Category: Devotions

What To Do When No One Understands

“Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.”. John 14:27

Hey! I hope that you are having a great day! I’m having a tough one. Today is my appointment day for my kidney. I’ve been here over 2 hours now and I’ve been in a room for an hour or so. I have to see like 3-4 doctors most times. My appointment started off like normal, with me seeing the pharmacist. As she went over my medicines, a sadness flooded me. Once she left I began to cry. I try to not think about it, not let the pain and hurt I feel surface, but every so often it rears it’s head. I question and try to look within me to see what have I done for some of these things. But because I know God loves me and has me here for a purpose greater than my own, I can’t keep crying.

As people we long to share our feelings and problems with other people to seek comfort and acceptance, advice and understanding. But to put it simply, most people just don’t understand. The doctors seeing me don’t understand, my friends, family, even pastors sometimes don’t understand. When you get to that point of loneliness and sadness you just have trust God. It’s at these trying times that you can choose to grow your faith or throw it away. In the midst of my crying I had to remember what Jesus went through. I forced myself to say Isaiah 53:5– But He was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities, the punishment for our peace was upon Him and by His wounds we are healed. I’m still sad but I just have to trust that He will not ignore me and will hold true to His word. He gives us peace and promises to carry our burdens with no conditions. He will get me through this and He will restore me. He will do the same for you!

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“The joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10

Marquita B. Priester

Good Evening!

I know its late but I had a busy day. I hope your day was fantastic!</

Are you truly saved

I wanted to give you some scriptures on how to become saved and receive God’s salvation. It’s not only your life on Earth that is in danger, but your eternal life! If you choose to believe that there is no life after living on Earth, if you choose to believe that God does not have something great in store for us after living here, I pray earnestly for you

I got saved when I was 9 years old. I remember it like it was yesterday. I was at Brookland and I went to 8am service with my Aunt Rose and after the sermon, my pastor did the altar call. I walked up by myself and my aunt came to stand with me. Fast forward to my freshman year of college. I did not truly, fully understand and realize of what value the relationship was that I sought with God. I began to realize how important it was for me to have that relationship with God and the benefits it would give me.

And accepting God will give those same benefits to you because God is not a respecter of persons. He loves us all the same. (Romans 2:11, Acts 10:34). So if you have not accepted Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, please do so now!

Recite these words of this verse: Romans 10:9-10 That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.

Romans 3:23 For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

Romans 6:23 For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.

John 1:12 But as many as received him, to them gave he power to become the sons of God, even to them that believe on his name:

1 John 5:11-13 And this is the record, that God hath given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life. These things have I written unto you that believe on the name of the Son of God; that ye may know that ye have eternal life, and that ye may believe on the name of the Son of God.

1 John 1:9 If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

Ephesians 2:8-9 For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

2 Corinthians 5:17 Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

John 3:17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

John 17:3 And this is life eternal, that they might know thee the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.

Romans 5:8 But God commendeth his love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us.

Romans 6:4 Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

1 Peter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

Acts 16:31 And they said, Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved, and thy house

Be blessed!! And I love you!

Marquita