STRENGTH
BREAD
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)
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. Psalms 18:1-2 (NIV)
11 The LORD gives strength to his people; the LORD
blesses his people with peace. Psalms
29:11 (NIV)
11 Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face
always. 1 Chronicles 16:11 (NIV)
33 It is God who arms me with strength and makes my way
perfect. 34 He makes my feet like the feet of a deer; he enables
me to stand on the heights. 2 Samuel 22:33-34
(NIV)
1 God
is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. 2 Therefore
we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the
heart of the sea, 3 though
its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging. Selah Psalms 46:1-3 (NIV)
16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may
strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, 17 so
that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being
rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp
how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and
to know this love that surpasses knowledge--that you may be filled to the
measure of all the fullness of God. Ephesians
3:16-19 (NIV)
9 For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we
have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge
of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10 And
we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may
please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the
knowledge of God, 11 being strengthened with all power according to his
glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully 12 giving
thanks to the Father, who has qualified you to share in the inheritance of the
saints in the kingdom of light. 13 For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness
and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14 in
whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins. Colossians 1:9-14 (NIV)
13 I can do everything through him who gives me strength.
Philippians 4:13 (NIV)
BUTTER
“Give me all
needed strength of body, wisdom of mind, grace of soul to do this Thy so great
work.” Hudson Taylor
“Love for Him strengthens us. We
think of Him in the person of His dear Son, and a glimpse of the suffering face
of the Redeemer constrains us to work in His cause. We feel that we must work,
for there are many still to be saved, and we desire to gladden our Father's
heart by bringing home His wandering sons; we would fill with holy laughter the
sacred family among whom we dwell.” C.
H. Spurgeon revised by Alistair Begg
“If I am going to walk in this present life according to my
high calling as a Christian, I need a strength higher than my own strength. I
need the power of Christ. How is this power of Christ to be mine? It’s not
enough just to imagine that I have this power. It’s not even enough to take the
second step and reckon myself dead to sin and alive to Christ. There must also
be a communication of the power of Christ to me through the agency of the Holy
Spirit who indwells me.” Francis
Schaeffer, The Finished Work
of Christ
“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
“If the Sovereign, Omnipotent, Omniscient God
is on our side, as His child, seriously, what do we have to fear? He, Who loves us with an everlasting love,
Who ever has His eye upon us, Who never leaves us nor forsakes us, Who not only
died to save us but has also given us the Grand Deposit of the precious Holy
Spirit to empower us to walk in a manner worthy of our high calling all the way
Home – this God, this very God is for us and not against us. No matter what the circumstances of your life
may be bellowing out. The world shouts
fear while God whispers peace. He will
never let the righteous fall and we can trust Him with our lives and with the
lives of all we love and hold dear.”
BHY
“Against me earth and hell combine,
But on my side is power divine; Jesus is all, and He is mine!” Charles
H. Spurgeon
“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
· The Lord
is our Refuge and Strength – and ever-present help in our times of trouble.
· All
things eternal are done in the power of God’s omnipotent strength. Mere flesh will ultimately fail you and the
works ensuing from of will never make it through the fire which will test the quality
of each man’s work.
· We have no
need to fear with the power of God on our side.
