Encouraging verses

[zingiber]

Hi everybody. I have been a bit down lately, feeling like when I prayed I was talking to thin air, so I have decided to try finding verses which are encouraging, helpful and uplifting. Here are a few:

Job 19:25-27 (This one's in Handel's Messiah)
Job 23:8-10
Lamentations 3:19-33
Romans 8:28-39
1 John 3:19,20

I have only just started, but I will be keeping a list. Could all of you give passages that you have found helpful? The thing is, I think a lot of us (if not all) see the bad verses and stress out over them, taking them out of proportion, while ignoring the beautiful and encouraging verses. Because of this, I think that it will be helpful to purposefully look at the encouraging parts of the Bible.

Thanks very much for your help.

May God bless you all.

 

[marcb]

Speaking truth in the midst of ocd is good.

I have found psalm 103 to be of great benefit.

Collosians 3:3 speaks volumes. We are "hidden in Christ." Paul Ephesians 1 talks about how we are holy and blameless.

It has dawned on me recently as I progress in my therapy:

1. What if I truly believed these thoughts are mere "symptoms" - egodystonic intrusive thoughts?
2. What if I lived with more confidence that I am "hidden in Christ" and took the gospel at its word, that I am a "new creation," "blameless" in God's site?
3. What if I relaxed and realized the only reason that # 2 applies to me is not any ability of my own to think or feel (or not think or not feel) a certain way, but because of the life, death, and ressurrection Jesus Christ?

God bless. Thank you all for your prayers. Marc