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IS EVER AT OUR SIDE
BREAD
5 Keep
your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have,
because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 (NIV)
6 “Be
strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will
never leave you nor forsake you.”
Deuteronomy 31:6 (NIV)
5 No one
will be able to stand up against you all the days of your life. As I was with
Moses, so I will be with you; I will never leave you nor forsake you. Joshua 1:4-5 (NIV)
9 “Have
I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be
discouraged, for the Lord your God
will be with you wherever you go.”
Joshua 1:9 (NIV)
21 Whether
you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you,
saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
Isaiah 30:21 (NIV)
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)
11 The Lord will guide you always; he will
satisfy your needs in a sun-scorched land and will strengthen your frame. You
will be like a well-watered garden, like a spring whose waters never fail. Isaiah 58:11 (NIV)
18 “I will not leave you as orphans; I will come to you. 19 Before
long, the world will not see me anymore, but you will see me. Because I live,
you also will live.” John
14:18-19 (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.” John
10:27-28 (NIV)
BUTTER
“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
“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
“(Why does God) bother to speak to
us? The truly staggering answer that the
Bible gives to this question is that God’s purpose in revelation is to make
friends with us. It was to this end that
he created us rational beings, bearing his image, able to think and hear and
speak and love; he wanted there to be genuine personal affection and
friendship, two-sided, between himself and us—a relation, not like that between
a man and his dog, but like that of a father to his child, or a husband to his
wife. Loving friendship between two
persons has no ulterior motive; it is an end in itself. And this is God’s end
in revelation. He speaks to us simply to fulfill the purpose for which we were
made; that is, to bring into being a relationship in which he is a friend to
us, and we to him, he finding his joy in giving us gifts and we finding ours in
giving him thanks.” J I
Packer
“Simply
wait upon Him. So doing, we shall be
directed, supplied, protected, corrected, and rewarded.” Vance
Havner
HEART
SAVOR
- · The Lord is with me always.
- · His perfect love and Presence casts out all fear.
- · God guides me through this earthly pilgrimage making it a blessing rather than a trackless waste.
