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But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
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But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
I laid myself down and slept. I awakened, for Yahweh sustains me.
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted on the earth.”
Yahweh of Armies is with us. The God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
I have put my trust in God. I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in you.
In God, I praise his word. In God, I put my trust. I will not be afraid. What can flesh do to me?
You count my wanderings. You put my tears into your container. Aren’t they in your book?
He will call on me, and I will answer him. I will be with him in trouble. I will deliver him, and honor him.
I will say of Yahweh, “He is my refuge and my fortress; my God, in whom I trust.”
He will cover you with his feathers. Under his wings you will take refuge. His faithfulness is your shield and rampart.
For Yahweh won’t reject his people, neither will he forsake his inheritance.
When I said, “My foot is slipping!” Your loving kindness, Yahweh, held me up.
But Yahweh has been my high tower, my God, the rock of my refuge.
There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don’t walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.
In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don’t know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can’t be uttered.
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.
Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep.
While the thought held possession of her, she could not be made rude and malicious by the rudeness and malice of those about her.
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.
When I find my work particularly difficult and discouraging, she writes me letters that make me feel glad and brave; for she is one of those from whom we learn that one painful duty fulfilled makes the next plainer and easier.
But it did her good, for those whose opinion had real value gave her the criticism which is an author’s best education, and when the first soreness was over, she could laugh at her poor little book, yet believe in it still, and feel herself the wiser and stronger for the buffeting she had received.
Next to trying and winning, the best thing is trying and failing.
If our sense of duty forbids this, then let us stand by our duty fearlessly and effectively.
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