Scriptural references: Phillipians 4:6, Matthew 15:37, 1 Timothy 4:4-5, Luke 18:17, 1 Thessalonians 15:17, 2 Timothy 1:3, Ecclesiastes 5:2, Matthew 6:7-8
Greetings to everyone! It's always a pleasure to be able to share my thoughts with regards to the Mass Indoctrination over here. It is another wonderful time as Brother Eli takes us on another spirit lifting teaching. Every day just keeps on unfolding us with blessings upon blessings. Every minute spent in this session is life changing.
In life, we can't avoid disappointments. It is part of live. No matter how we hard we try to avoid it it would definitely come. Disappointments can come in different forms. It's ridiculous to prevent disappointments in life, but what we do about it is what matters. Coping with disappointments can be quite frustrating.
People would definitely fail us, but God cannot fail us. Only one Him doesn't have a record of disappointing people.
When we go through Phillipians 4:6, we are encouraged to bring all problems to him. While other people hide from us when we are in problems God on the other hand is telling us to come to Him even with the problems we bear, with the assurance of relieving us of the burdens regardless of the nature. Prayers is one of the effective ways to relate our problems to God. On our own, there's only so little or nothing we can do.
Instead of dwelling in problems, it's better that we bring it to God. Philippians 4:6 encourages us to bring all our problems to God. This the right approach to take when faced with challenges. Some of us may ask, is there a particular time that we should pray only? Luke 18:1 gives us an answer to this question. It says:
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint.
We should not relent in prayers. When we don't pray we make ourselves vulnerable to the attacks of the enemy which is the devil. We need to fully equip ourselves to withstand the whiles of the enemy and we achieve this through prayers. We should see beyond our present state because we don't know what the future holds, so we need to pray concerning it.