How To Get Through The Day

“Today you have been given what you need to deal with whatever comes across your path- and not only deal with it just barely, but with total and complete victory.” ~Lauren

Do you ever feel like you’re just barely making it through? Don’t try to make it through hard times on your own strength…lean on the One who promises to be close in times of trouble and to be our strength when we are weak. Meditate on these Scriptures, and this short teaching from David Jeremiah to help you recenter on Jesus and His amazing love for you. 

Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.

Hebrews 4.16 ESV

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.

2 Corinthians 9.8 ESV

The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Lamentations 3.22-23 ESV

The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.

Psalm 34.18 ESV

Strength for Today by David Jeremiah

“You and I have the privilege of getting up every morning and spending time with the Lord. None of us know what tomorrow holds, so how do we want to start tomorrow? How do we want to be sure? How do we want to be able to live peacefully, confidently, boldly, productively, fruitfully, tomorrow? By starting off the day with the One who will give us guidance and direction, enable us in every single way. What does He want first? He wants you. Just you alone- no iPhones, no iPads, no computers, and no this and no that and all the things that jam and crowd us. He just wants you. Don’t you think God deserves your undistracted attention? Look at all the benefits of solitude, just you and God:

1. It’ll make your busy days much more fruitful. Why? As you begin the day with Him, and you’re listening to Him, and God is guiding you and leading you because you open your heart and mind to Him, you’re going to be more productive.
2. He repairs the damage. Let’s say you’ve had one of those days and you come home and you think ‘I can’t handle any more of this,’ and what happens? Time of solitude drains all that out. And this idea of ‘I can’t’ and ‘He won’t’ and ‘they will…’ no. Just give Him time. It’s like sometimes He squeezes it out of us. It’s like sometimes He pulls the drain and it just pours out and what happens is we’re free. We’re liberated. That’s the benefit of just being alone with Him. Listen, God’s not uptight. There’s not anything about us He can’t fix and He will fix it if we give Him time. It just refuels us emotionally. He’ll meet you anywhere you’re willing to meet Him. 

He’ll meet you anywhere you’re willing to meet Him. 

3. Solitude equips us to face the tough days. All of us are going to have them. All of us are going to have trials; all of us are going to have heartaches and burdens and things we have to deal with. Solitude equips us to face them confidently and assuredly, without getting all nervous and upset, frantic and thinking ‘God, what’s going to happen?’ It’ll make a difference in your health, it’ll make a difference in your relationships to other people. You’re going to have a sense of peace, and joy, and confidence in your heart that no matter what comes your way, when you get alone with Him, He stills your heart, quiets your spirit and makes you an overcomer no matter what you’re facing in life. There isn’t anything else that can give me all that but time alone with Him. 

“Now I simply ask you this: do you want God’s best? This is the avenue. Do you want life’s best? This is the avenue. Do you want peace in the midst of storms and quietness and joy when turmoil is all around you? This is the answer.” ~David Jeremiah