Dificuldades
As dificuldades são parte da vida, mas Deus é refúgio certo em todo tempo de angústia. A Bíblia promete que nenhuma adversidade pode separar os filhos de Deus do seu amor.
Deus é refúgio
Deus é nosso refúgio e fortaleza, socorro bem presente nas angústias. Nada poderá nos separar do amor de Cristo.
TO THE OVERSEER. BY SONS OF KORAH. FOR GIRLS’ [VOICES]. A SONG. God [is] our refuge and strength, || A most sure help in adversities. Therefore we do not fear in the changing of earth, || And in the slipping of mountains || Into the heart of the seas. Roar—troubled are its waters, || Mountains shake in its pride. Selah.
He is saying of YHWH, "My refuge, and my bulwark, my God, I trust in Him,"
Trust in Him at all times, O people, || Pour forth your heart before Him, || God [is] a refuge for us. Selah.
And YHWH is a tower for the bruised, || A tower for times of adversity. They trust in You who know Your Name, || For You have not forsaken those seeking You, O YHWH.
You [are] ruler over the pride of the sea, || In the lifting up of its billows You restrain them.
Mightier than the voices of many mighty waters, breakers of a sea, || [Is] YHWH on high,
He calms a whirlwind, || And their billows are hushed.
Who will separate us from the love of the Christ? Tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? According as it has been written: "For Your sake we are put to death all the day long; we were reckoned as sheep of slaughter." But in all these we more than conquer, through Him who loved us; for I am persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor messengers, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God that [is] in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Provisão nas dificuldades
O Senhor provê mesmo nos tempos mais difíceis. Ele sustentou Elias, protegeu Israel e cuida dos seus com fidelidade eterna.
the pitcher of meal was not consumed, and the dish of oil did not lack, according to the word of YHWH that He spoke by the hand of Elijah.
He has spread a cloud for a covering, || And fire to enlighten the night. They have asked, and He brings quails, || And satisfies them [with] bread of the heavens. He has opened a rock, and waters flow, || They have gone on in dry places—a river.
I have been young, || I have also become old, || And I have not seen the righteous forsaken, || And his seed seeking bread.
YHWH knows the days of the perfect, || And their inheritance is for all time. They are not ashamed in a time of evil, || And they are satisfied in days of famine.
For I pour waters on a thirsty one, || And floods on a dry land, || I pour My Spirit on your seed, || And My blessing on your offspring.
For You have been a stronghold for the poor, || A stronghold for the needy in his distress, || A refuge from storm, a shadow from heat, || When the spirit of the terrible [is] as a storm—a wall.
And a covering may be, || For a shadow from drought by day, || And for a refuge, and for a hiding place, || From inundation and from rain!
When you pass into waters, I [am] with you, || And into floods, they do not overflow you, || When you go into fire, you are not burned, || And a flame does not burn against you.
Força nas provas
Em tudo somos atribulados, mas não esmagados. O Senhor é bom e é fortaleza no dia da angústia — Ele conhce os seus.
being in tribulation in every [way], but not crushed; perplexed, but not despairing; persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;
Good [is] YHWH for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knows those trusting in Him.
Binding up the waters in His thick clouds, || And the cloud is not burst under them. Taking hold of the face of the throne, || Spreading His cloud over it. He has placed a limit on the waters, || To the boundary of light with darkness.
When the tongue scourges you are hid, || And you are not afraid of destruction, || When it comes.
And He says to them, "Why are you fearful, O you of little faith?" Then having risen, He rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm; and the men wondered, saying, "What kind—is this, that even the wind and the sea obey Him?"
And if the herb of the field, that today is, and tomorrow is cast into the furnace, God so clothes—not much more you, O you of little faith? Therefore you may not be anxious, saying, What may we eat? Or, What may we drink? Or, [With] what may we be clothed?
and the woman fled into the wilderness, where she has a place made ready from God, that there they may nourish her—one thousand, two hundred, sixty days.
behold, I give to you the authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and on all the power of the enemy, and nothing by any means will hurt you;