This is a period of testing. Everything happening around us appears contrary to what God has said, and there seems to be no natural evidence for our believing. At this point, our faith rests completely on God’s Word (what He has spoken to us). “In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith – of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire – may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honour when Jesus Christ is revealed” 1Peter 1:6-7 See also Romans 4:16-21; Psalms 105:17-19. In faith we cast ourselves on HIS FAITHFULNESS. In our times of doubt and struggle, God is faithful and does not abandon us. “If we believe not, he abides faithful. He cannot deny himself” 2Timothy 2:13 He was faithful to Thomas and Peter when their faith was tested. Jesus didn’t abandon them. “He will never leave us nor forsake us” Hebrews 13:5

Psalms 103:1 Alabanza por las bendiciones de Dios Salmo de David. ​ ​Bendice, alma mía, a Jehová, Y bendiga todo mi ser su santo nombre.

Psalms 103:1 ​ Bless the LORD, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless his holy name!

"Know that the Lord is God. He made us, and we belong to him. We are his people, the sheep he takes care of." Psalms 100:3

•A Prayer of Praise for Who God Is• 👉 "Let everything that has breath praise the LORD”. (Psalm 160:6) As readers of the Bible, we often get caught in the mindset of reading the Bible to find ourselves. It is true that the Bible is full of the ways that God loves us, the beautiful ways that God created us, and how He longs to be invited into our lives. These are beautiful truths; however, if we are only trying to find ourselves in the Word and striving only to apply it to our lives, we are missing the biggest part of Scripture — Who God is. When we read the Bible instead to find God, our eyes open to a whole new way of finding out who He is, why He did what He did, and why he does what He does. When we understand who God is and why He loves and cares for us so much, it gives it much more depth and penetrates our hearts at a deeper level. Not just “God help ME," but “God, be who you ARE; that will help me.” We often go looking in the Bible for ways that God can help us; that is what it is there for, YES. But there is so much more to it when we really seek it out. I often find myself flipping through the Psalms. This is one of my favorite books in the Bible as it is filled with prayers from people, real hurting and confused people seeking guidance and truth from God. We find prayers of praise, lament, and oftentimes confusion and anger about what is going on in the writer's life. We find that over one-third of the prayers in Psalms are of lament or mourning. The writer is hurting and looking to God for comfort. But on the flip side, we find that in the entirety of the Bible, we see the phrase Praise God an astounding 6,892 times! God is worthy of our praise! The list of things that we suffer from seems endless. But let us remember that God IS endless. His capacity to care for us and love us is something we cannot comprehend. Paul says in Ephesians 3:18, And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high, and how deep his love is." When we list out our grievances to the Lord, we can rest assured that God’s character will have the perfect antidote for our suffering. Let’s Pray. 🙏 Dear Lord, We live in a fallen world full of suffering. We hear of tragedies taking place all over the world. We know there are people struggling to survive in indescribable hardship. I don’t understand why You allow for so much destruction, but I do trust that You are bigger than anything anyone will ever face in this world. Thank You, Jesus, that we have the hope of perfection in heaven and that this world is not all there is. Thank You, Lord, that for everything we suffer through in this life that you have a perfect attribute to cure us with simply being who you are. When I am weak, you are STRONG (2 Corinthians 12:10) When my soul is hungry, you feed me. (Matthew 4:4) When I am thirsty, you give me something to drink. (1 Corinthians 10:3-4) When I turn from you, you remain FAITHFUL (2 Timothy 2:13) When I sin, you are GOOD (Psalm 34:8) When I am worthy of punishment, you are MERCIFUL (Titus 3:5) When I am at the end of myself, you are OMNIPOTENT and INFINITE (Matthew 19:26) (Romans 11:33) When I am undeserving, you are GRACIOUS (Psalm 145:8) When I am hurting, you are my COMFORTER (Matthew 5:4) When I am confused, you are my SOURCE OF TRUTH (John 3:33) I praise You, Lord, for all Your perfect attributes. You call me your child and beckon me to behold Your glory. Help me to focus on who You ARE when I struggle. Help me to see You move in my circumstances even when I don’t understand but help me to trust You because You are SOVEREIGN (Colossians 1:17) over all things. Thank You, Lord, for Your love for me, even when I fall short. There is nothing I can do to change that. Help me to live in these truths and remember to call on Your name, praising who You are when I forget or when the world distracts me with lies. I know that You are with me; You promise in Your Word. “The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged." (Deuteronomy 31:8) Thank You,Jesus, Amen 🙏 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion 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 receive from God. (2 Corinthians 1:3-4) (pic verse) “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. (John 3:16) Artist 👨‍🎨 I Am With You Always - David Delfeld

So ever since becoming an Orthodox convert, I more and more realize how much Christianity has been sissied and become so easy to infiltrate our faith and allow other religions (i.e islam) where it has taken advantage of protestant Christianity and non denominations whom think that being a Christian is being peacful. Christ never was this sissy, this peacful man these protestants paint our Lord to be, but He was a fighter. He rebuked even the Pharisees and Saducees and "fought" with them. Orthodoxy has history, has Saints and martyrs, filled with the Holy Spirit and then you have these protestants removing the organism that is the Church and the people who fought for it. In Albania you have these fake christians not knowing the glory of Christ and accepting false ideologies and to strip away the sacrifice thay is Christ. I am angry. I am sad. I am disappointed, in these people whom call themselves Christians and don't fight for Christ. Those are not Christians whom are scared to go out in the street and walk proud and proclaim the name of Christ everywhere they go. Removing traditions and removing the practices of the Church (i.e Prayer rope, praying without ceasing, hymns/psalms etc) PROPER WORSHIP. I encourage you all to go to your Orthodox Church and partake in a mass, talk to a priest or a deacon, ask. See how God is glorified, and understanding how insignificant we are before God. and every celebration that we do, every Saint we ask for intercession is all to the glorification of Christ. Please stop adding your interpretation on Christ because that is simply pride. You claiming to know God better than the very Church with 2000 years of history by the Apostles whom Christ entrusted to spread the Gospel and the good news, all these things we do come from Christ because those practices HELP US REMEMBER CHRIST AND KNOW THAY HE IS ALWAYS WITH US. God bless, peace of Christ be upon you all and; Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me a sinner. ☦️❤️

"The Lord is like a father to his children, tender and compassionate to those who fear him." - Psalms 103:13

"Exalt the Lord our God And worship at His footstool; Holy is He." Psalms 99:5

Psalms 68:19 NKJV [19] Blessed be the Lord, Who daily loads us with benefits, The God of our salvation! Selah https://bible.com/bible/114/psa.68.19.NKJV

Psalms 102:15 ​Entonces las naciones temerán el nombre de Jehová, Y todos los reyes de la tierra tu gloria;