PSALMS
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Psalms 50 and 51
Psalms 50: 15
Call upon me in the day of trouble…
The LORD invites all faithful believers to call continually upon HIM in times of need and trouble. GOD desires to hear our prayers, to help us and to have HIS name exalted as a GOD who rescues His people.

OLD TESTAMENT
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Numbers 13: 1 – 24
A memorable and melancholy history is related in this and the following chapter, of the turning back of Israel from the borders of Canaan, and sentencing them to wander and perish in the wilderness, for their unbelief and murmuring.

It appears, in Deuteronomy 1:22, that the motion to search out the land came from the people. They had a better opinion of their own policy than of GOD’s wisdom.

Thus we ruin ourselves by believing the reports and representations of sense rather than Divine revelation. We walk by sight, not by faith.

Moses gave the spies this charge, be of good courage. It was not only a great undertaking they were put upon, which required good management and resolution; but a great trust was reposed in them, which required that they should be faithful. Courage in such circumstances can only spring from strong faith, which Caleb and Joshua alone possessed.

NEW TESTAMENT
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Acts 22: 17 – 23: 11
Acts 23: 11
The LORD stood by him.
Paul is anxious and apprehensive about what will happen to him. It appears that he might be killed in Jerusalem and that his plans to carry the gospel to Rome and further west might never be realised. The LORD JESUS HIMSELF appeared to Paul in the night encouraging his heart and assuring him that he would witness for GOD’s cause in Rome. Scripture records that the LORD appeared to Paul three times in order to reassure him.