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Topic: ENCOURAGEMENT TO A WEARY SOLDIER
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Isaiah
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Good topic -God strengthens those he calls to do his work, protects them when necessary, and removes obstacles from before them. Men are men, and when they see overwhelming odds they tend to worry -but that is when we need faith the most.
Good thing God is understanding and encourages.
Many of our bible heroes were afraid at times, uncertain, and even desired to die -but God saw them through.
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oneinchrist
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Hi Wild B,
The truth is that we need to learn how to become more and more dependent on the Lord. The deeper the relationship becomes between us and God the more of a threat we become to the enemy. As we are equipped by God, Satan will turn up his resistance----and hopefully that is when we really begin to understand the necessity of utilizing the resources that God gives to us through His Word and by His Spirit.
All of us in the faith of Jesus will be brought to these points of time in life where we need to come face to face with some of our greatest fears and yet at the same time need to trust in the Lord's provision. If we decide to hold back the Lord may not entrust us with more. You see now how that we can discern whether we are in the will of God by how much resistance we face.
Keep the Faith Wild B. I pray for you.
With love in Christ, Daniel
With love in Christ, Daniel
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WildB
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by Cornelius R. Stam
During his ministry at Corinth, the strain of battle began telling on the Apostle Paul. He found himself haunted by fear and depression. Later he wrote of it.
"I was with you in weakness, and in fear, and in much trembling" (ICor. 2:3).
It must not be supposed that fearlessness was characteristic of a nature so sensitive as Paul's. On the contrary, he was often afraid. His, by the grace of God, was rather the courage that went on braving dangers in spite of his fears.
After having left the synagogue at Corinth, the strain of meeting, week after week, right next door, with all the embarrassing situations inevitably involved, may well have caused some of his followers, and possible himself, to question the wisdom and propriety of the step he had taken, adding to his mental depression (though this step, moving into the home of Justus, next door, was most appropriate under the circumstances). But the Lord was to endorse the act again in an unmistakable way.
It would appear from several passages in the Second Epistle to the Thessalonians (especially II Thessalonians 3:1,2), that this letter was written while Paul was becoming apprehensive about the work at Corinth and that it was after this that the Lord appeared to him in a vision to encourage him.
Let the reader try to place himself in Paul's position while reading Verses 9,10 of Acts 18 so as to appreciate its force more fully:
"Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, BE NOT AFRAID,--BUT SPEAK,--AND HOLD NOT THY PEACE:--FOR I AM WITH THEE,--AND NO MAN SHALL SET ON THEE TO HURT THEE;--FOR I HAVE MUCH PEOPLE IN THIS CITY."
Ah, tomorrow he could begin the work anew, assured in advance of the outcome! Whether he "continued" in Corinth (Verse 11) a year and six months longer or all together is perhaps impossible to ascertain, but we know that his ministry there was exceedingly fruitful.
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That is all.....
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