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Walking in God’s Strength Through It All

By Warren B. Smith

Throughout the Bible, we are told to rely on God’s strength and not our own. And throughout life—especially in times of trouble—the Bible makes it clear that God is our refuge and strength (Psalm 46:1). God tells the apostle Paul that His grace is sufficient in all circumstances because He will provide His strength in our weakness (2 Corinthians 12:9). And with obvious irony, Paul makes the point that even if God had any weakness—which He doesn’t—that weakness would be stronger than the strongest strength of men (1 Corinthians 1:25). The bottom line is that to get through this life in a manner that is pleasing and glorifying to God, we need to solely rely on God’s powerful and perfect strength. It’s in that strength that we will be able to stand, even in the darkest days.

We rest on thee, our Shield and our Defender!
We go not forth alone against the foe;
strong in thy strength, safe in thy keeping tender,
we rest on thee, and in thy name we go.
—Edith G. Cherry (1872-1897)

Jesus Loves Me

Many of us first heard about God’s strength in the lyrics of the children’s song Jesus Loves Me. It was written in 1860 by Anna B. Warner:

Jesus loves me! This I know,
For the Bible tells me so;
Little ones to Him belong,
They are weak, but He is strong.

Be Strong in the Lord

The apostle Paul exhorted the Ephesians to be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might so they could stand against the wiles of the Devil.

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. (Ephesians 6:10-11)

Not Our Own Strength

We are often reminded that our own strength is futile in the ongoing spiritual battle. We need God’s strength; It is He who must win the battle.

My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ’s sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong. (2 Corinthians 12:9-10)

God Our Strength

God’s strength is also the main theme of Fanny Crosby’s 1882 hymn, God Our Strength, Enthroned Above:

God of our strength, enthroned above, the source of life, the fount of love, O let devotion’s sacred flame our souls awake to praise thy name. God of our strength, we wait on thee, our sure defense forever be.

When we come to recognize our weakness, we learn to call upon God to perfect His strength in that weakness. His grace is sufficient for us, and the fact that His strength is available to us is echoed throughout the Bible. The following Scriptures declare the grace and power of our strong and mighty God and our continual need for His victorious strength in our daily lives. May we let these Scriptures change us so that we truly walk in the strength of the Lord.

THE LORD’S STRENGTH

The Lord Is Strong

O Lord God of hosts, who is a strong Lord like unto thee? (Psalm 89:8)

Who is this King of glory? The Lord strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle. (Psalm 24:8)

Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name. (Jeremiah 50:34)

The Lord is Our Strong Refuge

I am as a wonder unto many; but thou art my strong refuge. (Psalm 71:7)

The Lord Is Our Strong Tower

For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy. (Psalm 61:3)

The Lord Is Our Strong Rock

Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. (Psalm 31:2)

The Lord’s Strength

Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds. (Psalm 68:34)

Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power. (Psalm 21:13)

The Lord Is Clothed With Strength

The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved. (Psalm 93:1)

God Declares His Strength

Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people. (Psalm 77:14)

We Declare His Strength

And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage. (Exodus 13:14)

We will not hide them from their children, showing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done. (Psalm 78:4)

Strength and Gladness Reside With the Lord

Glory and honour are in his presence; strength and gladness are in his place. (1 Chronicles 16:27)

Show God’s Strength When You Are Old

Now also when I am old and greyheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have showed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. (Psalm 71:18)

The Lord Our Strength

The Lord Is Our Strength

I will love thee, O Lord, my strength. (Psalm 18:1)

The Lord Is Our Strength and Our Power

God is my strength and power: And he maketh my way perfect. He maketh my feet like hinds’ feet: and setteth me upon my high places. (2 Samuel 22:33-34)

The Lord Is Our Strength and Our Light

The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? (Psalm 27:1)

The Lord Is Our Strength and Defense

Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy. (Psalm 59:17)

The Lord Is Our Strength and Our Refuge

In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. (Psalm 62:7)

The Lord Is Our Strength and Our Fortress

O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction. (Jeremiah 16:19)

The Lord Is Our Strength and Our Shield

The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth. (Psalm 28:7)

The Lord Is Our Strength and Our Rock

The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower. (Psalm 18:2)

The Lord Is Our Strength and Our Song

The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him. (Exodus 15:2)

The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation. (Psalm 118:14)

Behold, God is my salvation; I will trust, and not be afraid: for the Lord Jehovah is my strength and my song; he also is become my salvation. (Isaiah 12:2)

God Is Our Strength and Our Wisdom

With him is wisdom and strength, he hath counsel and understanding. . . . With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his. (Job 12:13,16)

God Is the Strength of Our Heart

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever. (Psalm 73:26)

God Is Strength to the Upright

The way of the Lord is strength to the upright: but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity. (Proverbs 10:29)

God Is the Strength of Our Salvation

O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle. (Psalm 140:7)

The Lord Is Our Saving Strength

The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed. (Psalm 28:8)

The Lord Is Our Everlasting Strength

Trust ye in the Lord for ever: for in the Lord JEHOVAH is everlasting strength. (Isaiah 26:4)

Blessed Are Those Whose Strength Is in God

Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them. (Psalm 84:5)

