and sent Timothy, our brother and God's servant in the Good News of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith; (WEB KJV ASV BBE WBS YLT) 1 Thessalonians 4:18 2:16-17). Consider the following verses: “Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort (y’na-kha-MOO-nee, ינחמני) me” (Ps. He is a very present help in trouble (Ps. 'As one whom his mother sighs with, so I the Lord will sigh with you' - now that's comfort! That word 'comfort' is the word 'paraklete' (sp?) I had mentioned to Neil months ago that I believed the Lord wanted us to fly to New York City to thank this lover of Israel for blessing Jewish Jewels all these years. A devastating experience - and anybody that preaches knows that when you preach at a funeral, and when you try and comfort those who are mourning, you take a bit of that home with you, you don't leave it there. Tisha B’Av is the saddest day in the Jewish year. “‘Comfort, yes, comfort My people!’ says your God” (Isa. He wasn't at this moment, in this description, fearing death - but he was fearing what most people fear: life! It's not in harmony to God, it breaks God's heart! “This is my comfort (ne-KHA-ma-tee, נחמתי) in my affliction, for Your word has given me life” (Ps. God is your God, and He is the God who comforts! With heart, and hand, and voices. Do you see that word 'comfort'? It best expresses the source of the comfort that I feel today: “No matter what season of life we’re in, we can count on one thing never to change: God’s unfailing love. It's the combination of two Latin words to mean 'strength', that's what it means! I sensed the fulfillment of two verses in this adventure with Abba. Let's read again just verse 3, and it's this phrase that impressed itself upon my heart: 'The God of all comfort'. For as the sufferings of Christ abound in us, so our consolation also aboundeth by Christ. Trust in a Good God who longs to comfort us. The neonatal ward of the hospital had been hit by a missile. In whom His world rejoices'. 'Comfort ye, comfort ye Israel, for God's going to forgive you - and when He forgives you He'll give you double forgiveness for all your sin'. If you're not saved today, that's the only explanation - it doesn't make sense! She despaired of this thing! It means what we began our meeting with today: 'crushing pressure'. You have to see it in the Spirit, you have to see that there is a God behind these men and women. We thought He would be the one who would lead us into that promised kingdom of blessing and power upon the earth, but He says He's going! We thought He would be the one that would free us. 'As one whom his mother comforteth, so will I comfort you', do you know what it really means? WMBC, a television station in NYC, has been airing Jewish Jewels for 21 years. He said to old Israel in Isaiah chapter 40: 'Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Do you see the parallel? 'From a distance everything's in harmony' - is it? You have wept with us, fulfilling Romans 12:15 in a very touching display of godly compassion. There is so much more; I highly recommend Mr. Keller’s book if you do not already have it. Billy Bray, the Cornish evangelist, used to say: 'If they were to put me in a barrel I would shout glory to God through the bung-hole!'. Because he knew his God, that's how it's possible. Child of God, listen: the Father of mercies, and the God of all compassion, is looking down today and He is sighing with you. What Paul is doing is he's using the beast of burden as an illustration, like the donkey, or the camel, weighed down with all its cargo travelling along the road. It felt like it was just too much for me to bear, I couldn't handle it!'. Subscribe to our email updates to receive bi-monthly notifications of new content. A sympathetic strength, for sympathy can weaken us, can't it? The root meaning of that that word is 'to sigh', to sigh. Lauderdale, FL 33345. I will come to you and I will strengthen you, I will send another comforter, the Holy Spirit'. And whether we be afflicted, it is for your consolation and salvation, which is effectual in the enduring of the same sufferings which we also suffer: or whether we be comforted, it is for your consolation and salvation. In other words, he's saying: 'The Lord came to me, and this thing that the Lord let me go through, I was thinking it was far beyond my ability to endure.

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