Encouragement in the battle

[Riverwalker]

How are you doing my brothers and sisters?

If you are anything like me you have been in battle so long, that you have developed that thousand yard stare. Just moving forward in the Lord can seem like a struggle when the stream we are walking against is raging

Our Faith and Our Freedom are under assault.

So I would invite you to post a word of encouragement for fellow workers...and perhaps with the cheer and word we can find the strength to soldier on just a few more steps

1 Thessalonians 5:11

Therefore comfort each other and edify one another, just as you also are doing.

My Favorite Scripture

Isaiah 40:

28 Have you not known?
Have you not heard?
The everlasting God, the Lord,
The Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary.
His understanding is unsearchable.
29 He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary,
And the young men shall utterly fall,
31 But those who wait on the Lord
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.

 

Your turn  A scripture of hopeful testimony

[missmuffet]

1 Peter 4:12-13

¹² Beloved, do not think it strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you; but rejoice to the extent that you partake of Christ’s sufferings, that when His glory is revealed, you may also be glad with exceeding joy.

[Hopefully]

““If the world hates you, remember that they hated me first. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as it loves its own people. But I have chosen you to be different from those in the world. So you don’t belong to the world, and that is why the world hates you.
 

“Remember the lesson I told you: Servants are not greater than their master. If people treated me badly, they will treat you badly too. And if they obeyed my teaching, they will obey yours too. They will do to you whatever they did to me, because you belong to me. They don’t know the one who sent me.”
‭‭John‬ ‭15:18-21‬ ‭

[In Him]

Collosians 2:1-10 CJB

2 For I want you to know how hard I work for you, for those in Laodicea, and for the rest of those who have not met me personally. 2 My purpose is that they may be encouraged, that they may be joined together in love, and that they may have all the riches derived from being assured of understanding and fully knowing God’s secret truth, which is — the Messiah! 3 It is in him that all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge are hidden.

4 I say this so that no one will fool you with plausible but specious arguments. 5 For although I am away from you physically, I am with you in spirit, rejoicing as I see the disciplined and resolute firmness of your trust in the Messiah. 6 Therefore, just as you received the Messiah Yeshua as Lord, keep living your life united with him. 7 Remain deeply rooted in him; continue being built up in him and confirmed in your trust, the way you were taught, so that you overflow in thanksgiving.

8 Watch out, so that no one will take you captive by means of philosophy and empty deceit, following human tradition which accords with the elemental spirits of the world but does not accord with the Messiah. 9 For in him, bodily, lives the fullness of all that God is. 10 And it is in union with him that you have been made full — he is the head of every rule and authority.

[Sower]

9 hours ago, Riverwalker said:

So I would invite you to post a word of encouragement for fellow workers...and perhaps with the cheer and word we can find the strength to soldier on just a few more steps

My problem is I'm always forgetting The Battle Belongs to God. I so often enter into the Warfare In My Own Strength. It's only in Christ I can do all things, it's Christ in me and not I.

But, when I trust in Christ the best I can, and quit trying to figure out all the problems on my own, but acknowledge Him and agree with him that I need him in all my ways, and look forward to his Direction.

Remembering,

God is on the throne, and Prayer Changes Things.

[steve morrow]

ENCOURAGED

1 SAMUEL 30:6  and david was greatly distressed for the people spake of stoning him because the soul of all the people was grieved every man for his sons and for his daughters ---but david encouraged himself in  THE  LORD  HIS  GOD--- 

 

2 CHRONICLES 31:4  moreover he commanded the people that dwelt in jerusalem to give the portion of the priests and the levites ---that they might be encouraged in the law of  THE  LORD---

 

PSALM 64:1  hear my voice  O GOD  in my prayer preserve my life from fear of the enemy 

--64:2--  hide me from the secret counsel of the wicked from the insurrection of the workers of iniquity 

--64:3--  who wet their tongue like a sword and bend their bows to shoot their arrows ---even bitter words---

--64:4--  that they may shoot in secret at the perfect suddenly do they shoot at him and fear not 

--64:5-- they encourage themselves in an evil matter they commune of laying snares privily --- they say who shall see them---

--64:6-- they search out iniquities they accomplish a diligent search both the inward thought of every one of them and the heart is deep 

--64:7-- but  GOD  shall shoot at them with an arrow suddenly they shall be wounded 

--64:8--so they shall make their ---own tongue to fall upon themselves--- all that see them shall flee away

 

*******64:9  ---AND  ALL  MEN  SHALL  FEAR  AND  SHALL  DECLARE  THE  WORK  OF  GOD---  for they shall wisely consider of  HIS  doing *******

PSALM 33:4  ---for the word of   THE  LORD  is right and all  HIS  works are done in truth---

EPHESIANS 2:8  for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves ---it is the gift of  GOD---

--2:9--not of works lest any man should boast---

 

JOHN 1:17  for the law was given by moses ---but grace and truth came by  JESUS  CHRIST

 

TITUS 2:11  for the grace of  GOD  that bringeth salvation hath appeared unto all men

--2:12--  teaching us  that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts we should live soberly -- righteously -- and godly -- in this present world ---

 

LOVING  THE  LORD  JESUS  CHRIST 

 

 

[Walter and Deborah]

Amen!

Mark 11:21-24 ²¹And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away. ²²And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

²³For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

²⁴Therefore I say unto you, What things soever ye desire, when ye pray, believe that ye receive them, and ye shall have them.

LOL, Walter and Debbie

Edited October 26, 2021 by Walter and Deborah
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