Strength
Celebrated
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Title: Strength Celebrated
------------------- Date: 5/29/2002
Keywords: "celebrate" "joy" "strength"
Welcome to eXXit, the web site designed to help you
stand strong in the face of sexual temptation.
Passage: Psalm 59:16-17*
16. But as for me, I shall sing of Thy
strength;
Yes, I shall joyfully sing of Thy lovingkindness in the
morning,
For Thou hast been my stronghold,
And a refuge in the
day of my distress.
17. O my strength, I will sing praises to
Thee;
For God is my stronghold, the God who shows me
lovingkindness.
Questions
1. What did the writer of these verses see God as
in his life?
2. What did God's strengthening work produce in
the writer's life?
Practical help
A few days ago we saw how the practice of sexual
sin brings sadness and feelings of heplessness to a persons life. This
passage reveals the joy and encouragement experienced as a person
humbly walks in God's strength. In your wrestling with temptation to
view Web porn do you ever feel like you need a stronghold that you can
run to?
The writer celebrated the life changing effect of God's
strengthening in his life. You can know this same joy as you turn to
the Lord Jesus for His strength. He will become your safe stronghold
against porn and any other area of sinful struggle.
Psalm 73:26*
My flesh and my heart may
fail,
But God is the strength of my heart and my portion
forever.
Psalm 118:14*
The Lord is my strength and
song,
And He has become my
salvation.
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*"Scripture taken from the NEW AMERICAN STANDARD
BIBLE®, © Copyright The Lockman Foundation 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971,
1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995. Used by permission."
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