Chapter 39

Hard Times

Sections

1. General
   1. Prologue: God’s People Still Have Hard Times
      • Trouble is characteristic of human life
      • Examples of God’s people undergoing hard times
      • An example of hard times even being attributed to God
   2. Mourn Loss
      • Mourn and weep over loss – particularly deaths
      • Mourn before God
   3. Keep in Mind God and His Word
      • In hard times, remember God
      • Keep meditating on God’s word and obeying it
      • Take comfort in God’s word
   4. Trust in God
      • Trust in God
      • Take refuge in God, for God saves and protects those who do
   5. Hope in God and Wait for Him
      • Put your hope in God . . .
      • . . . Look resolutely and expectantly to God
      • Wait for God, with confidence that he will act
      • Wait quietly and patiently

2. Praying in Hard Times
   1. Tell God about Your Problems
      • When facing trouble, pray to God
      • Tell God of your plight and how you feel
      • Pour out your heart to God
   2. Ask God for Help
      • Cry out to God for help
      • Ask God for strength
      • Ask God to guide you
      • Ask God for deliverance
      • Persist in prayer to God
   3. Praise and Rejoice in God
      • Praise and thank God amidst trouble
      • Rejoice in God amidst trouble
   4. Epilogue: God Does Respond to Suffering
      • God is near us in hard times
      • God comforts his people in hard times
      • Testimony to God answering prayers in suffering and trouble

 ➜Major headings in: 39. Hard Times (and all of Unit H)

Pray for persecuted Christians