God's Promises & Answers for Your Life

Chapter 42

What to Do When You Are Emotionally Distraught

For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.

2 Timothy 1:7

'Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.  I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.'

Isaiah 41:10

...for God is not a God of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.

1 Corinthians 14:33

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our affliction so that we will be able to comfort those who are in any affliction with the comfort with which we ourselves are comforted by God.

2 Corinthians 1:3-4

For where jealousy and selfish ambition exist, there is disorder and every evil thing.  But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, unwavering, without hypocrisy.  And the seed whose fruit is righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace.

James 3:16-18

Cast your burden upon Yahweh and He will sustain you; He will never allow the righteous to be shaken.

Psalm 55:22

You have dealt well with Your servant, O Yahweh, according to Your word.

Psalm 119:65

"When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not overflow you.  When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched, nor will the flame burn you.

Isaiah 43:2