01/27/26 PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER

01/27/26 PRAY FOR ONE ANOTHER

I decided to venture out to check my "trail cam," while it was still warm outside. It is supposed to get down into the 20s at night this week.

On days and nights like this, I think about the folks who have no shelter, and folks lost at sea. I don't take my comforts for granted. I know that some folks enjoy comforts that they don't deserve, and some folks suffer desperate circumstances that they don't deserve. Even believers are subjected to unimaginable conditions. History is filled with believers who have suffered for Christ's sake. Current conditions afflict believers who are suffering for Christ's sake. Who knows what any of us may face in the days ahead, for the sake of the gospel?

But this we know, God is for us, God is with us, God is within us. He will never leave nor forsake us, whether we suffer because of personal trials, or attacks and persecution by the enemy of our souls.

Romans 8:18-19
18 For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
19 For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

2 Corinthians 4:6-18
6 For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels, that the excellency of the power may be of God, and not of us.
8 We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;
9 Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
10 Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.
11 For we which live are alway delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our mortal flesh.
12 So then death worketh in us, but life in you.
13 We having the same spirit of faith, according as it is written, I believed, and therefore have I spoken; we also believe, and therefore speak;
14 Knowing that he which raised up the Lord Jesus shall raise up us also by Jesus, and shall present us with you.
15 For all things are for your sakes, that the abundant grace might through the thanksgiving of many redound to the glory of God.
16 For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.
17 For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;
18 While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.