FAITH
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8 “But
if I go to the east, he is not there; if I go to the west, I do not find him. 9 When he is at work in the
north, I do not see him; when he turns to the south, I catch no glimpse of him.
10 But he
knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as
gold.” Job 23:8-10 (NIV)
19 “Even
now my witness is in heaven; my advocate is on high. 20 My intercessor is my friend as
my eyes pour out tears to God; 21 on behalf of a man he pleads with God as a man pleads for
his friend.” Job 16:19-21 (NIV)
25 “I
know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth. 26 And after my skin has been
destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God; 27 I myself will see him with my
own eyes--I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!” Job 19:25-27 (NIV)
17 “Though
the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the
olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in
the pen and no cattle in the stalls, 18 yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior. 19 The Sovereign Lord is my strength; he makes my feet
like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights. For the director
of music. On my stringed instruments.”
Habakkuk 3:17-19 (NIV)
16 Shadrach,
Meshach and Abednego replied to the king, “O Nebuchadnezzar, we do not need to
defend ourselves before you in this matter. 17 If we are thrown into the
blazing furnace, the God we serve is able to save us from it, and he will
rescue us from your hand, O king. 18 But even if he does not, we want you to know, O king,
that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set
up.” Daniel 3:16-18 (NIV)
66 From
this time many of his disciples turned back and no longer followed him. 67 “You
do not want to leave too, do you?” Jesus asked the Twelve. 68 Simon Peter answered him,
“Lord, to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life. 69 We believe and know that you
are the Holy One of God.” John 6:66-69
(NIV)
18 Then
they called them in again and commanded them not to speak or teach at all in
the name of Jesus. 19 But
Peter and John replied, “Judge for yourselves whether it is right in God's
sight to obey you rather than God. 20 For we cannot help speaking about what we have seen
and heard.” Acts 4:18-20 (NIV)
“However, when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on the
earth?” Luke 18:8 (NIV)
BUTTER
“God
moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants His footsteps in
the sea, and rides upon the storm. Deep
in unfathomable mines of never failing skill He treasures up His bright designs,
and works His sovereign will. Ye fearful
saints, fresh courage take; the clouds ye so much dread are big with mercy, and
shall break in blessing on your head.
Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, but trust Him for His grace; behind
a frowning providence He hides a smiling face. Blind unbelief is sure to err,
and scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, and He will make it
plain.” William Cowper
“I cannot understand Him, but I
can trust Him. And so today, when everything physical and
emotional in me is completely drained, and there is not a single note of praise
in my heart, I choose to praise Him anyway. Not for
what He does, but for Who He is. When I cannot praise Him out
of joy, I will praise Him out of obedience. And I am learning that when I
praise Him out of obedience from the depths of the pit, it is always more
meaningful then when I praise Him out of an overflow of my heart from the
heights of the mountain. And because I know His nature, and I know that
even when I don’t feel it, He is still a kind, loving, good God, then I know
that soon, He will fill my heart with joy once again. And the praise will
flow easily from the depths of my heart.”
Laura Black
“But there’s a decision that I find God is asking us to make: whether
we are going to choose to interpret our circumstances based on what we hold to
be true about God, or whether we’re going to judge what we hold to be true
about God based on our circumstances. People ask how we’re doing, and I like to
say: ‘We have a faithful God.’ Every promise he’s kept, every need he’s met.” Laura
Story
“Give me grace to surmount all
difficulties, and to avoid everything that may prove a torment of conscience in
the hour of death.” K. H. Von Bogatzky
“All trials are
nothing when compared with the glory which shall hereafter be revealed in, and
for, us.” David Livingstone
“We pray for blessings, we pray for peace Comfort for family,
protection while we sleep.
We pray for healing, for prosperity We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering.
All the while You hear each spoken need Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things.
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears? What if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You're near? What if trials of this life Are Your mercies in disguise?” Laura Story
We pray for healing, for prosperity We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering.
All the while You hear each spoken need Yet love is way too much to give us lesser things.
'Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops What if Your healing comes through tears? What if a thousand sleepless nights Are what it takes to know You're near? What if trials of this life Are Your mercies in disguise?” Laura Story
“See God in everything, and God will calm and color all that thou
doest see! It may be that the
circumstances of our sorrows will not be removed, their condition will remain
unchanged; but if Christ, as Lord and Master of our life, is brought into our
grief and gloom, ‘He will compass us about with songs of deliverance.’ To see HIM, and to be sure that His wisdom
cannot err, His power cannot fail, His love can never change; to know that even
His direst dealings with us are for our deepest spiritual gain, is to be able
to say, in the midst of bereavement, sorrow, pain, and loss, ‘The Lord gave,
and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.’ Nothing else but seeing God in everything
will make us loving and patient with those who annoy and trouble us. They will be to us then only instruments for
accomplishing His tender and wise purposes toward us, and we shall even find
ourselves at last inwardly thanking them for the blessing they bring us. Nothing else will completely put an end to
all murmuring or rebelling thoughts.” Hannah
W. Smith
HEART SAVOR
- · God works in mysterious ways. 13 Who has understood the mind of the Lord, or instructed him as his counselor? 14 Whom did the Lord consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge or showed him the path of understanding? Isaiah 40:13-14 (NIV)
- · I can trust Him with my life even if I may not understand His ways.
- · If my eye could examine my circumstances from God’s perspective I would see clearly that my trials are merely His mercies in disguise. 7 To keep me from becoming conceited because of these surpassingly great revelations, there was given me a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me. 8 Three times I pleaded with the Lord to take it away from me. 9 But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ's power may rest on me. 10 That is why, for Christ's sake, I delight in weaknesses, in insults, in hardships, in persecutions, in difficulties. For when I am weak, then I am strong. 2 Corinthians 12:7-10 (NIV)
