MY STRENGTH

I will love Thee, O Lord, my Strength. If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen Thou me according unto Thy word. In the day when I cried Thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. The Lord is my Tock, and my Tortress, and my Deliverer; my God, my Strength, in Whom I will trust; my Buckler, and the Horn of my Salvation, and my High Tower. Seek the Lord, and His Strength: seek His face evermore.  The Lord is my Strength and Song, and is become my Salvation. He weakened my strength in the way; He shortened my days. 

The Lord will give strength unto His people; the Lord will bless His people with peace. Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in Thy sight, O Lord, my Strength, and my Redeemer. But be not Thou far from me, O Lord: O my Strength, haste Thee to help me. The Lord is my Light and my Salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the Strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord. 

The Lord is my Strength and my Shield; my heart trusted in Him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise Him. Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for Thou art my Strength. But the Salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: He is their Strength in the time of trouble. O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more. God is our Refuge and Strength, a very present help in trouble. Lo, this is the man that made not God his Strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. Unto Thee, O my Strength, will I sing: for God is my Defence, and the God of my mercy. In God is my Salvation and my Glory: the Rock of my Strength, and my Refuge, is in God. 

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth. I will go in the Strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of Thy Righteousness, even of Thine only. Blessed is the man whose Strength is in Thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the Strength of my heart, and my Portion for ever. Sing aloud unto God our Strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Blessed be the Lord my Strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight. A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, and casteth down the strength of the confidence thereof. 

A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength. The way of the Lord is strength to the upright. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am Understanding; I have Strength. Seek the Lord and His Strength, seek His face continually. Glory and honour are in His presence; Strength and gladness are in His place. 

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself. But I have prayed for thee, that thy faith fail not: and when thou art converted, strengthen thy brethren. And after he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples. For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. 

And He said unto me, My Grace is sufficient for thee: for my Strength is made perfect in weakness. That He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might by His Spirit in the inner man. I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me. Strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. But the God of all grace, Who hath called us unto His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God. I know thy works: behold, I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept My word, and hast not denied My name. 

THEY MADE KNOWN

And it came to pass, as the angels were gone away from them into heaven, the shepherds said one to another, Let us now go even unto Bethlehem, and see this thing which is come to pass, which the Lord hath made known unto us. And they came with haste, and found Mary, and Joseph, and the babe lying in a manger. And when they had seen it, they made known abroad the saying which was told them concerning this child. And all they that heard it wondered at those things which were told them by the shepherds. But Mary kept all these things, and pondered them in her heart. And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, as it was told unto them. Luke 2:15-20

CHRIST JESUS is the Lamb of God; The Savior of the entire world without end. JESUS entered into this world as a helpless Jewish baby in a manger, a filthy feed trough. The Creator became absolutely dependent on His mother Mary. His Majesty stepped down from His throne; The Dayspring from on high visited us; The Beauty of Holiness became Sin for us; The KING whose name is the LORD of hosts visited Earth; God was manifest in the flesh, and was found in fashion as a Jewish babe by the shepherds. The merciful Father sent JESUS; and He laid aside His Eternal Robe of Righteousness and put on swaddling clothes in Bethlehem's manger. Behold the humble Savior: He was RICH, yet for my sake, He became poor. He owns the entire universe, but He died a poor man, bleeding and naked on the Cross. The Great King of Glory became the meek and lowly Savior, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the Cross. 

The shepherds came with haste to visit the Lamb of God. JESUS' hands touched and healed despised lepers, and He also healed hopeless blind beggars. He was hungry and weary, but He is my Bread of Life and my Strength. The Maker became a man. He was thirsty on the Cross, but He is my Water of Life. He was weary, but He is my Rest and my Way. He was wounded, but His stripes heal my Soul. He had no where to lay His head, but He is preparing a mansion for me. He paid tribute, but He is the King. He was the Truth, but was accused of false witness. He was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver, yet He redeems us bankrupt sinners freely. He was forsaken by all, but He will never leave me or forsake me. The high and lofty One became meek and lowly. He who inhabits Eternity entered into time. 

