OVERFLOWING
COMFORT
BREAD
3 Praise
be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and
the God of all comfort, 4 who
comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble
with the comfort we ourselves have received from God. 5 For just as the sufferings of
Christ flow over into our lives, so also through Christ our comfort overflows. 2 Corinthians 1:3-5 (NIV)
1 Comfort,
comfort my people, says your God. 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that
her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she
has received from the Lord's hand
double for all her sins. Isaiah 40:1-2
(NIV)
13 Shout
for joy, O heavens; rejoice, O earth; burst into song, O mountains! For the Lord comforts his people and will have
compassion on his afflicted ones. Isaiah
49:13 (NIV)
11 The
ransomed of the Lord will return. They
will enter Zion with singing; everlasting joy will crown their heads. Gladness
and joy will overtake them, and sorrow and sighing will flee away. 12 “I, even I, am he who comforts
you.” Isaiah 51:11-12 (NIV)
12 For
this is what the Lord says: “I
will extend peace to her like a river, and the wealth of nations like a
flooding stream; you will nurse and be carried on her arm and dandled on her
knees. 13 As a
mother comforts her child, so will I comfort you; and you will be comforted
over Jerusalem.” 14 When
you see this, your heart will rejoice and you will flourish like grass; the
hand of the Lord will be made
known to his servants, but his fury will be shown to his foes. Isaiah 66:12-14 (NIV)
4 Even
though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil,
for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. Psalms 23:4 (NIV)
49 Remember
your word to your servant, for you have given me hope. 50 My comfort in my suffering is
this: Your promise preserves my life. Psalms
119:49-50 (NIV)
17 “The Lord your God is with you, he is mighty
to save. He will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he
will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah
3:17 (NIV)
4 Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.
Matthew 5:4 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Though
assaults be many, and my enemies mighty, if God strengthen me, I have enough to
comfort me; for the greater my enemy, the more glorious my victory; and the
more glorious my victory, the more triumphant my glory.” K.H. Von Bogatzky
“Life holds for all of us,
from time to time, desolate places. All that was ordinary and secure and
familiar and dependable seems a thousand miles away. Here we are in this
strange wilderness- out of work, ill, robbed of something or someone, banished
from a privilege that once was ours, no longer needed, confused, forsaken. It
is a place of dryness, loneliness, isolation, helplessness, fear. We feel as
though we are walking where no human being was ever meant to walk, a place of dragons. Don't despair. Even though you find no signs, be
sure that thousands have traversed this terrain. When you reach the far side
you will meet them. But there is something that is far more comforting than
that. You are not
alone now. Always
beside you is Another whose voice you may not hear, whose arm you may not feel,
whose footprint you may not see. Nevertheless His Word is utterly to be
trusted: ‘I cared for you in the wilderness.’” (Hosea 13:5) Elisabeth
Elliot
“In Christ the
heart of the Father is revealed, and higher comfort there cannot be than to
rest in the Father’s heart.” Andrew Murray
“A fixed, constant attention
to the promises, and a firm belief in them, would prevent solicitude and
anxiety about the concerns of this life. It would keep the mind quiet and
composed in every change, and support and keep up our sinking spirits under the
several troubles of life….Christians deprive themselves of their most solid
comforts by their unbelief and forgetfulness of God’s promises. For there is no extremity so great but there
are promises suitable to it, and abundantly sufficient for our relief in it.” Samuel
Clarke
“Be not dismayed, but go to Him who is the
God of all comfort, who comforteth all those that are bowed down, and He will
give you a word which shall heal your wounds, and breath peace into your
spirit.” Charles H. Spurgeon
HEART SAVOR
·
God is the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort.
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The Lord comforts His people and has compassion on His
afflicted ones.
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The Lord delights to quiet me with His love and rejoice over
me with singing.
