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20 Bible Verses About Faith in Hard Times

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  • Psalm 23:4 moves from speaking about the shepherd to speaking to him at the point where the psalmist enters the valley of the shadow of death: “for you are with me.”
  • Lamentations 3:22-23 comes a few verses after the speaker says his hope from the Lord has perished, and nothing in his circumstances has changed when he calls God’s mercies “new every morning”.
  • In Habakkuk 3:17-18 the prophet resolves to rejoice in the Lord even if fig, vine, olive, field, flock and herd all fail.
  • Hebrews 11 defines faith as “the conviction of things not seen” and ends with people who were tortured and killed and “did not receive what was promised.”
  • Jeremiah 29:11 was written to exiles in Babylon, in a letter that told them to build houses there and said the return would come after seventy years.

The Bible treats faith in hard times as trust in God’s presence and promises while the trouble is still going on. In Psalm 23:4 David trusts that God is with him in the valley of the shadow of death, and Isaiah 43:2 promises Israel God’s company through water and fire. Lamentations 3:22-23 holds on to God’s mercy in the middle of affliction, Habakkuk 3:17-18 resolves to rejoice in God even if the crops fail and the herds are lost, James…

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Scripture quotations are from the English Standard Version.

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