The Creator Himself became one of His creatures. The Immortal One became a human being to die for human sin. The Father of mercies and the God all comfort was scourged and spit upon. Himself at the mercy of His creation. JESUS had to learn to walk and talk and learn a language. The Shepherd of the galaxies came to seek and save lost souls. The Sure Foundation was laid low in the tomb of Joseph of Arimathaea. The Creator crying in a crib; the Ancient of days sleeping in a manger. The God of all flesh, now dwells in human flesh in the person of JESUS of Nazareth: Nothing is too hard for HIM. The Ruler of the stars was born under the Star of Bethlehem. He was brought as a lamb to the slaughter, but He is my Good Shepherd. Jesus died for my sins, and He eternally destroyed death for me. Jesus wept, but He will wipe away my tears eternally. JESUS came down here, so He could bring me up there. The shepherds heard, believed, and then through faith responded to the heavenly message delivered by the angel of the Lord, and they came with haste to see JESUS. After the shepherds met JESUS, they were busy getting the Word out.

Now understand: Believing is responding to the Gospel and receiving the Savior Himself into your heart through Faith in His Blood Atonement for your sins. The Holy Spirit makes JESUS known unto us through the Gospel; the Holy Spirit must give us the hearing of Faith. The shepherds spread the message everywhere about the Savior, because they couldn't keep JESUS a secret. The shepherds could not be quiet about the Lamb of God, because He would soon become the Good Shepherd Who would lay down His life for the sheep. 

WALK WORTHY

I will call upon the Lord, Who is worthy to be praised: so shall I be saved from mine enemies.  I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which THOU hast shewed unto Thy servant.

I indeed baptize you with water unto repentance: but he that cometh after me is mightier than I, whose shoes I am not worthy to bear: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire. There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose. Then Jesus went with them. And when he was now not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to HIM, saying unto HIM, Lord, trouble not thyself: for I am not worthy that Thou shouldest enter under my roof: wherefore neither thought I myself worthy to come unto THEE: but say in a word, and my servant shall be healed.

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance.

And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

WORTHY IS THE LAMB that was slain to receive power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing. THOU ART WORTHY, O LORD, to receive glory and honour and power: for Thou hast created all things, and for Thy pleasure they are and were created.

I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called. For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; that ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness.

As ye know how we exhorted and comforted and charged every one of you, as a father doth his children, that ye would walk worthy of God, who hath called you unto His kingdom and glory. They shall walk with ME in white: for they are worthy. And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after ME, is not worthy of ME. Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer: Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of His goodness, and the work of faith with power.

The labourer is worthy of his reward. (of whom the world was not worthy:) they wandered in deserts, and in mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth.

ALL THE DAY

Lead me in Thy Truth, and teach me: for Thou art the God of my Salvation; on THEE do I wait all the day. And my tongue shall speak of Thy Righteousness and of Thy Praise all the day long. From the rising of the sun unto the going down of the same the LORD'S name is to be praised. Let not thine heart envy sinners: but be thou in the fear of the LORD all the day long. In God we boast all the day long, and praise Thy Name for ever.  Let my mouth be filled with Thy Praise and with Thy Honour all the day. My mouth shall shew forth Thy Righteousness and Thy Salvation all the day; for I know not the numbers thereof. My tongue also shall talk of Thy Righteousness all the day long: for they are confounded, for they are brought unto shame, that seek my hurt. In Thy Name shall they rejoice all the day: and in Thy Righteousness shall they be exalted. O how love I Thy Law! it is my meditation all the day. Why stand ye here all the day idle?

