I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation,
whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want.
I can do all things through Him who gives me strength."
Philippians 4:12-13
"I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken."
Psalm 16:8
Paul and David.
Two FIERCE men of the Lord.
David was named a man after God's own heart.
Paul wrote like half the New Testament.
You want to know how they did it?
How they were so strong, fierce, bold?
Stood firm in the faith?
They DEPENDED on the Lord.
.........That's it.
They gave up everything. And depended on the Lord.
With dependence, comes self-sacrifice.
With dependence, must come an undivided heart.
Unwilling to yield to any other.
......Dependence.
Paul says He knows how to be absolutely, completely, perfectly, incandescently content.
In every circumstance.
You know why He can say that?
Because he can do ALL things through Him, who gave Him all the strength He needed.
......Dependence.
David says that He sets the Lord ALWAYS before him. CONTINUALLY before him.
He says he can NEVER be shaken.
Why?
Because He set the Lord always. before him.
Complete and utter dependence.
To sit in the silence, and know that He's there.
To fall on my face, and cry my heart out till there's nothing left.
To know and believe, that He is really the only one who can ever bring me joy.
To see His restoration in my life, and know that it was HIM ALONE who has brought beauty from pain.
Lord,
I have wandered so far.
But I thank you that even though I have "wandered to the most distant lands under the heavens, from there You have gathered me up, and brought me back". Deuteronomy 30:4
You are my God.
There is no other.
Therefore, I give my everything to You.
And say I DEPEND on You.
Without You,
there IS no. life.
Forever His,
Rach
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