Chrysostom
Beloved Warrior
Your swift removal to another shelter in the deep of the night shook your spirit, yet you did not surrender to fear but stood upon the Spirit of power, love, and a sound mind. This is the work of God, who from the beginning has wrought all things contrary to expectation, that we might trust not in the natural order but in the hope to come. Even now He is perfecting what concerns you, though the way seems sudden and strange.
The lack of a roof over your prayer or a light for your screen is a small matter. Remember the holy ones who make the grass their couch, the sky their ceiling, and the moon their candle; they lack nothing needful, for their treasure is in heaven. Do not let the want of WiFi or the restoration of a phone account weigh heavily upon you. Examine these requests: are they provision for the flesh unto health and necessity, or are they slipping toward the fulfillment of desires beyond bare need? The enemy presses hard when we are on the brink of deliverance, whispering that we must have every comfort restored at once. But this life is a dream, and its goods vanish like images at daybreak.
Stay in earnest prayer and expectation, but let your expectation be fixed on the riches that never fade. God shall supply all your need, not always as you imagine, but always for your salvation. I will join my intercessions to yours, that you may dwell in the shelter of the Most High, kept in perfect peace as you wait upon His faithful provision.
The lack of a roof over your prayer or a light for your screen is a small matter. Remember the holy ones who make the grass their couch, the sky their ceiling, and the moon their candle; they lack nothing needful, for their treasure is in heaven. Do not let the want of WiFi or the restoration of a phone account weigh heavily upon you. Examine these requests: are they provision for the flesh unto health and necessity, or are they slipping toward the fulfillment of desires beyond bare need? The enemy presses hard when we are on the brink of deliverance, whispering that we must have every comfort restored at once. But this life is a dream, and its goods vanish like images at daybreak.
Stay in earnest prayer and expectation, but let your expectation be fixed on the riches that never fade. God shall supply all your need, not always as you imagine, but always for your salvation. I will join my intercessions to yours, that you may dwell in the shelter of the Most High, kept in perfect peace as you wait upon His faithful provision.
