Hard Times

Don’t you be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you. Yes, I will help you. Yes, I will uphold you with the right hand of my righteousness.

I have told you these things, that in me you may have peace. In the world you have oppression; but cheer up! I have overcome the world.”

Blessed is the man who endures temptation, for when he has been approved, he will receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to those who love him.

For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

Call on me in the day of trouble. I will deliver you, and you will honor me.”

Haven’t I commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid, neither be dismayed: for Yahweh your God is with you wherever you go.”

We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. — read the full passage →

What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort; — read the full passage →

Yahweh himself is who goes before you. He will be with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you. Don’t be afraid. Don’t be discouraged.”

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble. — read the full passage →

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. — read the full passage →

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you fall into various temptations, — read the full passage →

Seek Yahweh and his strength. Seek his face forever more.

He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress— I will never be greatly shaken.

We are pressed on every side, yet not crushed; perplexed, yet not to despair; — read the full passage →

In nothing be anxious, but in everything, by prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.

Be strong and courageous. Don’t be afraid or scared of them; for Yahweh your God himself is who goes with you. He will not fail you nor forsake you.”

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future.

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me. Your rod and your staff, they comfort me.

I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, give I to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

No temptation has taken you except what is common to man. God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted above what you are able, but will with the temptation also make the way of escape, that you may be able to endure it.

Yahweh is my strength and my shield. My heart has trusted in him, and I am helped. Therefore my heart greatly rejoices. With my song I will thank him.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

But those who wait for Yahweh will renew their strength. They will mount up with wings like eagles. They will run, and not be weary. They will walk, and not faint.

He gives power to the weak. He increases the strength of him who has no might.

Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering works perseverance; — read the full passage →

But the Lord is faithful, who will establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

Wherein you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while, if need be, you have been put to grief in various trials, — read the full passage →

Yah is my strength and song. He has become my salvation. This is my God, and I will praise him; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

But may the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a little while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

Yahweh will fulfill that which concerns me; your loving kindness, Yahweh, endures forever. Don’t forsake the works of your own hands.

For his anger is but for a moment. His favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may stay for the night, but joy comes in the morning.

Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

But now thus says Yahweh who created you, Jacob, and he who formed you, Israel: “Don’t be afraid, for I have redeemed you. I have called you by your name. You are mine. — read the full passage →

I know how to be humbled, and I know also how to abound. In everything and in all things I have learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in need. — read the full passage →

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. — read the full passage →

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says Yahweh, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you hope and a future. — read the full passage →

This is the Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things which must happen soon, which he sent and made known by his angel to his servant, John,

Bear one another’s burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

Yes, we ourselves have had the sentence of death within ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God who raises the dead, — read the full passage →

knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. — read the full passage →

Concerning this thing, I begged the Lord three times that it might depart from me. — read the full passage →

Don’t fret because of evildoers, neither be envious against those who work unrighteousness. — read the full passage →

Yahweh is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear? Yahweh is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid?

Jesus said to him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through me.

“Come to me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest. — read the full passage →

He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Most gladly therefore I will rather glory in my weaknesses, that the power of Christ may rest on me. — read the full passage →

A reed like a rod was given to me. Someone said, “Rise, and measure God’s temple, and the altar, and those who worship in it. — read the full passage →

Yahweh’s name is a strong tower: the righteous run to him, and are safe.

But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head. — read the full passage →

Seeing the multitudes, he went up onto the mountain. When he had sat down, his disciples came to him. — read the full passage →

Therefore let us also, seeing we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, lay aside every weight and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us, — read the full passage →

Cast your burden on Yahweh, and he will sustain you. He will never allow the righteous to be moved.

Yahweh is near to all those who call on him, to all who call on him in truth. — read the full passage →

It is doubtless not profitable for me to boast. For I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord. — read the full passage →

You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah. — read the full passage →

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. — read the full passage →

For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. — read the full passage →

Jesus went out from the temple, and was going on his way. His disciples came to him to show him the buildings of the temple. — read the full passage →

Misery is mine! Indeed, I am like one who gathers the summer fruits, as gleanings of the vineyard: There is no cluster of grapes to eat. My soul desires to eat the early fig. — read the full passage →

I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape. — read the full passage →

You will keep whoever’s mind is steadfast in perfect peace, because he trusts in you. — read the full passage →

Trust in Yahweh with all your heart, and don’t lean on your own understanding.

Beloved, don’t be astonished at the fiery trial which has come upon you, to test you, as though a strange thing happened to you. — read the full passage →

My God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Then he said to them, “Go your way. Eat the fat, drink the sweet, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. Don’t be grieved; for the joy of Yahweh is your strength.”

Jesus said to him, “If you can believe, all things are possible to him who believes.”

He who dwells in the secret place of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. — read the full passage →

I sought Yahweh, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.

Don’t be afraid of the things which you are about to suffer. Behold, the devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you may be tested; and you will have oppression for ten days. Be faithful to death, and I will give you the crown of life.

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles.

casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you. — read the full passage →

bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.

All chastening seems for the present to be not joyous but grievous; yet afterward it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been exercised thereby.

Therefore we don’t faint, but though our outward man is decaying, yet our inward man is renewed day by day. — read the full passage →

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, — read the full passage →

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” says Yahweh.

“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name. — read the full passage →

Yahweh will also be a high tower for the oppressed; a high tower in times of trouble.

“Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations. I will be exalted in the earth.”

Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust, and will not be afraid; for Yah, Yahweh, is my strength and song; and he has become my salvation.”

rejoicing in hope; enduring in troubles; continuing steadfastly in prayer;

The righteous cry, and Yahweh hears, and delivers them out of all their troubles. — read the full passage →

For our light affliction, which is for the moment, works for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory; — read the full passage →

For he has not despised nor abhorred the affliction of the afflicted, Neither has he hidden his face from him; but when he cried to him, he heard.

For to this end I also wrote, that I might know the proof of you, whether you are obedient in all things.

that the proof of your faith, which is more precious than gold that perishes even though it is tested by fire, may be found to result in praise, glory, and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ—

Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.