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.
For the end, a Psalm for the sons of Korah.
Clap your hands, all ye nations;
Shout to God with a voice of exultation.
For the Lord most high is terrible;
He is a great king over all the earth.
It is a good thing to give thanks to the Lord,
And to sing praises to thy name, O thou Most High;
For thou hast been my helper,
And in the shelter of thy wings will I rejoice.
And he will judge the world in righteousness,
He will judge the nations in uprightness.
The Lord also is become a refuge for the poor,
A seasonable help, in affliction.
For all our days are gone,
And we have passed away in thy wrath:
Our years have spun out their tale as a spider.
They will utter and speak unrighteousness;
All the workers of iniquity will speak so.
Provisão nas dificuldades
O Senhor provê mesmo nos tempos mais difíceis. Ele sustentou Elias, protegeu Israel e cuida dos seus com fidelidade eterna.
And the pitcher of meal failed not, and the cruse of oil was not diminished, according to the word of the Lord which he spoke by the hand of Elijah.
And was polluted with their works;
And they went a-whoring with their own devices.
So the Lord was very angry with his people,
And he abhorred his inheritance.
And he delivered them into the hands of their enemies;
And they that hated them ruled over them.
For I am ready for plagues,
And my grief is continually before me.
For I will declare mine iniquity,
And be distressed for my sin.
For I will give water to the thirsty that walk in a dry land: I will put my Spirit upon thy seed, and my blessings upon thy children:
For thou hast been a helper to every lowly city, and a shelter to them that were disheartened by reason of poverty: thou shalt deliver them from wicked men: thou hast been a shelter of them that thirst, and a refreshing air to injured men.
And it shall be for a shadow from the heat, and as a shelter and a hiding place from inclemency of weather and from rain.
And if thou pass through water, I am with thee; and the rivers shall not overflow thee: and if thou go through fire, thou shalt not be burned; the flame shall not burn thee.
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.
The Lord is good to them that wait on him in the day of affliction; and he knows them that reverence him.
Binding water in his clouds,
And the cloud is not rent under it.
He keeps back the face of his throne,
Stretching out his cloud upon it.
He has encompassed the face of the water by an appointed ordinance,
Until the end of light and darkness.
He shall hide thee from the scourge of the tongue:
And thou shalt not be afraid of coming evils.