Strong And Courageous Deuteronomy 31:6 Joshua 1:7-9 Joshua 10:25 2 Chronicles 32:7-8 Nehemiah 8:10 Psalms 18:1 Exodus 15:2 1 Chronicles 16:11 1 Corinthians 1:7-9 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 Ephesians 6:10-13 07.13.20

STRONG AND COURAGEOUS

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⁶ “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the LORD your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.”  Deuteronomy 31:6 (NIV)

⁷ “Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go. ⁸ Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. ⁹ Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”  Joshua 1:7-9 (NIV)

²⁵ Joshua said to them, “Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Be strong and courageous. This is what the LORD will do to all the enemies you are going to fight.”   Joshua 10:25 (NIV)

⁷ “Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or discouraged because of the king of Assyria and the vast army with him, for there is a greater power with us than with him. ⁸ With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.”  2 Chronicles 32:7-8 (NIV)

“Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD is your strength.”  Nehemiah 8:10 (NIV)

¹ I love you, O LORD, my strength. Psalms 18:1 (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.  Exodus 15:2 (NIV)

¹¹ Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always.  1 Chronicles 16:11 (NIV)

⁸ He will keep you strong to the end, so that you will be blameless on the day of our Lord Jesus Christ. ⁹ God, who has called you into fellowship with his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, is faithful.  1 Corinthians 1:7-9 (NIV)

¹³ Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong. ¹⁴ Do everything in love.  1 Corinthians 16:13-14 (NIV)

¹⁰ Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. ¹¹ Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. ¹² For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. ¹³ Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.  Ephesians 6:10-13 (NIV)

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“Every Christian life ought to be a force among men, a witness for Jesus and an influence for blessing and good. I know that there are few people like Billy Graham, whom God calls to do great things for Him. For men like  me, and perhaps you, the best thing that we can do in the small time allotted to us in this world is to live out a genuine, simple, beautiful, strong Christian life. In our little measure we can repeat the life of the Lord Himself, doing in our imperfect way a few of the wonderful things He would do if He were Himself in our place.”  Wales Goebel

“To learn strong faith is to endure great trials.  I have learned my faith by standing firm amid severe testings.”  George Mueller

“Do not pray for easy lives; pray to be stronger people! Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers; pray for powers equal to your tasks.”  Phillips Brooks

“The gospel is a powerful Word, but it cannot do its work without trials.  No one will discover its power unless he experiences it.  The gospel can only show its Power where there is a cross and where there is suffering.  Because it’s a Word of life, it must exercise all its power in death.  If death and dying are absent, then it can do nothing.  No one would discover that it’s stronger than sin or death.”   Martin Luther

“Nothing is so strong as gentleness, nothing so gentle as real strength.”   Francis de Sales

“They who persevere in the power of the Holy Spirit doing God’s will for His glory will not be want of success.  Even in what appears to be failure in the world’s eyes, it is success in the Lords. For He allows nothing to happen to His children which will not eventually be for their ultimate good and His ultimate glory – never one surpassing the other.  Continue on Christian in His power.  God will be no man’s debtor.  Be strong and firm then and wait on the Lord.  ‘¹³ I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. ⁴ Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.’”   Psalms 27:13-14 (NIV)   BHY

“Strong faith enables the servants of God to look with calm contempt upon their most haughty foes.  We know that our enemies are attempting impossibilities…When the Lord arises, they shall fly as chaff before the wind, and be consumed as crackling thorns.  Their utter powerlessness to do damage to the cause of God and His truth may make the weakest soldiers in Zion’s ranks laugh them to scorn.  Above all, we know that the Most High is with us, and when He dresses Himself in arms, where are His enemies?  The kingdom is safe in the King’s hands.”  Charles H. Spurgeon

“No sea is deeper than the ocean of His love.  There is no army stronger than His hosts, no force greater than His throne of grace, no enemy who can overcome His direct and indirect work in our lives.”  Robert J. Morgan

“You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.  You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.  You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.  You cannot lift the wage earner up by pulling the wage payer down.  You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.  You cannot build character and courage by taking away men's initiative and independence.  You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.”   Abraham Lincoln

“And we will never stop being the boldface brave who show up when it would be easier to give up, who go do hard & holy things when it would be easier to just go do happy things, who do not quit when we don’t know how to keep going on.  You can hear it about this time of September, breathing warm courage into our exhausted places:  ‘Just Call to Me, I guarantee I will answer you.  I will make you strong & brave.’  (Psalms 138:3).  Be Brave.  Hold out your Light to hold back the flood of dark.  Be Brave.  Your bravery wins a thousand battles you can’t see because your bravery strengthens a thousand others to win their battles too.  Be Brave.  And do not pray for the hard thing to go away.  But pray for a bravery to come that’s bigger than the hard thing.”   Ann Voskamp

“We follow a gospel which says that when I am weak, then I am strong.  And this gospel is the only thing that brings healing.”   N. T. Wright

“You are the One who is redeeming His bride and making all things new.  It is Your unfailing love that we can and must hope in.  There is no other supply sufficient to the need.  There is no other strength sufficient for the task.  There is no other balm sufficient for the pain.  There is no other rest sufficient for the exhaustion.  There is no other hope sufficient for the crisis.”  Scotty Smith

“Be strong!  We are not here to play, to dream, to drift, We have hard work to do and loads to lift; Shun not the struggle.  Face it.  ‘Tis God’s gift.  Be strong!”   Maltbie D. Babcock

HEART SAVOR

·         We are to be strong and courageous as we go forth in His mighty power.

·         Don’t be discouraged because greater is He that is within us than he that is in the world.

·         He will keep us strong until the end.  Remember how much He loves you.