STUDY ARTICLE 32
SONG 38 He Will Make You Strong
How Jehovah Can Help Us to Bear Our Problem Dem?
“He will make you firm, he will make you strong, he will firmly ground you.”—1 PET. 5:10.
WHAT THE MAIN POINT?
The thing dem Jehovah na give us that can help us to bear our problem dem and what we can do to benefit from them.
1. Why it can’t be easy to bear our problem dem, and who can help us to bear them? (1 Peter 5:10)
WE REALLY need help to bear the different-different problem dem we going through in this last days that hard to deal with. For example, some people suffering from serious sickness. For other people, their family member na die from them. And other people facing problem from their family member dem or government officials. (Matt. 10:18, 36, 37) But no matter what problem you going through, you can be sure that Jehovah will help you to bear it.—Read 1 Peter 5:10.
2. Why we able to bear our problem dem?
2 We able to bear it and continue to get hope even if we facing problem, going through persecutions, trials, or facing temptations. Why? Because that Jehovah can give us the “power beyond what is normal” and not our own strength. (2 Cor. 4:7) In this article, we will talk about four thing dem that Jehovah na give us to help us bear our problem. We will also see what we can do to benefit from each of this thing dem.
PRAYER
3. Why we can say prayer that real miracle?
3 Jehovah na perform one miracle that can help us to bear our problem dem. He make it possible for us to talk with him even though we sinners. (Heb. 4:16) Think about this one: We can pray to Jehovah anytime and ask him for anything. He can hear us in any language and anywhere we eh. He can hear us even if we not with our brother and sister dem or we in jail. (Jonah 2:1, 2; Acts 16:25, 26) Even if we really worrying about something and we not able to tell Jehovah how we feeling, he still able to understand the thing we want tell him. (Rom. 8:26, 27) For true-true, prayer that real miracle!
4. How we know that when we pray to bear our problem dem, it in line with Jehovah will?
4 In the Bible, Jehovah tell us that “no matter what we ask according to his will, he hears us.” (1 John 5:14) You think we can ask Jehovah to help us bear our problem dem? Yes! Because it in line with his will. How we know? When we bear our problem dem, Jehovah can be able to answer Satan the Devil who say we will not remain faithful when we face problem. (Prov. 27:11) Beside that one, the Bible say that Jehovah really want “show his strength in behalf of those whose heart is complete toward him.” (2 Chron. 16:9) So we can be sure that Jehovah get the power and he really want help us to bear our problem dem.—Isa. 30:18; 41:10; Luke 11:13.
5. How prayer can make our heart to lay down? (Isaiah 26:3)
5 The Bible say that when we pray from our heart, “the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard [our] hearts and [our] mental powers.” (Phil. 4:7) What this one mean? When people who not serving Jehovah face problem, they can do all kindna thing dem just for their heart to lay down. But the peace that Jehovah can give when we pray, better pass any peace somebody can get when they do this thing dem. When we pray to Jehovah, we show that we really trust him and he can give us “continuous peace.” (Read Isaiah 26:3.) One way Jehovah can do it, that by helping us to remember Bible verse dem that can comfort us. This Bible verse dem can make our heart to lay down because we know that Jehovah love us and he want help us.—Ps. 62:1, 2.
6. Wetin all we can pray for? (Also see the picture.)
6 Wetin you must do? When you going through problem, “throw your burden on Jehovah” and pray for your heart to lay down. (Ps. 55:22) Also pray for wisdom so you can know what to do when you going through problem. (Prov. 2:10, 11) When you praying for Jehovah to help you bear your problem, don’t forget to tell him thank you. (Phil. 4:6) Look for different-different way dem that Jehovah helping you to bear your problem, and tell him thank you for his help. Don’t let your problem to stop you from seeing the way that Jehovah already helping you.—Ps. 16:5, 6.
When you praying, you talking to Jehovah. When you reading the Bible, Jehovah talking to you (See paragraph 6)b
THE BIBLE
7. How studying the Bible can help us to bear our problem dem?
7 Jehovah na give us the Bible to help us bear our problem dem. The Bible get plenty verse dem that convince us that Jehovah will help us. Let see one example. Matthew 6:8 say: “Your Father know what you need even before you ask him.” That Jesus say this one here, because he know Jehovah good-good more than anybody. So, we must be convince that Jehovah able to help us when we going through problem. The Bible get plenty promise dem that can give us the strength to bear our problem.—Ps. 94:19.
8. (a) Give one example of Bible advice that can help us bear our problem. (b) Wetin can help us to remember Bible advice when we facing problem?
8 Bible advice can help us to bear our problem dem because it can give us the wisdom that can help us to make good decisions. (Prov. 2:6, 7) For example, the Bible encourage us to depend on Jehovah and to not worry too much about the next day. (Matt. 6:34) If we read the Bible every day and think on what we read, it will be easy to remember Bible advice when we need it.
9. How the story dem in the Bible can really convince us that Jehovah will help us?
9 The Bible also get true-true story dem about people who trust in Jehovah and how he help them. (Heb. 11:32-34; Jas. 5:17) When we think good-good on how Jehovah help this people dem, it can convince us that Jehovah that “our refuge and strength, a help that is readily found in times of distress.” (Ps. 46:1) When we think on how they wor faithful to Jehovah, it can encourage us to follow their example and bear our problem dem too.—Jas. 5:10, 11.
