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When you walk
through a Storm
by Patricia King
STUDY
INCLUDES:
A. Prophetic Encouragement
B. Devotional Teaching
C. Weekly Scripture Meditation
A. PROPHETIC ENCOURAGEMENT
Recently, my friend Shirley received some difficult news. We
were right in the midst of a conference when she received an
emergency call concerning her mother's critical condition. Her
mother was unconscious and was being transported by helicopter
to the hospital. Only a few months previously, Shirley had
lost her father and it was a difficult time for her. This was
devastating news.
As Ron and I were preparing to take her to the airport, the
Lord gave me a word for her. It was in the form of a song that
I learned when I was young. It goes like this:
When you walk through a storm,
Hold your head up high and don't be afraid of the dark.
At the end of the storm is a golden sky and the sweet silver
song of the lark.
Walk on through the wind,
Walk on through the rain,
Though your dreams be tossed and blown,
Walk on, walk on, with hope in your heart
And you'll never walk alone.
You'll never walk alone.
Later that day, the song kept coming back to me. I sensed that
many are going through storms right now in their lives. If you
are going through a storm, the Lord wants to comfort you. He
wants to wrap you up in His great big blanket of love! It will
all work out. He is with you.
B. DEVOTIONAL TEACHING
Many Bible characters went through storms, tests and trials. I
have always been thankful that their trials and failures were
written up in the Bible. It helps to know that they were
sometimes fragile in the midst of difficulties, just like me.
I think of the disciples when they were in the boat with
Jesus. There was a storm all around them and they were afraid
that they would perish. Jesus helped them in their time of
need and stilled their storm.
We know of others, like Joseph, who went through very
difficult times. Joseph was sold into slavery by his brothers
and then mistreated in Potiphar's house and put into prison
for a crime he never committed. That is truly a storm! Joseph
kept a good attitude throughout the storm and that is the key.
He did not allow discouragement to overwhelm him. He kept a
positive perspective. He was all alone in the natural. He had
been thrown into a pit by his brothers and he was in a foreign
land without any of his family or friends. Joseph made the
best of it. The dream he had received from God years earlier
was probably fairly tossed and blown, but he walked on with
hope and faith in his heart. At the end of his storm, things
worked out beyond anything he could have imagined.
God wants you to know that He is with you. Just like He was
with Joseph, the Lord's disciples, and other Bible characters
in the midst of their storms, He is also with you. You are not
alone. The following things might help you in the midst of a
storm:
1. Keep your focus on Jesus. He is with you.
2. Keep a positive and faith-filled perspective.
3. Believe that there will be breakthrough.
4. Look for all the wonderful lessons the Lord can teach you
in the midst of the storm.
5. Take time to laugh.
6. When you come through, be sure to thank the Lord for His
keeping power.
C. SCRIPTURE MEDITATION
1. Week One: Genesis 37-43
2. Week Two: Genesis 44-50
3. Week Three: Matthew 14
4. Week Four: Philippians 4:4-8; Ephesians 3:20; James 1:2-4
And Remember
God loves you with an everlasting love!
PATRICIA KING
Extreme Prophetic Television
patricia@extremeprophetic.com
www.extremeprophetic.com
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