Joshua 1:9, “Have I not commanded you?  Be strong and courageous.  Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord you God will be with you wherever you go.”     There’s a lot of fear and panic in the world today and yet God is still on His throne!  God...

1 Samuel 18: 12-16. Saul was afraid of David because the Lord was with him but had departed from Saul.  So Saul removed him from his presence and made him a commander of a thousand.  And he went out and came in before the people.  And David had success in all his...

Isaiah 53:5-6  But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds, we are healed.  All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned - every one- to his own way; and...

Luke 18:  1-8  And He told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not lose heart. He said, “In a certain city there was a judge who neither feared God nor respected man.  And there was a widow in that city who kept coming to him and saying,...

Romans 5:6-8,  You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.   Very rarely will anyone die for a righteous person, though for a good person someone might possibly dare to die.  But God demonstrates his own love for us in...

Habakkuk 3:17-19  Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in...

Exodus 14:15  The Lord said to Moses, “Why do you cry to me?  Tell the people of Israel to go forward.”   The Israelites were facing the Red Sea and the Egyptians were in hot pursuit and the Israelites started yelling at Moses, asking him what he was thinking,...