The Comforted of God

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(God) Who comforts us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to
comfort those who are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God. 2 Corinthians 1:4 - NKJV

OK... So we all have tribulation in our life! Oh, by the way tribulation is not just some end time event... its the hastles we go through in our daily life! And tribulation is a thing we all want to avoid, at all costs!

But, let me give you some advice, try to avoid the temptation to simply rush through life's trying and most discomforting circumstances!

You may think, "I have no time now to wait on God for His comfort."

It's important to realise that God's promises of comfort are given or offered to us with a responsibility, almost a demand on your part to go to Him for comfort.

We use to think someday we would open a prayer center and our slogan would be "Resort to Prayer"... A play on the idea of going to a resort for rest, relaxation and comfort!

Resort to God in trying times and you'll find His comfort. His comfort will settle and encourage you. Just like when you go to a resort for a vacation. Isa.40:1, Joh.14:16.

You have to pull back from the pressures that surround you in order to partake of God's comfort. In other words, you got to get into prayer!

People in the world, sinners... and sometimes saints, live life in the stress and strain of unrelenting busyness, personal confrontations or uncomfortable circumstances. We work ourselves into a spiritual tornado of problems!

In contrast, the Christian life is meant and I stress the word meant... to be lived in the comfort and peace of the Holy Spirit. (Hay don't get me wrong.. those tornadoes will touch down in your life! Just because you are a Christian does not mean everything will be perfect from now on!)

Receive God's comfort by going to Him in prayer, and it will settle you down into a confident expectation (I think that is from the Message bible) of all the things that are wrong being made right.

As an added bonus, you will also gain an awareness of God with you. There's something comforting of the thought of God with us!

Failing to resort to prayer to God for His comfort will usually leave you floundering through and often messing up things in your life. Jer.29:11.

God's comfort will restore peace to you.

For every trying circumstance, upsetting communication,or after a small tornado has touched down in your life, why not go to prayer and seek the comfort of God!

He that dwelleth in the secret place of the most high God... Ps. 91

In prayer you will find His comfort, it can draw you out and save you from your discomfort.

OH! and by the way... there's a bonus!

You will become a comforter once you've been comforted.

You'll find that the comfort you've received enables you to comfort others!

Isn't that just what the scripture in 2 Corinthians is promising us?

Receive God's comfort in your life