Come Thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love
Here I raise my Ebenezer
Here by Thy great help I’ve come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood
Come Thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love
Here I raise my Ebenezer
Here by Thy great help I’ve come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood
(Precious blood)
We are comforted in our afflictions so that we can be a comfort to others going through the same thing. It is so hard to be vulnerable in our trials and hardships in life but the church community needs us… those outside the church need to hear what God has done in our lives!
4who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
2 Corinthians 1:3-5 All praise to the God and Father of our Master, Jesus the Messiah! Father of all mercy! God of all healing counsel! He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us. We have plenty of hard times that come from following the Messiah, but no more so than the good times of his healing comfort — we get a full measure of that, too.
I have lived a very hard life and attempted suicide many times now tonight one of my 16 yo employees confided that her parent was an emotionally abusive alcoholic and that he made her feel worthless and suicidal, what an opportunity to minister I was given! Then to read this verse!! Praise Jesus He overcomes all!
2 Corinthians 2:6-7 “same” “share”~You aren’t alone. God is with you through it all. To guide you. To love you. To be there when no one else is. He goes through everything you go through. He is with you in your pain and suffering. He’s with you in your joy and comforting moments. There is no greater love than that.
What strikes me the most is how BADLY the Israelites wanted to be just like every nation around them and have a king, completely unwilling to accept that they are different, set apart, led by the One true king. How many times in my life do I give up God’s best for a taste of what “everyone else us doing”? Humbling.
7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.” How often do I reject God from His rightful place as King and Lord of my life to allow some far lesser substitute–myself–to rule and reign? Saul is a perfect picture of the flesh/self. He can start out strong, just as I can put my head down and get through for awhile. Eventually though, without the Spirit, I will run empty and end up angry and defeated. Can’t wait to keep reading on through 1 Samuel!
I dont know why but when ever i read about Israel, i feel as if they are us. Israel turned against God many times, same as we do. They wanted a king to be like other countries, we want to be like others because we want to fit in. I realize that this is not just a story of the past but something we should learn from
1 Samuel 9– God always has a purpose and plan for our lives. Verse 21- God uses the weak and humble in spirit. These few things stuck out to me- may I trust you Lord!
This Samuel passage is so sad having so recently read through the Pentateuch. The things that the people were begging for in their desire for a king are the kings God promised to do for them and did for them as they conquered Israel. Them Samuel warns them of what a king will do and what a king will take from them and it is literally what they see already giving the lord. They want to replace God in so many ways and it’s heartbreaking.
But, then I realize I do that to. I allow my desires to take my allegiance from God to something earthly to be satisfied in what I want. I don’t want what’s best. I want what’s easiest. As c.s. Lewis said, we are too easily satisfied. That’s why the things of this world take over. I think I know better and I can’t see the full picture. It makes me pray for wisdom to see what God wants and not just what I want as I pursue the future…
1 Sam 8:7 stuck out to me; “they have not rejected you, but me.” This struck a cord with me as a leader and a disciple. I’ve always felt that in this walk I shouldn’t take things so “personally”, and I’m glad to finally read some confirmation of that in the word. Especially when it comes to sharing truth, teaching, and leading I have to remind myself that it’s not always about me…but it could be the Him in me.
1Samuel 8:1-3. Samuel star eyed so well and then his sons did not follow . So sad, especially after Samuel witnessed Eli’s sons do the same… May we all finish strong, my sisters!
“19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.””
This stopped me in my tracks today. Just another example of how much I am like the Israelites. They have God, the most high king over them and yet they literally beg for an earthly king. How much easier does it feel to have a tangible earthly king to follow? Even their cry to be like the other nations with a king to lead them out into battle…just like me. “But Lord, my friends have this or that, more money or successes or community or support….give me that! I want that! Then I will have these earthly things to rely on and everything will be better!” All the while I turn and reject God as my king, my father, my provider, my comfort, my healer, my savior. He offers me more than I can imagine and yet my paradigm only allows me to see the things I think I need on earth. I am so confined to my earthly perspective that it is nearly impossible to see what He offers and so with eyes clamped shut and fists balled up tight I cry and beg for the scraps when my king offers me a banquet table, missing all the He wants me to have. Lord, change my heart. Open my eyes to see past my earthly perspective. When I feel my heart cry in desperation, remind me that though I cannot see it all, your power and goodness is always available to me.
