A
CONSTANT FAITHFUL
BREAD
9 Know
therefore that the Lord your God
is God; he is the faithful God, keeping his covenant of love to a thousand
generations of those who love him and keep his commands. Deuteronomy 7:9 (NIV)
4 For
the word of the Lord is right and
true; he is faithful in all he does. 5 The Lord
loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love. Psalms 33:4-5 (NIV)
4 For
great is your love, higher than the heavens; your faithfulness reaches to the
skies. 5 Be
exalted, O God, above the heavens, and let your glory be over all the earth. Psalms 108:4-5 (NIV)
13 Your
kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures through all
generations. The Lord is faithful
to all his promises and loving toward all he has made. Psalms 145:13 (NIV)
5 Blessed
is he whose help is the God of Jacob, whose hope is in the Lord his God, 6 the Maker of heaven and earth,
the sea, and everything in them-- the Lord,
who remains faithful forever. Psalms
146:5-6 (NIV)
9 God,
who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is
faithful. 1 Corinthians 1:9 (NIV)
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 10:13 (NIV)
23 May
God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole
spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
24 The
one who calls you is faithful and he will do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 (NIV)
3 But
the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.
2 Thessalonians 3:3 (NIV)
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 14:4 (NIV)
4 He is
the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who
does no wrong, upright and just is he. Deuteronomy 32:4 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Strengthen
me Lord according to Your glorious might.
Give me great endurance and patience and joy so that I may walk in a
manner worthy of the Gospel. May I
please You in all that I say and do. You
alone are faithful to keep me from falling and to equip me for this so great an
endeavor. May I, through Your great
power, leave the aroma of sweet Jesus in my every encounter that I may change
my sphere by bringing Your Presence to every circumstance You present me with
today. Always for your glory alone and
my good.” BHY
“We
are never beyond the Shepherd’s eye. In our sorrows He observes us incessantly,
and not a pang escapes Him; in our toils He sees all our weariness, and writes
in His book all the struggles of His faithful ones. These thoughts of the Lord
encompass us in all our paths and penetrate the innermost regions of our being.
Not a nerve or tissue, valve or vessel of our bodily organization is uncared
for: all the littles of your little world are thought of by our great God.” Charles Spurgeon
“Why was Job born? He was born for the same
reason Adam was created. He was born for the same reason the earth was created.
He was born, in part, for the same reason Christ was born and suffered and was crucified.
We all exist to glorify God. On the Day of Judgement, when the mangled, burned,
corrupted, and crucified limbs of God’s faithful are resurrected and made new,
and when voices that died crying in pain are restored singing in praise, even
Satan himself will bow in submission to the Lord who deserves all praise. This life is no simple matter of little lives
living private dramas. We are, since Eden’s loss, united in celestial warfare
with eternal consequences. We were born to stand; we are armed to fight. The good news is just that, through faith in
Christ, we were born to win.” Frances Poston Bennett
“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
“When
God makes a covenant with us, God says: ‘I will love you with an everlasting
love. I will be faithful to you, even when you run away from me, reject me, or
betray me.’ In our society we don't speak much about covenants; we speak about
contracts. When we make a contract with a person, we say: ‘I will fulfill my
part as long as you fulfill yours. When you don't live up to your promises, I
no longer have to live up to mine.’ Contracts are often broken because the
partners are unwilling or unable to be faithful to their terms. But God didn't make a contract with us; God
made a covenant with us, and God wants our relationships with one another to
reflect that covenant. That’s why marriage, friendship, life in community are
all ways to give visibility to God's faithfulness in our lives together.” Henri
Nouwen
“Courage for
the Christian is simply doing the next right thing through the indwelling power
of the Holy Spirit and leaving the results in God’s loving hands. He is always faithful to give the grace
sufficient to meet each need as we need it.
Courage is faith in action – not faith in ourselves but faith in Him.” BHY
“I rest with my whole soul upon the
finished work of Christ, and I have not found anything yet that leads me to
suspect I am resting where I shall meet with a failure. No, the older one
grows, the more one gets convinced that he who leans by faith on Christ, rests
where he never needs to be afraid. He may go and return in peace and
confidence, for the mountains may depart, and the hills be removed, but God
shall not change, and his purpose shall not cease to stand. Yes, God is worthy
of our confidence. And I think we can say, by way of commending our God to others
that we feel we can rest upon him for the future. We have been in strange
places, and in very peculiar conditions in the past, but we were never thrown
where we could not find in God all we needed; and we are therefore encouraged
to believe that when death’s dark night shall come, with all its gathering of
terror, we shall fear no evil, for the same God will be with us to be our
succour and our stay. The Isle of Man has for its coat of arms three legs, and
turn them which way you will, you know they always stand; and such is the
believer—throw him which way you will, he finds something to stand on; throw
him into death, or into life, into the lion’s den, or into the whale’s belly,
cast him into fire, or into water, the Christian still trusts in his God, and
finds him a very present help in time of trouble. ‘On whom dost thou trust?’ We
can answer boldly, ‘We trust in him whose power will never be exhausted, whose
love will never cease, whose kindness will never change, whose faithfulness
will never be sullied, whose wisdom will never be nonplussed, and whose perfect
goodness never can know a diminution.’”
Charles H. SpurgeonHEART SAVOR
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God is my
constant faithful.
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I never
have need to fear for His perfect and faithful love casts out all fears.
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God
protects me from the evil one and causes be to stand because He is faithful and
able to cause me to stand.