Christ Died to Give Us Strength

For when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the ungodly. (Romans 5:6)

He Guides With His Strength

Thou in thy mercy hast led forth the people which thou hast redeemed: thou hast guided them in thy strength unto thy holy habitation. (Exodus 15:13)

God’s Strength in the Mouths of Babes

Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger. (Psalm 8:2)

God Saves With the Strength of His Right Hand

Now know I that the LORD saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand. (Psalm 20:6)

Be Strong in the Lord

Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might. Put on the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil. (Ephesians 6:10-11)

Be Strong and of Good Courage

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the LORD thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee. (Deuteronomy 31:6)

Be Strong in God’s Grace

Thou therefore, my son, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus. (2 Timothy 2:1)

Be Strong in the Lord

Be strong, and quit yourselves like men. (1 Samuel 4:9)

Be Strong and do Exploits

And such as do wickedly against the covenant shall he corrupt by flatteries: but the people that do know their God shall be strong, and do exploits. (Daniel 11:32)

God Will Strengthen Us

The LORD will give strength unto his people; the LORD will bless his people with peace. (Psalm 29:11)

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness. (Isaiah 41:10)

Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD. (Psalm 27:14)

Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the LORD. (Psalm 31:24)

O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God. (Psalm 68:35)

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31)

It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect. (Psalm 18:32)

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength. (Isaiah 40:29)

Beat your plowshares into swords, and your pruninghooks into spears: let the weak say, I am strong. (Joel 3:10)

In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. (Psalm 138:3)

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. (Philippians 4:13)

The Lord’s Strength Demonstrated

The Lord’s Strength in Sara

Through faith also Sara herself received strength to conceive seed, and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. (Hebrews 11:11)

The Lord’s Strength in the Israelites

And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the LORD brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage. (Exodus 13:14)

The Lord’s Strength in Joshua

And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed, be strong and of good courage: for thus shall the LORD do to all your enemies against whom ye fight. (Joshua 10:25)

The Lord’s Strength in Samson

And Samson called unto the LORD, and said, O Lord GOD, remember me, I pray thee, and strengthen me, I pray thee, only this once, O God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes. (Judges 16:28)

The Lord’s Strength in Ezra

And hath extended mercy unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened as the hand of the LORD my God was upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me. (Ezra 7:28)

The Lord’s Strength in David

A Psalm of David, the servant of the LORD, who spake unto the LORD the words of this song in the day that the LORD delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul: And he said, I will love thee, O LORD, my strength. (Psalm 18:1)

The Lord’s Strength in Isaiah

And now, saith the LORD that formed me from the womb to be his servant, to bring Jacob again to him, Though Israel be not gathered, yet shall I be glorious in the eyes of the LORD, and my God shall be my strength. (Isaiah 49:5)

The Lord’s Strength in Jeremiah

O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction. (Jeremiah 16:19)

The Lord’s Strength in Ezekiel

So the spirit lifted me up, and took me away, and I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit; but the hand of the LORD was strong upon me. (Ezekiel 3:14)

The Lord’s Strength in Daniel

And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me. (Daniel 10:19)

The Lord’s Strength in Paul

Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. (2 Timothy 4:17)

The Lord’s Strength in Others

And what shall I more say? for the time would fail me to tell of Gideon, and of Barak, and of Samson, and of Jephthae; of David also, and Samuel, and of the prophets: Who through faith subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions, Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. (Hebrews 11:32-34)

God’s Strength in Times of Trouble

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea. (Psalm 46:1-2)

But the salvation of the righteous is of the LORD: he is their strength in the time of trouble. (Psalm 37:39)

For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. (Isaiah 25:4)

For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle:thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me. (Psalm 18:39)

In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul. (Psalm 138:3)

Man’s Strength Is Futile

He will keep the feet of his saints, and the wicked shall be silent in darkness; for by strength shall no man prevail. (1 Samuel 2:9)

Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness. (Psalm 52:7)

Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips. (Isaiah 17:10)

Not by might, nor by power, but by my spirit, saith the LORD of hosts. (Zachariah 4:6)

Prayers for God’s Strength

But be not thou far from me, O LORD: O my strength, haste thee to help me. (Psalm 22:19)

Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength. (Psalm 31:4)

For they all made us afraid, saying, Their hands shall be weakened from the work, that it be not done. Now therefore, O God, strengthen my hands. (Nehemiah 6:9)

For this cause I bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, That he would grant you, according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man. (Ephesians 3:14-16)

For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding; That ye might walk worthy of the Lord unto all pleasing, being fruitful in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God; Strengthened with all might, according to his glorious power, unto all patience and longsuffering with joyfulness. (Colossians 1:9-11)

Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. (Psalm 71:3)

But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you. (1 Peter 5:10)

My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word. (Psalm 119:28)

[S]trenghthen the things that remain. (Revelation 3:2)

Bow down thine ear to me; deliver me speedily: be thou my strong rock, for an house of defence to save me. (Psalm 31:3)

Walk in the Strength of the Lord

I will go in the strength of the Lord GOD. (Psalm 71:16)

Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls: Yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will joy in the God of my salvation. The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ feet, and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. (Habakuk 3:17-19)

Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength, and my redeemer. (Psalm 19:14)

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