![]() In Acts 23:11 we read that “the following night the Lord stood by him and said, ‘Be of good cheer, Paul for as you have testified for Me in Jerusalem, so you must also bear witness at Rome’” (NKJV). That’s why it meant so much to the weary apostle when the Lord paid him a visit in jail. ![]() The Lord knew all about the state of Paul’s soul. And in Psalm 56:8 (TLB) we read: “You have collected all my tears and preserved them in your bottle! You have recorded every one in your book.” As David once prayed, “All my longings lie open before you, O Lord my sighing is not hidden from you” (Psalm 38:9, NLT). But he was also a flesh-and-blood man and couldn’t help but be concerned about his future. It was always something.Īnd tough as he was, as strong in spirit as he may have been, Paul was still human, and every human I know goes through times of discouragement. He seemed to bounce from one crisis to the next. From the time Saul of Tarsus became the apostle Paul, trouble had been his middle name. ![]()
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