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 is with us to comfort us with peace, but we must choose to be filled with it.
To create a church you love, you must be connected in a healthy and transformational smaller community of people within the church.
If we choose to unfollow Jesus, we are choosing to follow someone or something else instead.
