In times of sickness and despair, read in the bible it helps us heal our wounds and get answers in the midst of the trial. In this opportunity we show you the most interesting verses for read in the bible, that will accompany you on a day-to-day basis. They are reflections described so that you can understand each one of them and give them your own point of view from a different perspective, but full of God.
What to read in the bible when I’m desperate
1. Isaiah 43. 2
Isaiah 43. » When you go through the fire, you will not burn «
Reflection: On repeated occasions, the human being is trying to control the circumstances of life, as easily as changing a television program to another program because we do not like it. In moments of adversity and difficult what we can do best is to surrender before our God. You can choose the comfortable position for you that you need between the heat and the cold of the storm.
I know that I would certainly choose neither the fire of sorrow nor the heat of anguish. But in the spiritual sphere, nothing can be achieved with warmth, we are called two Christians to be saints and that holiness usually requires warmth. To be holy means to be set apart for God, separated from everything unclean or impure. To refine and purify us, the Lord sometimes uses the furnace of affliction.
The prophet Isaiah said: When you pass through the fire you will not burn, he did not say if you pass. And the apostle Peter tells us that the tests should not surprise us. None of us know when we will be called to walk through the fire or how hot that fiery furnace will be.
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Notwithstanding this we do know: God’s purpose in using flames is to purify us and never destroy us. If you want to read more in the Bible on this subject of affliction, you should read: Isaiah 43.1-13.
2. Psalm 68.5
Psalm 68.5 Father of orphans and defender of widows is God in his holy dwelling.
Reflection: Loneliness appears when we forget about the one who is always with us. I will tell you a story of a father and a son who said goodbye for reasons of travel. A son said goodbye to his father as he was leaving for the army of his country, the father knew that by saying goodbye to his son and letting him go he would be exposed to danger in that place and that he would be tested physically, emotionally and spiritually.
Those parents also knew that in a way, their house would never be the same again. But this young man’s parents steeled themselves to face the situation. The pain of that farewell when the son said goodbye to his father and entered the recruiting office, was very strong and heartbreaking.
The parents cried like never before that day of their son’s farewell, the anguishing god and the feeling of loss that the parents had broke their hearts. In difficult times, you have to give thanks for having a heavenly father, who knows what it means to part with a beloved son. We must be grateful to have a God who is described in the Bible as a father of orphans and a defender of widows.
You must be convinced that he takes care of the loneliness of orphans and widows, he will also take care of you and comfort you.
3. Isaiah 26.3
Isaiah 26.3 You will keep in complete peace the one whose thought perseveres.
Reflection: Perhaps many today are unaware of, or had already heard about, the landslide of a volcano in Iceland, in approximately 2010, which forced the closure of all the airports that were operating at that time of the landslides.
It is said that these air ports were closed for around 5 days, in addition to the fact that more than 100,000 flights will be cancelled, which is why millions of people or passengers were left without traveling, which did not allow them to reach important places to which They were waiting for many of them, where they were only counting on arriving through one of those many flights that the airline had had to cancel for security reasons.
When our plans fall apart, and we don’t get any solutions, how do we deal with frustration and setbacks in life? Isaiah 26.3-4 in an anchor for our souls in all the storms of life. You will keep in complete peace the one whose thought in you perseveres; because he has trusted in you. Trusting in the Lord forever because in God your Lord is the strength of all centuries.
Whether we are facing annoying inconveniences or heartbreaking losses, these unshakable promises are worth remembering and repeating every night when we close our eyes to sleep.
Today, when plans are frustrated, is our mind affected or does it rest in the Lord? During a frustrating delay, are we still confident in God’s loving heart? In the hymn which the beautiful sea is. When we manage to leave all our problems and plans in God’s hands, he rules everything else.
4. Psalm 130.5
Psalm 130.5 I wait for the Lord, I wait for my soul; on his word I have waited.
Reflection: Generally, all children have the peculiarity of always wanting what they ask for quickly. But do I want to eat sweets before lunch? Can you now uncover all the gifts that baby Jesus brought? On the other hand, as time goes by, we are learning to wait for things in due time, doctors must wait many years to be really trained to be able to have contact with their patients.
Parents who have lost a child on the street; they always wait with hope in their hearts for their son to come back home. We expect things worth waiting for and over time we learn to do so. God who is not limited to the times must expect us to have a fully mature faith, which may include delays that seem like tests.
Patience is a sign of maturity, it is a quality that can only be developed over time. Many prayers in the Bible are born from the action of knowing how to wait, Jacob waited seven years to get his wife, and then his future father-in-law cheated on him for another seven more years Genesis 29.15-20. The Israelites waited 400 years to be freed from slavery.
Moses saved himself for almost four decades in order to be called to leadership, and then another four to enter a promised land that he would not enter. If we pray asking God for that patience that can take us to another spiritual level, we know that patience is also a fruit of the spirit, so if we say we love God we must remain patient.
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So that in this way he can bring all the things that we have been asking for and that perhaps have not come into our lives due to our lack of love and patience for things.
What to read in the bible for a sick person
5. Luke 5.31-32
Luke 5.31-32 Jesus said: those who are healthy do not need doctors, but the sick. I have not come to call the just but sinners to repentance.
Reflection: I will tell you a story of a man who one day entered a hospital in Venezuela, was taken to that health center by his relatives, since he had been bitten by a very poisonous snake in this beautiful country. The doctors who were on call for that night began to mobilize to prepare the injector and the ampoules they would need to cut the effects of the snake’s venom on this man.
When this happened, the doctors realized that the man had died, which is why help could no longer be provided. The doctor asked the relatives when the man had been bitten by the snake and they answered that at noon. Meanwhile, the doctor asked the man’s relatives again, why it had taken so long to take this man to the hospital.
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They responded to the doctor’s question by saying that they first went to a sorcerer and since everything the sorcerer told them to do didn’t work for them, they finally decided to go to the hospital. And the doctor told them: it cannot be that the idea of ignorance leads you to lose people you love, the remedy for this man was in this small vial, if you were to come earlier, this man’s life would be saved.
You may think that these relatives were very foolish, but the same could happen to you and act recklessly. Every person has a poison from sin, and death is the wages of sin. God really wants to keep us from going through the consequences of sin poisoning. So he sent his only son, Jesus, to die for you and me. Jesus is the great physician of excellence, capable of cleaning and renewing us.
salvation prayer
On this occasion I want to give you the best invitation that no one has given you in your life, today you would like to receive Jesus in your heart, so that he cleanses you and makes you free from all illness that has been hurting you, repeat with me this simple and nice prayer.
“Lord Jesus today I accept you in my life and in my heart, I recognize that dying for me on a cross to make me free from sin and cure all my diseases, guide my life and fill me with your love Amen “