1 Samuel 9:21-23 God does not call the equipped, He equips the called – I can relate to Saul in this passage where I question God and think, “Me, Lord? Are you sure? I don’t have any of the skills needed to do what you’ve asked.” But God uses the willing. Oh great reminder…and from the OT – I usually have a hard time following along but I totally want to read tomorrow’s today!
1 Samuel 8: 4-8 makes me think about how often that we can reject God his ways and instructions in favor for the world and it’s ways. all in the name of being like ‘everyone else’. We know that God has called us to stand out and be different. Especially as women of God, we live in a time where biblical womanhood is looked at as being weak and those who practice such teachings are seen as closed minded and old fashioned. everyday the world is throwing something at us that says we should be like worldly women, and yes it’s tempting at times, especially when even other Christians are following the world. However, we can’t win the world trying to be like the world. We have to be the difference even it if means being singled out. that’s why Paul says in verse 5 “For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.”
so as we go into the weekend I pray that each of us are given the strength to be the women of God that he’s called us to be and not women of this world. That we lay up our treasures in Heaven and not this earth and that we lean into Christ comfort and in each other and not compromise
Oops….let’s try that again. Anyone else feel convicted as the Israelites were begging for a king? Don’t we all do this? Plead with God for things that WE think will make our lives so much better. I can think of plenty of times where God let me have what I wanted and it was definitely not what I needed.
I loved reading this passage of 2 Corinthians. It is such a beautiful thing to be comforted by God and for me this was an eye opener that we are supposed to use that comfort to help comfort others in their times of need.
I know what you mean. I feel that often I get impatient with God, and he does end up providing me with something when I take action on my own. But it’s when I wait on God that the best is provided. It’s so tragic to recognize that our willfulness is a destructive force in our lives, and prevents us from fully seeing God’s amazing blessings and works in our lives.
As a nation we are doing the same thing today. We have convinced ourselves that the presidential candidate of our choice is THE ONE who is going to fix this country. As a nation we need to repent and ask the LORD to be our leader – and we need to follow His ways. I’m convinced we’re in this mess because we’re looking for leadership in the wrong places … and God is basically giving us what we’ve asked for. :(
Anyone else looking forward to continuing Saul’s story tomorrow? For the first time, I am actually excited to read what comes next in the OT! (Honestly, I usually have a hard time getting through a lot of it without my study bible)
Happy Friday ladies!
Come Thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love
Here I raise my Ebenezer
Here by Thy great help I’ve come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood
Come Thou fount of every blessing
Tune my heart to sing Thy grace
Streams of mercy never ceasing
Call for songs of loudest praise
Teach me some melodious sonnet
Sung by flaming tongues above
Praise the mount, I’m fixed upon it
Mount of Thy redeeming love
Here I raise my Ebenezer
Here by Thy great help I’ve come
And I hope by Thy good pleasure
Safely to arrive at home
Jesus sought me when a stranger
Wandering from the fold of God
He to rescue me from danger
Interposed His precious blood
(Precious blood)
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9Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
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These passages are so fitting for life today! Sadly, we as a nation have not learned much yet. Help us Father God!
We are comforted in our afflictions so that we can be a comfort to others going through the same thing. It is so hard to be vulnerable in our trials and hardships in life but the church community needs us… those outside the church need to hear what God has done in our lives!
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4who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.
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Both stories really show how God listens to his people, and often give us what we ask for in his name
7Our hope for you is unshaken, for we know that as you share in our sufferings, you will also share in our comfort.-ellie
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Lord help us to behave in the world with simplicity and godly sincerity as we work for the joy of others to stand firm in their faith.
