{"id":23979,"date":"2025-01-12T07:42:37","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T07:42:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/?p=23979"},"modified":"2025-01-12T07:42:37","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T07:42:37","slug":"the-lord-god-is-my-strength","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/2025\/01\/the-lord-god-is-my-strength\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord God Is My Strength"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cThe Lord God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hind\u2019s feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places.\u201d\u2014Habakkuk 3:19<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u2018The righteous are as bold as a lion.\u2019 The words of wisdom are not like the pithy sayings of the heathen, which merely describe states and things to which men never arrive nor enjoy; but they assure us, such and such has been, and still is the knowledge and experience of God\u2019s saints. So children of wisdom are taught their privileges, and their souls are drawn out in prayer and diligence, that they may also partake of the fulness of the blessings described. Whence is the boldness and courage of the righteous derived? See the young stripling David, how boldly he advances to the mighty giant Goliath, with an insignificant weapon in his hand, yet assured of success. For the faith of Omnipotence was in his heart, and these soul-encouraging words in his mouth: \u2018I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts.\u2019 1 Sam. 17:45.<\/p>\n

Faith receives all its courage and strength from its author Jesus. It is armed with Omnipotence; therefore he saith, \u2018all things are possible to him who believeth.\u2019 So Paul, \u2018I can do all things.\u2019 Why? Because he was a great apostle? No: prophets and apostles are all of one mind, even with the weakest believer: ‘It is Christ who strengthens me.\u2019 \u2018The Lord God is my strength.\u2019 Are our hearts weak and low, ready to sink and faint; are our graces upon the decline; are our enemies strong, and our troubles increased? To whom should we fly, but to our almighty Lord and Saviour. For this very end he makes his people\u2019s \u2018feet like hinds feet;\u2019 swift to run from danger, and to fly to him for safety; also \u2018to run the way of his commandments with great delight.\u2019<\/p>\n

Such happy souls shall also walk with composure and comfort upon the high places of safety and security, above the reach of their implacable foes. Oh those are sweet seasons, when we mount up with wings as eagles; soar aloft in the exercise of faith, dwell high in the contemplation of love, converse much with Jesus in glory, though on earth in the body. How safe are the people of God: how joyful should they be in faith, how confident in hope, how fervent in love! \u2018For they shall dwell on high, their defence shall be the munition of rocks; their bread shall be given them, and their waters shall be sure.\u2019 Isa. 33:16<\/p>\n

Salvation is for ever nigh<\/p>\n

The souls that fear and trust the Lord,\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And grace descending from on high,<\/p>\n

Fresh truth and glory shall afford.<\/p>\n

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\u2018The righteous are as bold as a lion.\u2019 The words of wisdom are not like the pithy sayings of the heathen, which merely describe states and things to which men never arrive nor enjoy; but they assure us, such and such has been, and still is the knowledge and experience of God\u2019s saints. So children of wisdom are taught their privileges, and their souls are drawn out in prayer and diligence, that they may also partake of the fulness of the blessings described. Whence is the boldness and courage of the righteous derived? See the young stripling David, how boldly he advances to the mighty giant Goliath, with an insignificant weapon in his hand, yet assured of success. For the faith of Omnipotence was in his heart, and these soul-encouraging words in his mouth: \u2018I come to thee in the name of the Lord of hosts.\u2019 1 Sam. 17:45.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":20656,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1571],"tags":[1220],"class_list":["post-23979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-william-mason","tag-spiritual-comfort"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23979"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23981,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23979\/revisions\/23981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.baptists.net\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}