3/28/2024 0 Comments Keep calm and carry on in christ![]() ![]() We can speak the truth to Him and to ourselves something like this “Lord I’m upset about all this and etc… etc…, I know you hear me and already know these thoughts and fears but I want to tell you about them. He listens and more than that He helps because He cares for us. Keep Calm and Trust God and then what? Then we could open our Bibles, look up the words calm and trust, write down and memorize those scriptures, talk to the Lord about it, tell him everything that’s a care to us. What it does is encourage me to dig deeper. I’m sure it didn’t for believers in 1939 either. When I experience anxiety instead of a lack of calm, a short slogan is not going to cut it. Look let’s face it if you were going to lack calm a lockdown from a pandemic could get you there straight away. But I sure do like it when I find it! I purchased it five years ago and have referred to it often, more often during these last months that have been so lacking in calm. You won’t find that too often these days. It’s full of scripture and lots of sound common sense advice. I would definitely recommend it as a good quick read. I found a little booklet entitled the same by Jake & Keith Provance (Amazon). That was slogan put out by the British government in 1939 under threat of World War II.Īlmost a century later the slogan has been edited to have a number of tag lines after Keep Calm. ![]() All rights reserved.Posted on Jby Catey Stover in Victory Call I will protect him, because he knows my name.ġ5 When he calls to me, I will answer him Īll Scripture quotations and audio are from the ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®), copyright © 2001 by Crossway, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The young lion and the serpent you will trample underfoot.ġ4 “Because he holds fast to me in love, I will deliver him Lest you strike your foot against a stone.ġ3 You will tread on the lion and the adder Nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.ĩ Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place-ġ0 no evil shall be allowed to befall you,ġ1 For he will command his angels concerning you His faithfulness is a shield and buckler.ĥ You will not fear the terror of the night,Ħ nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, Will abide in the shadow of the Almighty.Ģ I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress,ģ For he will deliver you from the snare of the fowlerĪnd under his wings you will find refuge He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High Pray for a spiritual revival across the United States. To defend against these and other charges, the Bible instructs in Ephesians 6 to have at hand the “sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.” Then keep your trust always in the Lord.Īs you pray for Christians in Congress, ask that God would provide His divine protection over them and that they “in all circumstances take up the shield of faith“ to “extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one“ (Ephesians 6:16). Legal and political challenges have been levied against believers, with accusations of them being “white supremacists,” regardless of their race, or adherents of some other type of group that involves violence and racism, conspiracies, and insurrections. In certain circles, politicians and others have called those who follow Christ terrorists. But he had much greater confidence in the Lord for the continual protection of his life.Īttacks coming against believers in America today are not from arrows or cannons, yet they are just as capable of injury or worse. He had confidence in the protection that those places offered to him, his military, and the citizens of Israel. For those who took refuge there at the time, it would have seemed impenetrable protection.ĭavid knew of fortified strongholds, whether they be the fortresses of the recent discovery, of a fort or protected watchtower in countryside locations, or garrisons for his soldiers. ![]() The fortified structure within the city’s fortified perimeter had stone walls three feet thick. Two years ago, archaeologists in Israel reported finding a fortress in an area of the Golan Heights that dated back to the time of King David. ![]()
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