Praying for God’s help in a desperate situation is always a good idea. Sometimes you may feel like you shouldn’t do it because you are not particularly close to God, or you have not attended church in a long time. You might even feel like you don’t deserve God’s attention or mercy.

You may even be a sinner. The fact that you have turned to God shows that you have come up against the limits of your being human, and that the problem is too big for even you to solve. When you turn to God, you come in humility and in brokenness. You also come in faith.

Once at such a moment, in extreme sadness, I cried out to God, with my arm wide open “God please help me!”  To my astonishment,within seconds a loving presence like a warm blanket came and laid upon me head to toe.

Not only did He envelop me with His love, He called my name and repeated it four times lovingly in the voices of my Grandmother, my Aunt and two neighboring moms where I spent time as a child. His message was clear. I was with you all along in them.

He cared for me back then and He cared for me in the present.

In 2 Corinthians 1:3 the Apostle Paul speaks of God’s comforting:

Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of com-

passion and the God of all comfort, who

comforts us in all our troubles, so that

we can comfort those in any trouble with

the comfort we ourselves have received

from God.

God is described in the Old Testament as a “comfort to Zion”, and He comforts “the widow and the fatherless”. As the Holy Spirit, He is the “the Comforter” or “the Counselor” who Jesus tells the apostles will be with them forever if they obey his commands and love him.

Cast your cares on him and if you have been spiritually neglectful, repent; the Greek word means turn around. God will love you for it. You will be removing an obstacle in your relationship with God and establishing a new direction.  Once you have a new direction you will want to obey his commands, they will feel entirely natural.

Knowing that God cares about you will give you a new confidence to face life’s challenges. Repenting and turning in a new direction towards a life pleasing to God ultimately shapes a positive future.  Our God of comfort is our God of love. His lasting command to us was to love one another.

P.S.

God must have had a reason for me to write this article about the comfort He provides, because I retired to bed immediately afterwards, and in my semi-conscious state, He "laid on my heart” the revelation that I had no physical affection as a child, a fact I never thought about.

As I drifted off to sleep these words were left with me “Speak truth to healing.”