SET YOUR HEART

There is none that seeketh after God. Human nature (the carnal mind) wants to enjoy safety, health, peace and prosperity (the mercies and goodness of the only wise God); but human nature will not seek after the person and will of God (The Father of our Lord Jesus Christ). But CHRIST JESUS came to seek and save that which is lost. THE LORD JESUS CHRIST came into the world to save sinners from the wrath to come, that is justly due to human sin. The Father seeketh the Soul, that will worship HIM in spirit and in truth. Gentle reminder: There is no peace in Sin. You are seeking something: What are you seeking today? Is JESUS your heart's one object of pursuit?

God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, that did seek God. O God, thou art my God; early will I seek Thee: my soul thirsteth for Thee, my flesh longeth for Thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is. The humble shall see this, and be glad: and your heart shall live that seek God. Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee: and let such as love Thy salvation say continually, Let God be magnified. Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things. Seek ye the Lord while He may be found, call ye upon Him while He is near. And ye shall seek ME, and find ME, when ye shall search for ME with all your heart. It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is Thy faithfulness. The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in HIM. The Lord is good unto them that wait for HIM, to the soul that seeketh HIM. I will go and return to MY place, till they acknowledge their offence, and seek MY face: in their affliction they will seek ME early. 

Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the LORD, till HE come and rain righteousness upon you. Seek the Lord, and ye shall live. Seek HIM that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night: that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is His name. O that I knew where I might find HIM! Behold the Lamb of God! I will seek HIM Whom my Soul loveth.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and His Righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you. Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. Strive to enter in at the strait gate: for many, I say unto you, will seek to enter in, and shall not be able. Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost. Then Jesus turned, and saw them following, and saith unto them, What seek ye?  How can ye believe, which receive honour one of another, and seek not the honour that cometh from God only? When the people therefore saw that Jesus was not there, neither his disciples, they also took shipping, and came to Capernaum, seeking for Jesus. Looking unto JESUS, the Author and Finisher of our Faith. Looking for that Blessed Hope and the glorious appearing and the Great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ. Behold, as the eyes of servants look unto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes wait upon the LORD our God, until that He have Mercy upon us. My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.

Psa 53:2; Psa 63:1; Psa 69:32; Psa 70:4; Prov 28:5; Isa 55:6; Jer 29:13; Lam 3:22-25; Hosea 5:15; Hosea 10:12; Amos 5:6; Amos 5:8; Job 23:3; John 1:36; SoS 3:2; Matt 6:33; Matt 7:7-8; Luke 13:24; Luke 15:8; Luke 19:10; John 1:38; John 5:44; John 6:24; Heb 12:2; Titus 2:13; Psa 123:2; Psa 130:6

The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts. The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God. The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek HIM: your heart shall live for ever. When thou saidst, Seek ye My face; my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. Let all those that seek Thee rejoice and be glad in Thee: let such as love Thy salvation say continually, The Lord be magnified. There is none that understandeth, there is none that seeketh after God.

Psa 10:4; Psa 14:2; Psa 22:26; Psa 27:8; Psa 34:10; Psa 40:16; Rom 3:11;

And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God amongst the trees of the garden. And the Lord God called unto Adam, and said unto him, Where art thou? And he said, I heard Thy Voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself. Gen 3:8-10

Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God. And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the Lord God of their fathers. A generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God. Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

I Chron 22:9; II Chron 11:16; Psa 78:8; Ecc 8:11

But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find HIM, if thou seek HIM with all thy heart and with all thy soul. Glory ye in His holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. Seek the Lord and His strength, seek His face continually. Now set your heart and your soul to seek the Lord your God. Know thou the God of thy father, and serve HIM with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek HIM, HE will be found of thee; but if thou forsake HIM, HE will cast thee off for ever. If My people, which are called by My name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord. The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek HIM, HE will be found of you; but if ye forsake HIM, HE will forsake you. Nevertheless there are good things found in thee, in that thou hast taken away the groves out of the land, and hast prepared thine heart to seek God.

