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You may think that you're too far gone. Maybe your broken relationships serve as a kind of "proof in the puding" for you. Those people who were close to you before have now backed up into the shadows – no where to be seen now that you're in your depths -in your rock bottom. This is a very lonely place and nothing alive should ever live down here. You feel completely abandoned. You now feel like this is your new home – not because you like it here but because no one can or is able to stay by your side down here.

David, a character in the Bible found himself in a place like this. He too felt abandoned by those who said they loved him. None of them were able or willing to come live down here with him. This is the ugly place where only those who "trully" and genuinely see you for who you are and love you, if they trully did, "WOULD" stay here with you in this raw state... And it could be that the stress of feeling alone is just simply overwhelming. But remember, David "made" his bed here... in the depths of hell. But... God was there with him. There is nowhere you can go where the Spirit of God isn't.

An article on everydayhealth.com said this about stress: "Our goal is to empower people with the knowledge and tools to manage their own stress; to help them recognize and identify the things that trigger their stress response; and to take action before it does them harm". We share the same gaol in that we want to help you understand what can cause and srigger spiirtual stress in your life. Feeling like you're alone is one of the main causes for stress and depression.

You're not alone!

Finding hope in this time of Corona virus. The biggest question could be "where is God during this corona virus?

Back in the Old Testament time, there once was also a time when people needed desperate help in a time of terrible sickness. After the Israelites had left Egypt and were on their way to the Red Sea, they got impatient because they had to go the long way "...they spoke against God and against Moses, and said, 'Why have you brought us up out of Egypt to die in the wilderness? There is no bread! There is no water! And we detest this miserable food!'”

Then the Lord sent venomous snakes among them; they bit the people and many Israelites died. The people came to Moses and said, 'We sinned when we spoke against the Lord and against you. Pray that the Lord will take the snakes away from us.' So Moses prayed for the people.

The Lord said to Moses, 'Make a snake and put it up on a pole; anyone who is bitten can look at it and live.' So Moses made a bronze snake and put it up on a pole. Then when anyone was bitten by a snake and looked at the bronze snake, they lived." ~ Book of Numbers 21:4-8

Now, I'm not suggesting that God has sent the Corona virus. The point I'm trying to make is that, even when and especially when the hard times come, God always makes a way out. There was nothing supernatural about bronze or the snake. God wanted people to first of all repent of their 'grumbling impatient sin of wanting their way and thinking they know better' and to also then have faith in what God says si the best way and remedy.

The same applies today – in these interesting and uncertain times when we don't know what's going to come of the Corona Virus. God wants us to turn to Him and "be and do" what He says we should be and do.

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