Isaiah 41:10\u00a0<\/b>–\u00a0Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.<\/i><\/p>\n
2 Corinthians 4:8-9<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed;<\/i><\/p>\n
2 Corinthians 5:7, 9<\/b>–\u00a0For we walk by faith, not by sight.\u00a0\u00a0<\/i>\u00a0<\/sup><\/b>So we make it our goal to please him,\u00a0whether we are at home in the body or away from it.<\/i><\/p>\n Sometimes I just want to pull back from everyone and just live in a corner with God.\u00a0 It seems that even when I mean well I hurt, anger and offend.\u00a0 Sometimes it\u2019s just because of my flesh rising up in us.\u00a0 Sometimes it is me just being the irascible person that I can be.\u00a0 I don\u2019t mean to be the offender, but too often I am.\u00a0 Then The Accuser jumps up to say to me \u201cSee! See how you are?\u00a0 You are not worthy to write down anything concerning the Word of God!\u00a0 Who are you to share the sacred Word of God?\u201d\u00a0 I have to agree with Him.\u00a0 I am not worthy.\u00a0 But God calls me to do the ministry that I do, so I do it.\u00a0 What I do I am called to do by the One Holy God.\u00a0 So I do it.\u00a0 My feelings and my thoughts are subject to the Holy Spirit of God and the Word of God.\u00a0 It is God who has called me so I will do it!\u00a0 If I stumble then with my trust in Him, I get up and move forward.\u00a0 What else can I do?\u00a0 Yes, I am very imperfect, but He is absolutely perfect.\u00a0 I am thankful to God who sustains me.\u00a0\u00a0Psalm 119:116<\/b>\u00a0\u201cSustain me, my God, according to Your promise, and I will live; do not let my hopes be dashed<\/i>.\u201d \u00a0And with my eyes on Him, my hope is never dashed<\/p>\n Praise God in the morning, throughout the day, and into every night!\u00a0 More than the air we breathe let the love and mercy of God be what sustains us.\u00a0 Our breath may leave us but our God never will.\u00a0 Praise God!<\/p>\n Psalm 150:6<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.\u00a0 Praise the Lord!<\/i><\/p>\n Micah 7:7<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0But as for me, I watch\u00a0in hope\u00a0for the\u00a0Lord, I wait for God my Savior; my God will hear\u00a0me.\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n Micah 6:8<\/b>\u00a0–\u00a0He has shown You, O man, what\u00a0is\u00a0good; And what does the\u00a0Lord\u00a0require of You but to do justly, to love mercy, And to walk humbly with Your God<\/i>.<\/p>\n Numbers 6:24-26<\/b>\u00a0\u201cThe\u00a0Lord\u00a0bless you and keep you; 25\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0make His face shine on you and be gracious to you; 26\u00a0the\u00a0Lord\u00a0turn His face\u00a0toward you and give you peace.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Isaiah 41:10\u00a0–\u00a0Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. 2 Corinthians 4:8-9\u00a0–\u00a0We are afflicted in every way, but not crushed; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1192],"tags":[129,103,94,1874,17],"class_list":["post-1956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-devotion","tag-corinthians","tag-isaiah","tag-micah","tag-numbers","tag-psalm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1956"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1957,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1956\/revisions\/1957"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Bob4God.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}