Reasons for Affliction – Discipline

“If they break My statutes And do not keep My commandments, Then I will punish their transgression with the rod,
And their iniquity with stripes.
Nevertheless My lovingkindness I will not utterly take from him, Nor allow My faithfulness to fail” (Ps 89:31-33 NKJV).

FATHER, thank You for Your grace that has chosen ____ to be now in the furnace of affliction (Isa 48:10). But, like the burning bush that Moses saw, convince (him/her) that (he/she) is never consumed (ref#134, p53).

Favor ____ with the realization that this fiery trial (he/she) faces does not have even one spark of hell in it. It will not be pleasurable for (him/her) but there will be none of Your wrath in it. It may feel like fire but it will not be like the fire of the bottomless pit. Possibly it is to discipline but there is no condemnation in it (ref#134, p55). Confirm to ____, FATHER, that You have lovingly crafted this situation and it will cause (him/her) not harm but good.