Suffering is an invitation to prayer. When God allows us to suffer, God invites us to pray.
If we are agonized, we are poised to present our petitions earnestly to God. In anguish, we pray with deep feeling, and thus effectively, when we beg God to help us.
O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.*
When we are tormented, we pray fervently to God. How we pray matters.
We also show what we most value in what we request from God. In the midst of excruciating discomfort, we can do more than merely implore God to stop the pain. We can choose to ask God to give us the grace and the strength to bear the trials we are undergoing.
In beseeching God to grant us the grace and the strength to endure our tribulations, we are asking God that he let us be vehicles for Him to be glorified. When we seek from Him the composure we need to bear our suffering, we wish it to be that we weather our storms only by His grace. Then all glory and honor and praise is due to God, as it always has been, as it is, and as it ever shall be, to God, to ever has been, is, and ever shall be. Amen.
* Psalm 40:14; Psalm 70:2
If we are agonized, we are poised to present our petitions earnestly to God. In anguish, we pray with deep feeling, and thus effectively, when we beg God to help us.
O God, come to my assistance. O Lord, make haste to help me.*
When we are tormented, we pray fervently to God. How we pray matters.
We also show what we most value in what we request from God. In the midst of excruciating discomfort, we can do more than merely implore God to stop the pain. We can choose to ask God to give us the grace and the strength to bear the trials we are undergoing.
In beseeching God to grant us the grace and the strength to endure our tribulations, we are asking God that he let us be vehicles for Him to be glorified. When we seek from Him the composure we need to bear our suffering, we wish it to be that we weather our storms only by His grace. Then all glory and honor and praise is due to God, as it always has been, as it is, and as it ever shall be, to God, to ever has been, is, and ever shall be. Amen.
* Psalm 40:14; Psalm 70:2
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