The General’s Call to Prayer

Hear the General’s call to prayer.

We encourage you to join Salvationists around the world on Sunday, as we pray for our world as we follow the sun.

Check out the following link for more information https://www.salvationarmy.org/ihq/news/inr150420

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Words of Encouragement

Today’s words of encouragement come from Rick Warren’s Daring Faith: The Key to Miracles Study Guide.

None of us are exempt from suffering.We all experience loneliness, criticism, discouragement, and mistreatment. Why does God allow these things to happen to us? It’s because God is developing the character of Christ within us, and in order to do that, he must take us through the circumstances in life that he took Jesus through.

Did Jesus suffer? Was Jesus sometimes lonely? Was he tempted to be discouraged? Was he misunderstood, maligned, and criticised unjustly? Of course! Does this mean God cause tragedies? No. God is good. He will not cause evil or do evil. But God can use dark and stressful times for your good.

He’ll use them to teach you to trust him: “We stopped relying on ourselves and learned to rely only on God” 2 Corinthians 1:9 (New Living Translation).

He’ll use them to show you how to help others: “He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us” 2 Corinthians 1:4 (New Living Translation).

And he’ll use them to draw you closer to other believers: “You are helping us by praying for us… Many people will give thanks because God graciously answered so many prayers” 2 Corinthians 1:11 (New Living Translation).

So how can you expect the best from God when you’re going through difficult times?

• In faith, refuse to be discouraged, knowing that God is for you.
• In faith, believe God is with you and working things out for your good.
• In faith, rely on God’s protection and guidance.

In these unprecedented times rely upon God, for He alone comforts us so that we can comfort others, through these days. And when this covid-19 pandemic is behind us all we can be thankful and praise God for all the ways in which he has helped us through it, by bringing others into our lives.

You may appreciate the words of Horatio Spafford’s Hymn as sung by the East London Youth Chorus of The Salvation Army – It is Well with My Soul, and the scripture “Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him” Psalm 62:1 (New International Version). 

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