I want to give you three healing affirmations from the Bible to cope with 2020. We need them.
COVID. The election. Trump. Biden. Masks. Lockdowns. Work-from-home. Social distancing. “Meeting the moment.” SCOTUS. Travel restrictions. Vaccines. Flattening the curve.
Frustration.
Anger.
There’s violence in the streets. Businesses are dying.
Your wages have suffered. Some of you have lost jobs. Your income has taken a dive.
You’ve sheltered-in-place so long the walls of your house are beginning to close in.
A friend of mine got COVID after noticing allergy-like symptoms and didn’t even think he had it at first. He quarantined for a couple weeks and beat it.
Later on, I heard a family member of mine got it. He wasn’t so lucky.
Just when you think you’ve made the best of things, something else comes along to shake your confidence.
I’m sick and tired of it all. And we’re not even done with 2020. Let’s not talk about 2021 yet. Let’s get through the next week first.
Caught up in the great sweep of events this year, many feel as “forgotten as a dead man out of mind,” “like a broken vessel.” (Psalm 31:12 – KJV.) Or as Jeremiah put it:
…why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!
Jeremiah 14:19 – KJV
Yet the days march on whether you want it or not.
God sees all. I pray that He heals our hearts during these frustrating times. But if there’s any opportunity to praise the Lord and resist the urge to give in to the rage we have to take it.
It’s certainly not something I want to waste my energy on anymore.
Here are three healing affirmations from the Bible to bolster our spirits.
Healing Affirmation #1: MAINTAIN COURAGE
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.
(Psalm 31:24 – KJV)
If no one in your life is encouraging you to rise again or to endure the frustrating times we live in now, then let me be the first: REMAIN COURAGEOUS.
Your fight isn’t done yet. You may be exhausted, especially if you have endured much, but take a rest – and take heart. (Psalms 31:24.)
You are needed. Even if you do not know it. Simply choosing to get up and keep walking the Christian walk no matter the odds provides an example for others to follow. (Philippians 3:17 – KJV.)
It’s heartening that the phrase “be strong and of a good courage” is used several times in the Bible. On the eve of Joshua’s military conquest of the Promised Land, the Lord told Joshua: “Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.” (Joshua 1:9 – KJV.)
Your own personal conquest of life or just getting through the day deserves as much affirmation as Joshua’s. Earn extra points by also encouraging others to remain of good courage, as well. (Isaiah 41:6.)
Lift up thine eyes and march forward. Tomorrow is another day.
Healing Affirmation #2: BE WITHOUT FEAR
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Pslam 23:4
These are evil times. The anger and wrath that is poured out onto the world is not of God. The pestilences that roam in the air are not of God.
Yet the Holy Spirit is at work in this world and strengthens us. (Isaiah 41:10.)
You were not given a spirit of fear or to be a slave of fear. You were given the spirit of He who is greater than anything in the world. (Romans 8:15.) You have power, love, and discipline. (2 Tim. 1:7.) Do not let your heart be troubled. (John 14:27.)
On this day, choose bravery and strength through our Lord. Put aside the snares of fear.
Let those with ears hear.
Healing Affirmation #3: Never Lose Hope
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11
God is still working in this world and He has not forsaken you.
I think this anonymous poem says it best:
Let Christian faith and hope dispel
The fears of guilt and woe;
The Lord Almighty is our friend,
And who can prove a foe?
The Savior died, but rose again
Triumphant from the grave,
And pleads our cause at God’s right hand,
Omnipotent to save.
Who then can e’er divide us more
From Jesus’ saving love,
Or break the sacred chain that binds
The earth to heaven above?
Let troubles rise and terrors frown,
And days of darkness fall;
Through Christ all dangers we’ll defy,
And more than conquer all.
Not death, nor life, nor earth, nor hell,
Nor time’s destroying sway
Can e’er erase us from his heart,
Or make his love decay.
Each future period that will bless
As it has blessed the past;
Christ loved us from the first of time;
Christ loves us to the last.
So those are my three healing affirmations from the Bible to help you (and me, honestly) to get through the rest of 2020.
I have no clue what will happen next or what will happen after the election. I have a feeling rough times are still ahead.
But let us lean on the Lord and not on our own understanding.
If you haven’t already, please pick up a copy of a great study bible to start your journey into the Word of God. It’s one of my favorite bibles and contains a lot of resources to help you out. And if you want further help to study the Word, check out my post 5 Steps to (Seriously) Study the Bible.
Until then, please pray for our Brothers and Sisters in Christ, that may find strength in the Lord for the times ahead. And pray for our nation.
May the grace of the Lord Jesus be with you all. Amen.
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