OUR
GREAT HELP
BREAD
1 After
this, the word of the Lord came to
Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great
reward.” Genesis 15:1 (NIV)
11 The Lord said to him, “Who gave man his
mouth? Who makes him deaf or mute? Who gives him sight or makes him blind? Is
it not I, the Lord? 12 Now go; I will help you speak
and will teach you what to say.” Exodus
4:11-12 (NIV)
14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only
to be still. Exodus 14:14 (NIV)
22 Do not
be afraid of them; the Lord your
God himself will fight for you. Deuteronomy
3:22 (NIV)
26 “There
is no one like the God of Jeshurun, who rides on the heavens to help you and on
the clouds in his majesty.” Deuteronomy
33:26 (NIV)
6 In my
distress I called to the Lord; I
cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before
him, into his ears. 7 The
earth trembled and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains shook; they
trembled because he was angry. 8 Smoke rose from his nostrils; consuming fire came from
his mouth, burning coals blazed out of it. 9 He parted the heavens and came
down; dark clouds were under his feet. Psalms
18:6-9 (NIV)
1 God is
our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Psalms 46:1 (NIV)
5 Yet I
am poor and needy; come quickly to me, O God. You are my help and my deliverer;
O Lord, do not delay. Psalms 70:5 (NIV)
14 “Because
he loves me,” says the Lord, “I
will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name. 15 He will call upon me, and I
will answer him; I will be with him in trouble, I will deliver him and honor
him. 16 With
long life will I satisfy him and show him my salvation.” Psalms 91:14-16 (NIV)
11 You
who fear him, trust in the Lord--
he is their help and shield. Psalms
115:11 (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)
7 Because
the Sovereign Lord helps me, I
will not be disgraced. Therefore have I set my face like flint, and I know I
will not be put to shame. Isaiah 50:7
(NIV)
6 Do not
be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with
thanksgiving, present your requests to God. 7 And the peace of God, which
transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ
Jesus. Philippians 4:6-7 (NIV)
31 What,
then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against
us? Romans 8:31 (NIV)
BUTTER
“It
is impossible for that man to despair who remembers that his Helper is
omnipotent.” Jeremy Taylor
“O dear
soul, pray, and tell Him everything that is wanting, be it ever so great or
ever so small. His loving-kindness will hear even the
least petition; nay, He will seem to be ignorant of what thou dost not tell
Him. But whatever is poured out before
Him is actually addressed and lodged in its proper place, and does not lie upon
thy heart any longer, but upon His heart, which cannot rest till you are
relieved. And if you have experienced
His help aforetime in great or small things, you may depend on His readiness to
help you out of troubles hereafter; only be earnest in prayer for His
help. We often imagine we were willing
and drawing near to Him, but He was unwilling, and refused our request; but it
is not so: He rather draws us, and
desires our relief more than we do; for it is He that works even this willing
mind.” K.H. Von Bogatzky
“We need to keep
reminding ourselves that without the Lord we can do nothing. It needs to become
a habit of mind with each of us to tell the Lord as we tackle each task, ‘I
can’t do this without your help, please help me’, and then to expect to be
helped because we have admitted our helplessness, given up self-reliance and
are now looking to Him.” J. I.
Packer
“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
“On Him
then reckon, to Him look, on Him depend:
and be assured that if you walk with Him, look to Him and expect help
from Him, He will never fail you. An
older brother, who has known the Lord for forty-four years, who writes this,
says for your encouragement that He has never failed him. In the greatest difficulties, in the heaviest
trials, in the deepest poverty and necessities, He has never failed me; but
because I was enabled by His grace to trust in Him, He has always appeared for
my help. I delight in speaking well of
His Name.” George Mueller
“Assurance grows by repeated conflict…When
we have been brought very low and helped, sorely wounded and healed, cast down
and raised again…and when these things have been repeated to us and in us a
thousand times over, we begin to learn to trust simply to the word and power of
God.” John Newton
“Nowhere does the Bible teach that Christians are
exempt from tribulation and natural disaster…But the Bible does teach that we
can face trials with a power others do not have – the power of God. As we trust Him, God helps us endure, and
even discern His purposes in the midst of suffering…The eagle has the unique
ability to lock its joints and soar effortlessly on an updraft, instead of
flapping its wings. As we wait on God,
He helps us use the winds of adversity to soar above our problems. As the Bible says, ‘Those who wait on the
Lord…shall mount up with wings like eagles’ (Isaiah 40:31).” Billy Graham
“Abide with me: fast falls the eventide; the darkness
deepens; Lord, with me abide. When other
helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me.” Henry
Francis Lyte
“It is rare that
Christians earnestly seek the Lord’s face when things are going swimmingly,
when material blessings abound and we seem to be protected from the
vicissitudes faced by others. But in the
blackness of discouragement, when we are harassed and downcast, we may indeed
turn to the Lord and acknowledge our helplessness apart from his grace; we may
do so knowing that God is a compassionate God and that Jesus’ compassion was
particularly directed toward the harassed and the helpless.” D A
Carson
“Jesus! What a friend for sinners! Jesus lover of my soul! Friends may fail me, foes assail me; He, my
Savior, makes me whole. Hallelujah! What a Savior! Hallelujah!
What a Friend! Saving, helping,
keeping, loving, He is with me to the end.
Jesus! What a strength in
weakness! Let me hide myself in Him;
Tempted tried and sometimes failing, He, my strength my victory wins. Hallelujah!
What a Savior! Hallelujah! What a Friend! Saving, helping, keeping, loving, He is with
me to the end. Jesus! What a help in sorrow! While the billows o’er me roll, Even when my
heart is breaking, He, my Comfort helps my soul. Hallelujah!
What a Savior! Hallelujah! What a Friend! Saving, helping, keeping, loving, He is with
me to the end. J. Wilbur Chapman
“There is a great and wonderful truth embodied in these words. The whole victory of life is in them – ‘Trust in the Lord and take heart.’ That means the exercise of courage, the consciousness of being linked to one mightier than ourselves, and it helps one to keep smiling, to keep sunshiny, and to have not only a song on the lip, but one in the heart.” Fanny Crosby
“What we feed our minds and hearts on will determine whether we live a life of faith or a life of fear. …The more time we spend with God and His Word, the more our faith develops and our fear diminishes….Faith in God conquers fear every time. The God who has redeemed us and cares for us is trustworthy. Our Creator God will never abandon us, and He has our best interests at heart. ‘God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging’ (Psalm 46:1-3).” Michael Youssef
HEART SAVOR
- · I have a great need. I have a great Savior for my need.
- · Jesus cares for me. He loves me with an everlasting love. He rejoices over me with singing. I can trust Him to help me. He is faithful.
- · I am to trust in Him and take heart. He is faithful to cause me to stand under the direst circumstances.
