Trusting God through the bad times

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I was wondering if people could share some of the ways they turn to God when times are bad and how they get comfort.

When I can look back at my life, some times were bad and then somehow just came to an end. The scars in certain situations are still there.

I can also look back at certain bad times (not nearly as many as I would like) and I can see as clear as a bell how God was in charge and actually was very merciful to me and gave me more than I could EVER have dreamed of asking.

But that is always looking back. I want to know how to trust God in the present

Please share what works for you

CM
 
Prayer. Lots and lots of prayer. My mother was diagnosed with cancer in November and I really think I came close to having a breakdown. Prayer has sustained me.
 
Definitely through prayer. When all else seems to fail, I know that prayer will never fail. I believe that God always hears our prayers and will never fail to comfort us and send us whatever we need to handle the situation. Just trust in Him!
 
God is all I have. God is all I need. Through Jesus Christ is my only salvation. I’m going through some hard times now. But through my faith and prayer I know how ever bad it gets God Loves me. I look around and see people that have it much worst than my wife and I. We have both eyes. We have both hands and feet. We can think, see, talk, walk, eat, and work. I watch blind people. Cripple people. Homeless people all struggle just to take a step or 2. Just to have something to eat. I give thanks to God, and pray for those that most need praying for. For my wife and I are blessed. Through my mother Mary, to Jesus, please hear my prayers, and give them to God The Father Almighty that through the Holy Spirit we give thanks, and we shall help those in most need.

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Gratefulness is very important. Also, when God seems the farthest away, that is when He is the closest.
 
Hi CM,

Each person is unique in their relationship with God. I suppose prayer is the most important thing, but you need to remember that “bad times” are not really bad times, they are a prepartory phase where God is trying to develop a stronger relationship with you. Remember that having a relationship with God must be an ongoing continuum not limited to bad times.

Anyway, I think the best advice is for you to do what you are comfortable with and works best for you.

I will pray for you. 🙂
 
Not only prayer but believe that your prayers are being heard. The rosary has brought me great comfort recently for I am struggling with hard times right now:popcorn::gopray2: myself. My prayers are with u also
 
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God is all I have. God is all I need.
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This reminded me of a line from a movie about St Bernadette, after all the hubbub was over and she was in the convent in Nevers. She was consistently given a hard time by the novice mistress, and was miserable over it. Another sister told her to think to herself whenever that happened:“Passez, passez, oh creature. Dieu me reste… Dieu me suffit.” which translates to:“I still have God… God is enough for me.”
I find myself saying that out loud now and then when things are tough. It makes me think of St Bernadette, whom I have a great love for, it makes me recognize the fact that for me at least it is not true and I am so so rich, in spite of the hard times, and it makes me realize that even if things do get so bad that all I have left is the Lord, it will still be enough.
 
For me, the answer is always the cross, and it is so necessary. “Unless you deny yourself and pick up your cross you cannot be my disciple”. God is much more distant to me during times of ease, but I always find Him at the cross; not His cross, but my own. I think fasting is a wonderful means of learning to trust God. When we let go of the preoccupation to be comfortable our spiritual senses are sharpened. I am enormously more perceptive of God’s presence and will when I am fasting. I actually prefer to be in that state than eating normally. And it has taught me that I have everything to fear when I trust in myself and the world, and nothing at all to fear - no matter how difficult a thing - when we completely surrender to Him. If we would surrender totally to Him, nothing is too difficult to bear. Times of adversity are turned into sweet encounters with Jesus. “Come to me all who labor and are weary, and I will give you rest, for my yolk is easy and my burden is light” Trusting ourselves totally to Him relieves the burden. We deceive ourselves when we hold anything to ourselves as if we had better control of it than God does - yet so often that is what we do. It’s that great fear of the unknown. We see how God led others and can’t imagine ourselves in those circumstances, but God’s grace was sufficient in all of those circumstances. Without God they would have been unbearable. But would you fear walking through fire if you knew God’s protective hand was going to carry you through it? So it is with all of the adversities we face in this life. Relying on ourselves we have everything to fear, but put into the hands of God all things are possible.
 
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