.....comfort

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort 2 Corinthians 1:3

The nineteenth-century Irish pastor Philip Bennett Power had a tender way of comforting those who were suffering from pain or the various trials of life. He suggested three axioms for strength and perseverance in difficult times: 

1. Get firmly convinced that God, God Himself, God the Father, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our Father, is a God of comfort.
2. Do not look anywhere else for your prime and first comfort. I do not deny that there is much comfort in friends, in happy feelings, in books… but I want you to gather in your thoughts and feel that the only sure comfort is with God. 
3. Expect comfort from God.

Paul considered suffering for Christ a privilege, and he kept serving and obeying God in spite of persecution and difficulties. He persevered. The same God who helped Paul persevere through tough times will help you. Ask Him to give you the strength to keep going in any area of life in which you feel weariness and pain.

- david jeremiah