Paul

No storm lasts forever. As surely as the summer returns each year, no matter how harsh the winter, so will My peace and joy. Look at Paul. Did I not only sustain him through the imprisonments, beatings, and revilings, but also give him great joy? He knew peace and joy, even when the trials came in waves. His secret was his inner wellspring of interior Life with Me. He kept a running conversation with Me. He humbly followed Me each day. The crowd may have been screaming at him externally, but I was hugging him internally. 1Thess. 5:17-16 Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly; Thank [God] in everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful and give thanks], for this is the will of God for you [who are] in Christ Jesus [the Revealer and Mediator of that will] Romans 8:18 For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory that is to be revealed to us. 26 Likewise 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. 27 And 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. 28 And we know that for those who love God all things work together for good. . . 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or sword? 36 As it is written, “For your sake we are being killed all the day long; we are regarded as sheep to be slaughtered.” 37 No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. 38 For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, 39 nor 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.