6 Bible Verses For Strength When Life is Hard

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Inside: Is life bringing you down? God promises us help and strength for the struggles we are going through! Use these 6 Bible verses for strength in hard times. God will help you through!

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Have you ever seen one of the strongest men or women in the world? These muscle-builders are ripped, and muscles are defined, obvious, and encompassing the whole body.

Whether you like the look or not, it is impressive!

Have you ever wondered how much time, energy, and pain that is required to get it to look like that?

Trying to Get Muscles Without the Pain and Energy

As a mom of a young teen, my son has been trying to bulk up for football. His friends have been telling him to eat more and drink protein shakes.

However, I’ve been telling him to get in the weight room. The problem is: one way is a whole lot easier.

Can you figure out which one?

One requires energy, pain, and hard work. The other requires prep and eating a lot. (One is easier on my wallet also!)

The truth is: getting into the weight room will cause discomfort.

When gaining muscle mass, the muscles need to be torn.

It’s painful and it hurts!

The facts are, lifting causes little rips and tears in the muscles which then need to be rebuilt. This is how muscle mass is gained.

Drinking a protein drink sounds easier, doesn’t it?

Honestly, bulking up requires time, energy, and pain to get big muscles.

It demands going back to the weight even when the muscles are sore and fatigued.

The breaking of the muscles becomes the strengthening and growing of them!

Therefore, while I’m not planning on being any sort of muscular girl, I want strength in life to overcome the hard things that pass my way.

Hard Times = Life

With 100 percent certainty, I can say I will encounter seasons of life that will overwhelm me and cause uncomfortable feelings and pain.

Friend, I’m certain you will come across your own troubles and pain.

So the question is: do you want to take the easy way out or find the strength to get through?

What’s your default when tough times come your way?

Do you isolate?
Become bitter?
Drink or medicate your problems away?

None of the actions above will give you any muscle for dealing with the circumstances of life.

God is the Only Way

God knew that we’d need encouragement and strength for living on Earth, and He gave us help in His word.

As long as we have breath, God has a plan for our lives including the tough times.

Are you going through a struggle right now?

Then get ready for God to use it to not only break you down but to grow you in the process!

Here’s the thing, we can rest assured that these times are going to be a way for Him to grow us and make us more like Him.

Friend, we can trust Him in hard times!

We may think that we don’t have what it takes to make it through, but God’s help isn’t limited.

When we ask God to help us, we can lift the weight of life even when we are sore and fatigued.

Why Pain in this Life?

You might be thinking: great, but why does God allow us to suffer in this life?

Friend, I get this, and I’ve asked myself this question too many times, but I tell myself that God allowed Jesus, His dear Son, to suffer and didn’t withhold the pain that was brought to Him.

Through Jesus’ suffering and death on the cross, the Father was glorified.

He will use our circumstances to make us more like Him.

Specifically, we can trust God when we suffer in life!

“When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you’re right in the centre of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.” ~ Chuck Swindoll

The core truth is, all these struggles are a growth process making us more like Christ even though we might feel like it’s a gross process where all our humanness comes out; we can rest solidly in God using it to make us better.

The key is: we can get through this difficult time by trusting God and waiting for God’s timing.

Strength in Hard Times

So how do we get through the hardest seasons of our lives, these tips will help you find your way.

Find your balance.

When we read our Bibles, use prayer, find fellowship with other Christians, and attend church, we can find balance even when life seems to be spinning out of control.

Additionally, we can pull close to God.

Let the hard times push us to God!

Hard times are the chance to grow in greater faith.

God wants to help us lift the heavy weight of pain and suffering. Therefore, we have to let Him.

The size of your storm is often an indication of the significance of your life ~Steven Furtick (click to tweet)

Keep trusting using faith and hope.

Importantly, we can find hope in the promise that your Father will bring you through.

Maintain a log of God’s faithfulness in your life.

Additionally, we are able to discover His track record by going back through Scripture to see His faithfulness.

Don’t rely on yourself.

Isn’t this the truth?

To sum it up, we have the default to over-do-it. However, we can choose to draw from God.

Visualize victory with God.

What a promise to take a stake in?

God’s track record is that He brought others through their hard times, and He will help us.

Find encouraging and supporting friends.

To reiterate, we are able to deal with the difficult parts of life when we have friends giving us encouragement and inspiration. They can speak life and encouragement to us.

6 Bible Verses for Strength in Hard Times

(1 Peter 5:10, NLT).
10 In his kindness God called you to share in his eternal glory by means of Christ Jesus. So after you have suffered a little while, he will restore, support, and strengthen you, and he will place you on a firm foundation.

(Hebrews 12:12, NLT).
12 So take a new grip with your tired hands and strengthen your weak knees.

(Isaiah 41:10, NLT).
10 Don’t be afraid, for I am with you.
Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you.
I will hold you up with my victorious right hand.

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(2 Chronicles 16:9, NLT).
9 The eyes of the Lord search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. What a fool you have been! From now on you will be at war.