We do not need to be people of fear or rage because our God is mighty in power, he is our refuge, and he is our very present help.
As Christians, we should expect suffering and rejoice in real suffering for Christ’s sake, knowing that our souls are safe in Jesus’ hands.
There are people that you know, that you work with, that you interact with, your neighbors and friends that are groping around in the darkness, searching and seeking for something that they don’t even know. God has placed you in this time and this place so that you can tell them the Gospel.
Because Christ is so wonderful, we should cultivate a life of observant and persistent prayer that aligns with the missionary heart of God so that all might know him. And we should align our lives purposefully in order to see Christ glorified as more and more come to know him.
We should pray all the time, during good and bad times, individually and with friends, and pray with confidence and trust.
We must persistently and expectantly pray to our Father from a heart of sonship and submission
We must remember our standing in Christ and act out of that standing. But, if we fall and fail, which we will, we simply return to God in repentance and faith. He will then restore us and we will once again experience the joy that is found in Christ.
We must God’s word, the revelation of Christ, a daily part of our lives. We must not only come together and read it, but we must read it individually. And when we do, we must respond to it.
God lifts up and exalts the humble.
We must wait upon God when all seems lost. We must wait on God and pour our hearts out to him. We must wait on God and know he will judge.