Is Anyone Of You In Trouble?

to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.” I’m pretty sure that Lincoln had his share of trouble and haven’t we all? And what do we do when we have trouble? Some people rant and rave, cuss and carry on, but hopefully, we do the best thing, and the first thing and that’s pray!

ILL.- A little boy's prayer: "Dear God, please take care of my daddy and my mommy and my sister and my brother and my doggy and me. Oh, please take care of yourself, God. If anything happens to you, we're gonna be in a big mess."

ILL.- Satchel Paige, pitcher who last played for the KC A’s and passed away in 1982: “Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.”

ILL.- Or as Will Rogers said: “The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.”

We must be men and women of prayer ALL the time, and not just when we get into trouble. As Carrie Underwood sings, “Jesus, Take the Wheel.” Jesus needs to be our driver every day.

ILL.- E. M. Bounds wrote: “TROUBLE and prayer are closely related to other. Prayer is of great value to trouble. Trouble often drives men to God in prayer, while prayer is but the voice of men in trouble. There is great value in prayer in the time of trouble. Prayer often delivers out of trouble, and still oftener gives strength to bear trouble, ministers comfort in trouble, and begets patience in the midst of trouble. Wise is he in the day of trouble who knows his true source of strength and who fails not to pray.”

Philippians 4:6-7 “Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”

ILL.- George Muller (27 September 1805 – 10 March 1898 = 92), a Christian evangelist and Director of the Ashley Down orphanage in Bristol, England, cared for 10,024 orphans in his life wrote: “I spent hours in prayer every day. But I live in the spirit of prayer. I pray as I walk and when I lie down. I pray when I wake up. The answers are always coming. Thousands of times have my prayers been answered. When I am persuaded that a thing is right, I go on praying until the answer comes. I never give up. I have been praying every day for 52 years for two men, sons of a friend of my youth. They are not converted yet, but they will be. How can it be otherwise when we have the unchanging promises of God!”

II Corinthians 1:3-4 “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.”

God is our comforter when we face trouble in life and we must be quick to go to Him in prayer.

ILL.- Two men rested at the top of a high mountain. The first man turned to the second climber and said, “What brings you way up here? This is a tough climb.” The man replied, “Well, it’s like this. All my troubles and heartaches are down in that little valley, and when I’m down there, they seem pretty big. But up here they seem pretty small...”

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