January 2020

Words of Wisdom
Getting Through Your Night-Time Experiences
‘Weeping may endure for a night, but joy comes in the morning.’ Psalm
30:5 NKJV
God is with us during our ‘night-time experiences’. Think about it;
you’ve been knocked down, but by God’s grace you’ve gotten back up.
No matter how dark the night, you’ve lived to see the morning. Times
change and relationships change, but God is always the same, He’s the
one who brought you through every difficulty in the past, and He
promises to be with you every day of the future. Note the words ‘joy
comes’. That means you will rise again and rejoice again.
Your drive to survive comes
from a well that’s already within
you, and the Lord is the One
who fills that well. Let it flow!
You don’t have to make it flow,
just let it flow. Sixteenth-century
English clergyman and historian
Dr Thomas Fuller said, ‘if it were
not for hope, the heart would
break.’- and it always comes. No
matter what you’re going
through right now, don’t give up
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until you see the morning. It’s at
the end of every dark night and every broken promise – and it always
comes. After every setback, betrayal, and denial – morning will surely
break. Let nothing keep you from believing that! God will dry your tears
and you’ll awake with a new song.
One of the greatest promises in Scripture is this: ‘His compassions fail
not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness. The Lord is
my portion…therefore will I hope in him. The Lord is good unto them
that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him’ (Lamentations 3:22-25
KJV). Yesterday ended last night. It’s a new day, so make up your mind
to enjoy it!
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