Date Posted: 10/12/2012 12:34:13 PM
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• With God you can be sure of the ever- present company of your forever friend. Matthew 28:20• With God there’s no such thing as a mission impossible. When He sends you ‘on mission’ He makes sure you have the means to succeed. Luke 1:37• God wants us to be happy and at peace. To live lives like that we need to be focused. Isaiah 26:3, 4• The final victory is possible in God. Revelation 7:9, 10• Few people think about the suffering that sin has caused God. Our world is a vast scene of misery that we dare not allow our minds to dwell upon for long. The burden would be too terrible. Yet God feels it all. Isaiah 53:5, 6• We have a father who is sovereign over all. Because of this, all evil must pass through the sieve of His love and wisdom before it can strike us- and then be forced to work together for our good. Romans 8:28• If we address God as children, it is because He tells us He is our father. If we unburden ourselves upon Him, it is because He tells us He is our friend. Matthew 11:28, 29• Your life must be built on bedrock- not soft soil or shifting sand- and that bedrock is the utter dependability of God. Psalm 100:5• Because of God we belong, we can feel secure- regardless of difficulties. Psalm 100:3• Because Jesus endured the darkness and came through, even the darkest tunnel has its exit and every bad Friday is followed by resurrection ‘on the third day’. Matthew 27:46• We present our final trauma to God, as we have presented all the trials and tribulations we have suffered along the way. Luke 23:44-46• ‘Don’t worry!’ preposterous advice, surely! Don’t you have the right to worry? Knee deep in bills. The family at odds. The onset of aches and pains…• Belief is a truth held in the mind. Faith is a fire in the heart. Romans4:4, 5• A joy transfusion is still the greatest need of most Christians. To have joy we must be ‘in Christ’. To be ‘in Christ’ is to have the assurance of His salvation. Romans 8:1• Joy and peace cannot be had apart from God Himself. Like salvation, they are a gift of His grace. John 5:24• This is the secret of joy. You no longer strive for your own way; seek to achieve your own salvation. Instead, you accept God’s way; accept His salvation- as the gift of His grace. John 10:27-29• The surest mark of a Christian is not faith, nor even love, but joy. Romans 15:13• You cannot choose to have joy; though you can choose to have pleasure. However, once you have tasted joy, if both were in your power, you would never exchange it for the whole world. Isaiah 35:10• Joy is the serious business of heaven. And it is only a joyous love that redeems. Luke 15:7• To be able to find joy in another person''s joy, that is the secret of happiness. Isaiah 61:1-3• Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God. Romans 14:17• Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair. Proverbs 10:21• Suppose when we finally reach the top of a ladder we find it leaning against the wrong wall? Proverbs 16:25• Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. Proverbs 15:13• There are times when the only thing to be done is to endure. While doing so it is best to fill one’s mind and time as far as possible with the concerns of other people. It doesn’t bring immediate peace, but it brings the dawn nearer. Psalm 30:5
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