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I stare at the ceiling, breathe deeply, and try to relax. At 3:15 AM, negative thoughts swirled around in my wide-awake brain. Fears of being old and alone haunted me nightly. One sleepless night, I searched the psalms for comfort. I found Psalm 121, where I found out God never sleeps on the job.
We pray for healing, but why doesn’t God heal everyone? Sometimes God’s blessings come in other ways besides physical healing. We must trust He has a better plan for us. We experience suffering, illness and disease as part of His plan for ourselves and others.
Are you seeking something more? More peace? Joy? Love? Know God loves you with a crazy and everlasting love, even if you think He will never love or forgive you. Satan disguises sin as freedom. Jesus offers true freedom from guilt, shame, death, and slavery to sin. We are truly free in Christ.
Are you weary? Overwhelmed? Do you fall into bed exhausted, then lay awake for hours because your mind won’t stop spinning? Rest is not just more sleep. God gives the gift of rest to the weary when we believe Jesus finished the work for us on the cross.
New Year’s Eve. Alone again. Another dry and desolate year of singleness stretched before me. Persistent prayers for a man to love me were unanswered. Why doesn’t God answer my prayers? Why keep praying? Find out three reasons to keep praying despite unanswered prayers.
