Grounded

I am going through a difficult time right now. It’s one of those “low phases” before things get better. I have really been trying to focus on God and prayer to help me through my days, but He seems so far away. I’m not giving up, though. I’m copying a few verses that were used in the book Made to Crave. I’m trying to cling on to for strength that can hopefully also help you or someone you know who needs encouragement.

Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world – the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has done  - comes not from the Father but from the world. – 1 John 2:15-16

Give ear to my worlds, O LORD, consider my sighing. Listen to my cry for help, my King and my God, for to you I pray. In the morning, O LORD, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation. – Psalm 5:1-3

Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the desert and streams in the wasteland. – Isaiah 43:18-19

I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better. I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe. That power is like the working of his mighty strength, which he exerted in Christ when he raised him from the dead and seated him at his right hand in the heavenly realms. – Ephesians 1:17-20

So I say, live by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of sinful nature. – Galatians 5:16

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. – Galatians 5:22-23

But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus, All of us who are mature should take such a view of things. And if on some point you should think differently, that too God will make clear to you. Only to let us live up to what we have already attained. – Philippians 3:13-16

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away; yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. Ephesians 2:10

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever. – Psalm 73:26

Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. – James 1:2-4

In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express. – Romans 8:26

And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us. – Romans 5:5

Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassion never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I Say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.” – Lamentations 3:22-24

Whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things. – Ephesians 4:8

He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end. – Ecclesiastes 3:11

So, if you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don’t fall! No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear, But when you are tempted, he will provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. Therefore, my dear friends, flee from idolatry. – 1 Corinthians 12-14

Since we have these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates body and spirit, perfecting holiness out of reverence for God. – 2 Corinthians 7:1

“Everything is permissible for me” – but not everything is beneficial… I will not be mastered by anything. – 1 Corinthians 6:12

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