Tag: anxiety
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Called and Never Alone
9Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”–Joshua 1 I journey with people who feel lonely. Most of them are unmarried individuals who live by themselves. The quarantine of 2020 only made things worse for them,…
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Pain and Sovereignty
46How long, O LORD? Will you hide yourself forever?How long will your wrath burn like fire?47Remember how short my time is!For what vanity you have created all the children of man!48What man can live and never see death?Who can deliver his soul from the power of Sheol? Selah 49Lord, where is your steadfast love of old,which by…
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The Insomnia Psalm
16Yours is the day, yours also the night;you have established the heavenly lights and the sun.–Psalm 74 Asaph followed his masterful Psalm 73 with another great one. Here, the nation was facing a scoffing enemy, and Asaph was calling on God to take care of business. Towards the end of the psalm, Asaph turned into…
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Do You Carry a Burden?
19Blessed be the Lord, who daily bears us up; God is our salvation.–Psalm 68 David carried burdens. At one time, he ran from a tyrant king that wanted to kill him. David even had opportunities to kill this king and be free of the burden, but refused to touch the one God had made king.…
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Be Still
10“Be still, and know that I am God.I will be exalted among the nations,I will be exalted in the earth!”–Psalm 46 When I go to a hospital visit I have two verses handy. I recently blogged about one of them. https://joelmbradshaw.wordpress.com/2022/04/27/have-theses-two-verses-at-the-ready/ Today’s verse is the other. In this short psalm, the nation is in trouble…
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David’s Struggle
22You have seen, O LORD; be not silent!O Lord, be not far from me!23Awake and rouse yourself for my vindication,for my cause, my God and my Lord!24Vindicate me, O LORD, my God,according to your righteousness,and let them not rejoice over me!25Let them not say in their hearts,“Aha, our heart’s desire!”Let them not say, “We have swallowed him…
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Have Theses Two Verses at the Ready
14But I trust in you, O LORD;I say, “You are my God.”15My times are in your hand;rescue me from the hand of my enemies and from my persecutors!–Psalm 31 When I go on hospital visits, these are one of the two main verses I have with me (Psalm 46:10 being the other). They are a great…
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Bitterness Buster
1How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?How long will you hide your face from me?2How long must I take counsel in my souland have sorrow in my heart all the day?How long shall my enemy be exalted over me? 3Consider and answer me, O LORD my God; light up my eyes, lest I sleep the sleep…
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Thoughts from a Lost Dog
[UPDATE: The dog has been found. God answered my children’s prayers! I like this blog post better now!–JMB] 9“Only take care, and keep your soul diligently… 15“Therefore watch yourselves very carefully… 23Take care, lest you forget the covenant of the LORD your God, which he made with you, and make a carved image, the form of anything…
Joel M Bradshaw 