BE
STILL MY SOUL
BREAD
7 Be at
rest once more, O my soul, for the Lord
has been good to you. Psalms 116:7
(NIV)
11 You
have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your
presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand. Psalms 16:11 (NIV)
4 Delight
yourself in the Lord and he will
give you the desires of your heart. 5 Commit your way to the Lord;
trust in him and he will do this: 6 He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
the justice of your cause like the noonday sun. 7 Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him. Psalms 37:4-7 (NIV)
10 “Be
still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be
exalted in the earth.” 11 The Lord Almighty is with us; the God of
Jacob is our fortress. Psalms 46:10-11
(NIV)
1 The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not be in
want. 2 He
makes me lie down in green pastures, he leads me beside quiet waters, 3 he restores my soul. Psalms 23:1-3 (NIV)
11 Why
are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God. Psalms 42:11 (NIV)
5 Find
rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him. 6 He alone is my rock and my
salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken. Psalms 62:5-6 (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)
14 For he
himself is our peace. Ephesians 2:14
(NIV)
13 May
the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that
you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Never be in a
hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inward peace for anything
whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. Commend all to God, and then lie still and be
at rest in His bosom. Whatever happens,
abide steadfast in a determination to cling simply to God……Maintain a holy
simplicity of mind, and do not smother yourself with a host of cares, wishes,
or longings, under any pretext.”
St. Francis de Sales
“Hudson
Taylor was an object lesson in quietness.
He drew from the bank of heaven every farthing of his daily income – ‘My
peace I give unto you.’ Whatever did not
agitate the Saviour or ruffle His spirit, was not to agitate him. The serenity of the Lord Jesus concerning any
matter, and at its most critical moment, was his ideal and practical
possession. He knew nothing of rush or
hurry, or quivering nerves or vexation of spirit. He knew that there is a peace passing all
understanding and that he could not do without it…Christ his reason for peace,
his power for calm. Dwelling in Christ,
he drew upon His very being and resources, in the midst of and concerning the
matters in question. And this he did by
an attitude of faith as simple as it was continuous.” Dr. & Mrs. Howard Taylor
“Upon some points a believer
is absolutely sure. He knows, for instance, that God sits in the stern-sheets
of the vessel when it rocks most. He believes that an invisible hand is always
on the world’s tiller, and that wherever providence may drift, Jehovah steers
it. That re-assuring knowledge prepares him for everything. He looks over the
raging waters and sees the spirit of Jesus treading the billows, and he hears a
voice saying, “It is I, be not afraid.” He knows too that God is always wise,
and, knowing this, he is confident that there can be no accidents, no mistakes;
that nothing can occur which ought not to arise. He can say, “If I should lose
all I have, it is better that I should lose than have, if God so wills: the worst
calamity is the wisest and the kindest thing that could befall to me if God
ordains it.” “We know that all things work together for good to them that love
God.” The Christian does not merely hold this as a theory, but he knows it as a matter of fact. Everything has worked
for good as yet; the poisonous drugs mixed in fit proportions have worked the
cure; the sharp cuts of the lancet have cleansed out the proud flesh and
facilitated the healing. Every event as yet has worked out the most divinely
blessed results; and so, believing that God rules all, that He governs wisely,
that He brings good out of evil, the believer’s heart is assured, and he is
enabled calmly to meet each trial as it comes. The believer can in the spirit
of true resignation pray, “Send me what thou wilt, my God, so long as it comes
from Thee; never came there an ill portion from Thy table to any of Thy
children.” C. H.
Spurgeon
“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
“All disquiet of mind ariseth from our own lusts and unmortified tempers, which make the bosom like a troubled sea. And no settled calm shall we find till we have a single eye to God’s glory, and can count ourselves worthy of no good. Then we may draw comfort out of trouble, and learn to praise the Lord, both for what he giveth, and for what he taketh away; being sure that all things are working for our good, and tending to God’s glory, which he knows best how to promote; and that nothing but sin can make us unhappy and miserable.” K. H. Von Bogatzky
“At times you will feel as the Israelites did before I worked through Moses to part the Red Sea. They gazed with fear into a sea of hopelessness as their Egyptian enemies headed toward them. However, as My people discovered, hopelessness is just an illusion created by the enemy. The truth is, there is no such thing as a futile situation. I am the God of hope, even when everything you love and live for appears to be drowning. When you can’t swim any longer, I am your lifesaver. I am the author of your life who can rewrite and transform any tragedy to triumph. I am the one who will work all things together for your good even when it appears all has gone bad. When you don’t know what to do, be still long enough to allow Me to calm the storm in your heart and part the sea that seems to lie in the way of My promises for you. If you will wait on Me, you will witness My wonders!” Sheri Rose Shepherd
HEART
SAVOR
- · My soul finds rest in God alone.
- · The peace that Jesus brings is far superior to the peace this world offers. It’s like a beautiful diamond compared to a paste gem. The peace the worlds holds out to us will always be found wanting when we find ourselves in circumstances that are “far beyond our ability to endure”: 8 We do not want you to be uninformed, brothers, about the hardships we suffered in the province of Asia. We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we despaired even of life. 9 Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happened that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead. 10 He has delivered us from such a deadly peril, and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will continue to deliver us. 2 Corinthians 1:8-10 (NIV)
- · An anxious and troubled heart weighs one down and is a heavy burden to bear. That is not the way Jesus desires for me to live. He came to free me from that. Scripture states: 5 Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; 6 in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
