Reasons For Affliction – To Be Drawn Back to GOD

FATHER, moving into Your house is ____’s happiness in this hurt. Before (he/she) was afflicted (he/she) went astray (Ps 119:67) but Your “chastisement must be felt to be grievous before the tenderness and sympathy of Jesus will be sought” (ref#61, Aug 30th). Don’t allow ____ to deny the compassion JESUS holds out to (him/her).

As much as ____ resists pain, still it’s true “the infliction of sorrows harmonizes the mind to the fear of God…” (ref#16, [Haggai 1:12]). Therefore, I pray for all Your strength, even to the measure of Your divine majesty, till ____ attains “to all enduring patience and forbearance, which exults under suffering” (ref#38, p165, [Col 1:11]).