Dependência
A dependência de Deus é o caminho da verdadeira liberdade. Sem Cristo, nada podemos fazer. Mas em Deus encontramos sustento, direção e força para todo desafio.
Sem Ele nada podemos
Sem mim nada podeis fazer. O cristão que se desconecta da videira seca — mas o que permanece dá muito fruto.
5 I am the grapevine, ye are the branches. He who dwells in me, and I in him, this man bears much fruit, because without me ye can do nothing.
1 Preserve me, O God, for in thee do I take refuge.
8 I beheld (LXX/NT) LORD always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
1 Unless LORD builds the house, they labor in vain who build it. Unless LORD guards the city, the watchman wake but in vain.
3 For they did not get the land in possession by their own sword, nor did their own arm save them, but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou were favorable to them.
14 LORD will fight for you, and ye shall keep silent.
Depender do Senhor
Confia no Senhor de todo o coração e não te estribes no teu próprio entendimento. Em todos os caminhos o reconhece.
5 Trust in LORD with all thy heart, and lean not upon thine own understanding.6 In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.
9 A man's heart devises his way, but LORD directs his steps.
21 There are many devices in a man's heart, but the counsel of LORD, that shall stand.
22 The blessing of LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
26 My flesh and my heart fails, [but] God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
19 Turn us again, O LORD God of hosts, cause thy face to shine, and we shall be saved.
1 I will lift up my eyes to the mountains. From where shall my help come?2 My help [is] from LORD, who made heaven and earth.
3 He will not allow thy foot to be moved. He who keeps thee will not slumber.
18 When I said, My foot slips, thy loving kindness, O LORD, held me up.
5 Out of my distress I called upon LORD. LORD answered me upon a large place.
1 LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want.2 He makes me to lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters.
Contentamento e confiança
Aprendi a viver contente em toda situação. A dependência de Deus nos livra da ansiedade e nos firma na paz.
11 Not that I speak regarding need, for I have learned in what things I am to be content.
13 For I, LORD thy God, will hold thy right hand, saying to thee, Fear not, I will help thee.
29 He gives power to the faint. And to him who has no might he increases strength.
16 thinking the same way toward each other, not thinking on lofty things, but accommodating to the lowly. Become not wise according to yourselves,
4 For just as we have many body-parts in one body, and all the body-parts have not the same function,5 so we, the many, are one body in Christ, and each one body-parts of each other.
8 And those who are in flesh cannot please God.
34 Be not therefore anxious for the morrow, for the morrow will be anxious about things of itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil of it.
14 But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? For all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.