Like
the Bruce Springstein song Dancing In The Dark says, "can't start
a fire, sittin around trying to heal a broken heart, can't start a fire
without a spark; can't start a fire worrying about your little world fallin'
apart". Such is a life devoid
of enthusiasm.
With no fire, you have no internal encouragement.
The good
God's power is constructive,
helpful, encouraging. The bad God's power is debilitating.toward
destruction of all good and all humans, in the dark side's attempt
to prove to God, the Creator-Father of all, that creation of humans was
a mistake. Why the dark side
is out to prove this.
Isaiah
61:3."...to
give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment
of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they might be called trees
of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that He might be glorified.(re
'glorified', He's in you when you are of the
high consciousness that He is and if this be your expression in life,
it's because you are of Him in this way and this then reflects on Him,
so He is glorified in you)." Psalms
104:16 "The trees of the Lord are full of sap.(they
have something they are willing to give
to others for themselves which keeps them going);
the cedars of Lebanon, which He has planted."
It is a lot easier to live
happily here when one is sure that He is going to be
resurrected,
that
death has no sting! and that Creator-God
is always with you.
It is a lot easier to live
happily here when one is sure He'll be looked
after:.Romans
8:37-39.
Romans
8:28,31-33 "And we know that all things work together for good to them
that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose...What
shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against
us? He that spared
not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not
with him also freely give us all
things? Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect?
It is God that justifies."
2Corinthians
2:14 "Now thanks be unto God, which always causes us to triumph
in Christ.(?).and
makes manifest
the savour
of his knowledge by us in every place."
Proverbs
15:15 "All the days of the afflicted.(original
'depressed in mind or circumstances and in need of help').are
evil.(or
'distressing.hard
days'); but he that is of a merry
heart has a continual feast."
Psalms
18:28,29 "For you will light my candle. The Lord my God will enlighten
my darkness. For by you I have run through a troop and by my God have I
leaped over a wall."
Hebrews
13:6 "So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper and I will not
fear what man shall do unto me."
Luke
10:19 "...nothing shall by any means hurt you."
Psalms
27:1 "<A Psalm of David.> 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?"
Psalms
18:16-19 "He sent from above, he took me, he drew me out of many waters.
He delivered me from my strong enemy and from them which hated me, for
they were too strong for me. They prevented me in the day of my calamity,
but the Lord was my stay. He brought me forth also into a large place;
he delivered me because he delighted in me."
Psalms
31:24 "Be of good courage and he shall strengthen your heart, all you
that hope in the Lord."
Psalms
36:9 "For with you is the fountain of life. In your
light we see light."
Proverbs
17:22 "A merry heart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit
drys the bones."
Romans
14:19 "Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace
and things wherewith one may edify.(build
up {why?},
encourage, give courage and strength to).another."
What are those things?.Acts
3:16; Romans 15:1-7; 2Corinthians
10:8.
1Thessalonians
5:11 "Wherefore comfort yourselves together and edify one another....."
The Lord
wants us to be encouraged and strengthened:.Ephesians
3:16 "That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory,
to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the
inner man." Deuteronomy 11:25
"There shall no man be able to stand before you, for the Lord your God
shall lay the fear of you and the dread
of you upon all the land that you shall tread upon..."
Psalms
31:24 "Be of good courage.(make
a decision to be strong;."The
most obviously important part of courage is the courage to step out in
the face of uncertainty."....Brian
Tracy).and
he shall strengthen your heart, all you that hope
in the Lord.".In
the realm
of the
Soul is uncertainty, but no need for apprehension,
as the power is there to effect outcomes:.Romans
8:28.
Isaiah
35:4 "Say to them that are of a fearful heart, Be strong, fear not.
Behold, your God will come with vengeance, even God with a recompence.
He will come and save you."
"The courage to be is rooted
in the God who appears when the God of anxiety
and doubt has disappeared."....Paul
Tillich.(tameri.com)
Psalms
145:14,18-20 "The Lord upholds all that fall and raises up all those
that be bowed down..... The Lord is near.(how
near?).unto
all them that call upon him, to all that call upon him in truth.(not
like the ancient hypocritical.Pharisees:.Matthew
23 24-32). He will fulfill the
desire of those that fear.(what
does 'fear' mean in the Bible?).him.
He also will hear their cry and will save them. The Lord preserves all
those that love him....."
Psalms
146:8 "The Lord opens the eyes of the blind. The Lord raises them that
are bowed down. The Lord loves the righteous.('maybe
that's why I feel so alone, because I'm not righteous' some may think;
you just gotta
know what the word 'righteous'.really.means
and it's not what you think)."
Psalms
147:3 "He heals the broken in
heart and binds up their wounds."
To be renewed, we need to
focus
on good things:.Psalms
103:5.
Ask for a double
portion of the nature of this Great Infinite Intelligence, called God's
Holy
Spirit in the Holy Bible. Why not? Elisha
asked for a double portion of the spirit, the power, the attitude, that
his mentor.Elijah
had. And got it! Ask for wisdom
and get it too!
When the law of the Creator,
the
law of love and compassion.(not
the Mosaic Law).is
in one's heart, things go well for an individual:.Psalms
37:31.
The Lord wants us to see
hope and be enthusiastic
even amidst.severe
trials:.Psalms
112:4,7.