God is Good – The Presidential Prayer Team

If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase. – Leviticus 26:3-4

God loves His children and desires them to be well and healthy, as any good parent would want for their children (Matthew 6:30-32). So why do bad things happen to good people? This is a frequently asked question. Many books have been written about the topic.

In today’s verse, God promises blessing to Israel if they are obedient and punishment if they disobey. However, you cannot assume that because you have problems you are being disobedient toward God. Know that God is good. He loves you and takes care of you as you put your trust in Him. This is a fallen world and bad things happen. How you respond to trials and troubles in your life is the important thing. Do you allow difficulties to make you bitter toward God and people? Do you become fearful or doubt God’s love for you? Or do you with confidence go to Him in faith, trusting Him to help you and use whatever the circumstances are for your benefit?

Today, thank God for His blessings. Thank Him that He is able to use all things, even trials and troubles, for your good when you love Him and are called according to His purpose (Romans 8:28). While the Lord has blessed the United States, many within its borders suffer. Pray for those going through hard times to seek and receive the help they need. “Put feet” to those prayers by using your gifts, talents, and resources to help others, especially those in the body of Christ (Galatians 6:10). You may be the person through whom God intends to answer a brother’s or sister’s prayer.

Then pray for followers of Christ serving in Congress as they look to God for direction in guiding the nation.

Today’s Verse: Leviticus 26:3-4

“If you walk in my statutes and observe my commandments and do them, ⁴then I will give you your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

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Recommended for further reading: Romans 8:22-39

²²For we know that the whole creation has been groaning together in the pains of childbirth until now. ²³And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies. ²⁴For in this hope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees? ²⁵But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.

²⁶Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words. ²⁷And he who searches hearts knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. ²⁸And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good, for those who are called according to his purpose. ²⁹For those whom he foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. ³⁰And those whom he predestined he also called, and those whom he called he also justified, and those whom he justified he also glorified.

³¹What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? ³²He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things? ³³Who shall bring any charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. ³⁴Who is to condemn? Christ Jesus is the one who died—more than that, who was raised—who is at the right hand of God, who indeed is interceding for us. ³⁵Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? ³⁶As it is written,

“For your sake we are being killed all the day long;
    we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.”

³⁷No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. ³⁸For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, ³⁹nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.