Whatever is going on in your life—good, difficult, challenging, promising—whatever you are facing, I want to encourage you as we prepare for the holiday season. Take the time to meditate on these promises and thoughts, look up the scriptures, read, pray, and let them speak to your heart and mind.
God is sovereign. All authority and all power are His. —Matthew 28:18
Nothing takes Him by surprise. All circumstances are His servants. He knows the end from the beginning. —Psalm 119:91, Isaiah 46:9-10
His Word is forever settled in heaven. —Psalm 119:89
Romans 8:28-29 is still in our Bible. He does all things for our good and His glory is to conform us to the likeness of Jesus. There is no circumstance, person, place, or time that the blood of Jesus does not cover. The one who spared not His own Son will freely give us all His best things. —Romans 8:31-32
He promises He is for us, and nothing can separate us from His love. That was settled on the cross. —Romans 8:35-39
God’s loving-kindness never ceases. His compassion and great faithfulness never fail. They are new every morning. —Lamentations 3:22-23
He supplies all our needs by His riches in Christ Jesus. — Philippians 4:19
He knows and cares. The very hairs of our head are numbered. —Matthew 10:30
He promises that He is God of all comfort, Father of mercies. —2 Corinthians 1:3-4
He is able to supply His abundant grace to us in any situation so that in all things, at all times, we have all of His sufficient grace we need for encouragement and hope. —2 Corinthians 9:8
He is able to show His perfect power in our weakness. —2 Corinthians 12:9-10
We can know with certainty that He is able to guard what we have entrusted to Him. —2 Timothy 1:12
He promises that He is our strength, our shield, our strong tower, our refuge, our hope, our joy, our peace, our everything, our all. —Psalm 18:1-3, Colossians 3:11
He promises to renew our strength as we wait on Him. —Isaiah 40:31.
He promises that He never leaves us nor forsakes us. He is with us, a very present help. — Hebrews 13:5-6.
He never goes back on a promise. —Joshua 21:45
He has a heart that tears can touch and invites us to climb up in the Father’s lap and cry. —Hebrews 4:15, Psalm 56:8
He gives gladness instead of mourning and praise instead of fainting. Weeping endures for a night, but He gives the joy that comes in the morning. —Isaiah 61:3, Psalm 30:5.
