Dear Lord,
It’s easier to be happy about the tests I’ve completed than to be happy about the tests I’m currently going through. But then I remember that You will use my current difficulty to build my faith as long as I don’t give up.
So help me to make it through this difficulty in Your power, grace, and mercy. If the difficulty continues, I will wait on You, trusting that You are moving on my behalf. Much of my suffering will be relieved if I will only trust in You. When I learn how to wait on You in trust, I will be strong and complete and will have everything I need.
The good news about my suffering is that it creates endurance, which creates character, which creates confidence as Your love pours into my heart through the power of the Holy Spirit. What I am going through is insignificant compared to the glory You will soon reveal to me.
And thank You for supplying me with Your continued peace. I am confident I can rest in You even as this trial runs its course.
With great hope, I realize that You are the one who conquered the world, so this current trial is not too big for You to handle.
I want to continue to trust in You in hope, and in Your strength. I know this suffering will end and that You will use it in miraculous ways. Thank You.
In the name of Jesus, amen.
My Christian brothers, you should be happy when you have all kinds of tests. You know these prove your faith. It helps you not to give up. Learn well how to wait so you will be strong and complete and in need of nothing.
James 1:2–4 NLV
But that’s not all. We also brag when we are suffering. We know that suffering creates endurance, endurance creates character, and character creates confidence. We’re not ashamed to have this confidence, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.
Romans 5:3–5 GW
I consider our present sufferings insignificant compared to the glory that will soon be revealed to us.
Romans 8:18 GW
The peace which is in me will be in you and will give you great confidence as you rest in me. For in this unbelieving world you will experience trouble and sorrows, but you must be courageous, for I have conquered the world!
John 16:33 TPT