Pain and hardship will certainly cause us to pray; sometimes even more than our needs and wants. But why do we continue finding ourselves in hard places, difficult places, even addicted places? We experience pain and hardship because we live in a broken world, and in an unseen war where there is an “evil one” against us. What do we do? The fourth way Jesus told us to pray is found in Matthew 6:13, and that is to “lead not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.”
God’s heart for lost people is that they are found, so we must be relentless about finding them.
People who are guided by integrity do the right thing they know they ought to and trust God with the outcomes.
Sacrificial generosity is transformational. Are you following Jesus by giving generously and sacrificially?