Strength for the Troubled (Chantilly)

John 14:1 CSB- Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

Jesus Focused On Others in the Midst of His Own Troubles

Find Strength in God’s Care

Psalm 56:8 CSB – You yourself have recorded my wanderings.
Put my tears in your bottle.
Are they not in your book?

Psalm 145:18 CSB – The Lord is near all who call out to him,
all who call out to him with integrity.

Proverbs 29:13 CSB – The poor and the oppressor have this in common:
the Lord gives light to the eyes of both.

Psalm 37:25 CSB – I have been young and now I am old, yet I have not seen the righteous abandoned or his children begging for bread.

Romans 8:26 CSB – the Spirit also helps us in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with inexpressible groanings

1 John 2:1 CSB – My little children, I am writing you these things so that you may not sin. But if anyone does sin, we have an advocate with the Father—Jesus Christ the righteous one.

Isaiah 40:27-29 CSB –

Israel, why do you assert,
“My way is hidden from the Lord,
and my claim is ignored by my God”?
²⁸ Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the whole earth.
He never becomes faint or weary;
there is no limit to his understanding.
²⁹ He gives strength to the faint
and strengthens the powerless.

Find Strength by Caring for the Needs of Others

2 Corinthians 1:4 CSB – He comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any kind of affliction, through the comfort we ourselves receive from God.

Philippians 2:3b CSB – in humility consider others as more important than yourselves

Psalm 34:18 CSB – “The Lord is near to the brokenhearted and saves the crushed in spirit.”

Jesus Provided Solid Reasons for their Strength

John 14:1 CSB – “Don’t let your heart be troubled. Believe in God; believe also in me.

Ephesians 6:16 CSB – In every situation take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.

Proverbs 11:22 CSB – A beautiful woman who rejects good sense

Revelation 22:12 CSB – “Look, I am coming soon, and my reward is with me to repay each person according to his work.

John 14:11b CSB – He says, Otherwise, believe because of the works themselves.

John 14:2 CSB – So, believe me now when I say, In my Father’s house are many rooms. If it were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you?

Revelation 21:4 CSB – He will wipe away every tear from their eyes. Death will be no more; grief, crying, and pain will be no more, because the previous things have passed away.

2 Peter 1:16,19 CSB – For we did not follow cleverly contrived myths when we made known to you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ; instead, we were eyewitnesses of his majesty.

We also have the prophetic word strongly confirmed, and you will do well to pay attention to it as to a lamp shining in a dark place, until the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts.

Jesus Strengthened Them By Preparing The Way to Victory

John 14:2b-3 CSB – …I am going to prepare a place for you? ³ If I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come again and take you to myself, so that where I am you may be also

1 Peter 2:21 CSB – Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps.

Hebrews 12:1c-3 CSB – Let us run with endurance the race that lies before us, ² keeping our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of our faith. For the joy that lay before him, he endured the cross, despising the shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

³ For consider him who endured such hostility from sinners against himself, so that you won’t grow weary and give up.

Jesus Strengthened Them By Being Patient with Their Doubts

John 14:4,5, Jesus, “You know the way to where I am going.”

Lord,” Thomas said, “we don’t know where you’re going. How can we know the way?”

John 14:6 CSB – Jesus told him, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.

John 14:8, Philip says, “Lord,” said Philip, “show us the Father, and that’s enough for us.”

v.9, Jesus said to him, “Have I been among you all this time and you do not know me, Philip?

Psalm 46:1 CSB – God is our refuge and strength,
a helper who is always found in times of trouble.

Jesus Gave Them a Comforter to Strengthen Them

John 14:16ff, . And I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Counselor to be with you forever. ¹⁷ He is the Spirit of truth. The world is unable to receive him because it doesn’t see him or know him. But you do know him, because he remains with you and will be in you.

¹⁸ “I will not leave you as orphans; I am coming to you.

Acts 2:38 CSB – Peter said, “Repent and be baptized everyone of you for the forgiveness of your sins and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit….”

Philippians 4:13 CSB – I am able to do all things through him who strengthens me.