Thursday, July 30, 2009

NOURISHMENT FOR ENCOURADEMENT

1 Peter 5:7 (Amplified Bible)
7 Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.

Psalm 55:22 (Amplified Bible)
22 Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you; He will never allow the [consistently] righteous to be moved (made to slip, fall, or fail).
  • RELEASING: to give up in favor of another : relinquish: to give over possession or control of
  • SUSTAIN: to supply with sustenance, : to carry or withstand (a weight or pressure)

Isaiah 41:10 (Amplified Bible)
10 Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with My [victorious] right hand of rightness and justice

  • FEAR: is the most general term and implies anxiety and usually loss of courage . dread usually adds the idea of intense reluctance to face or meet a person or situation and suggests aversion as well as anxiety
  • DISMAY: implies that one is disconcerted and at a loss as to how to deal with something: sudden loss of courage or resolution from alarm or fear : sudden disappointment

Isaiah 43:1-2 (Amplified Bible)
Isaiah 43 1BUT NOW [in spite of past judgments for Israel's sins], thus says the Lord, He Who created you, O Jacob, and He Who formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you [ransomed you by paying a price instead of leaving you captives]; I have called you by your name; you are Mine.
2When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned or scorched, nor will the flame kindle upon you.

Hebrews 13:5-6 (Amplified Bible)
5 Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]
6 So we take comfort and are encouraged and confidently and boldly say, The Lord is my Helper; I will not be seized with alarm [I will not fear or dread or be terrified]. What can man do to me?

Sometime I just like to hear what God is saying during time of fasting and prayer. He is calling us to remember what he said in His word because His word brings comfort, encouragement, strength, hope, and faith. When we are trusting in His word, we are trusting in His Character & integrity

GOD INTEGRITY

Hebrews 6:17-19 (Amplified Bible)
17 Accordingly God also, in His desire to show more convincingly and beyond doubt to those who were to inherit the promise the unchangeableness of His purpose and plan, intervened (mediated) with an oath.
18 This was so that, by two unchangeable things [His promise and His oath] in which it is impossible for God ever to prove false or deceive us, we who have fled [to Him] for refuge might have mighty indwelling strength and strong encouragement to grasp and hold fast the hope appointed for us and set before [us].
19 [Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot [a]break down under whoever steps out upon it--a hope] that reaches [b]farther and enters into [the very certainty of the Presence] within the veil,(A)

God can not lie, deceive us, or even prove false

Just some nourishment for encouragement