A friend sent me these verses last night to encourage me
and help me guard against despair...
2 Cor.4:8-9 NIV
We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed;
perplexed, but not in despair;
persecuted, but not abandoned;
struck down, but not destroyed...
Thank-you Lord!
Thank-you, as you rend night's curtain
Whatever today commands
Your hope lets Faith know for certain
That we are in perfect Hands
A prayer to begin a new week...
While I am learning how to love You, Lord, the way I ought
How to be a reflection of the love that Your love taught
How not to think more highly of Self than I should, instead
To live with more awareness of the life-blood that You shed
Then, to be much more thankful for the hope Your pardon sealed
While I am learning hope's bedrock; by your wounds I am healed
Have mercy, Lord, while I am learning hope's sublimity;
© Janet Martin
Hope is grief's Healer
In Christ's wounds whereby we are healed,
Hope is manifested.
Here we find the tangibility of these truths
Ps.147:3
He heals the brokenhearted
and binds up their wounds.
Ps.34:18
The LORD is near to those who have a broken heart,
And saves such as have a contrite spirit.
Isa.53:5
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
Before Jesus was crucified, resurrected and ascended He promised this;
Jesus Promises the Holy Spirit-John 14:15-18
(Joel 2:28-32; John 16:5-16; Acts 2:1-13; Acts 10:44-48; Acts 19:1-7)
15If ye love me, keep my commandments.
16And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter,
that he may abide with you for ever;
17Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world cannot receive,
because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him:
but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you.
18I will not leave you comfortless: I will come to you...
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