MY
STRENGTH
BREAD
1 I love
you, O Lord, my strength. 2 The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my
rock, in whom I take refuge. He is my shield and the horn of my salvation, my
stronghold. 3 I call
to the Lord, who is worthy of
praise, and I am saved from my enemies. Psalms 18:1-3 (NIV)
2 The Lord is my strength and my song; he has
become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and
I will exalt him. 3 The Lord is a warrior; the Lord is his name. Exodus 15:2-3 (NIV)
7 The Lord is my strength and my shield; my
heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give
thanks to him in song. 8 The Lord is the strength of his people, a
fortress of salvation for his anointed one.
Psalms 28:7-8 (NIV)
29 “Blessed
are you, O Israel! Who is like you, a people saved by the Lord? He is your shield and helper and
your glorious sword. Your enemies will cower before you, and you will trample
down their high places.” Deuteronomy
33:29 (NIV)
9 He
will guard the feet of his saints, but the wicked will be silenced in darkness.
"It is not by strength that one prevails; 10 those who oppose the Lord will be shattered. He will thunder
against them from heaven; the Lord
will judge the ends of the earth. “He will give strength to his king and exalt
the horn of his anointed.” 1 Samuel
2:9-10 (NIV)
2 “Surely
God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; he has become my
salvation.” Isaiah 12:2 (NIV)
19 O Lord, my strength and my fortress, my
refuge in time of distress, to you the nations will come from the ends of the
earth and say, “Our fathers possessed nothing but false gods, worthless idols
that did them no good. 20 Do men
make their own gods? Yes, but they are not gods!” 21 “Therefore I will teach them--
this time I will teach them my power and might. Then they will know that my
name is the Lord.” Jeremiah 16:19-21 (NIV)
1 We
have heard with our ears, O God; our fathers have told us what you did in their
days, in days long ago. 2 With
your hand you drove out the nations and planted our fathers; you crushed the
peoples and made our fathers flourish. 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
44:1-3 (NIV)
7 Some
trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God. 8 They are brought to their
knees and fall, but we rise up and stand firm. Psalms 20:7-8 (NIV)
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 12:8-10 (NIV)
1 Sing
for joy to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob! Psalms 81:1 (NIV)
BUTTER
“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
“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
“The foundational
principle of grace is that God’s kingdom priorities are completely inverted
from those of the world. God’s plan is to magnify His saving mercy and grace
not through human strength but rather through its weakness…The gospel of grace
would remind us that we can’t be used until we operate not out of our own
strength but in weakness, as we depend on Christ’s Spirit to show the reality
of the cross.” Paul
Kooistra
“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
“When
a man has not strength, if he leans on God, he becomes powerful.” D.L.
Moody
“When God is our
strength, it is strength indeed; when our strength is our own, it is only
weakness.” St. Augustine
“A primary qualification for serving God with any amount of
success, and for doing God’s work well and triumphantly, is a sense of our own
weakness. When God’s warrior marches
forth to battle, strong in his own might, when he boasts, ‘I know that I shall conquer,
my own right arm and my conquering sword shall get unto me the victory’, defeat
is not far distant. God will not go
forth with that man who marches in his own strength. He who reckoneth on victory thus has reckoned
wrongly, for ‘it is not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the
Lord of hosts’. They who go forth to
fight, boasting of their prowess, shall return with their gay banners trailed
in the dust, and their armour stained with disgrace. Those who serve God must serve Him in His own
way, and in His strength, or He will never accept their service. That which man doth, unaided by divine
strength, God can never own. The mere
fruits of the earth He casteth away; He will only reap that corn, the seed of
which was sown from heaven, watered by grace, and ripened by the sun of divine
love. God will empty out all that thou
hast before He will put His own into thee; He will first clean out the
granaries before He will fill them with the finest of the wheat……Your emptiness
is but the preparation for your being filled, and your casting down is but the
making ready for your lifting up.” C. H.
Spurgeon
HEART SAVOR
- · God is my refuge and strength. He is my ever present Help in time of trouble.
- · I am not to go forth in my own strength if I desire victory for defeat will surely result. I am to go forth in the power of the all mighty Who will not let me fall. God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supply.
- · I trust not in the arm of flesh but in the power of the Lord.
