Sunday, October 2, 2011

You Are Not Alone


Dear Child:

You are Not Alone. Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith? (Mark 4:40)

Be strong and of good courage, do not be afraid, nor dismayed, for I your God am with you. (Joshua 1:9) Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither be afraid. (John 14:27) In Peace will you lie down and sleep, for I alone make you dwell in safety. (Psalm 4:8) Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified, for I, the LORD your God goes with you: I will never leave you nor forsake you. (Deuteronomy 31:16)

Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you. See, I have engraved you on the palms of My hands; your walls are ever before Me. (Isaiah 49:15) Though your father and mother forsake you; I will receive you. (Psalm 27:10)

Behold, I am with you and will keep you wherever you go. (Genesis 8:4) My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest. (Exodus 33:14) For I love the just and will not forsake My faithful ones. (Psalm 37:28) I am with you always; even to the end of the age. (Matthew 28:20)

Behold, I make all things new. (Revelation 21:5) Forget the former things; do not dwell in the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? (Isaiah 43:18-19) Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away: behold, all things have come new. (2 Corinthians 5:17)

Jesus prayed and I have given you another Helper, that He may abide with you forever - the Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you and will be in you. Jesus did not leave you as orphans; He has come to you. (John 14:16-19)

In Jesus also you have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to My purpose and of Me who works all things according to the counsel of My will, that you who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory. In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of your inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory. (Ephesians 1:11-14)
 
I have established you in Christ and anointed you. I have also sealed you and given you the Spirit in your heart as a guarantee (2 Corinthians 1:21), so examine yourself as to whether you are in the faith. Test yourself. Do you not know yourself, that Jesus Christ is "in" you? - unless indeed you are disqualified.

I will be a Father to you and you will be My sons and daughters. (2 Corinthians 6:18) Because you are My sons, I have sent the Spirit of My Son into your heart. The Spirit calls out, "Abba, Father." So you are no longer a slave, but My child; and since you are My child, I have made you also an heir. (Galatians 4:6) I will lead the blind by ways they  have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide you; I will turn the darkness into light before you and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake you. (Isaiah 42:16) I alone am your portion and your cup; I make your lot secure. (Psalm 16:5)

Who shall separate you from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? As it is written:
  "For your sake we are killed all day long; We are counted as sheep for the slaughter."

Yet in all these things, you are more than conquerors through Him who loved you. For neither life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate you from My love which is in Christ Jesus! (Romans 8:35-39

My Child: I have said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you." So say in confidence, "The Lord is My Helper; I will not be afraid!" (Hebrews 13:5-6)

Love God