Where Do I Look in the Bible for Help?

I use the King James Bible when I am doing my daily devotionals, and wanted to share a few scriptures I have come across. It is important to stick with a daily bible study and log it in a journal. That way it can be reflected on in a time of need. God has the answers for our needs. It is up to us to seek him out and ask. Don’t forget to pray. Many times when things are going good, it is easy to forget to pray and thank God for his many blessings.

Here are a few recommendations for those dreary days...

Where do go when I feel…

Read Psalms 6, 39, 41, 67, and Isaiah 26

I recently found out that I may have to have surgery on my foot due to a condition that I have developed. The arch in my foot is beginning to fall which is creating pain so bad, that some days I can't walk. It has been very frustrating, but each morning I pull myself from bed and know that God will help me to bare the pain. I could only imagine the pain Jesus felt as he hung from the cross for my sins.

I feel helpless to watch my children suffer while they are sick. As babes it was easy to rock them, wipe their noses, and lather them in cough suppressants, but as adults...I feel lost. They want be alone or to seek out others to comfort them. What is a mother to do? I could only imagine how God felt those days that I was too sick to seek him for help.

Read Luke 6, 11, 2 Corinthians 4, and Ephesians 4

In this day and age it is so easy to tell someone off without seeing the betrayal and hurt on their faces. Just a simple fax, email, text message, or post on the social network and poof...nasty deed is done. No worries and lives move on while care and compassion are chucked out the window.

I was having a chat one day with my son about holding grudges. He didn't see anything wrong with it because that was what he was taught by his peers. I begged to differ, because I was raised to forgive. No matter the deed done to me. My son still wanted to argue his point of view, so I asked him to tell me what he would have done in the situation I am about to describe.

There was a woman that had dedicated her life to God, but along the way, she forgot about him due to outside temptations. Along had come a man that told her of his love for her. This lifestyle and love sounded so appealing that soon she married him. As the years rolled by, they began to bicker and fight. She found herself changing in ways that were no longer appealing to her. She began to become mean and spiteful, until one day she walked in on her man in the bathroom with another woman. It was an innocent situation that could have become a battle of infidelity.

Her man, while drinking with the other woman, had watched the woman fall and hit her head. Fearful that the woman had a concussion, he suggested she get into the shower to keep from falling asleep. The woman went into the bathroom by herself. The wife, meanwhile, had walked home to clear the turmoil in her head, even though she didn't drink. Upon coming back to the woman's house to see if the wife's husband was ready to go, the wife seen that no one was where she had previously left them. It took a few minutes for her to hear voices through the bathroom door. She flung open the bathroom door expecting the worst and sure enough, she was faced with the woman standing there talking to the wife's husband. The woman was wearing the wife's husband's shirt, while the husband was drunkenly leaning on the bathroom sink, shirtless, and with his top button of his jeans undone. Furious, the wife turned to leave while the woman, devastated, stopped her to explain.

The wife wasn't ready for explanations. She just wanted to run away and cry, but being the person that she was, stopped to give her husband the benefit of the doubt. The woman in a panicked explanation, told the wife that when the woman had finished with her shower, she realized she didn't have a towel in the bathroom. The woman asked the wife's husband if he would retrieve one from the dryer he was sitting on in the kitchen. When he couldn't find one, he offered her his shirt. The woman claimed that the husband had just walked into the bathroom and gave the shirt to her when the wife walked in.

I asked my son what he would have done in that situation. He looked at me and stated that that was an easy decision. Leave the husband and divorce him. It was obvious he was cheating.

I asked my son, “What if the husband wasn't cheating and it was a bad move on his part.”

My son still stuck with his choice. Divorce.

That is what most people faced with this dilemma, in this day and age, would do. There would be no benefit of doubt or forgiveness.

The wife was faced with a choice. Leave him and move on...or show him God's love of forgiveness.

Could you forgive someone for a betrayal such as this, and not hold a grudge?

Read Psalms 126, 146 and Hebrews 11

I would love to claim that my faith had never faltered, but I would by lying to myself and those around me. There were a few years, more than I would like to count, where my faith in God was lax. I was tired of defending my beliefs to those that wanted to argue without listening. I began to question things about my faith that I once had taken for granted. I didn't want to be the responsible one anymore. I wanted to live life freely without consequences. I was sick of begin labeled the goodie girl, because I wanted to walk with God instead of running with the crowd. I was sick of trying to fit into church only to be labeled there for questioning them. Then one day I was given a wake-up call.

I was traveling 64 miles to a town where my daughter was getting her gall-ball removed. While she was in recovery sleeping, I hurried home to grab some clothes and a few other items to stay the night with her. On the trip back, storm clouds began to grow. Then I saw a wall of greenish-black clouds form into a circle miles wide. I knew those clouds could hold a tornado, but I never thought about it being one big tornado. I raced down the road hoping they would pass before it began to ran. I watched the eye of the storm get lower and lower till I felt the van fling me across the road toward the ditch. I cried and was scared to death. The tornado like winds swayed me from one side of the road to the other as I prayed out loud. I watched the vehicles in front of me, terrified we would be sucked up into the clouds at a moments notice. Rain began to fall in sheets so thick the wipers couldn't keep up. I continued to pray.

I felt a calmness come over me like a hug. The wind continued to pound the van, as the rain and hail hammered in dents...I continued to pray and felt God's presence surround me.

I made it to the hospital safely, where I was greeted by my daughter. My fears of a tornado passing by came true when I was talking to other residents of the hospital. Despite what others may think, I think it was by God's grace that I had made it safely to my daughter.

Since then, I have tried to not let my faith falter. I don't let people that want to argue about my beliefs get to me. I don't care about labels and I will always try to be the responsible one to lead my children down the right path. I may falter along the way, but I know in my heart that God will always be there to pick me up and dust me off.

All it takes is a prayer. He is there waiting...ready to listen.

A simple prayer will work...it needs to be nothing spectacular.

Just pray with me if you would like. Remember to be sincere...

meaning in your heart the words you are praying.

Dear Lord,

I need you in my life.

I believe that Jesus Christ came to die for me on his cross.

Please come into my heart saving me from this sinful life, for

I am a sinner in need of your forgiveness.

I am willing to give my life for Jesus Christ.

Thank you, Lord for giving me this new life.

In Jesus's name I pray, Amen.

Are you a Christian having a hard time witnessing to others? There is a way to witness when you are short on time or unsure of what to say. It is called a Chick Track. Try it sometime, I recommend them. They do get read.