I wanted to share with you words that help me when I need that extra something to get me through a day, a week, heck, through life. If I did not have God’s words to sustain me I would be lost—so I wanted to create a post on my favorite texts, and share with you how these texts have touched me. I hope they will resound in some way with you.

1 Corinthians 13;2-8…and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. 3If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.
4Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. 8Love never fails.

This is my first favorite text because as with a lot of weddings, it was recited at ours. To live up to it, is difficult, but worth fighting for. It reminds me of my wedding day, and that is a day to cherish, when love was so new and uncomplicated…so that is why it is on the fave list.

Revelation 21;4-5…4He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”
5He who was seated on the throne said, “I am making everything new!” Then he said, “Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true.”

I love this verse because it reminds me that HE will wipe away every tear…there is so much sadness and despair in life, along with happiness, but those times when you feel like you can’t live because your heart will break, hold onto God’s words…there will be no more pain—He will make everything new. This verse, I am holding onto now, and reciting again and again.

Psalm 4:8… I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O LORD, make me dwell in safety.

This Psalm helped me tremendously when I was first baptized about 6 years ago. Some people say, after you get baptized your faith is tested by Satan, that he attacks you ten-fold because you are at a peak in your faith in God. This happened to me. After I was baptized I started to have horrendous nightmares…ones that you could not even imagine. They all had to do with death, grisly deaths with so much blood…visions of bodies covered in blood…just grotesque things I never dreamt about before. I would have them just about every night. I could not sleep because I woke up shivering and crying…scared to death. I did not know what was happening to me. I could not stay awake in the daytime, and I fell asleep at church frequently until one day I asked my congregation to please pray for me because I was having these terrible nightmares and a friend told me, she used to have a hard time sleeping, so one day she found this text, and recited it over and over, till she could sleep and asked that I try it, and that she would pray for me. I have used that text since that day and those kinds of nightmares do not plague me anymore. I use the text all the time when I cannot sleep. I know He has me in his arms and that He will give me the peace I need to sleep. Try it if you are having difficulty sleeping for whatever reason.

These words I share with you now, so that I can remember them and claim them for myself. I know that God will never disappoint me or forsake me, that even if life disappoints me He will be waiting for me, as He is for you. This is what sustains me. God Bless you and thank you for letting me indulge.