When we learn to make God a personal friend, he will become real to us, and in doing so teach us how to become a “true friend” to others.
Jesus’s disciples found the emotional strength to carry out their incredible task by being in prayer continually.
We need to make sure our convictions about God are strong so that we keep our relationship with him our top priority, no matter what we go through in life.
God exerts and expresses an unwavering perseverance when he sees our good days having gone bad. He doesn’t stop loving us when we fail, sin, or give up.
When we pray and hear our own emotions, we often identify the raging irrationality of what we are saying, and are surprised by the gentleness of God who listens, then draws even closer to us, because of our emotional honesty.
Resist the temptation to let fear induced stress make us quit for relief. Instead, rely on God to get through, realizing fear is an emotion we can conquer especially when it is based on tomorrows that may never come.