
Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful. —Joshua 1:8 NIV
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this allsurpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. —2 Corinthians 4:7-9
A large crowd followed and pressed around him. And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering. At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?” “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’” But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.” —Mark 5:24-34 NIV
We focus on
“I call to you, O God, but you never answer; when I
pray, you pay no attention.” —Job 30:20 GN
We take
“In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength, but you would have none of it.” —Isaiah 30:15
We
“The cords of death entangled me, the anguish of the grave came upon me; I was overcome by trouble and sorrow.” —Psalm 116:3
“Why was I born? Was it only to have trouble and sorrow, to end my life in disgrace?” —Jeremiah 20:18 TEV
So then faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. —Romans 10:17 (NKJV)
“This plan of mine is not what you would work
out, neither are my thoughts the same as yours! For just as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than yours, and my thoughts than yours.” —Isaiah 55:8-9 LB
“In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little
while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that your faith–of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire–may be proved genuine and may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed.” —1 Peter 1:6-7
“I tell you the truth, anyone who has faith in me will do what I have been doing. He will do even greater things than these, because I am going to the Father.” —John 14:12
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.” —Mark 10:27