Sharon Sharing God: GOD SPEAKS A WORD OF COMFORT

Thursday, June 30, 2011

GOD SPEAKS A WORD OF COMFORT

Hi, Sharon.

I see you're a little down tonight.

Got a minute?

I've got some things to say to you.

Forget all this gloom.

Only in returning to Me and resting in Me will you be saved.

In quietness and confidence is your strength.

I must wait for you to come to Me so I can show you My love and compassion.

So, come...

I am a faithful God.

Blessed are those who wait for My help.

You will weep no more.

I will be gracious if you ask for help.

I will surely respond to your cries.

I know that I have given you adversity for food and suffering for drink...

But I will still be with you to teach you.

You will see Me, your teacher, with your own eyes!

Your own ears will hear Me.

Right behind you a Voice will say, "This is the way you should go."

I will guide you, whether to the right or to the left.

I will bless you with rain at planting time.

There will be wonderful harvests.

I will begin to heal you and cure the wounds I gave you.

You will be filled with joy.

And I will make my majestic Voice heard.

I will display the strength of My mighty arm.

Your enemies will be shattered at My command.

And you will celebrate...

Feel better?!

(Taken from Isaiah 30, New Living Translation)

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AnonymousJune 30, 2011 at 4:43 AM
Oh, Sharon! What a great post - brimming in His promises in conversational language - He is by my side! Thanks for connecting with me at The Writer's Reverie. Looking forward to growing together in fellowship!
Joy!
Miss Kathy
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lioneagleJune 30, 2011 at 5:21 AM
Hi Sharon -

Glad to know that you have risen from the grave of sadness. Yahoo for Sharon's resurrection!

Thank you so much for these rich comforting words. I so receive what you have expressed here as shared with you by our Lord.

You wrote, "I will bless you with rain at planting time. There will be wonderful harvests."

Praise GOD that He knew...

2 Corinthians 1:4 - KJV
Who comforteth us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort them whch are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we ourselves are comforted of GOD.
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KarenJune 30, 2011 at 8:46 AM
Glory!! I needed this reminder....
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KerrieJune 30, 2011 at 10:38 AM
Hi Sharon,

I loved this - "You will weep no more. I will be gracious if you ask for help. I will surely respond to your cries."

In my frustration this morning I found myself weeping. And boy did I cry out! God is love.

But, how many times do I find myself in that 'moment of frustration' not crying out to God for help.

Ahh, yep - I do feel better now. Praise Jesus!

God bless you Sharon. With love and care from Kerrie. xOX
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PeggyJune 30, 2011 at 10:50 AM
I don't know about you...but I sure feel better!!!

Thanks God! Thanks Sharon! Thanks Isaiah!

I love when we hear God in His Word! ahhhhhhhhhhh

Praise the Lord! many blessings and love...He has changed some sadness into gladness... yeahhhh!

Love,
Peggy
I shared you with another blog who wrote on SAD today... must be something in the air...
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DebbieJune 30, 2011 at 1:52 PM
Right behind you a Voice will say, "This is the way you should go." I will guide you, whether to the right or to the left.
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(That is one of my favorite Bible verses)

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I will bless you with rain at planting time.
There will be wonderful harvests.

I will begin to heal you and cure the wounds I gave you...

This is just beautiful, Sharon. These verses that I repeated are particularly so. You know, I don't read from Isaiah enough. God has so much to say through Isaiah, and today he repeated it through you.

I hope today was not a sad day.
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UnknownJune 30, 2011 at 2:50 PM
Hi Sharon,

As I read what you have written and the comments from others, I can't help but reflect we are all walking the same path. Praise Jesus, he walks with us and carries us, when we are unable to walk. I feel a bit sad tonight, over events of the last couple of days. At the moment, I feel tired, rather than tearful, but I know The Lord is at my side, ready with the shoulder and tissues should I need them. Oh I am tired and I am waffling a bit, so will just say, we are all on this journey together and I rejoice that your spirits have lifted today.

God Bless, Nita x
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Here I Am CarrieJune 30, 2011 at 2:54 PM
Well I hope this comment goes thru I have been having so many problems and finally cleared all my saved cookies for google. So many sites I haven't been able to comment on. What wonderful words of encouragement here. I know how the weather can get so many of us down. It surely has been for me. I know the sun doesn't always shine, but there is always a light shining in my heart. Hugs and have a wonderful weekend.
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KarenJune 30, 2011 at 3:44 PM
Sharon...I just stopped by again to thank you for the sweet prayer you lifted up for me and my husband during his hospital stay...God heard and answered...

