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Isaiah 40:27-31
O Jacob, how can you say the Lord does not see your troubles? O Israel, how can you say God ignores your rights?Have you never heard? Have you never understood? The Lord is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth. He never grows weak or weary. No one can measure the depths of his understanding.He gives power to the weak and strength to the powerless.Even youths will become weak and tired, and young men will fall in exhaustion.But those who trust in the Lord will find new strength. They will soar high on wings like eagles. They will run and not grow weary. They will walk and not faint.
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Lamentations 3:26-27
So it is good to wait quietly for salvation from the Lord.And it is good for people to submit at an early age to the yoke of his discipline:
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Mark 4:40
Then he asked them,“ Why are you afraid? Do you still have no faith?”
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Exodus 14:12
Didn’t we tell you this would happen while we were still in Egypt? We said,‘ Leave us alone! Let us be slaves to the Egyptians. It’s better to be a slave in Egypt than a corpse in the wilderness!’”
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1 Samuel 23 17
“ Don’t be afraid,” Jonathan reassured him.“ My father will never find you! You are going to be the king of Israel, and I will be next to you, as my father, Saul, is well aware.”
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Proverbs 13:12
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a dream fulfilled is a tree of life.
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Isaiah 51:12
“ I, yes I, am the one who comforts you. So why are you afraid of mere humans, who wither like the grass and disappear?
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1 Samuel 28 1-1 Samuel 28 2
About that time the Philistines mustered their armies for another war with Israel. King Achish told David,“ You and your men will be expected to join me in battle.”“ Very well!” David agreed.“ Now you will see for yourself what we can do.” Then Achish told David,“ I will make you my personal bodyguard for life.”
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Psalms 116:11
In my anxiety I cried out to you,“ These people are all liars!”
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Isaiah 30:15-16
This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says:“ Only in returning to me and resting in me will you be saved. In quietness and confidence is your strength. But you would have none of it.You said,‘ No, we will get our help from Egypt. They will give us swift horses for riding into battle.’ But the only swiftness you are going to see is the swiftness of your enemies chasing you!
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1 Samuel 21 10-1 Samuel 21 15
So David escaped from Saul and went to King Achish of Gath.But the officers of Achish were unhappy about his being there.“ Isn’t this David, the king of the land?” they asked.“ Isn’t he the one the people honor with dances, singing,‘ Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”David heard these comments and was very afraid of what King Achish of Gath might do to him.So he pretended to be insane, scratching on doors and drooling down his beard.Finally, King Achish said to his men,“ Must you bring me a madman?We already have enough of them around here! Why should I let someone like this be my guest?”
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1 Samuel 16 13
So as David stood there among his brothers, Samuel took the flask of olive oil he had brought and anointed David with the oil. And the Spirit of the Lord came powerfully upon David from that day on. Then Samuel returned to Ramah.
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Numbers 14:3
“ Why is the Lord taking us to this country only to have us die in battle? Our wives and our little ones will be carried off as plunder! Wouldn’t it be better for us to return to Egypt?”
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1 Samuel 22 5
One day the prophet Gad told David,“ Leave the stronghold and return to the land of Judah.” So David went to the forest of Hereth.
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1 Samuel 27 10-1 Samuel 27 11
“ Where did you make your raid today?” Achish would ask. And David would reply,“ Against the south of Judah, the Jerahmeelites, and the Kenites.”No one was left alive to come to Gath and tell where he had really been. This happened again and again while he was living among the Philistines.
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Matthew 14:31
Jesus immediately reached out and grabbed him.“ You have so little faith,” Jesus said.“ Why did you doubt me?”
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Proverbs 3:5-6
Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding.Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take.
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1 Samuel 29 2-1 Samuel 30 3
As the Philistine rulers were leading out their troops in groups of hundreds and thousands, David and his men marched at the rear with King Achish.But the Philistine commanders demanded,“ What are these Hebrews doing here?” And Achish told them,“ This is David, the servant of King Saul of Israel. He’s been with me for years, and I’ve never found a single fault in him from the day he arrived until today.”But the Philistine commanders were angry.“ Send him back to the town you’ve given him!” they demanded.“ He can’t go into the battle with us. What if he turns against us in battle and becomes our adversary? Is there any better way for him to reconcile himself with his master than by handing our heads over to him?Isn’t this the same David about whom the women of Israel sing in their dances,‘ Saul has killed his thousands, and David his ten thousands’?”So Achish finally summoned David and said to him,“ I swear by the Lord that you have been a trustworthy ally. I think you should go with me into battle, for I’ve never found a single flaw in you from the day you arrived until today. But the other Philistine rulers won’t hear of it.Please don’t upset them, but go back quietly.”“ What have I done to deserve this treatment?” David demanded.“ What have you ever found in your servant, that I can’t go and fight the enemies of my lord the king?”But Achish insisted,“ As far as I’m concerned, you’re as perfect as an angel of God. But the Philistine commanders are afraid to have you with them in the battle.Now get up early in the morning, and leave with your men as soon as it gets light.”So David and his men headed back into the land of the Philistines, while the Philistine army went on to Jezreel.Three days later, when David and his men arrived home at their town of Ziklag, they found that the Amalekites had made a raid into the Negev and Ziklag; they had crushed Ziklag and burned it to the ground.They had carried off the women and children and everyone else but without killing anyone.When David and his men saw the ruins and realized what had happened to their families,
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1 Samuel 16 1
Now the Lord said to Samuel,“ You have mourned long enough for Saul. I have rejected him as king of Israel, so fill your flask with olive oil and go to Bethlehem. Find a man named Jesse who lives there, for I have selected one of his sons to be my king.”
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1 Samuel 25 30
When the Lord has done all he promised and has made you leader of Israel,
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2 Corinthians 7 5
When we arrived in Macedonia, there was no rest for us. We faced conflict from every direction, with battles on the outside and fear on the inside.