Quotes About Assurance

If we truly know why we trust God—and that crucial if must be answered with full intellectual and spiritual assurance—if we truly know why we trust God, then God is greater than all, and God may be trusted in all situations, despite everyone and everything.

I felt, rather, as if being next to her in itself made it unnecessary to worry.

The recognition of any reality begins with trust.

And now we understand why our Lord so emphasized the sin of worrying. How can we dare to be so absolutely unbelieving when God totally surrounds us? To be obsessed by God is to have an effective barricade against all the assaults of the enemy.

The faith of many people begins to falter when apprehensions enter their thinking, and they forget the meaning of God's assurance—they forget to take a deep spiritual breath. The only way to remove the fear from our lives is to listen to God's assurance to us.

Are you learning to listen to God before you speak, or are you saying things and then trying to make God's Word fit what you have said? Take hold of the Father's assurance, and then say with strong courage, "I will not fear." It does not matter what evil or wrong may be in our way, because "He Himself has said, 'I will never leave you.

Do you protest that your heart is right with God, and yet there is something in your life He causes you to doubt? Whenever God causes a doubt about something, stop it immediately, no matter what it may be. Nothing in our lives is a mere insignificant detail to God.

So many people believe in their beliefs, have faith in their faith, and are confident in their confidence. All of this is of no avail. It is our confidence in God that abides, faith in God that remains, and belief in God that lasts.

I will never leave you"—not for any reason; not my sin, selfishness, stubbornness, nor waywardness. Have I really let God say to me that He will never leave me? If I have not truly heard this assurance of God, then let me listen again.

Sometimes it is not the difficulty of life but the drudgery of it that makes me think God will forsake me. When there is no major difficulty to overcome, no vision from God, nothing wonderful or beautiful—just the everyday activities of life—do I hear God's assurance even in these?

We have the idea that God is going to do some exceptional thing—that He is preparing and equipping us for some extraordinary work in the future. But as we grow in His grace we find that God is glorifying Himself here and now, at this very moment. If we have God's assurance behind us, the most amazing strength becomes ours, and we learn to sing, glorifying Him even in the ordinary days and ways of life.

The only way I can assure myself of the best possible future is to live as well as I can today.

Don't worry about it. I'll get you in.

The ground on which I build my faith is not in me, but in the faithfulness of God.

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

You should take faith as lead first then trust will followed

Prayer is to assure you of your connection with Home, much as when you were children and you left for the day. There was that moment of panic— I'm sure you remember it— when you had to call home just to be sure that it was still there. Prayer is like that. It is calling Home.

Then you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me.

I see your fear, they told her, but no harm will come to you by me.

She would have to learn to accept that he was a man of his word. In the meantime he would give her something to think about.

He pushed his glasses up on his nose and gave me a sidelong look, the one that meant he was so sure you were wrong that he could just wait and let you find out for yourself the hard way.

And she did not have to ask if this was right, no one had to tell her, because this could not have been more right or perfect.

No you haven't, or you would never have been persuaded by anything your father and I and Grams Brennan ever said.

Insecurity is normal. Count on it.