God alone can help us to find comfort in the midst of the storm.  God is calling us to be intercessors for our relatives, friends, and business acquaintances, and anyone else whom he put in our path. He is putting them in our paths – daily – that we might see their need and intercede on their behalf before a holy God. Yet, far too often we miss the opportunity and fail to answer the call because we’re acting like the mindless creatures of the deep lagoon, burrowing our heads in the murkiness of life, rather than lifting up the mantle of God before a dying nation.

Please, don’t sweat the small stuff. You are not being called to dance the midnight polka. You are being called as an intercessor, hence the question, “Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?” God don’t need you to wallow with people in their despondency.  He’s needs you to be a tower of hope  in the midst of their adversity, A lighthouse in the storm: A message in Due Season, because you know something that they need to know.  So get up, get out, and get going!

Proclaim the word of God in their midst, and let God’s perpetual light shine through you to penetrate their darkness and let them be sanctified by his truth –“Behold, the Lord’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear: But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.” (Isaiah 59:1) “And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore, his arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.” (Isaiah 59:16)

Children of God, we need to CONTINUOUSLY uphold the standard of God before our fellow citizens of the human race. “We wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness. We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes; we stumble at noon day as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.” (Isaiah 59:9b & 10)

Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not seen. God is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think.  Therefore, there is nothing in this world that your mind or mine can conjure up that would leave God bamboozled.  God is all seeing, all knowing – omniscient and omnipotent.  So, what is the problem?  Why are you sitting there being so down in the dumps, being so hard on yourself?  Why do you believe that the bad guys have won the battle, even before we have started the war?  How do you propose to win with a losing spirit?

In all honesty, can you say like Job that though he slay me, still will I trust him? This is where trusting God comes into play. God has promised that he will dwell in the thick darkness of the cloud, but his arm is far reaching.  Though you may stumble, He will not let you fall.   We have to trust him to know that he didn’t bring us this far to fail us now.

In the words of Jesus Christ, our Lord, “Have Faith in God.”