A Message From My Heart to Widows - Part 2



Here are a few scriptures to spend time in, that will help strengthen you as you walk through this period of grief.

ISAIAH 41:10

ROMANS 8:18

ROMANS 8:28

I PETER 5:7

PSALMS 23:1.

HEBREWS 12:1-8

JOHN 11:44

II COR 1:3 -4

I PETER 4: 12-13

ISAIAH 55:8-9

WE HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT WHEN WE FEEL PARALYZED IN OUR GRIEF AND FEEL ALONE, GOD ISN’T FAR AWAY.

SOME THINK THEIR PAIN MEANS GOD IS ABSENT FROM THEM. HE ISN’T AND NEVER WILL BE

HE’S OMNIPRESENT, NEARER THAN OUR BREATH, AND HIS SPIRIT IS OUR CONSTANT COMPANION, HE LIVES IN US.

HE HASN’T LEFT US TO GET THROUGH THIS INTENSE PAIN ALONE. 

HE IS IMMANUEL, GOD WITH US.

HEBREWS 13:5-7

• HE DOESN’T EXPECT US TO WALK THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH ON OUR OWN PSALMS 23:4. HE’S CARRYING US THROUGH IT.
• HE DOESN’T REQUIRE THAT WE HAVE OUR OWN STRENGTH BUT TO KNOW THAT HE IS OUR STRENGTH HABAKKUK 3:19. HE’S SUPPLYING US WITH IT.
• HE DOESN’T DEMAND THAT WE MUSTER UP OUR OWN SOURCE OF UNDERSTANDING BUT TO  “TRUST IN THE LORD WITH ALL OUR HEARTS”. PROVERBS 3:5. HE’S GUIDING US AS WE GO.

I TIMOTHY 5:1 - 16  HONOR  TRUE WIDOWS

“Honor widows who are really widows. But if any widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show piety at home and to repay their parents; for this is good and acceptable before God. Now she who is really a widow, and left alone, trusts in God and continues in supplications and prayers night and day. But she who lives in pleasure is dead while she lives. And these things command, that they may be blameless. But if anyone does not provide for his own, and especially for those of his household, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever. Do not let a widow under sixty years old be taken into the number, and not unless she has been the wife of one man, well reported for good works: if she has brought up children, if she has lodged strangers, if she has washed the saints’ feet, if she has relieved the afflicted, if she has diligently followed every good work. But refuse the younger widows; for when they have begun to grow wanton against Christ, they desire to marry, having condemnation because they have cast off their first faith. And besides they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house, and not only idle but also gossips and busybodies, saying things which they ought not. Therefore I desire that the younger widows marry, bear children, manage the house, give no opportunity to the adversary to speak reproachfully. For some have already turned aside after Satan. If any believing man or woman has widows, let them relieve them, and do not let the church be burdened, that it may relieve those who are really widows.”

‭‭I Timothy‬ ‭5‬:‭3‬-‭16‬ ‭NKJV‬‬

Even if your situation at this time doesn’t look like you will make it.

I want you to trust and lean into these next three scriptures, and believe that God’s grace is sufficient to bring you through.

HABAKKUK 3:17-19

“Though the fig tree does not blossom And there is no fruit on the vines, Though the yield of the olive fails And the fields produce no food, Though the flock is cut off from the fold And there are no cattle in the stalls, Yet I will [choose to] rejoice in the Lord; I will [choose to] shout in exultation in the [victorious] God of my salvation! The Lord God is my strength [my source of courage, my invincible army]; He has made my feet [steady and sure] like hinds’ feet And makes me walk [forward with spiritual confidence] on my high places [of challenge and responsibility]. 

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II COR 12: 9-10

“but He has said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you [My lovingkindness and My mercy are more than enough—always available—regardless of the situation]; for [My] power is being perfected [and is completed and shows itself most effectively] in [your] weakness.” Therefore, I will all the more gladly boast in my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ [may completely enfold me and] may dwell in me. So I am well pleased with weaknesses, with insults, with distresses, with persecutions, and with difficulties, for the sake of Christ; for when I am weak [in human strength], then I am strong [truly able, truly powerful, truly drawing from God’s strength].”

Deuteronomy 26:12

When you have finished laying aside all the tithe of your increase in the third year- the year of tithing- and have given it to the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, so that they may eat within your gates and be filled.