I can't find your email address anywhere on your blogs...if you don't mind me having it, please send a note to ktwalden@comcast.net...
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JennieJune 30, 2011 at 7:52 PM
For lack of my own words, I'll just say "Ditto to Debbie".

I am always blessed by the passages you share! Hope you are feeling better, friend!
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Chatty CroneJune 30, 2011 at 7:56 PM
I love your conversations with God - nice to think of it being two ways.
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bettyJune 30, 2011 at 9:20 PM
awesome what God gave you Sharon in your time of sadness; I like when his word comes alive like this! I hope you are feeling better!!

betty
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SharonJuly 2, 2011 at 11:19 AM
Oh, my - I have the most supportive bloggy buddies!

Thanks so much for stopping by - and for your heartfelt comments. Yes, I'm doing better (it helps that I've seen the sun shine when I get up in the morning!) These verses were just the best - they would be so wonderful at any time, but to come *randomly* just when I needed them, well, they were perfectly comforting.

God is a wonderfully kind Father - and He is close on sad days. I will continually praise His name, even if my voice must be lifted above the gloomy clouds that sometimes linger.

He is GOOD!

GOD BLESS!
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"So [I] have been greatly encouraged in the midst of [my] troubles and suffering, dear brothers and sisters, because you have remained strong in your faith. It gives [me] new life to know that you are standing firm in the Lord. How [I] thank God for you!" (1 Thessalonians 3:7-9)

Thanks for your comments - it is such a joy to be sharing my journey with friends like YOU!

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MY WORD FOR 2016

GRATEFUL

Grateful: feeling or showing thanks to someone for some helpful act; appreciative of benefits received; warmly or deeply thankful; indebted; beholden.

Word origin: 1550's, "pleasing to the mind," also "full of gratitude," from obsolete adj. grate "agreeable, thankful," from Latin gratus "pleasing" – derived from the same word origin as the word "grace."

The trick to changing your behavior is to become more thankful.

The practice of gratitude involves a focus on the present moment, on appreciating your life as it is today and what has made it so.

Let us begin an eternal quest to express in new and creative ways our thanks to God.

So I'm breathing in Your grace,

And I'm breathing out Your praise.

Let our prayers be the overflow of a grateful heart to God.

Three steps in prayer:

PRAISE – praise, reverence, worship, adoration, and awe for who God is and what He does

ASK – honest, earnest, and intense requests

THANK YOU – always end with thanksgiving for everything

Pulpit commentary:

In everything give thanks.

In every circumstance – in joy and in sorrow; for everything – for prosperity and for adversity; in every place – in the house of God and on the bed of sickness.

Christians should not only be engaged in constant prayer, but in constant thanksgiving.

For this – this thankful spirit – is the will of God, His desire.

God by the gift of his Son has laid us under the obligation of perpetual thanksgiving. Our whole lives ought to be one continued thank-offering for all the blessings of redemption.

Gill's Exposition:

Thanks are to be given to him for all things…

For all temporal good things;

for our beings, the preservation of them;

for food and raiment, and all the mercies of life;

for the means of grace, the word and ordinances, and the ministers of the Gospel;

for spiritual blessings, for electing, redeeming, regenerating, adopting, pardoning, justifying, and persevering grace:

for a meetness for heaven, a right unto it, and a good hope of it;

and especially for Jesus Christ, for such a…Saviour, and advocate with the Father, as he is; and for life, peace, joy, comfort, righteousness, and salvation in him.

Thanks should be given to God in every circumstance of life; in adversity, as Job did; when not in so comfortable and agreeable a frame of soul as to be wished for…even under the temptations of Satan…since the grace of God is sufficient to bear up under them, and deliver out of them.

[Give thanks] in afflictions of every kind, since they are all for good – temporal, or spiritual, or eternal.

WHAT IS LOVE?

Love is when you are missing some of your teeth but you're not afraid to smile because you know your friends will still love you even though some of you is missing.

By Emma K. - Age 6

"Out of the mouth of babes..."

A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

Anonymous

When you are uncertain, it helps to have someone remind you what is true – someone who knows you well, who sees you, and keeps track of you – not just your body but your soul.

Emily Freeman

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Thursday, June 30, 2011

GOD SPEAKS A WORD OF COMFORT

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