2 Corinthians 1:3-5 All praise to the God and Father of our Master, Jesus the Messiah! Father of all mercy! God of all healing counsel! He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us. We have plenty of hard times that come from following the Messiah, but no more so than the good times of his healing comfort — we get a full measure of that, too.
I have lived a very hard life and attempted suicide many times now tonight one of my 16 yo employees confided that her parent was an emotionally abusive alcoholic and that he made her feel worthless and suicidal, what an opportunity to minister I was given! Then to read this verse!! Praise Jesus He overcomes all!
So grateful for the chance the Lord gave for you to minister with your own testimony! Thank you for sharing!
– Stormye
2 Corinthians- I didn’t understand 17-19 (the yeas and nays)
That was a confusing passage for me as well
love this study… I really struggle reading my bible in depth and this app truly helps me!
2 Corinthians 2:6-7 “same” “share”~You aren’t alone. God is with you through it all. To guide you. To love you. To be there when no one else is. He goes through everything you go through. He is with you in your pain and suffering. He’s with you in your joy and comforting moments. There is no greater love than that.
2 Corinthians 1:6-7. My bad on the typo.
What strikes me the most is how BADLY the Israelites wanted to be just like every nation around them and have a king, completely unwilling to accept that they are different, set apart, led by the One true king. How many times in my life do I give up God’s best for a taste of what “everyone else us doing”? Humbling.
May I tear down all of my idols so that I may truly give the Lord all of my heart!
7 And the Lord said to Samuel, “Obey the voice of the people in all that they say to you, for they have not rejected you, but they have rejected me from being king over them.” How often do I reject God from His rightful place as King and Lord of my life to allow some far lesser substitute–myself–to rule and reign? Saul is a perfect picture of the flesh/self. He can start out strong, just as I can put my head down and get through for awhile. Eventually though, without the Spirit, I will run empty and end up angry and defeated. Can’t wait to keep reading on through 1 Samuel!
I dont know why but when ever i read about Israel, i feel as if they are us. Israel turned against God many times, same as we do. They wanted a king to be like other countries, we want to be like others because we want to fit in. I realize that this is not just a story of the past but something we should learn from
1 Samuel 9– God always has a purpose and plan for our lives. Verse 21- God uses the weak and humble in spirit. These few things stuck out to me- may I trust you Lord!
This Samuel passage is so sad having so recently read through the Pentateuch. The things that the people were begging for in their desire for a king are the kings God promised to do for them and did for them as they conquered Israel. Them Samuel warns them of what a king will do and what a king will take from them and it is literally what they see already giving the lord. They want to replace God in so many ways and it’s heartbreaking.
But, then I realize I do that to. I allow my desires to take my allegiance from God to something earthly to be satisfied in what I want. I don’t want what’s best. I want what’s easiest. As c.s. Lewis said, we are too easily satisfied. That’s why the things of this world take over. I think I know better and I can’t see the full picture. It makes me pray for wisdom to see what God wants and not just what I want as I pursue the future…
Amen!
1 Sam 8:7 stuck out to me; “they have not rejected you, but me.” This struck a cord with me as a leader and a disciple. I’ve always felt that in this walk I shouldn’t take things so “personally”, and I’m glad to finally read some confirmation of that in the word. Especially when it comes to sharing truth, teaching, and leading I have to remind myself that it’s not always about me…but it could be the Him in me.
1Samuel 8:1-3. Samuel star eyed so well and then his sons did not follow . So sad, especially after Samuel witnessed Eli’s sons do the same… May we all finish strong, my sisters!
“19 But the people refused to listen to Samuel. “No!” they said. “We want a king over us. 20 Then we will be like all the other nations, with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our battles.””
