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VERSES OF STRENGTH
Hey there, I just wanted to remind you that God equips you to handle every tough situation. We often think we're not ready for the challenges life throws our way, but that's just not true. God always prepares us. His word tells us He hasn't given us a spirit of fear, but of power, love, and self-discipline. So take heart, knowing God is right there with you, fighting for you in every battle.
Use those tools God has given you through His word and the Holy Spirit. Be brave and take firm, confident steps. "Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord." (Psalm 31:24) So cheer up! God never fails.
He's your strength, your deliverer, your helper, your shield, your strong refuge. Trust in your Heavenly Father; everything will be alright. "It is God who arms me with strength and keeps my way secure." (2 Samuel 22:33)
Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.
Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee, he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.
A Psalm of David. The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.
Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yes, I will help thee; yes, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.
Yes, though I walk through the valley of the shades of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
And David said to Solomon his son, Be strong, and of good courage, and do it: fear not, nor be dismayed, for the LORD God, even my God, will be with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee, until thou hast finished all the work for the service of the house of the LORD.
In the time when I am afraid, I will trust in thee.In God I will praise his word, in God I have put my trust; I will not fear what flesh can do to me.
These things I have spoken to you, that in me ye may have peace. In the world ye will have tribulation, but be of good cheer: I have overcome the world.
So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do to me.
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Alamoth. God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.Therefore will we not fear, though the earth shall be removed, and though the mountains shall be carried into the midst of the sea;
And Moses said to the people, Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvation of the LORD, which he will show to you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye have seen to-day, ye shall see them again no more for ever.The LORD will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.
Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he will strengthen thy heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.
When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
Be of good courage, and let us play the men for our people, and for the cities of our God: and the LORD do that which seemeth him good.
Trust in the LORD with all thy heart; and lean not to thy own understanding.In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he will direct thy paths.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.I will say of the LORD, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.
Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not: behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompense; he will come and save you.
And the LORD, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth, is not made perfect in love.
Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Spirit.
He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved.In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
A Psalm of David. Blessed be the LORD my strength, who teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight;My goodness, and my fortress; my high tower, and my deliverer; my shield, and he in whom I trust; who subdueth my people under me.
And fear not them who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the LORD JEHOVAH is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation.
And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also; knowing that tribulation worketh patience;And patience, experience; and experience, hope:
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
In the day when I cried thou didst answer me, and strengthen me with strength in my soul.
Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering; for he is faithful that promised:
Though a host should encamp against me, my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there are more with us than with him:With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the LORD our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.
I, even I, am he that comforteth you: who art thou, that thou shouldest be afraid of a man that shall die, and of the son of man who shall be made as grass;And forgettest the LORD thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above what ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.
Thou art my hiding place; thou wilt preserve me from trouble; thou wilt compass me about with songs of deliverance. Selah.I will instruct thee, and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with my eye.
And he said to me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
And in nothing terrified by your adversaries: which is to them an evident token of perdition, but to you of salvation, and that from God.
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will remember the name of the LORD our God.They are brought down and fallen: but we are raised, and stand upright.
For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,Nor hight, nor depth, nor any other creature, will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is from me, saith the LORD.
I have set the LORD always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
To the chief Musician, A Psalm of David. I waited patiently for the LORD; and he inclined to me, and heard my cry.He brought me up also out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, and set my feet upon a rock, and established my goings.And he hath put a new song in my mouth, even praise to our God: many shall see it, and fear, and shall trust in the LORD.
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.
His heart is established, he shall not be afraid, until he seeth his desire upon his enemies.
As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the LORD is tried: he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.For who is God, save the LORD? and who is a rock, save our God?God is my strength and power: and he maketh my way perfect.
A Song of degrees. I will lift up my eyes to the hills, from whence cometh my help.My help cometh from the LORD, who made heaven and earth.
The LORD also will be a refuge for the oppressed, a refuge in times of trouble.And they that know thy name will put their trust in thee: for thou, LORD, hast not forsaken them that seek thee.
Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.For the LORD will be thy confidence, and will keep thy foot from being taken.
For the LORD God is a sun and shield: the LORD will give grace and glory: no good will he withhold from them that walk uprightly.O LORD of hosts, blessed is the man that trusteth in thee.
But if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;
The LORD is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
Cast thy burden upon the LORD, and he will sustain thee: he will never suffer the righteous to be moved.
And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask any thing according to his will, he heareth us:
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give to you: not as the world giveth, give I to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
And he said, Hearken ye, all Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, and thou king Jehoshaphat, Thus saith the LORD to you, Be not afraid nor dismayed by reason of this great multitude; for the battle is not yours, but God's.
There is therefore now no condemnation to them who are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
For I the LORD thy God will hold thy right hand, saying to thee, Fear not; I will help thee.
Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the vail;
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thy ear to hear:To judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of the earth may no more oppress.
Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
For thou art my lamp, O LORD: and the LORD will lighten my darkness.For by thee I have run through a troop: by my God have I leaped over a wall.
Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world.
Surely he shall deliver thee from the snare of the fowler, and from the noisome pestilence.He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth shall be thy shield and buckler.
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.Trust ye in the LORD for ever: for in the LORD JEHOVAH is everlasting strength:
Hitherto ye have asked nothing in my name: ask, and ye shall receive, that your joy may be full.
Thou shalt not be afraid for the terror by night; nor for the arrow that flieth by day;Nor for the pestilence that walketh in darkness; nor for the destruction that wasteth at noon-day.A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee.
The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,And what is the exceeding greatness of his power toward us who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,
It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.He maketh my feet like hinds' feet, and setteth me upon my high places.He teacheth my hands to war, so that a bow of steel is broken by my arms.
But the God of all grace, who hath called us to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle you.
Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forward to those things which are before,I press towards the mark for the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus.
Because thou hast made the LORD who is my refuge, even the Most High, thy habitation;There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.
For the LORD your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.
Behold, I have graven thee upon the palms of my hands; thy walls are continually before me.
Cast not away therefore your confidence, which hath great recompense of reward.For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye may receive the promise.
And we know that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
But Jesus beheld them, and said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man is wasted, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh out for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory;While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.
As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you; and ye shall be comforted in Jerusalem.
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened to you:But rejoice, seeing ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
Ah Lord GOD! behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and out-stretched arm, and there is nothing too hard for thee:
For ye have not received the spirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, by which we cry, Abba, Father.
Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou wilt revive me: thou wilt stretch forth thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand will save me.The LORD will perfect that which concerneth me: thy mercy, O LORD, endureth for ever: forsake not the works thy own hands.
Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;
A Song of degrees. They that trust in the LORD, shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.As the mountains are round Jerusalem, so the LORD is around his people from henceforth even for ever.
In God will I praise his word: in the LORD will I praise his word.In God have I put my trust: I will not be afraid what man can do to me.
The LORD is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him.
For the Lord GOD will help me; therefore shall I not be confounded: therefore have I set my face like a flint, and I know that I shall not be ashamed.
Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, acquit yourselves like men, be strong.Let all your things be done with charity.
Who delivered us from so great a death, and doth deliver: in whom we trust that he will yet deliver us:
Be anxious for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, will keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
For thou art my hope, O Lord GOD: thou art my trust from my youth.By thee have I been sustained from my birth: thou art he that brought me into life: my praise shall be continually of thee.
For thou wilt light my candle: the LORD my God will enlighten my darkness.For by thee I have run through a troop; and by my God have I leaped over a wall.
David said moreover, The LORD that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go, and the LORD be with thee.
O LORD, be gracious to us; we have waited for thee: be thou their arm every morning, our salvation also in the time of trouble.
The fear of man bringeth a snare: but he who putteth his trust in the LORD shall be safe.
Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.
For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marveled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.
For in the time of trouble he will hide me in his pavilion: in the secret of his tabernacle will he hide me; he will set me up upon a rock.
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.He shall call upon me, and I will answer him: I will be with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and honor him.
Praise ye the LORD. Blessed is the man that feareth the LORD, that delighteth greatly in his commandments.
But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine.When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves of the sea are still.Then are they glad because they are quiet; so he bringeth them to their desired haven.
The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he helped me.Return to thy rest, O my soul; for the LORD hath dealt bountifully with thee.
He will not suffer thy foot to be moved: he that keepeth thee will not slumber.Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.The LORD is thy keeper: the LORD is thy shade upon thy right hand.
And hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Spirit which is given to us.
He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters.He restoreth my soul: he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name's sake.
Be of good courage, and let us behave ourselves valiantly for our people, and for the cities of our God: and let the LORD do that which is good in his sight.
Then the Lord spoke to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:For I am with thee, and no man shall lay hands on thee, to hurt thee: for I have many people in this city.
And he said, Go forth, and stand upon the mount before the LORD. And behold, the LORD passed by, and a great and strong wind rent the mountains, and broke in pieces the rocks before the LORD; but the LORD was not in the wind: and after the wind an earthquake; but the LORD was not in the earthquake:And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire a still small voice.
And Moses said to the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.
Then I said to you, Dread not, neither be afraid of them.The LORD your God who goeth before you; he shall fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;
Looking to Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the throne of God.For consider him that endured such contradiction of sinners against himself, lest ye be wearied and faint in your minds.
The LORD is my strength, and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
In the fear of the LORD is strong confidence: and his children shall have a place of refuge.
Hearken to me, ye that know righteousness, the people in whose heart is my law; fear ye not the reproach of men, neither be ye afraid of their revilings.For the moth shall eat them like a garment, and the worm shall eat them like wool: but my righteousness shall be for ever, and my salvation from generation to generation.
They shall bear thee up in their hands, lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.Thou shalt tread upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon shalt thou trample under feet.
The eternal God is thy refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms: and he shall thrust out the enemy from before thee, and shall say, Destroy them.