You're going to be here. A prayer for rejoicing by Alistairbag. Rejoice in the Lord always.

I will say it again.

Rejoys.

Philippians 4.

4.

Can you answer this believer? Philippines 4.

Can you answer this, believer?

Can you find any reason why you were so often mourning instead of rejoicing?

Why yield to gloomy anticipations?

Who told you that the night would never end in day?

Who told you that the sea of circumstances would ebb out till there should be nothing left

but long stretches of the mud of horrible poverty?

Who told you that the winter of your discontent would proceed from frost to frost?

From snow and ice and hail to deeper snow and ice

to deeper snow and yet more heavy tempest of despair.

Don't you know that day follows night,

that flood comes after ebb, that spring and summer succeed winter.

Be full of hope, hope forever, for God does not fail you.

Do you not know that God loves you in the midst of all this?

Mountains when in darkness hidden are as real as in day and God's love is as true to you now as it was in your brightest moments.

No father chasons always. The Lord hates the rod as much as you do. He only cares to use it for that reason that would make you willing to receive it.

Namely, it brings about your lasting good.

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