"Come to Me, all
you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and
lowly in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For
My yoke is easy and My burden is light.”
Matthew 11:28-30
"...we were
burdened beyond measure, above strength, so that we
despaired even of life. Yes, we had the sentence of death in
ourselves,
that we should not trust in ourselves but in God..."
2
Corinthians 1:8-9
“If
God is for us, who can be against us?
He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all,
how shall He not with Him also freely give us all things? Who shall
bring a charge against God’s elect? It is God who justifies. Who is
he who condemns? It is Christ who died, and furthermore is also
risen, who is even at the right hand of God, who also makes
intercession for us.
"Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation,
or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or
sword? ... Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors
through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death
nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things
present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other
created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God
which is in Christ Jesus our Lord."
Romans 8:31-39
"Whom have I
in heaven but You?
And there is none upon earth that I desire besides You.
My flesh and my heart fail;
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."
Psalm
73:25-26
"Therefore we do
not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing,
yet the inward man is being renewed day by day. For our light
affliction, which is but for a moment [as seen from God's
eternity], is working for us a far more exceeding and
eternal weight of glory, while we do not look at the things
which are seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the
things which are seen are temporary, but the things which are
not seen are eternal."
2 Corinthians
4:16-18
"Call upon Me in
the day of trouble: I will deliver you, and you shall
glorify me."
Psalm
50:15
"The Lord will
command His lovingkindness in the daytime,
And in the night His song shall be with me—
A prayer to the God of my life. ...
"Why are you
cast down, O my soul?
And why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God; For I shall yet praise Him... "
Psalm
42:8, 11
"You number my
wanderings;
Put my tears into Your bottle; Are they not in Your book?
When I cry out to You, then my enemies will turn back;
This I know, because God is for me....
In God I have put my trust; I will not be afraid.
What can man do to me?"
Psalm
56:8-11
"The everlasting
God, the Lord, the Creator of the ends of the earth,
Neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is
unsearchable.
He gives power to the weak, and to those
who have no might He increases strength.
...those who
wait on the Lord shall renew their strength;
They shall
mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not
be weary,
They shall walk and not faint."
Isaiah
40:28-31
"Remember the
word to Your servant, upon which You have caused me to hope.
This is
my comfort in my affliction, for Your word has
given me life."
Psalm
119:49-50
"I know, O Lord, that Your judgments are right,
And that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
Let,
I pray, Your merciful kindness be for my comfort,
According to Your word to Your servant."
Psalm
119:75-76
“The Spirit of the Lord God is upon Me, because the Lord
has anointed Me
To preach good tidings to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, to proclaim
liberty to the captives,
And the opening of the prison
to those who are bound;
To proclaim the acceptable year
of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God;
To
comfort all who mourn, to console those who mourn in
Zion,
To give them beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for
mourning,
The garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness;
That they may be called trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord, that He may be glorified.”
Isaiah
61:1-3
"As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort
you;
And you shall be comforted in Jerusalem.” Isaiah
66:13
"Fear not, for I
am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I
will strengthen you, yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.’"
Isaiah 41:10
"Now may our
Lord Jesus Christ Himself, and our God and Father, who has
loved us and given us everlasting consolation and good hope
by grace, comfort your hearts and
establish you in every good word and work."
2
Thessalonians 2:16-17
“Do not fear any
of those things which you are about to suffer. Indeed, the
devil is about to throw some of you into prison, that you
may be tested, and you will have tribulation ten days. Be
faithful until death, and I will give you the crown of life."
Revelation 2:10
"For the Lord
Himself will descend from heaven with a shout, with the
voice of an archangel, and with the trumpet of God. And the
dead in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive and
remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air. And thus we shall always be
with the Lord. Therefore comfort one another with these
words." 1
Thessalonians 4:16-18
False
comfort
“How then can
you comfort me with empty words, since falsehood
remains in your answers?”
Job 21:34
Trust
God and walk in His way
"Now may the
God of patience and comfort grant you to be like-minded
toward one another, according to Christ Jesus, that you may
with one mind and one mouth glorify the God and Father of
our Lord Jesus Christ."
Romans
15:4-6
"Therefore if
there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of
love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection
and mercy, fulfill my joy by being like-minded, having the
same love, being of one accord, of one mind. "
Philippians 2:1-2
"Blessed be the
God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of
mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all
our tribulation, that we may be able to comfort those who
are in any trouble, with the comfort with which we ourselves
are comforted by God.
For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our
consolation also abounds through Christ. Now if we are
afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which
is effective for enduring the same sufferings which we also
suffer. Or if we are comforted, it is for your consolation
and salvation. And our hope for you is steadfast, because we
know that as you are partakers of the sufferings, so also
you will partake of the consolation."
2
Corinthians 1:3-7
"Now may the
God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may
your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at
the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls you is
faithful, who also will do it."
1
Thessalonians 5:23-24
See also
Citizens of Heaven