God's Faithfulness

"In His wisdom and sovereignty, He decides the perfect times to respond to your cries of distress, to deliver you, and to display His greatness. God doesn't have to respond at all, nor at all, nor even in the same way every time. He acts because He is merciful and because He is good. He longs for you to get to know Him when you crash." God, as He Longs You To Know Him, Ingrim

¹¹ For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future." Jer 29.11 NIV

 
¹³ Then the Lord said to him, “Know for certain that for four hundred years your descendants will be strangers in a country not their own and that they will be enslaved and mistreated there. ¹⁴ But I will punish the nation they serve as slaves, and afterward they will come out with great possessions."
Gen 15

But if from there you seek the Lord your God, you will find Him if you look for Him with all your heart and soul. Deut 4.29

For the Lord your God is a merciful God; He will not abandon or destroy you or forget the covenant with your forefathers, which He confirmed to them by oath. Deut 4.31


This is my blood of the covenant, which is poured out for many for the forgiveness of sins. Matt 26.28

It felt like eons when I was fighting with every ounce of strength to get out from under anxiety, anorexia and depression. Every second was a battle. But I learned then that God would not leave me alone, and how much strength He lends us. 
Times that ring with the lashes of difficulties make us cringe---for ourselves and for those we know. We feel abandoned by God.

 "But I am afraid that, as the serpent deceived Eve by his craftiness, your minds will be led astray from the simplicity and purity of devotion to Christ." 2 Corinthians 11:3

"You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies." Jn 8.48

 It is all a lie. God has not abandoned us, He never abandons us.  Satan whispers to us, the world whispers to us, that God has left us. But it is NOT so. God does not leave us, God stands with His arms open.
Deuteronomy 31:6, Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; "He will never leave you nor forsake you." 
Deuteronomy 31:8, The LORD himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you.  "Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged."

Joshua 1:5, No one will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. "As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you."

1Kings 8:57, "May the LORD our God be with us as he was with our fathers; may He never leave us nor forsake us."

1Chronicles 28:20, David also said to Solomon his son, "Be strong and courageous, and do the work. "Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you until all the work for the service of the temple of the LORD is finished."

Psalms 37:28, For the LORD loves the just and will not forsake his faithful ones. "They will be protected forever, but the offspring of the wicked will be cut off;"

Psalms 94:14 "For the LORD will not reject his people; he will never forsake his inheritance."

Isaiah 42:16  "I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them."

 The Journey

God doesn't leave us, but we allow ourselves to be told by the world that He has. The world is full of confusing, distracting, flashy things, anything to confuse us from focusing on God. Once we are unfocused from God, we can be all the more convinced that God has forgotten us. 
Focus on God, literally force yourself to focus on Him. Think of God, lean on Him. Force yourself to read the Word.