By Bill Bright
Is your heart lacking peace today? Talk to a mentor and find some encouagement.
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I can do all things through Christ, which strengtheneth me. (Philippians 4:13, KJV)
What would you give for the power to live a truly holy, fruitful life? Strangely enough, it is yours for the asking. If your problem is timidity in witnessing, God promises to help you share your faith with others: “For the Holy Spirit, God’s gift, does not want you to be afraid of people, but to be wise and strong, and to love them and enjoy being with them” (2 Timothy 1:7).
If it is victory over temptation, He reminds us that temptation is not a sin; it is only in the yielding that it becomes sin.
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If you need victory in your thought – life, He promises to allow no tempting or testing above that you are able to bear – and that certainly includes your thought – life (1 Corinthians 10:13). You are invited to “cast all your anxiety upon the Lord, because He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7).
If it is forgiveness you seek, He offers it freely. “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness” (1 John 1:9, KJV).
In short, you have no burden, no problem, no need that is too big for our Lord to handle. “Ye receive not, because ye ask not,” He reminds us.
If your need is for physical healing, know that He is able to heal you if it is His will. If His answer to your prayer is no, thank Him for the sure knowledge that His grace is sufficient in the midst of pain and suffering. Acknowledge His sovereign right to be God in your life, whatever the cost may be. “Commit everything you do to the Lord. Trust Him to help you do it and He will” (Psalm 37:5).
Lord, help me to begin this day – and every day – by committing everything I do to You and expecting You to help me. I will remember that I can do everything You ask me to do with the help of Christ, who gives me the strength and power (Philippians 4:13). In Jesus name, amen.
Question: Take a moment right now and commit your day and everything in it to Him.
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“For the Holy Spirit, God’s gift, does not want you to be afraid of people, but to be wise and strong, and to love them and enjoy being with them” (2 Timothy 1:7).
“cast all your anxiety upon the Lord, because He cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7).
–I am very blessed with this verse! thank you for this devotional. I always wanted to be afraid of dealing with persons that would cause me pain but im thanking God for the gift of HS that protects me and guides me in my steps.
—I don’t know where to get an answers to my problem, so i will always think, and that cause me in trouble and problem in my thinking, I need you Lord to take over my life, come and cleanse all my thoughts that causes me pain. I know nothing I cannot do with you Lord… Lord, give me the wisdom and knowledge to deal with different kind of person. may i let go all the anxieties and let God handle everything in my life. In Jesus mighty name I pray. Amen.
That is quite a thought that Bill Bright said.”: Thank him for the sure knowledge that Grace is sufficient in the midst of pain and suffering.Acknowledge God and give him the right to be God in your life!whatever the cost may be! ‘
That speaks volumes. How often do we want to thank him that God’s grace is sufficient in the midst of pain and suffering and let him be God. I have to admit sometimes that isn’t what i want to hear. I get angry and stomp off like a spoiled child. Than I come back to him and I say okay Jesus you have my life, You are in Control, You are trustworthy and I am going to trust you. A gentleness comes over me and there is peace within. I begine to pray that I will be a good representive of Jesus. A calmness that everything is okay! I’ve begun to thank the Lord for the reprieve he gives me when everything doesn’t hurts!
I am reminded of the verse that says Thou will keep him perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee because he trusts in him.
So I guess we need to have the mindset that Jesus can help us in everything!
Thanks March and Margreat, I am overwhelmed todayprople, stuff and enotional issues. I am greatly fatigued which doesn’t help. I know that God is Fairgful, however; faithful indeed.
fairgful should have been faithful. :)
Kris it’s easy to be overwhelmed especially with fatigue. Rest in the Lord and receive his strength today. He is faithful. God eagerly awaits our visits with him and from that time spent with him he will refresh us. March I too love the devotional today, Thanks Bill!! Margaret, I pray in Jesus name that your legs become healed of any trouble, I pray for every vein, for every muscle to line up with the word, that you become strong and mighty, able to stand.
Thank you Bill for this timely devotional. I had a huge task to do today and was doubtful that I would be physically able to accomplish it. With all my faith in the Lord, I was able to do it!! Thank you my glorious God!
I woke up this morning with a very heavy heart ..It was a very sleepless night last night, I must have lay in bed for hours crying out to God, To update you my Aunt returned home from the hospital yesterday she was supose to go back Tuesday and do more ratiation treatments but the Doctors spoke with her and my Uncle before they left and said that the Cancer that they have found in her brain is very aggresive and the treatments wern’t helping, My mom called last night and said my Aunt Carol was very weak her children are on they’re way home, I don’t think she will return for anymore treatments her body is so weak…I know we all have things in our life where we ask why, and dont understand I was there last night asking God why…and when I read todays devotion and the part that says “Thank him for the sure knowledge that His grace is sufficient in the midst of pain and suffering Acknowledge His sovereign right to be God in your life,whatever the cost may be.” Commit everything you do to the Lord,Trust him to help you do it and he will.” Thank you for the devotion please continue to pray for Aunt Carol and our family..((((Hugs and blessings to each of you))
Maia, my heart gose out to you and your family, This is a very difficult time for you all.I know what is like to ask Why, but there are time we do not get an answer and just have to trust. I have had to deal with cancer in my family, my sister and dad. I pray that the Lord will give you peace in your heart and the strength that you will need.
