Desert from May 9th:

Abraham remained standing before the Lord. (Genesis 18:22)

In this chapter, Abraham pleaded with God for the lives of others. A friend of God’s can do exactly that. But perhaps you see Abraham’s level of faith and his friendship with God as something far beyond your own possibilities. Do not be discouraged, however, for Abraham grew in his faith not by giant leaps but step by step. And we can do the same.
The person whose faith has been severely tested yet who has come through the battle victoriously is the person to whom even greater tests with come. The finest jewels are those that are the most carefully cut and polished, and the most precious metals are put through the hottest fires. You can be sure Abraham would never have been called the Father of Faith had he not been tested to the utmost.

Read Genesis 22. In verse 2 God said to Abraham, “Take your son, your only son, Isaac, whom you love, and… sacrifice him.” We then see him climbing Mount Moriah with his heart heavy and yearning yet humbly to be obedient. He climbed with Isaac, the object of his great love, who was about to be sacrificed at the command of God— the One whom Abraham faithfully loved and served!

What a lesson this should be to us when we question God’s dealings in our lives! Rebuke all explanations that try to cast doubt this staggering scene, for this was an object lesson for all ages! Angels also looked on is awe. Will Abraham’s faith not stand forever as a strength and a help to all God’s people? Will his trial not be a witness to the fact that unwavering faith will always prove the faithfulness of God?

The answer is a resounding— yes! And once Abraham’s faith had victoriously endured its greatest test, the Angel of the Lord— the Lord Jesus, Jehovah, and He in whom the “many promises God has made… are ‘Yes’… [and] ‘Amen’” (2 Cor. 1:20)— spoke to him and said, “Now I know that you fear God” (Gen. 22:12). The Lord said to him, in effect, “Because you have trusted me through this great trial, I will trust you, and you will forever be ‘my friend’ [Isa. 41:8].” The Lord promised Abraham, “I will surely bless you… and through your offspring all nations on earth will be blessed, because you have obeyed me” (Gen. 22:17-18).

It is true, and always will be, that “those who have faith are blessed along with Abraham, the man of faith” (Gal. 3:9)

Having a friendship with God is no small thing.