are important priorities if we are to cope with them. The first priority is prayer (5:13). When trouble comes, our first—and not our second or third—priority must be to pray. Many of us find it easy to run to other people or to feel terribly sorry for ourselves when difficulty arises. But as children of a wonderful heavenly Father, our privilege, through the merits of the sacrifice of ‘our glorious Lord Jesus Christ’ (2:1), is to have immediate access into the presence of God, where ‘we may receive