And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah. And Judah gathered themselves together, to ask help of the Lord: even out of all the cities of Judah they came to seek the Lord. And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered. For in the eighth year of his reign, while he was yet young, he began to seek after the God of David his father: and in the twelfth year he began to purge Judah and Jerusalem from the high places, and the groves, and the carved images, and the molten images. For Ezra had prepared his heart to seek the law of the Lord, and to do it, and to teach in Israel statutes and judgments. The hand of our God is upon all them for good that seek HIM; but His power and His wrath is against all them that forsake HIM. I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause. If thou wouldest seek unto God betimes, and make thy supplication to the Almighty. Fill their faces with shame; that they may seek Thy name, O Lord.

Glory ye in His holy name: let the heart of them rejoice that seek the Lord. Seek the Lord, and HIS Strength: seek His face evermore. Blessed are they that keep HIS testimonies, and that seek HIM with the whole heart. And I will walk at liberty: for I seek Thy precepts. Salvation is far from the wicked: for they seek not thy statutes.

I love them that love ME; and those that seek ME early shall find ME. A scorner seeketh wisdom, and findeth it not: but knowledge is easy unto him that understandeth. The heart of him that hath understanding seeketh knowledge: but the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness. He that covereth a transgression seeketh love; but he that repeateth a matter separateth very friends. The heart of the prudent getteth knowledge; and the ear of the wise seeketh knowledge. Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow. And I set my face unto the Lord God, to seek by prayer and supplications, with fasting, and sackcloth, and ashes. Fear the LORD and His goodness. Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

Deut 4:29; I Chron 16:10-11; I Chron 22:19; I Chron 28:9; II Chron 7:14; II Chron 12:14; II Chron 15:2; II Chron 19:3; II Chron 31:21; II Chron 34:3; Ezra 7:10; Ezra 8:22; Job 5:8; Job 8:5; Psa 83:16; Psa 105:3-4; Psa 119:2; Psa 119:45; Psa 119:155; Prov 8:17; Prov 14:6; Prov 15:14; Prov 17:9; Prov 18:15; Isa 1:17; Dan 9:3; Hosea 5:6; Amos 5:14

And in that day there shall be a Root of Jesse, which shall stand for an Ensign of the people; to it shall the Gentiles seek: and His rest shall be glorious. And they that know Thy name will put their trust in Thee: for Thou, Lord, hast not forsaken them that seek Thee. Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it. Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought His judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord’s anger. Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts: I will go also.

Isa 11:10; Psa 9:10; Isa 34:16; Amos 8:12; Zeph 2:3; Zech 8:21

THE STEPS OF LIFE

VITALITY
INFIRMITY
FRAILTY

LIABILITY
*REALITY*
MORTALITY
ETERNITY
IMMORTALITY

AND HANNAH PRAYED

And they rose up in the morning early, and worshipped before the LORD, and returned, and came to their house to Ramah: and Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and the LORD remembered her.

And Hannah prayed, and said, My heart rejoiceth in the LORD, mine horn is exalted in the LORD: my mouth is enlarged over mine enemies; because I rejoice in THY Salvation. There is none holy as THE LORD: for there is none beside THEE: neither is there any ROCK like our God. Talk no more so exceeding proudly; let not arrogancy come out of your mouth: for the LORD is a God of knowledge, and by HIM actions are weighed. The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength. They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble. The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: HE bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. The LORD maketh poor, and maketh rich: HE bringeth low, and lifteth up. HE raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the LORD'S, and HE hath set the world upon them. HE will keep the feet of HIS saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. The adversaries of the LORD shall be broken to pieces; out of heaven shall HE thunder upon them: the LORD shall judge the ends of the earth; and HE shall give strength unto HIS KING, and exalt the horn of HIS ANOINTED.

Now Don't Miss It:

The LORD must first kill the pride of our own righteousness, 

before HE MAKETH US ALIVE through Faith in

HIS DEAR SON'S RIGHTEOUSNESS.