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.
35 Who shall separate us from Christ's love? Shall trial or distress or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?36 As it is written, "For thy sake we are killed all the day. We are counted as sheep for slaughter." 37 On the contrary, in all these we more than conquer through him who loved us.38 For I am persuaded that neither death nor life nor angels nor archangels, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers,39 nor height nor depth nor any other created thing will be able to separate us from God's love 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.
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.
8 in every way distressed, but not reduced to straits, perplexed, but not in despair,9 persecuted, but not forsaken, cast down, but not destroyed,
26 But he said, "Why are you frightened, you men of little faith?" Then he rose and rebuked the winds and the lake, and there was a great calm.27 The men were astonished and said, "What sort of a person is this, whom even the winds and the lake obey?"
30 If God so clothes the herbage of the field, to-day growing and to-morrow thrown into the oven, will he not much more clothe you, O you of so little faith?31 So do not be anxious, saying, What are we to eat? or, What are we to drink? or, What are we to wear?
6 The woman fled into the wilderness where she has from God a prepared place, that they may nourish her there a thousand two hundred and sixty days.
19 See, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing will hurt you.