[Christians only] Help, struggling with anxiety, doubt, and God's promises

Hi brother/sister, I hope this helps you:

In the 77th Psalm we have a report, given for our benefit, by a man who almost lost his faith, but who found his way back eventually to greater faith and trust in God than ever before. He tells us just how he did it. That is the helpful thing about this psalm, and all the psalms, for in these wonderful poetic passages, so beautiful in their language, so soothing in their effect, so true to the experience of the heart, we have the reports of men and women who have faced the problems we must face in the spiritual life and have recorded for us, step by step, the way they were led to the solution of these problems.

The opening verses of this 77th Psalm record for us the emotional distress the psalmist experienced when he faced a very troublesome problem in his life which brought him to God, crying out in heartache and anguish. Then the second problem, which grew out of the first, came upon him when he faced the fact that God seemingly ignored his prayer. He began to ask certain searching and probing questions which are the same questions you and I have asked in times of doubt and the trial of our faith.

Finally, this man saw where he was heading and for a moment his slide to despair was stopped. He was heading toward the total loss of faith. He saw in a flash what he had been doing and that he had begun in the wrong place. He had been caught up with himself and his circumstances and was therefore governed by his emotions.

This is always what happens. The minute we allow ourselves to be governed by our emotions we short-circuit the processes that God intended to govern in our lives. We begin on a narrow, limited plane and we are restricted to that plane. We can see no other facts but the ones to which we are reacting emotionally. This is the problem with many, many people. They are temporarily unable to see anything other than what is immediately before them and is affecting their feelings. Governed by their feelings, therefore, their judgment is distorted.

http://www.raystedman.org/old-testament/psalms/the-cure-for-doubt

Also [Hebrews 11:1 MEV] /u/VerseBot

This chapter really helped me with my faith: https://lumina.bible.org/bible/Hebrews+11

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