Any good Scripture?

+RubiesFire+ · #1 (**permalink**) 10-15-2007, 04:39 AM

After a big awakening from God the passed few days, I just discovered I am on a journey by myself.
In one week everything I knew, the lifestyle I understood has been swept away. I have been going through some tough turmoil the last weeks. With two deaths in the family, the struggles my parents have been going through, the sudden revelation that some friends were taking advantage of me, or some have turned their backs on me when I cried out for advice.
Last night for the first time in a long time, I cried myself to sleep. For the first time, I felt no one was there when I needed them. Even though my sister is my best friend, she could not understand my Christian side. I was always there for everyone else, but was slammed against the wall when my turn came.

I felt Satan laughing, "Everyone abandoned you!" I believed him. No one was around that I needed. With family that can't understand or friends with slammed doors, I collapsed just in sudden darkness. In the midst of it all, only One voice spoke and I heard Jesus saying, "I am here. I am still here for you."
His simple words, "I will never leave you. I will never forsake you." I am now understanding that meaning.
God showed me that I cannot depend on family and friends anymore to be there for me, only Christ is there for me.

Every direction I turn to actually speak with family or friends, everything feels gone. Empty in other words.

Though now I am on a very long journey by myself with Christ. His true divine purpose. Everything was torn away from me, so I realize He won't abandon me. I am afraid because I guess I always had people around to help me, I just have Jesus now. A week ago I would of never thought that this could happen to me.
I don't think the life I knew before will come back. I don't expect it. My journey can be a short, or long one.

So I was wondering if anyone could give me good scripture on my long journey?

The Lord today gave me a wonderful blessing, a pair of beautiful songbirds that sing so breathtakingly. With them, the tears have stopped and they have made me smile. I have forgotten about what has happened, but my attention is now on Christ.

I would just need strong scripture to help me out on this journey.

Annie · #2 (**permalink**) 10-15-2007, 06:23 AM

my life verse comes to mind, i hope it helps:

5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct your paths. - Proverbs 3:5-6

Kratos · #3 (**permalink**) 10-16-2007, 06:23 AM

Heb 4:9 There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God.
Heb 4:10 For he that is entered into his rest, he also hath ceased from his own works, as God did from his.
Heb 4:11 Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest, lest any man fall after the same example of unbelief.

3grands · #4 (**permalink**) 10-16-2007, 02:49 PM

Psalms 139:14-18 NKJV) I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Marvelous are Your works, And that my soul knows very well.

"But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their
strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they
shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not
faint." Isaiah 40:31, KJV

Exodus 15:2
"The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. He is my God, and I will praise him, my father's God, and I will exalt him."

silentpoet · #5 (**permalink**) 10-16-2007, 05:30 PM

I can reccomend a writer who used alot of scripture in his works, Norman Vincent Peale. His work has helped me in my journey to have a more positive and powerful faith.

Some of the scripture that means the most to me might not mean that much to you, but I can think of one or two that might help.
1 Kings 19:1-18 is one of my favorite passages about feeling alone and depressed.
Also read the beatitudes.
It is not just one passage, but if you read of Jesus' healing people you will see many of them were rejected and alone. Jesus touched the lepers, I think that one act probably meant as much or more to them than the healing. They surely knew loneliness and pain. For years they had been untouchable and here was this Godly man touching them. There are many examples of where Jesus went to people rejected by society.

Found one I thought of that seems to match your situation.

Quote:

Luke 18:29-30"I tell you the truth," Jesus said to them, "no one who has left home or wife or brothers or parents or children for the sake of the kingdom of God will fail to receive many times as much in this age and, in the age to come, eternal life."

memoriesbymichelle · #6 (**permalink**) 10-16-2007, 05:54 PM

My life verse is also the one quoted above Proverbs 3:5-6. Here are a few more to help you. If you focus on the Word instead of people, you will deepen your walk with Christ and be truly blessed in a way that only He can do.

Romans 8:28 And we know that all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose.

Romans 8:31-32 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for usw all, how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? and 37 Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.

2 Cor 4: 8-18
We are hard-pressed on every side, yet not crushed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not forsaken; struck down, but not destroyed- always carring about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our body. For we who live are always delivered to death for Jesus' sake, that the life of Jesus also may be manifested in our mortal flesh. So then death is working in us, but life in you. And since we have the same spirit of faith according to what is written, "I believed and therefore I spoke," we also believe and therefore speak, knowing that He who raised up the Lord Jesus will also raise us up with Jesus and will present us with you. For all thinkg are for your sakes, that grace having spread through the many, may cause thanksgiving to abound to the glory of God. Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing, yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for u s a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory. While we do not look at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are not seen are eternal.

2 Tim 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

Lotuspetal_uk · #7 (**permalink**) 10-26-2007, 08:28 AM

My all time favourite which comforts me in times of uncertainty:

Joshua 1:9

AmericanAngel · #8 (**permalink**) 10-26-2007, 02:00 PM

PS27:1,4,5-The Lord is my light and my salvation;Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strenghth of my life; Of whom shall I be afraid?
One thing I have desired of the Lord, that will I seek; that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple. For in the time of trouble He shall hide me in His pavilion; in the secret place of His tabernacle He shall hide me; He shall set me high upon a rock.

Godfearinglady · #9 (**permalink**) 10-26-2007, 08:45 PM

Phil1: 6

Chas · #10 (**permalink**) 06-16-2008, 04:42 AM

Great verses and in Rom. 8:29 God tells us what His purpose is - that we might be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. Who could ask for a greater result. I am so far from that but that is his plan for me. However, conforming something to the shape of something else requires that the thing being conformed (you and me) be bent or pressed into a new and very different form. That can really hurt while it is going on but God has promised he will never allow us to be tested above our ability to bear it. He will also continue the work He has started in us until the day of Jesus Christ. In other words, He will never give up on us.