Unsinkable Hope – The Presidential Prayer Team

Though he slay me, I will hope in him. – Job 13:15

Do you ever wonder if you’re going to make it? Sometimes difficulties pile up in this life and your soul becomes weary. Perhaps finances are short or relationships become stressful. Maybe you’ve struggled with health issues or lost loved ones. Like someone drowning who reaches for a life ring, you can reach out to your Savior. “Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:6-7).

Job, as you know, went through the most severe trials, more than most Americans can imagine. In a single day, his sons and daughters were killed and his livelihood was taken away, then his health failed. But he said these faith-filled words, “Though he slay me, I will hope in Him.”

Trials and tribulations of this life are temporary. Even if they remain with you until you die, you still have hope. Jesus is your hope. God is worthy to be praised no matter what is going on in your life. Be still before Him and know He is working things out for the good because you love Him and are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28).

In your prayers, be confident that no matter what is happening in this nation, or the world, your hope is in God. Bring to Him your concerns and the needs of the citizens and leaders of this country. Thank Him for the good things in your life, for the prayers He has answered, for your future home in heaven, and, most of all, for His steadfast love and merciful forgiveness.

Today’s Verse: Job 13:15

Though he slay me, I will hope in him;
    yet I will argue my ways to his face.

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Recommended for further reading: 1 Peter 3:13-22

¹³Now who is there to harm you if you are zealous for what is good? ¹⁴But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, ¹⁵but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect, ¹⁶having a good conscience, so that, when you are slandered, those who revile your good behavior in Christ may be put to shame. ¹⁷For it is better to suffer for doing good, if that should be God’s will, than for doing evil.

¹⁸For Christ also suffered once for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit, ¹⁹in which he went and proclaimed to the spirits in prison, ²⁰because they formerly did not obey, when God’s patience waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared, in which a few, that is, eight persons, were brought safely through water. ²¹Baptism, which corresponds to this, now saves you, not as a removal of dirt from the body but as an appeal to God for a good conscience, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, ²²who has gone into heaven and is at the right hand of God, with angels, authorities, and powers having been subjected to him.