Kris, I know what it is like to be overwhelmed with family, work, and whatever else live can and dose throw at us. Fatigue, latly seems to be my middle name. I find that I never have enough time to do anything and it can make feel so helpless. that is when I like to run away. i am also at the age of the change in life and I get bad PPMS day that can run in to days of just being right miserable. I dont even like myself and don’t understand how God could love me. I am just glad He does.
I am getting so much encouragement from all the things I read in this devotional and from you Ladied. God bless each and every one of you…MaryAnn
I know God is in control of my life but like Margaret I too have to admit it is difficult to Thank Him for the sure knowledge that His Grace is sufficient in the midst of pain and suffering and to acknowledge God and give Him the right to be God in my life whatever the cost may be and for me being daily in Chronic pain is very difficult at times but even worse is when I am in mental anguish from my depression that is a real hard one for me to swallow as to why God just doesn’t heal me of it and allows a Christian to go through that.
Maia my heart aches for you too as I am all too familiar with how awful it is to loose a loved one. Dear Heavenly Father I just bring Maia and her family to You at this difficult time. Lord give each one of them strength to face each day, wrap Your loving arms around them that they will feel Your presence with them and just remind them that You are in control and fill each one with Your peace that passes all understanding. Also Lord be with Kris just calm her give her peace and let her feel Your presence within her. Also Lord restore her strength help her not to feel fatigued at all but full of energy and full of Your love, just bless her and encourage her. I just pray all these things in Your Name Amen! Hugs, Linda!!!
Maryann and Linda: Thank you for the prayers, each lady that visits this site daily that I have grown to know , you are all so special to me, there are times when I am going through things that I can’t talk to my family about, not that I can’t, it’s that they are hurting too and it is so wonderful to know that I have my extended family to reach out to…that’s how great our God is he gives us brother’s and sister’s in Christ to lift us up…I know that there are many miles between each of us but I also know that we all have one great common thread that binds us all together…(((HUGS TO EACH OF YOU>>I LOVE YOU ALL)))
I always post my prayer requests, but I am asking for all the prayers I can get. Please pray for continued healing. I am struggling with feelings of emptiness, my life was changed about 2 years ago after a really bad relationship, which I know was from the enemy.. some of my friendships were affected in the meantime. I came to a new church, and unfortunately met some other individuals who acted selfishly, and hurt me again. I need to be released, and I just want to be free. I am struggling so much, and I feel like my community is suffocated. It is a long, long story, but I do not want to keep feeling discouraged. I pray for freedom, and the right, safe individuals & community. I am trying to just live my life at the sametime, life is hard enough as it is. I am healing from how, I’m sorry to say, people can be jerks! When someone is down, they can easily gang-up, and all blame you for being in the state you’re in… God has to heal me of anger, feelings of injustice and unforgiveness. Anyway, thank you for continually praying, may God Bless You All.
as a sidenote, I know the above entry was kind of strong, but truthfully there is a lot I am not sharing.. but please be gentle in your words, for a sister going through some hardships. Thank you again for your compassion, and for simply letting me share on this site.
Dear Jesus I am so thankful that You never tire of us coming to You with our prayer requests. Jesus anonymous is hurting so badly and needs a mighty touch from You & You alone. I just pray that You would minister to All her needs, her hurts. Lord You see how badly people have treated her and like she said some people are just jerks but Lord I just ask that You would help anonymous to forgive these people, to just leave the hurts and all the mean things that have been done,said to or about her at Your feet, free her of her anger and just allow her to be Free In You and not bound by these hurts anymore. I just pray all these things In Your Holy Name, Amen & Amen! Hugs, Linda!!!
Bill,
Really good devotional and reminder that whatever our circumstances God is always near. His way is always good and sufficent for all our needs….
Linda, my dear faithful friend and sister in Christ,
I have been thinking about you (and praying) most of the morning hoping and expecting God to comfort you during a very difficult week. But as usual you reach out to others even during a time that you need others. What a witness you are Linda for all of us. A true child of God who reflects Christ’s light even in the mist of your suffering.
Heavenly Father, you know your daughter Linda and how she is in so much pain at the moment, Lord please send relief her way….touch her in a way Lord that would release her from it. Comfort her with the knowledge that you love her and so do we, her sisters, and want her to physically and emotionally heal very soon. In your powerful name. Amen
Anonymous,
Also praying that our Lord will help you during her healing process. I pray that you will keep focused on Him, where true happiness and joy really is.
Loving you all from far away. Have a blessed weekend everyone. Donna
thank you again, sisters.. thank you so much for your prayers, which mean so much to me. hanging in there. God bless you.
