96/365: Are You Okay?

Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess. For we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. ~ Hebrews 4: 14-15

Jesus Christ did not endure the cross in vain. Your struggle is nothing compared to the grace and freedom on the other side. You can be okay!

No matter how deep your touble might seem to be right now, you are forgiven if you've asked God for mercy with a humble heart.

GO DEEPER: 2 Chronicles 7: 13-16

NEXT STEP: Do you need to confess something so you can find relief and forgiveness?

Kevin Miller

on 04/06/2023 at 07:10 PM

I struggle with this sometimes. I don’t like to forgive but I know God has forgiven me so much. I am working on this issue. I’m praying for you guys also.

Old Dude

on 04/06/2023 at 04:59 PM

An interesting quote by our 16th president. "We have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us, and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self-sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us." ~ Abraham Lincoln

Elliott

on 04/06/2023 at 04:40 PM

The Tolerance Prayer lord, give me tolerance towards those who thoughts and ways, in life, conflict with mine, for though I could not always know what constitutes the absolute truth. the other fellow Maybe right, while I may be all wrong, yet unaware. lord, make my motives right, for only this can ease my conscience when I sometimes error. lord, give me tolerance, for who am I to stand in judgment on other persons mistakes. no one knows better than my inward self how many little blenders I have and can make. life is full of stones that somehow trip us, and meaning not, we stumble now and then. lord, give me tolerance for only you are rightly fit to judge my fellow travelers. this prayer has helped me in the past 10 months. to find the real me again. I thought that I would share.

Elliott

on 04/06/2023 at 04:19 PM

Brothers, All my life I have had an easy road in life. Somebody was always there physically for me so I didn't think about trying to believe in Jesus the way that I do today. I have always been scared of the "Fear of the unknown". Most of the time I could fake it to make it look like it was me working so hard at life, but my false pride told me that there's no need to try so hard because I could stay on so called easy street. I lost Elliott and I didn't think that I could be doing what I'm doing today. With Jesus as my pilot I am no longer paralyzed scared of the "fear of the unknown". I can hold my head up high because my FoPo is not controlling my life anymore Jesus is. The power that I receive is from Jesus Christ who has made my daily struggles almost so minimal that it doesn't affect my day to day life, to ask Jesus for forgiveness I thought was a sign of weakness I didn't know that it was a part of Life. We are all human and make mistakes. It's all about my actions today that show people that I am a changed man because of Jesus. I love who I am today because I am trying to help others find the peace that I have today because I let go of my past mistakes and I am a trusting Man Of Faith today. "Faith without works is dead"!

Matthew Brown

on 04/06/2023 at 03:45 PM

About 8 years ago I had something I needed to confess to my wife. I had been secretly living with a pornography addiction and had developed an emotional affair with another woman. When I confessed I crushed my wife’s heart and nearly destroyed our marriage. Since that time we have been working on healing our marriage and God has done some incredible restoration. Recently though I started thinking about the struggle my wife and I have had to build and maintain intimacy and I realized that although I never returned to porn and no longer struggled with lusting after other women I only maintained a level of honesty that I was comfortable with. Recently I heard a program on Family Life Today about this very topic and learned what I was missing was openness and transparency. It has been tough to make this change but I am seeing good changes already. For anyone else struggling with these kind of issues check out Savage Marriage Ministries

