Abiding in The God of All Comfort

It is those who feast at the Lord's Table

It is those washed in the blood of the Lamb

It is those who live in the Spirit

It is those who abide in Him at His Table

His Grace will hunt you down and wrap its arms around you and hide you and feed you and love you forever and ever.! Alleluia!

Psalm 27:4-One thing have I asked of the LORD, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the LORD all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the LORD and to inquire in his temple. For he will hide me in his shelter in the day of trouble; he will conceal me under the cover of his tent; he will lift me high upon a rock. And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies all around me, and I will offer in his tent sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make melody to the LORD. Hear, O LORD, when I cry aloud; be gracious to me and answer me!

You have said, “Seek my face.” My heart says to you, “Your face, LORD, do I seek.” Hide not your face from me. Turn not your servant away in anger, O you who have been my help. Cast me not off; forsake me not, O God of my salvation!

(Again) He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him...

(Let that therefore abide in you, which you have heard from the beginning. If that which you have heard from the beginning shall remain in you,) "you also shall continue in the Son, and in the Father. Whoever believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loves him that begat loves him also that is begotten of him."

"Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. Jesus said to him, If you can believe, all things are possible to him that believes. Whoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwells in him, and he in God."

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ is born of God, and everyone who loves the father loves his child as well. This is how we know that we love the children of God: by loving God and carrying out his commands. In fact, this is love for God: to keep his commands. And his commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God. 

This is the one who came by water and blood—Jesus Christ. He did not come by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit who testifies, because the Spirit is the truth. For there are three that testify: the Spirit, the water and the blood; and the three are in agreement. We accept human testimony, but God’s testimony is greater because it is the testimony of God, which he has given about his Son. 

Whoever believes in the Son of God accepts this testimony. Whoever does not believe God has made him out to be a liar, because they have not believed the testimony God has given about his Son. 

And this is the testimony: God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. Whoever has the Son has life; whoever does not have the Son of God does not have life. 1 John 5

For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through the endurance taught in the Scriptures and the comfort and encouragement they provide we might have hope.

Psalm 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction: for your word has quickened me.

1 Thessalonians 1:3 Remembering without ceasing your work of faith, and labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, in the sight of God and our Father;

2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:

Philippians 3:7-14 But whatever were gains to me I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. I want to know Christ—yes, to know the power of his resurrection and participation in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.

Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.

The Lord is your Good Shepherd. He has prepared a Table for you. He invites all who will come to sit and feast on the bread His flesh and wine His blood. When you do you encounter His presence and abide in Him and He abides in you! He is the God of all comfort. For in him we live and move and have our being.