Anonymous, God is with you even now, holding you as a child. Rest in his arms knowing that he loves you deeply. You are precious to him and he cares about every thought you have good or bad. The Psalms always bring comfort to me, especially Psalm 139,I am praying for you now. God will bring peace. Believe that he can and trust him. The bible says is we have faith as a mustard seed we can move mountains, and if you have ever seen a mustard seed it is tiny. Hugs and Support,Loreli
wow, amazing.. even as I read these entries was blessed & worshipped God, a sister from this new church contacted me, and said something hurtful… again! wow. I am almost laughing in disbelief. I need strength. I do believe in God’s power, but please, pray for peace of mind, for sanity, for protection in God’s hands.. I am tired of being tempted by feelings of anger and wanting God’s revenge upon those who have caused hurt, yet it is almost ridiculous how much I am being misunderstood, and treated now. I am fighting the feeling that people ‘kick you when you you’re down,’ and especially when young, people can be inconsiderate. Please pray for me. I just ask God for a place of healing. Please do not necessarily ‘rebuke’ me here, but I do appreciate your prayers. In the meantime, I also lift you ladies up when I can. Thank you and God Bless.
anonymous I am still up so lets pray. Dear Jesus I just come to you once again asking you to please be with anonymous right now, just wrap your loving arms around her, help her to feel your presence and Jesus please take all resentment away from her towards these people who are being so unkind to her but fill her to overflowing with love for them I pray. Just give her peace of mind and in the Name Of Jesus I Just Rebuke satan to get out of her pathway, to leave her alone and Lord Jesus surround her with Your Angels I Pray In Your Name In Faith Believing Amen & Amen! Hugs Linda!!!
thank you, Linda R, for being such a prayer warrior.. I checked this site once more before heading to bed, and am encouraged. God Bless You.
Hello everyone,
The responses and comments on this website are really encouraging. I need a lot of that right now. My sister died a month ago, she left two kids, I live far away from my family as I moved to join my husband. Even though I am with my husband I still sometimes feel very lonely and discouraged, worried about how my mother is doing so far from me. I worry about the kids who are 7 and 8 and have had to go to boarding school which they hate because their father has a shift job; he also works out of the country and the there arent any good schools near my parents for them to be day scholars. I am full of questions, regrets, pain, resentment and struggle. I want peace, to believe without doubt and to understand. I am not even sure this makes sense but please, please pray for me and my family. I would really appreciate it. Thank you. Susan
Hi Susan my heart just aches for you at the loss of your sister and I am so very sorry. I am going to put your name & family on my prayer list, ok! But also lets pray now:
Oh Dear Father In Heaven I just come to You this morning bringing Susan before You. Jesus I just ask that You would comfort her at this lonely & discouraging time in her life, please wrap Your loving arms ever so tightly around her, hold close to You, help her to feel Your presence & just fill her with your Peace. Help her just to leave everything in Your hands past, present and future knowing she can’t change anything but You Are The One In Control and just let her to step back and allow you to be in Full Control of Her Life. Jesus just surround her with Your angels to watch over her. I just pray all these things In Your Name In Faith Believing, Amen! Hugs, Linda !!!
Linda thank you so much!!! People like you make me feel ashamed of the times when I dare to doubt God’s love for me. Thanks so much, Susan
Oh! Susan don’t ever feel ashamed we all feel that way at different times in our lives we wouldn’t be human if we didn’t. My goodness when bad things happen to good people we wonder why God? do you really care? Ultimately deep down we know He does but those thoughts cross all our minds at one time or another. You hang in there & I will continue to be praying for you and all your family. Hugs Linda!!!
Thank you, Truth Media, for continuing to put Dr. Bill Bright’s pearls of Wisdom here at the devotional site. He is now with the Lord, but His writings still encourage and help us all!! Am encouraged by Dr. Bright’s powerful comment above that “nothing is too big for our Lord to Handle”. And, as we hand our situations over to Him, He will and does move!
Have been sidelined with a bad cold, but can still read and pray!..and am believing for each request!
Am encouraged and heartened by the outpouring of geniune love and concern..sister to sister at this special site. And, grateful for new ladies HE is drawing here to be loved uncondtionally and be blessed…and bless others by their sharing, too…
Like DonnaL it is an uplifting thing to see those dear to us here…dealing with their own earthen pain praying and believing for others..This is the Lord in a yielded life! And an example for us all that we can do the same…Some of you dealing with, bodily pain,job loss and other personal challenges, yet still faithful to our Lord…and encouraging others… Thank you, Father, for each special one that you’ve anointed to do this ministry of outreach. And, bless them as they do, Dear Father…Amen and Amen!
“nothing you can do”. my life is a testimony to this truth. i have raised my children almost by myself and through my strong faith in God. i know he was always with me all those trying times. yet today when my children are fully independent, with their own family, with good jobs abroad and i am done with the primary responsibility of raising and educating them, i am sometimes stricken by worry and anxiety. this has something to do with my being an entrepreneur with no sufficient capital. only prayers and the thought that God is in control erase those apprehensions. my sense of independence is my own enemy but i know that there is nothing i can do without dependence on God. in my daily prayers, i surrender my company to God and i ask that he be my partner. nothing is impossible with God; nothing is too difficult for him.
I KNOW I CAN DO NOTHING WITOUT HIM