Handling the Day of Trouble or Calamity

Handling the Day of Trouble or Calamity

Daily Prayers for handling the day of trouble or calamity

A message to my associates and friends:

On September 11, 2001, calamity struck our nation. Let us be about the Father’s business. I urge you to pray the following prayer for your loved ones and our nation. There are many prayers in my book series, Prayers That Avail Much, that are appropriate at this time. Pray for our leaders – the President, his cabinet, advisors, leaders of other countries, and families who have lost loved ones. Pray for the many volunteers – read I Timothy 2:1-6. Jesus told us to pray for our enemies – for those who persecute us.

What the enemy intended for evil, God is using for good. Walk in wisdom, rejoice, and pray without ceasing. United in prayer we stand. You will not want to miss my upcoming article, “A Day of Calamity” on October 1st. We need one another, I would like to hear from you.

Germaine Copeland, Your Partner in Prayer

Handling the Day of Trouble or Calamity

Father, I come to You in the name of Jesus, acknowledging You as my Refuge and High Tower. You are a refuge and a stronghold in these times of trouble (high cost, destitution and desperation).

In the day of trouble You will hide me in Your shelter, in the secret place of Your tent will You hide me; You will set me high upon a rock. And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me; in Your tent I will offer sacrifices and shouting of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to You, O Lord. Hear, O Lord, when I cry aloud; have mercy and be gracious to me and answer me!

On the authority of Your Word, I declare that I have been made the righteousness of God in Christ Jesus. When I cry for help, You, Lord, hear me and deliver me out of all my distress and troubles. You are close to me, for I am of a broken heart, and You save such as are crushed with sorrow for sin and are humbly and thoroughly penitent. Lord, many are the evils that confront me, but You deliver me out of them all.

Thank You for being merciful and gracious to me, O God, for my soul takes refuge and finds shelter and confidence in You; yes, in the shadow of Your wings I take refuge and am confident until calamities and destructive storms are passed. You perform on my behalf and reward me. You bring to pass Your purposes for me, and surely You complete them!

Father, You are my Refuge and Strength (mighty and impenetrable to temptation), a very present and well-proved help in trouble.

Lord, You have given and bequeathed to me Your peace. By Your grace I will not let my heart be troubled, neither will I let it be afraid. With the help of the Holy Spirit I will (stop allowing myself to be agitated and disturbed; and I refuse to permit myself to be fearful and intimidated and cowardly and unsettled).

By faith, I respond to these troubles and calamities: (I am full of joy now!) I exult and triumph in my troubles and rejoice in my sufferings, knowing that pressure and affliction and hardship produce patient and unswerving endurance. And endurance (fortitude) develops maturity of character (approved faith and tried integrity). And character (of this sort) produces (the habit of) joyful and confident hope of eternal salvation. Such hope never disappoints or deludes or shames me, for Your love has been poured out in my heart through the Holy Spirit who has given to me.

In Jesus name, amen.

If you would like to continue to pray on this topic, Germaine suggests that you pray the Prayers for the Needs and Concerns of the Invididual and also the Prayers for the Peoples and Nations to be found in the Prayers That Avail Much Commemorative Edition.

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