Ashley Jarvis

on 04/06/2023 at 02:44 PM

God I know you’re aware of what may lurk beneath the surface of my thoughts and intentions. Please remove from me any selfish motives in my actions and words today. Help me to be truly selfless in my endeavors of serving you. Help my actions be in serving only your will today, NOT mine. God, keep me vigilant in my walk for others who I can be of service to. God send me your other children who I’m uniquely imperfect enough to be relatable for them. Bring out your Godcolors in me, so that my witness of your perfect love may draw others closer to you. God, take away my ego, my pride, and empower me to be completely humble with any admiration I may receive, being quick to direct ALL glory to the only one deserving, you God. I ask that whatever your will is, that it be done today. If that means pain and suffering for me and my loved ones, bring us strength and endurance from your promise that through the pain you will lift us up, you will liberate us. God, I know that struggles and challenges are the path to peace and serenity. I get complacent God, I drift, for I am weak and broken without your guidance. God I ask that you lift each and everyone of us here up today, and that you remind us of all the incredible blessing you have already provided us, through our past challenges and pains. The best is yet to come, always, as long as I’m alive in this world. Carry me through until the day you call me to my true home Lord, amen 🙏🏻

Rick Donka

on 04/06/2023 at 02:06 PM

Robert, continue praying for guidance and pray for your wife's heart to soften. Do not force a Bible verse upon her as you will only push her farther away. Love her regardless knowing Jesus is in control and will bring good from this (Romans 8:28). And thank Him every day that she is still with you, which is a positive.

Brandon Pembleton

on 04/06/2023 at 02:02 PM

I have hurt lots of people in my life. Especially those last couple of years before I found you God. I ask that you keep me humble and always seeking Your will God not mine. That you keep me alert for when I become divergent in thinking or actions from you. Help me to stay focused at work throughout each day and the whole day. Help me to stay in a position of selfless service to others. I remember very clearly my old life of hedonism and sin. I never want to slip back into that. I know You now God and I love you. You are my rock in all times and always have been even if I was ignoring it. Thank you God for your redemption everyday. For everyday as I lay down and go to sleep there's some sin in my day I must ask you for forgiveness for. As much as I'd like to he perfect I know that will never happen. But your love well that is perfect so in a way all of are perfectly flawed to come to You with our mistakes for help. Thank you God, I love you amen 🙏

Boyce Moses

on 04/06/2023 at 01:52 PM

All of us has sinned, but we all have the gift from God of forgiveness if we confess our sins and ask for forgiveness. What an AWESOME God we have. Love you Jesus! 🤍💙💜🧡

Rick K

on 04/06/2023 at 01:32 PM

Praying for you and your wife, Adam.

bill

on 04/06/2023 at 01:32 PM

Robert

Adam C.Morales

on 04/06/2023 at 01:00 PM

God please forgive me for the hurt I have caused on Your daughter. I ask that You guide my words, my actions and my life that I live it according to Your words. I ask that You heal my wife’s broken heart that I caused so she will one day be able to forgive me for not living up to our vows. I know I am very blessed to have her in my life; she truly is the best gift You could give me. I know I need to treat her as the blessing she is. Help me to have patience with her forgiveness that I am not deserving of. Amen

Tommy Williamson

on 04/06/2023 at 12:41 PM

Robert being an artist get a nice blank plaque and letter on the Matthew 6:14-15 in whichever version of the Bible you and your wife prefer. Here it is in the Complete Jewish Bible “14 For if you forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you; 15 but if you do not forgive others their offenses, your heavenly Father will not forgive yours”. Maybe it will sink in with your wife the she needs to be more forgiving of you. While I do agree that we all need to ask the Lord to search us and reveal any sin within us if a person is not willing to forgive us then that is on them not us.

Leonard

on 04/06/2023 at 12:37 PM

@Robert, praying for you my brother.

Vince

on 04/06/2023 at 12:32 PM

Praying for you Robert.

Robert McFaddin

on 04/06/2023 at 11:57 AM

Lord, please search me. Point out any sin I’m holding onto; any sin that I haven’t confessed and dealt with. I need freedom that only You can give. I’m tired Lord. I don’t want to continue living this way. My wife believes I’m still the same person who hurt her in so many ways for so many years. Please help me make wiser, better choices in every area of my life. We need healing only You can give. Please help me love her like Christ loved me and gave Himself for me. Help me surrender to You and whatever You want me to do. Lord, I’m clueless how to love her the right way. I need Your help.

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