10. How you can use the Bible to help you bear your problem?
10 Wetin you must do? Read the Bible every day, and write some Bible verse dem that you think can really help you. Plenty people say the daily text that good way to start their day because it can give them something encouraging to think about for the day. That what help one sister name Mariea when the doctor dem say her ma and pa wor having cancer. Wetin help her to bear it when she wor taking care of them before they die? She say, “Every morning, I use to read the Daily Text and think on it. This one help me to get something good to be thinking about during the day instead of thinking too much about myself and the problem I wor going through.”—Ps. 61:2.
OUR BROTHER AND SISTER DEM
11. How it can make us feel to know that, that not our one going through problem?
11 Jehovah na give us our brother and sister dem to help us bear our problem. Just knowing that they theirself too going through “the same kind of sufferings,” can make our heart to lay down. (1 Pet. 5:9) So no matter what kindna problem we facing, other people na go through the same thing and they wor able to bear it. That mean we able to bear our problem dem too!—Acts 14:22.
12. How our brother and sister dem can help us, and wetin we can do for them? (2 Corinthians 1:3, 4)
12 When we going through problem, our brother and sister dem can encourage us. That just what happen to the apostle Paul. The brother dem use to help him when he wor not able to leave his house. They use to encourage him, comfort him, and do some small-small thing dem for him. So most of the time he use to tell them thank you for helping him and he even use to call them by their name. (Phil. 2:25, 29, 30; Col. 4:10, 11) That the same way it can happen today. When we need help to bear our problem, our brother and sister dem can be there for us. And when they need help, we can be there for them.—Read 2 Corinthians 1:3, 4.
13. Wetin help one sister name Maya to bear her problem?
13 The brother and sister dem in Russia really encourage one sister name Maya. In 2020, the police people enter her house and start checking all over. Later on, they put her in jail for preaching. Maya say, “During that time, I use to feel tire and sad. But the brother and sister dem use to call me, write me letter, and tell me that they love me. I always knew that the brother and sister dem that my family and they love me. But when I think on all the thing dem they do for me, it make me to be more convince that they love me for true.”
14. Wetin we can do to benefit from the help our brother and sister dem can give us? (Also see the picture.)
14 Wetin you must do? When you going through problem, continue to be close to your brother and sister dem. Don’t be scare to ask the elder dem for help. They can be just like “shelter from the wind, a refuge from the rainstorm.” (Isa. 32:2, ftn.) Also remember that your brother and sister dem going through problem too. So when you do small-small thing dem for somebody who need help, it will make you to be happy and bear your problem.—Acts 20:35.
Continue to be close to your brother and sister dem (See paragraph 14)c
OUR HOPE
15. What hope help Jesus, and how it can help us too? (Hebrews 12:2)
15 Jehovah na give us hope that we sure it will come true and it can help us to bear our problem. (Rom. 15:13) Remember that hope help Jesus to bear it when his situation get worse. (Read Hebrews 12:2.) Jesus knew that when he remain faithful, it wor coming help to clear Jehovah name from all the lie-lie thing dem Satan say about Him. Jesus wor also having the hope to go back to his Pa in heaven, and after some time to become king and rule with his anointed brother dem. That the same way, when we think on our hope to live forever in God new world, it can help us to bear any problem that we going through now-now in Satan world.
16. How hope help one sister to bear her problem, and wetin we can learn from the thing she say?
16 See how the Kingdom hope help one sister in Russia name Alla. The police people arrest her husband and put him in jail while they wor waiting for them to judge the case. When this one happen, Alla say: “I always use to pray and think on my hope for the future and it help me to not be too discourage. I know that one day things will get better. Jehovah will destroy his enemy dem and he will help us.”
17. How we can show that we grateful for the hope Jehovah na give us? (Also see the picture.)
17 Wetin you must do? Take some time to think about all the good-good thing dem that Jehovah na promise for the future. Imagine yourself in God new world and think about all the blessing dem we will get. And know that any problem we going through now-now will just be for ‘short time.’ (2 Cor. 4:17) Also, try your best to tell other people about the thing dem God promise. Just think about how it can be hard for the people dem who not serving Jehovah to bear their problem dem, because they not know the thing dem God promise for the future. Maybe the small thing you will tell them about God promise for the future, will make them to want learn more.
Take some time to think about the good-good thing dem Jehovah na promise for the future (See paragraph 17)d
18. Why we can trust that Jehovah will do all the thing dem he promise?
18 After Job bear all his problem and remain faithful to Jehovah, he say: “Now I know that you are able to do all things and that nothing you have in mind to do is impossible for you.” (Job 42:2) What Job say just show that nothing can stop Jehovah from doing what he get in mind. This one can make us to bear our problem dem. For example, just think about this sick woman who discourage because plenty doctor dem not able to make her well. But suppose one good doctor who plenty people trust find the problem and explain to her how he will help her to get well? She will really be happy even though it will take some time for her to get better. Now, she able to bear it because she get hope that one day she will get well. That the same way when we convince about our hope for the future, it will help us to bear our problem.
19. How Jehovah can help us to bear our problem dem?
19 From what we na learn, Jehovah can help us to bear our problem dem through prayer, the Bible, our brother and sister dem, and our hope. If we really make use of all this thing dem, Jehovah will help us no matter what kindna problem we going through now-now. And we will continue to bear it until He end Satan world and all the problem dem we going through.—Phil. 4:13.
SONG 33 Throw Your Burden on Jehovah
a They change some name dem in this article.
b WETIN THE PICTURE SAYING?: The old brother continue to bear his problem dem every day and he faithful.
c WETIN THE PICTURE SAYING? The old brother continue to bear his problem dem every day and he faithful.
d WETIN THE PICTURE SAYING? The old brother continue to bear his problem dem every day and he faithful.