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10 So do
not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will
strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)
13 For I
am the Lord, your God, who takes
hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you. Isaiah 41:13 (NIV)
15 “Can a
mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she
has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! 16 See, I have engraved you on
the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me.” Isaiah 49:15-16 (NIV)
3 Then
Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt,
out of the land of slavery, because the Lord
brought you out of it with a mighty hand.”
Exodus 13:3 (NIV)
11 Yours,
O Lord, is the greatness and the
power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven
and earth is yours. Yours, O Lord,
is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all. 12 Wealth and honor come from
you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to
exalt and give strength to all. 13 Now, our God, we give you thanks, and praise your
glorious name. 1 Chronicles 29:11-13
(NIV)
23 If the
Lord delights in a man's way, he
makes his steps firm; 24 though
he stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord
upholds him with his hand. Psalms
37:23-24 (NIV)
3 It was
not by their sword that they won the land, nor did their arm bring them
victory; it was your right hand, your arm, and the light of your face, for you
loved them. Psalms 44:3 (NIV)
8 My
soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me. Psalms 63:8 (NIV)
27 “My sheep listen to my voice; I know them, and they follow
me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one
can snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them
to me, is greater than all; no one can snatch them out of my Father's hand.
30 I and the Father are one.”
John 10:27-30 (NIV)
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“Thy way, not
mine, O Lord, however dark it be! Lead
me by Thine own hand, choose out the path for me.” Horatius
Bonar
“The Almighty
and everywhere present power of God;
whereby, as it were by His hand, He upholds and governs heaven, earth, and all
creatures; so that herbs and grass, rain and drought, fruitful and barren
years, meat and drink, health and sickness, riches and poverty, yea, and all
things come, not by chance, but by His fatherly hand.” The
Heidelberg Catechism
“Fear not, I am with thee; oh, be not dismayed, For I am thy
God and will still give thee aid. I'll
strengthen thee, help thee, and cause thee to stand, Upheld by my righteous,
omnipotent hand.” Robert Keene
“This
morning let us hear the Lord Jesus speak to each one of us: ‘I will help
thee’. ‘It is but a small thing for Me,
thy God, to help thee. Consider what I
have done already. What! Not help thee? Why, I bought thee with My blood. What!
Not help thee? I have died for
thee; and if I have done the greater, will I not do the less? Help thee!
It is the least thing I will ever do for thee; I have done more, and
will do more. Before the world began I
chose thee. I made the covenant for
thee. I laid aside My glory and became a
man for thee; I gave My life for thee; and if I did all this, I will surely
help thee now. In helping thee, I am
giving thee what I have bought for thee already. If thou hadst need of a thousand times as
much help, I would give it thee; thou requirest little compared with what I am
ready to give. ‘Tis much for thee to
need, but it is nothing for me to bestow.
“Help thee?” Fear not! If there were an ant at the door of thy
granary asking for help, it would not ruin thee to give him a handful of thy
wheat; and thou art nothing but a tiny insect at the door of my all
sufficiency. “I will help thee”.’ O my soul, is not this enough? Dost thou need more strength than the
omnipotence of the United Trinity? Dost
thou want more wisdom than exists in the Father, more love than displays itself
in the Son, or more power than is manifest in the influences of the
Spirit? Bring hither thine empty
pitcher! Surely this well will fill
it. Haste, gather up thy wants, and
bring them there – thine emptiness, thy woes, thy needs. Behold, this river of God is full for thy
supply; what canst thou desire beside?
Go forth, my soul, in this thy might.
The Eternal God is thine helper!”
C. H. Spurgeon
“What
can be deeper than His Presence and constant care? In a world in which multitudes feel isolated
and alienated, we have the permanent companionship of the most loving and
powerful Being in the universe. Nothing
could be more important and life shaping than that. Whatever difficulty we go through, He
nevertheless holds us by the hand.”
Chris Tiegreen
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- · I have no need to fear as God upholds me with His righteous right hand. Perfect love casts out fear.
- · It is with His hand that the victory is gained – always.
- · God has engraved me on the palm of His hand.
