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Why am I? What is my purpose?

Why am I here? What is life all about? What is the meaning of life? How we answer these big-picture questions is important so we can live with hope and a sense of purpose in times of uncertainty, pain, and frustration.

What is the meaning of life according to the Bible? According to the Bible, knowing God is the meaning of life because He is the “author of life” (John 17:3). The meaning of life is not based on things we see in the world “for life is more than food, and the body more than clothing” (Luke 12:23).

What does it mean to know God? Why can’t we base the meaning of life on relationships, career, or personal happiness? Understanding the answer to these questions in the Bible gives a sense of purpose and fulfillment in our lives.

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What is the meaning to life? Why am I? What is my reason/purpose? A routine question that strikes us at moments of reflection/trial. What is “Life”?

God, as The Author of life, brings meaning to life. Everything God created was meant to show what God is like. God created a world with a purpose, by His design. The world we live in and the life of every person has a purpose and is not just the product of chance, random events, and biological selection.

What Is the Meaning of Life According to the Bible?

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Prayer helps you develop a relationship with God

Just like your parents here on earth, your Heavenly Father wants to hear from you and talk to you. When you pray, He listens. Then He answers your prayers in the form of thoughts, spiritual feelings, scripture, or even the actions of other people.

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Prayer helps you gain an understanding of God’s loving nature

The scriptures teach, “God is love” (1 John 4:8). You can feel that love as you speak daily with Him through prayer, seeking His guidance in your life.

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Prayer provides answers

Praying and listening to the answers God gives you can help you better understand your purpose in life. God will help you understand why you are here and what you can do to return to live with Him after this life.

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Prayer helps you find direction in your life

When you privately pray to God, you can work through serious decisions in your life. God always listens and often provides the specific answers and guidance we seek. Even when He chooses not to answer immediately or in the way we might have hoped, prayer itself is a way to find peace.

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Prayer gives you strength to avoid temptation

Jesus counseled His disciples, “Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation” (Matthew 26:41). Through prayer, we can overcome temptations to sin. Pray for God’s help to keep you from making wrong choices. This will give you the strength to do what is right.

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Prayer aligns your will with God’s will

The purpose of prayer is not necessarily to tell God how you want Him to do things. Rather, it’s to better understand Him and His ways, bringing yourself into alignment with His will. As C.S. Lewis is often attributed as saying, prayer “doesn’t change God. It changes me.”

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Prayer and regular fasting can help you accept God’s will

Jesus fasted for 40 days and 40 nights before He began His ministry on the earth. As He did this, He communed with His Father in Heaven in prayer. Likewise, if you pray and fast, you can feel closer to God and better understand the things He wants you to do.

 

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Prayer can work miracles

Throughout the scriptures, we see many examples of the Lord working miracles as an answer to prayer. In Old Testament times, the prophet Daniel was thrown into a lions’ den because he refused to stop praying. When he prayed to God in the lions’ den, angels appeared and closed the mouths of the lions. Through daily prayer, you can also experience personal miracles such as healing, peace, and forgiveness for sins.

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Prayer invites the Holy Spirit into your life

As you pray daily, you invite the Holy Spirit to be with you and to comfort and direct you. The Holy Spirit can give you answers, help you feel God’s love, and bring feelings of peace and joy into your heart.

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Prayer helps you become more like Jesus

Jesus set the perfect example of prayer. If you try to follow His example through prayer, you will become more like Him and develop a better relationship with Him and Heavenly Father.

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Be blessed. Because we ARE! Amen

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.
Philippians 4:13-15

For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of His good pleasure.
Do all things without murmurings and disputings: That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world.
Philippians 4:13-15

To God be ALL the glory, Amen.

And we pray 🙏🏾

Keep this scripture in your heart…

This verse highlights God’s intimate, protecting presence, suggesting He surrounds the believer to guard, guide, and limit their actions. It emphasizes total encirclement and close contact with God, acting as a personal “hedge”. 

Common Translations:

  • NIV/ESV: “You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me”.
  • KJV: “Thou hast beset me behind and before, and laid thine hand upon me”.
  • NLT: “You go before me and follow me. You place your hand of blessing on my head”. 

Meaning and Significance:

  • Protection & Limitation: The phrase “hem me in” refers to being surrounded or restricted by God, acting as a barrier to protect the believer from behind and guide their path ahead.
  • God’s Hand: “Laying your hand” indicates God’s intimate care, authority, and blessing resting upon the individual, showing that one is never truly alone.
  • Omniscience: The verse highlights that God’s presence is everywhere, surrounding us entirely because He knows us completely.

A Prayer for Hope in Difficult Times

A Prayer for Hope in Difficult Times

You’re in the right place if you’re in a season of struggle and you need a prayer of hope and faith today. In this blog post, I’m sharing a powerful prayer for hope and 13 bible verses to encourage you. I’ve walked through enough storms in my life to know no matter how bad things get, we can always find hope when we turn to God.

No matter how dire our circumstances, we can know that at some point there will be light at the end of the tunnel and the storm will eventually pass. No matter how difficult or how impossible things may seem, we can know God cares about the details of our lives and His timing is always perfect.

But what shall we do while we’re amid the storm to come out of it strong and victorious?

What I do when I’m experiencing difficulties

I cling to God’s Word.

I choose to believe His promises. (see the 13 bible verses I read below)

I trust His grace will sustain me until the end.

