Consider Christ Jesus...

Heb. 3.1: (Weymouth) Fix your thoughts on Jesus.

To read slowly and ponder Hebrews 2. 18 and 3. 1 is an immense help towards this kind of thinking and this kind of praying. All the versions are beautiful:

"For in that He Himself hath suffered being tempted, He is able to succor them that are tempted. Wherefore consider Christ Jesus."

"For inasmuch as He has Himself felt the pain of temptation and trial, He is also able instantly to help those who are tempted and tried. Therefore fix your thoughts on Jesus . . . Whose followers we profess to be."

It is the "For" and the "Inasmuch" that lifts us up here. Apart altogether from the comfort that lies on the surface of these wonderful words about our dear Lord and his power instantly to help us, because He knows all there is to know of the pain of temptation and trial, there is this: if we are His followers we, too, shall find that every experience of temptation and trial will turn to power to help others. Therefore "count it all joy", and that it may be so, "Fix your thoughts on Jesus . . . Whose followers we profess to be."
--Edges of His Ways, Amy Carmichael

Note: Amy Carmichael wrote these words during the last twenty years of her life; the majority of these years she was bedridden. "Count it all joy."