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Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

Prayer for Jobje through Doubt and Fear

Hank Unplugged: Essential Christian Conversations

The Christian Research Institute

Education, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

4.9809 Ratings

🗓️ 4 February 2022

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Summary

Hank Hanegraaff, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible Answer Man broadcast, shares a note from his dear sister Jobje—a note written in humility through tears, as she journeys through the travails of pancreatic cancer. She is most thankful for your prayers! “The prayers of God’s people” help her “to keep plodding along” what she describes as “an uncertain road.” Jobje explains, “I am truly overwhelmed, humbled, I’m so grateful that you still continue to pray even after fifteen months have gone by since my diagnosis.” She writes, “My nights have been plagued by long sleepless times as I try to relearn to rest in His promises anew, in those dark alone hours. It is amazing how the darkness of the night spawns so many doubts. So many fears, not to mention the Devil attacking my thoughts to reinforce those fears. Oh, to learn to trust during those dark restless nights in my mind and soul. Then I pray all the more in earnest, ‘Lord, help me to trust. Help me to be at peace’” She goes on to express, “I’m so glad I learned to trust in Him, my precious Savior, my friend. I know that He is with me and will be with me until the end. The thought of Jesus being with me to the end should be so comforting, and yet sometimes in those dark and deep valleys of dismay and despair, my trust seems to evaporate in the pervasive fog of that dark valley. And its surroundings make me again lose sight that He is still with me. Oh, ye of little faith.” And “Yes, it is so sweet to trust in Jesus / Just from sin and self to cease; / Just from Jesus simply taking / Life, and rest, and joy, and peace.” That shall be eternal life—rest, joy, and final peace. Ending her note with those six memorable words, “I look forward to that Day.” Please pray for Jobje.

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0:00.0

Hi, this is Hank Hanagraph, president of the Christian Research Institute and host of the Bible

0:06.1

Inserman broadcast with another Hank unplug short.

0:10.5

If you've been following some of my shorts, you'll know that I have been reading during

0:20.2

the shorts some of the memos that my dear sister Joby is sending to the people that are

0:28.1

praying for her and in this particular memo she says that she cannot thank those praying people

0:36.0

enough because the prayers of God's people helps her to keep

0:42.8

plotting along on what she has described as an uncertain road. Jobie says, I am truly overwhelmed,

0:52.9

I'm humbled. I'm so grateful that you still continue to pray.

1:00.1

Continue to pray even after 15 months have gone by since my diagnosis.

1:07.7

Yesterday, continues Jobi, to be real honest, I hit the pits emotionally.

1:16.4

And once again, my tears flowed freely.

1:20.5

The song, it is so sweet to trust in Jesus, kept flowing in my soul even though my tears flowed down my cheeks.

1:31.4

It is so sweet. Yeah, right. That trust is easy when life is going well,

1:41.3

when the peddling on the bike of life seems to to continue easily on open flat prairie roads,

1:50.5

roads where the vistas are limitless, and there appears to be no end in sight.

2:00.2

When you have good pedaling, when you have roads that are bathed with

2:05.8

sunshine, not a cloud in the sky, and a gentle breeze cools your face, it all makes it seem easy

2:16.2

to trust in Jesus. This time, however easy to trust in Jesus.

2:29.4

This time, however, my trust in Jesus began to wane with invasive doubts and with many fears.

2:41.2

It seemed that my shiny, trusty bike, a bike that I've been peddling for so many miles, had become a rusty bike.

2:47.0

The gears grinding hard, the pedals of the bike almost rusted off.

2:53.2

And all the while, my own trust seemed to rust as well, rust into dust.

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