Silas
Beloved of All
Your honest words about weariness, constant anxiety and tears are heard, and your desire not to give up on the Lord and not to give up on yourself in this long season of waiting is precious to Him.
Fear so often comes when we forget who is with us. When our eyes are on the size of the problem, on the passing years and the unanswered prayers and the threat of the future, the heart sinks. That is what happened when Peter stepped onto the water and then looked at the wind and the waves instead of at Jesus. He began to sink not because the Lord had moved, but because fear took hold when his eyes moved. Faith and fear cannot rule the heart at the same time. Where one is welcomed the other must leave. The cure for fear is always to remember the Lord again, that He is present, that He is greater than what opposes you, that He will give strength.
The enemy often uses fear and discouragement as tools to paralyze the child of God and to push us into wrong reactions. Do not let fear drive your decisions in this weary place. Remember what David confessed, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil for You are with me. Ask yourself as he did, why is my soul cast down and disquieted within me, and then answer it by remembering the Lord who is your light and your salvation. Of whom shall you be afraid when the Lord is the strength of your life. In the time of trouble He hides His own and He keeps them.
You have been waiting a long time for work, reminding God each day that you are still here. He has not despised the affliction of the afflicted and when His child cries He hears. You have not received a spirit of slavery again to fear, but the Spirit of adoption by which you can cry Abba, Father. You can come to Him not as a stranger trying to get His attention, but as His own child who is already heard. Even now while you groan inwardly and wait, that waiting itself can be an act of trust, confident that God will work in His time. Scripture calls us to patience, to establish our hearts and to trust that the Lord is faithful to bring forth fruit in its season. His timing is not neglect. It is preparation and care.
So lift your eyes back to Jesus today. Tell Him again honestly about the anxiety, the tears, the battle each day brings, and then deliberately remember Him. Remember His presence with you in the valley, His power that is greater than any lack, His promise that He will not hide His face from those who cry to Him. Let faith dispel fear as you rehearse who He is rather than how large the problem looks.
I pray for you now that the Lord will quiet your anxious heart with the assurance of His nearness, that He will lift the weight of fear and replace it with a steady confidence in Him, that He will sustain you in this waiting and not let you give up. I pray that He will open the right door for work in His perfect time and way, and that even before that door opens you will know His provision, His peace that guards heart and mind, and His strength for each day. May you experience that reverent awe of who God is that steadies wisdom and keeps you from evil, and may you know deeply that you are His child, heard and held, even in tears.
You are not forgotten where you wait. The Lord is with you, and He is able to keep you as you keep looking to Him.
Fear so often comes when we forget who is with us. When our eyes are on the size of the problem, on the passing years and the unanswered prayers and the threat of the future, the heart sinks. That is what happened when Peter stepped onto the water and then looked at the wind and the waves instead of at Jesus. He began to sink not because the Lord had moved, but because fear took hold when his eyes moved. Faith and fear cannot rule the heart at the same time. Where one is welcomed the other must leave. The cure for fear is always to remember the Lord again, that He is present, that He is greater than what opposes you, that He will give strength.
The enemy often uses fear and discouragement as tools to paralyze the child of God and to push us into wrong reactions. Do not let fear drive your decisions in this weary place. Remember what David confessed, though I walk through the valley of death I will fear no evil for You are with me. Ask yourself as he did, why is my soul cast down and disquieted within me, and then answer it by remembering the Lord who is your light and your salvation. Of whom shall you be afraid when the Lord is the strength of your life. In the time of trouble He hides His own and He keeps them.
You have been waiting a long time for work, reminding God each day that you are still here. He has not despised the affliction of the afflicted and when His child cries He hears. You have not received a spirit of slavery again to fear, but the Spirit of adoption by which you can cry Abba, Father. You can come to Him not as a stranger trying to get His attention, but as His own child who is already heard. Even now while you groan inwardly and wait, that waiting itself can be an act of trust, confident that God will work in His time. Scripture calls us to patience, to establish our hearts and to trust that the Lord is faithful to bring forth fruit in its season. His timing is not neglect. It is preparation and care.
So lift your eyes back to Jesus today. Tell Him again honestly about the anxiety, the tears, the battle each day brings, and then deliberately remember Him. Remember His presence with you in the valley, His power that is greater than any lack, His promise that He will not hide His face from those who cry to Him. Let faith dispel fear as you rehearse who He is rather than how large the problem looks.
I pray for you now that the Lord will quiet your anxious heart with the assurance of His nearness, that He will lift the weight of fear and replace it with a steady confidence in Him, that He will sustain you in this waiting and not let you give up. I pray that He will open the right door for work in His perfect time and way, and that even before that door opens you will know His provision, His peace that guards heart and mind, and His strength for each day. May you experience that reverent awe of who God is that steadies wisdom and keeps you from evil, and may you know deeply that you are His child, heard and held, even in tears.
You are not forgotten where you wait. The Lord is with you, and He is able to keep you as you keep looking to Him.
