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God’s Wonderful Promises – Comfort
God’s Wonderful Promises – Comfort
God’s promises for comfort in the Bible reflect His deep compassion and care for His people. Especially in times of hardship, sorrow, and suffering. Throughout Scripture, God assures His followers that He will provide peace, encouragement, and strength when they face trials.
In the Old Testament, God comforts His people with words of reassurance and hope. For example, in Isaiah 40:1, He says, “Comfort, comfort my people,” signaling His desire to bring healing and restoration to Israel in their times of distress. Similarly, Psalm 34:18 offers comfort with the promise, “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.”
In the New Testament, God’s comfort is often associated with the presence and work of the Holy Spirit. In 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Paul writes, “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.” This highlights that God’s comfort not only helps individuals but also equips them to comfort others.
Most profoundly, in Matthew 11:28, Jesus offers a direct promise of rest and comfort to those burdened by life’s difficulties: “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Ultimately, God’s promises for comfort are a reminder that He is always present with His children. Offering comfort, peace, and the strength needed to endure life’s challenges and the spiritual battles we are in.
God’s Wonderful Promises – Comfort
In Part 1 of God’s Wonderful Promises we studied God’s perfect faithfulness. And how God’s promises are actually guarantees because of His perfect faithfulness.
In Part 2 we studied God’s wonderful promises for the gift of eternal life. And in Part 3 we studied God’s wonderful promises for forgiveness.
Then in Part 4 of God’s Wonderful Promises we studied some of the many promises about fear. Fear can paralyze a believer’s faith and inhibit your fellowship with God. And fear can prevent you from faithfully obeying and following God’s perfect will for your life.
Now we will continue to search God’s Word and find His promises about comfort. There will be some difficult times in our life when we need God’s comfort. Time when only God can truly bring comfort and peace in our heart. And He will never fail to do this.
God’s Wonderful Promises – Comfort
God Promises Comfort
There are many promises in the Bible about God’s comfort. Even when God sends punishment and discipline for His people’s sins, He eventually sends His comfort, once He has accomplished what He needed to.
Isaiah 51:3 – “Indeed, the Lord will comfort Zion; He will comfort all her waste places. And her wilderness He will make like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord. Joy and gladness will be found in her, Thanksgiving and sound of a melody.”
Jeremiah 31:13 – “Then the virgin will rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old, together. For I will turn their mourning into joy and will comfort them and give them joy for their sorrow.”
Isaiah 66:13 – “As one whom his mother comforts, so I will comfort you; And you will be comforted in Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 57:18 – “I have seen his ways, but I will heal him;
I will lead him and restore comfort to him and to his mourners.”
More Of God’s Promises For Comfort
Zachariah 1:17 – “Again, proclaim, saying, ‘Thus says the Lord of hosts, “My cities will again overflow with prosperity, and the Lord will again comfort Zion and again choose Jerusalem.”
Isaiah 25:8 – “He will swallow up death for all time, and the Lord God will wipe tears away from all faces. And He will remove the reproach of His people from all the earth. For the Lord has spoken.”
Psalm 71:21 – “May You increase my greatness and turn to comfort me.”
Psalm 94:19 – “When my anxious thoughts multiply within me, Your consolations delight my soul.”
God’s Wonderful Promises – Comfort
Job 15:11 – “Are the consolations of God too small for you, even the word spoken gently with you ?”
Isaiah 51:12 – “I, even I, am He who comforts you. Who are you that you are afraid of man who dies and of the son of man who is made like grass.”
Isaiah 61:2 – “To proclaim the favorable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance of our God; To comfort all who mourn.”
Isaiah 40:1 – “Comfort, O comfort My people,” says your God.”
God’s Promises Of Comfort In The New Testament
Matthew 5:4 – “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.”
John 14:16 – “I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever”
2 Corinthians 1:3-4 – “Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.”
2 Corinthians 1:5 – “For just as the sufferings of Christ are ours in abundance, so also our comfort is abundant through Christ.”
God’s Wonderful Promises – Comfort
More Of God’s Promises Of Comfort – New Testament
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 – “Now may our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who has loved us and given us eternal comfort and good hope by grace, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good word and deed.”
2 Corinthians 1:6 – “But if we are afflicted, it is for your comfort and salvation; or if we are comforted, it is for your comfort, which is effective in the patient enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer.”
Revelation 7:17 – “for the Lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd, and will guide them to springs of the water of life; and God will wipe every tear from their eyes.”
Revelation 21:4 – “and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.”
When you need comfort in your life, God is always there to provide it. Even when God allows difficult circumstances, for His glory and for His divine purpose in your life, He will be there to comfort and strengthen you. And to encourage you.
Run to Jesus and His Word when you find yourself in these situations. And lean on His Holy Spirit for comfort, strength, patience, perseverance…
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