Mom Heart Moments #151

The king gave the order, and they brought Daniel and threw him into the lions’ den. The king said to Daniel, “May your God, whom you serve continually, rescue you!”

GASPING FOR BREATH, and turning blue at her lips, baby Sarah looked up at me with pleading eyes. “Please help me!” And so I held her in my arms, pleading for God’s mercy and healing, not knowing what else to do after medicating, taking her to the doctor, and staying up with her for three nights.

“We have no money left. I can’t find a job. I don’t know what I am going to do,” Clay said after working endlessly to get our ministry up and going, then coming to the end of our finances, many years ago. And so our family got down on our knees and sought heaven for an answer.

Do you desire to live a faith-filled life? Then you will come across great battles. When you are serious about God, you become involved in the spiritual battle between Satan and God, focused to see if there really is a remnant of faithful people who will believe in God, who will praise Him and wait for His provision like Daniel did in the lions’ den.

How do we respond in these circumstances? It is at these times we are tempted to provide for our own needs, even as Abraham looked to Hagar, his solution to having a child, instead of waiting on God. Saul did not wait for Samuel’s blessing and God’s provision, and therefore lost his kingship and the blessing of God.

But this is our opportunity to say to the world, “I know whom I have believed, and I am persuaded that He is faithful and that He will answer.”

Is today a lions’ den for you? How might you take a step of faith?