Do not fear, for I am with you; do not be afraid, for I am your God. I will strengthen you; I will surely help you; I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not dismayed, for I am thy God; I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
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… Can you finish these lyrics? Fear not, for I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am your God. I will. I heard one of you. he's telling you how not to be afraid or dismayed that feels pretty important to me i will strengthen you i will help you i will uphold you with my righteous right hand how about this one hebrews 11 1 now faith is he's telling you what faith is it's the assurance of things hoped for the conviction of things not Let's sing. 1 John 4, 10, this is love. Not that we love God. Y'all, this one feels important. He's literally defining for you what love is according to God. And that's going to be the pattern for how you love your spouse. Not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins. Y'all, these are not obscure verses I pulled out. These are key promises in the Bible. I'm just saying, is it possible that you know Taylor's thoughts on love more than you know God's thoughts on love? Listen, Taylor just got married and I wish her well in her marriage. …
… Deuteronomy 31.6, he'll never leave or forsake you. Isaiah 41.10, so do not fear for I am with you. Do not be dismayed for I'm your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Psalm 23.4, even though I walk through the valley, through the darkest valley, I will fear no evil for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me. you can rest in his strength, even in the wilderness. somebody just needs to hear that today you you can rest you can go to sleep knowing that the god of heaven is holding on to you and he's not going to let you go he's not going to let you go we cling to him he clings to us desperate faith trust in god and in the last few verses which are you know kind of wild to read uh he's you know his enemies are going to be destroyed they're going to become food for jackals. What's all that about? It's about trusting God. It's about, I don't have to avenge myself. I don't have to protect myself. I don't have to figure my way out of this. …
… No, do not fear. I am with you. Do not be dismayed. I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. And then Jesus, at the last of Matthew 28, he's given the greatest mission in the world. This is the mission. This is it. He said, to the ends of the age, and to see lives changed and empty graves. That sounds hopeful. How are we gonna do that? What's the plan? He says, oh, by the way, and the last thing, the very last thing, say it with me, and surely I am with you always to the very end of the age. this is what he was trying to say to Moses and we talk about this all the time around passion seeing the plight of his people he says I've indeed seen the misery of my people I've heard them crying I'm concerned about their suffering so I've come down to rescue them and not only am I going to rescue them I'm going to lead them into a good and spacious land the cry of the Israelites has reached me I've seen the way the Egyptians are oppressing them so now go that's where it all changed for Moses I love the fact that you've heard your the cry has reached you that you're concerned that you're coming down that you're going to rescue that you're going to lead us to a great land but then it all shifts that all sounds very hopeful this is like …
… I have a lot more that I've been editing in my mind on the fly here tonight. But Isaiah 41, 10, Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you. Surely I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. Behold, all those who are angered at You will be shamed and dishonored. Those who contend with You will be as nothing and will perish. You will seek those who quarrel with You, but will not find them. They'll disappear. Those who war with You will be as nothing and nonexistent. For I am the Lord your God who upholds Your right hand, who says to You, do not fear, I will help you. Do not fear, you worm, Jacob, you men of Israel. I will help you, declares the Lord, and your Redeemer is the Holy One of Israel." Back to Romans 8. So, there's no possibility that God is going to stop loving us, and there's no possibility that we're going to stop loving Him. …
… Listen to this verse. Fear not, I am with you. Do not anxiously look about you for I am your God. Listen to this. I will strengthen you. I will help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand. That's the kind of God you and I have. I don't know what season of life you may be in, but this much I know there is one single principle. trust God and trust Him for His faithfulness. He will see you through every single season, and you'll be confident and assured of who's in control. You'll be able to rest in His awesome purpose, in His strength, and in His power and in His healing. And you'll be able to be used of God till the last day of your life. may say, but let me just tell you something now. I've been in this season a long time. Now, this is when you and I can know that we are fully committed to him. When we can say to him, Father, keep me in this season until you have accomplished your purpose and your plan, because I know that your purpose and your plan is the best. In my mind, God, I want to get on to the next season. …