Words of Comfort (5)

1. Jeremiah 33:3
Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’

• The prayers of God’s people invite and assure God’s response. (Zodervan Study Bible)
• The Spirit-filled life begins with an overwhelming realization that we are absolutely helpless and hopeless apart from the empowerment of the Holy Spirit. Do not “do things for God” based on your own strength.(Charles Stanley)
• When was the last time you called on Him?

2. 2 Kings 6:17
And Elisha prayed, “Open his eyes, Lord, so that he may see.”

• When we pray like this, we can see the world all around us (much like the prophet Elisha) is full of God’s horses and chariots, waiting to carry us to places of glorious victory. (Hannah Whitall Smith)
• What are you able/not able to “see”?

3. Luke 19:42
..and said, “If you, even you, had only known on this day what would bring you peace—but now it is hidden from your eyes.

• God holds us accountable for what we refuse to see or are unable to see because of our sin. And now they are hidden from my eyes because I have never yielded completely my nature to Him. (Oswald Chambers)
• What is being “hidden” from your eyes? Why?

………Shared by jane