A Prayer for Hope in Difficult Times

During difficult times, filling my mind with only messages of hope sustains my spirit. For instance, reading books like Prayers That Avail Much: Scriptural Prayers for Your Daily Breakthrough by Germain Copeland has been a lifeline on many occasions for when I needed a prayer for hope. Here is a prayer entitled, Overcoming a Sense of Hopelessness:

“Father, as Your child I boldly come before Your throne of grace that I may receive mercy and find grace to help in this time of need.

Father, I know Your ears are open to my prayers, so hear my prayer and answer me. I am worn out by my worries and crushed by oppression. I am gripped by fear and trembling. Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest. Yes, I would wander far away; I would lodge in the wilderness. I would hasten to escape and to find a shelter from the stormy wind and tempest.

I am calling on You my God to rescue me, You redeem my life in peace from the battle of hopelessness that is against me. I cast my burden on You, Lord, releasing the weight of it. You sustain me. You will never allow the consistently righteous to be moved—made to slip, fall, or fail.

Hopelessness lies in wait for me to swallow me up or trample me all day long. Whenever I am afraid, I will have confidence in and put my trust and reliance in You. By Your help God, I will praise Your Word; on You I lean, rely, and confidently put my trust; I will not fear.”

(Excerpt from Chapter 46: Overcoming a Sense of Hopelessness, pg 154)

The extent to which you daily renew your mind with the Word of God is the extent to which you will experience His peace. As you keep your mind stayed on God, a comforting sense of calm will surround you like a warm blanket even though the storm rages all around.

Sometimes it’s hard to connect to a positive thought when you’re drowning in a sea of hopelessness. When it feels like you’re hanging on by a thread is the time when you need to cling to the power of God’s promises.

Scripture to Pray When Going Through Difficult Times

Psalm 42:11 TPT

“So, I say to my soul, “Don’t be discouraged. Don’t be disturbed. For I know my God will break through for me.” Then I’ll have plenty of reasons to praise Him all over again. Yes, He is my saving grace!”

Psalm 42:11 TPT

Psalm 31:16

Let Your favor shine on Your servant. In Your unfailing Love, rescue me.

Psalm 31:16

Psalm 143: 8 NIV

Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing Love, for I have put my trust in You. Show me the way I should go, for to You I lift up my soul.

Psalm 143:8 for trust and hope

Psalm 62:5-7 NET

Patiently wait for God alone, my soul! For He is The One Who gives me hope. He alone is my protector and deliverer. He is my refuge; I will not be shaken. God delivers me and exalts me; God is my strong protector and my shelter.

We can always go to the Word for comfort,  encouragement, direction, and blessings…

1. Matthew 28:20 (NLT)

“And be sure of this: I am with you always, even to the end of the age.”

2. Psalms 30:2 (NIV)

“Lord my God, I called to You for help, and You healed me.”

3. Psalms 42:5 (CEV)

“Why am I discouraged? Why am I restless? I should trust You, Lord. I will praise You again because You help me.”

4. Psalms 71:14 (CEV)

“I will never give up hope or stop praising You.”

5. Proverbs 16:24 (NIV)

“Gracious words are like a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.”

6. John 10:10 (CEV)

“A thief comes only to rob, kill, and destroy. I came so everyone would have life, and have it fully.”

7. 1 Peter 1:3 (NLT)

“All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by His great mercy that we have been born again because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation.”

8. Romans 5:4-5 (CEV)

“And endurance builds character, which gives us a hope that will never disappoint us. All of this happens because God has given us the Holy Spirit, who fills our hearts with His Love.”

9. Jeremiah 17:14 (NIV)

“Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for You are The One I praise.”

10. Galatians 6:9 (NKJV)

“And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.”

11. Isaiah 40:31 (NIV)

“But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.”

12. Psalms 34:18 (NIV)

“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”

13. 2 Chronicles 7:14 (NIV)

“If my people who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from Heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land.”

And we pray 🙏🏾

Just trust God, especially if you have prayed and it just doesn’t make sense. For ALL things work together for good in the lives of those who Love God.

God sees the whole picture, while we often see only a small part. What feels confusing, unfair, or uncertain to you is already clear in His sight. He knows how every detail connects, how every delay serves a purpose, and how every situation will unfold in the end.

Trusting God means surrendering the need to understand everything right now. It means believing that even when things don’t make sense, He is still working for your good. His wisdom is higher, His timing is perfect, and His plans are always rooted in love.

You don’t have to figure it all out—just trust the One who already has. In time, what seems unclear today will reveal His faithfulness tomorrow.

“Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.” Proverbs 3:5.

Prayer:

Lord, help me to trust You with the parts I don’t understand. Give me peace in the unknown and faith to believe that You are working everything for my good. Amen.

God bless you abundantly.

As we go forth this week, be blessed 🙌 in Jesus’ Name, Amen.

Seven things to daily say to God daily…

To God be ALL the glory, Amen.

As we roll on in God’s AMAZING grace…

APRIL WILL BE FILLED WITH THE GOD’S GREATER BLESSINGS!

You’re about to experience a new thing by the hand of God. What He is doing in your life will not look like what you’ve seen before. God specializes in fresh beginnings, new opportunities, and unexpected blessings. Even if the past held disappointment, this new season carries hope and purpose.

Don’t let old experiences limit your expectations. God is moving in a way that will surprise and strengthen you. Stay open, stay faithful, and stay expectant. Blessings are coming—divinely timed and perfectly designed for your life. Trust His hand as He leads you forward. What God is about to do will bring joy, growth, and renewed faith into your journey.

NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH JESUS CHRIST, Hallelujah!!!

GOD BLESS YOU ABUNDANTLY.