Being a hand of God in our community
2 Corinthians 1:3
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves received from God.
Paul gives some practical advice to Timothy:
Stop drinking only water, and use a little wine because of your stomach and your frequent illnesses.
1 Timothy 5: 23
Psalm 27:8
On your behalf my heart says, “Seek my face.”
Your face, O Yahweh, I do seek.
2 Corinthians 3:18 KJV
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
How could one man chase a thousand,
or two put ten thousand to flight,
unless their Rock had sold them,
unless the Lord had given them up
Deuteronomy 32:30.
I pick this after reading it , thinking God’s did not need to remove the 10,000 that the two faced. Their challenge was still in front of them, but when they faced it thanks to God, their “impossible to overcome” opposition had to flee