“Safety”
Proverbs 21:31 “The horse is prepared against the day of battle: but safety is of the Lord.”
Psalm 4:8 “I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, Lord, only makest me dwell in safety.”
33:17 “An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.”
1st Thessalonians 5:3 “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them. . . .”
[They say “peace and safety” because that is what they desire. (and they do not have it!)]
Trust
Psalm 91:1-3 “I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust.”
Isaiah 57:1-13 “When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain. . . .”
Jeremiah 39:15-18 “For I will surely deliver thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee: because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith the Lord.”
Ruth 2:1-12 “The Lord recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.”
Matthew 23:37 “ O Jerusalem . . . how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!”
2nd Samuel 22:31 “As for God . . . he is a buckler to all them that trust in him.”
2nd Kings 18:1-5 “[Hezekiah] trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.”
National Issues
Isaiah 36 & 37 “And . . . I will defend this city.”
Deuteronomy 23:14 “For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.”
(See verses 15-19 for further insight into the Lord’s enemies: slavery, prostitution, and banking are condemned!)
“The Uncertain Future”
Genesis 12:1,4 “So Abram departed, as the Lord had spoken unto him. . . .”
James 2:23 “. . . Abraham believed God . . . and he was called the Friend of God.”
John 15:15-16 “. . . I have called you friends; for all things . . . I have made known unto you.”
Exodus 13:21-22 “And the Lord went before them . . . by day and night. . . .”
15:11-13 “Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them. . . .”
2nd Samuel 22:29 “For thou art my lamp, O Lord; and the Lord will lighten my darkness.”
Psalm 23 Praise the Lord Jesus, Amen!
“Insurance” & Social “Security”
Psalm 23 (Almost quoted) “The federal government is my shepherd; I shall not want. The human services division maketh me to lie down in perfect social conformity: the family planning center leadeth me into approved government goals. The Civil Liberties Union restoreth my rights to discover my true inner potential: federal guidelines leadeth me in the paths of politically correct behavior for the sake of my homosexual federal legislators. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of global enslavement, I will fear no evil: for my social worker is with me; workman’s compensation and welfare, they comfort me. Government food stamps preparest a table before me in the presence of my deductible dependents: medicaid anointest my head with acceptable risk pharmaceuticals; my entitlements runneth over. Surely my corporate pension and social security benefits shall follow me all the days of my federally mandated participation: and I will dwell in government housing for ever. World government without end, Amen.”
Jeremiah 17:5 “Thus saith the Lord; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man. . . .”
v. 7 “Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is.”
Job 27:8 “For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul? Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?”
2nd Samuel 22:1-4 “The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer . . . in him will I trust. . . .”
Psalm 31:23-24 “Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.”