ABLE
TO STAND
13 Moses
answered the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and you will see the
deliverance the Lord will bring
you today. The Egyptians you see today you will never see again. 14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” Exodus 14:13-14 (NIV)
17 You
will not have to fight this battle. Take up your positions; stand firm and see
the deliverance the Lord will give
you, O Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Go out to
face them tomorrow, and the Lord
will be with you. 2 Chronicles 20:17
(NIV)
If
you do not stand firm in your faith, you will not stand at all. Isaiah 7:9 (NIV)
1 Accept
him whose faith is weak, without passing judgment on disputable matters. 2 One man's faith allows him to
eat everything, but another man, whose faith is weak, eats only vegetables. 3 The man who eats everything
must not look down on him who does not, and the man who does not eat everything
must not condemn the man who does, for God has accepted him. 4 Who are you to judge someone
else's servant? To his own master he stands or falls. And he will stand, for
the Lord is able to make him stand. Romans
14:1-4 (NIV)
10 Finally,
be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. 11 Put on the full armor of God
so that you can take your stand against the devil's schemes. 12 For our struggle is not
against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities,
against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil
in the heavenly realms. 13 Therefore
put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be
able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand. Ephesians 6:10-13 (NIV)
1 Blessed
is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way
of sinners or sit in the seat of mockers. 2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day
and night. 3 He is
like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and
whose leaf does not wither. Whatever he does prospers. 4 Not so the wicked! They are
like chaff that the wind blows away. 5 Therefore the wicked will not stand in the judgment,
nor sinners in the assembly of the righteous. 6 For the Lord watches over the way of the
righteous, but the way of the wicked will perish. Psalms 1:1-6 (NIV)
12 So, if
you think you are standing firm, be careful that you don't fall! 13 No temptation has seized you
except what is common to man. And God is faithful; he will not let you be
tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also
provide a way out so that you can stand up under it. 1 Corinthians 10:12-13 (NIV)
58 Therefore,
my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves
fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is
not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Faith raises the soul above the difficulty, straight to God Himself, and enables one to stand still. We gain nothing by our restless and anxious efforts….It is therefore true wisdom, in all times of difficulty and perplexity, to stand still – to wait only upon God, and He will assuredly open a way for us.” C.H. Mackintosh
“To learn strong faith is to endure great trials. I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.” George Mueller
“We
don’t normally like being on the bottom.
It’s just not the position we generally pick. It goes against our flesh. Yet, in the Bible’s economy you stoop to
rise, you lower and God elevates.
Therefore, rock bottom appears the perfect place to simply look up and
the perfect time to begin building upon the solid foundation of the Rock of
Christ. Often stripped of our dearest
Delilah’s we are not too dissimilar to the returning prodigal. We have nothing but our will to bring – do we
really ever have anything else? And
Jesus says tenderly, ‘Come’. On Him you
can depend. On Him you can count. On Him you can trust. He turns away no one. He will never let the righteous fall or blow
away for that matter. His grip is firm
and secure. Much akin to a young mother
grabbing her two year old in busy traffic and yet so infinitely more. He dearly loves His children and He always
causes them to stand because He is faithful and able to cause us to stand – no
matter what wind blows.” BHY
“Despair whispers,
"Lie down and die; give it all up."... But, however much Satan may
urge this course upon you, you cannot follow it if you are a child of God. His
divine fiat has bid thee go from strength to strength, and so thou shalt, and
neither death nor hell shall turn thee from thy course. What if for a while
thou art called to stand still; yet this is but to renew thy strength for some
greater advance in due time.” Charles H. Spurgeon
“If
you kneel before God, you can stand before any man.” Greg
Laurie
“If Maximilian Kolbe could stand in Auschwitz and write: Be tranquil — because the good God is everywhere and
provides for everything with love” — is there ever really anything that should make one lose tranquility?
It could be like a song for all the doubters and anxious: The good God is everywhere
and provides for everything with love.” Ann
Voskamp
“Do
not question and do not doubt. Each day
holds some small joy that shall escape you if you are preoccupied with
tomorrow. Nothing daunts your Father. Nothing can restore the past and nothing can
bind the future, but today you may live in the full blessing of the Father’s
smile. Hold to His words, for they are
like a nail driven into solid wood. All
else may seem shifting and transitory, but His Word is firm. It is a rock that shall not be moved. It is a firm place to stand.” Frances J. Roberts
HEART
SAVOR
- · God is faithful and able to cause me to stand - always.
- · Kneel before God stand before mere man.
- · Never question His love – keep your eyes on Him not on your circumstances.
