Monday, 17 November 2008
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QOTD: Comforting Bible Verses?
What verse or passages of scripture comfort you when you feel troubled?
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Romans 8:28 - "For we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them that are called according to his purpose."
Philippians 4:6-7 - "Be careful for nothing; but in everything in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."
@musterion99@xanga - Thanks for commenting with those 2 verses! I really needed to read those verses from Phi. this morning. God bless!
But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, plenteous in mercy and truth. - Psalm 86:15
Psalm 91 - Romans 12:2 - Jeremiah 29:11
I love the Phil 4:6-7 one
I like James 1: 2-5
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing. If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God, that giveth to all men liberally, and upbraideth not; and it shall be given him.
I love Matthew 11:28-30, "Come to Me all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and lowly of heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light."
I know this verse is talking about people first coming to know Jesus as Savior, but it comforts me to know that He is always there for me, always ready to take my burdens upon Him. And all I have to do is come to Him with the problems!
The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing.
Zephaniah 3:17 (NIV)
Psalms 23...
Jeremiah 29:11-14
11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. [b] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."
1The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? -Psalms 27:1 (KJV)
@eugenia - You're welcome. God bless.
john 17: 27 "Peace I leave with you, my peace i give to you. I do not give to you as the world gives. do not let your hearts be troubled and do now be afraid."
14:27******
Therefore we do not become discouraged (utterly spiritless,
exhausted, and wearied out through fear). Though our outer man is
[progressively] decaying and wasting away, yet our inner self is being
[progressively] renewed day after day. For
our light, momentary affliction (this slight distress of the passing
hour) is ever more and more abundantly preparing and producing and
achieving for us an everlasting weight of glory [beyond all measure,
excessively surpassing all comparisons and all calculations, a vast and
transcendent glory and blessedness never to cease!], Since
we consider and look not to the things that are seen but to the things
that are unseen; for the things that are visible are temporal (brief
and fleeting), but the things that are invisible are deathless and
everlasting. 2 Cor 4: 16-18
Perspective.
Lots of good ones have already been mentioned. Have appreciated reading them.
I'd add Romans 8:29-39 to Romans 8:28 which @musterion99@xanga already mentioned.
Philippians 1:6 since I get discouraged about my ongoing sanctification.
Psalms 42 and 43.
Lots of good stuff in Isaiah 40-66, such as:
Isaiah 54, esp. verse 10:
For the mountains may depart
and the hills be removed,
but my steadfast love shall not depart from you,
and my covenant of peace shall not be removed,
says the Lord, who has compassion on you.
Isaiah 49:14-16:
14 But Zion said, The Lord has forsaken me;
my Lord has forgotten me.
15 Can a woman forget her nursing child,
that she should have no compassion on the son of her womb?
Even these may forget,
yet I will not forget you.
16 Behold, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are continually before me.
@Stephanie_J_B@xanga - I love Matt. 11:28-30 and I do think those verses can be taken not only as a call to salvation but a call to continue to abide in Him. As soon as we start walking in our own strength, we fall and stumble, and He calls us to come back to Him to take on His easy yoke again.
Well, that's way more than my .02!
@naphtali_deer@xanga - Psalm 42 is one of my favorites, especially the "refrain" (you can find it in verse 11). I memorized it in high school, and it has been really helpful to me.
I also love Psalm 4, especially verse 8 (I lie down in peace; at once I fall asleep, for you alone, LORD, make me dwell in safety); we sing it at our Compline services.
Psalm 61:1-4 Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.2: From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. 3: For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.4: I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings. Selah. (KJV)
John 15:5 (NIV)
I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
Psalm 63:7-8
Because you are my help, I sing in the shadow of your wings. My soul clings to you; your right hand upholds me.
I've always loved Psalm 91.
God answered my prayer through this post.
I have been having a very rough semester life-wise, social-wise, academic-wise, spirtual-wise. It's just been an all around bad 3 months. Today, I broke down as I was walking to class and just began asking God to give me strength, give me some kind of SOMETHING. I wanted some verses, wanted to look some up (or something) when I got home for the day...some kind of not-sure-what-I-wanted...anyway...
Thanks guys. These verses have been uplifting. :)
James 1:2-8
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind. That man should not think he will receive anything from the Lord; he is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.
Thou wilt keep him in PERFECT PEACE, whose mind is stayed on Thee: because he trusteth in Thee - Isaiah 26.3
or in the modern translation:
You keep him in perfect peace
whose mind is stayed on you,
because he trusts in you.
Trust in the LORD forever,
for the LORD GOD is an everlasting rock.
Isaiah 26:3-4
Psalm 139- Isaiah 55 are both good for me!!
Psalm 139
1 O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
4 Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.
5 You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.
6 Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.
7 Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?
8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, [a] you are there.
9 If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,
10 even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.
11 If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"
12 even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.
13 For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.
14 I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
15 My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,
16 your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
17 How precious to [b] me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
18 Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.
19 If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!
20 They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.
21 Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and abhor those who rise up against you?
22 I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.
23 Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.
24 See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.