This stopped me in my tracks today. Just another example of how much I am like the Israelites. They have God, the most high king over them and yet they literally beg for an earthly king. How much easier does it feel to have a tangible earthly king to follow? Even their cry to be like the other nations with a king to lead them out into battle…just like me. “But Lord, my friends have this or that, more money or successes or community or support….give me that! I want that! Then I will have these earthly things to rely on and everything will be better!” All the while I turn and reject God as my king, my father, my provider, my comfort, my healer, my savior. He offers me more than I can imagine and yet my paradigm only allows me to see the things I think I need on earth. I am so confined to my earthly perspective that it is nearly impossible to see what He offers and so with eyes clamped shut and fists balled up tight I cry and beg for the scraps when my king offers me a banquet table, missing all the He wants me to have. Lord, change my heart. Open my eyes to see past my earthly perspective. When I feel my heart cry in desperation, remind me that though I cannot see it all, your power and goodness is always available to me.
Well said. Thank you.
Oh so good!
Let this be the cry of all our hearts!
Well said. Let this be the prayer of all of us. So hard to look past the natural into the spiritual side. Open the eyes of our hearts, Lord.
1 Samuel 9:21-23 God does not call the equipped, He equips the called – I can relate to Saul in this passage where I question God and think, “Me, Lord? Are you sure? I don’t have any of the skills needed to do what you’ve asked.” But God uses the willing. Oh great reminder…and from the OT – I usually have a hard time following along but I totally want to read tomorrow’s today!
1 Samuel 8: 4-8 makes me think about how often that we can reject God his ways and instructions in favor for the world and it’s ways. all in the name of being like ‘everyone else’. We know that God has called us to stand out and be different. Especially as women of God, we live in a time where biblical womanhood is looked at as being weak and those who practice such teachings are seen as closed minded and old fashioned. everyday the world is throwing something at us that says we should be like worldly women, and yes it’s tempting at times, especially when even other Christians are following the world. However, we can’t win the world trying to be like the world. We have to be the difference even it if means being singled out. that’s why Paul says in verse 5 “For as we share abundantly in Christ’s sufferings, so through Christ we share abundantly in comfort too.”
so as we go into the weekend I pray that each of us are given the strength to be the women of God that he’s called us to be and not women of this world. That we lay up our treasures in Heaven and not this earth and that we lean into Christ comfort and in each other and not compromise
Happy Friday Ladies!
Amen to that!
Thank you Joy!
Thank you amen
Love love love this :) lean on Christ and not on Compromise!
Oops….let’s try that again. Anyone else feel convicted as the Israelites were begging for a king? Don’t we all do this? Plead with God for things that WE think will make our lives so much better. I can think of plenty of times where God let me have what I wanted and it was definitely not what I needed.
Agreed!!! It seems so obvious that it is the wrong choice when you read about it here, yet we make the same mistake in our own lives.
I loved reading this passage of 2 Corinthians. It is such a beautiful thing to be comforted by God and for me this was an eye opener that we are supposed to use that comfort to help comfort others in their times of need.
I know what you mean. I feel that often I get impatient with God, and he does end up providing me with something when I take action on my own. But it’s when I wait on God that the best is provided. It’s so tragic to recognize that our willfulness is a destructive force in our lives, and prevents us from fully seeing God’s amazing blessings and works in our lives.
As a nation we are doing the same thing today. We have convinced ourselves that the presidential candidate of our choice is THE ONE who is going to fix this country. As a nation we need to repent and ask the LORD to be our leader – and we need to follow His ways. I’m convinced we’re in this mess because we’re looking for leadership in the wrong places … and God is basically giving us what we’ve asked for. :(
Anyone else feel the conviction as Israelites and
Anyone else looking forward to continuing Saul’s story tomorrow? For the first time, I am actually excited to read what comes next in the OT! (Honestly, I usually have a hard time getting through a lot of it without my study bible)
Happy Friday ladies!
I was thinking the same thing. I almost skipped ahead to read tomorrow’s passages already.;)
Me too!
Yes! Cliffhanger!