Happy New Year!

Happy New Year 2014!

 

 

 

4 most important things to live by in the new year.

 

Hope

 

 Part One: Life by Emily Dickinson

HOPE is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I ’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.

 

 

 

 Faith 

 

Faith by Ray Palmer

 

MY faith looks up to Thee,
Thou Lamb of Calvary,
Saviour divine!
Now hear me while I pray,
Take all my guilt away,	5
O let me from this day
Be wholly Thine!
May Thy rich grace impart
Strength to my fainting heart,
My zeal inspire;
As Thou hast died for me,
O may my love for Thee
Pure, warm, and changeless be,—
A living fire!
While life's dark maze I tread,
And griefs around me spread,
Be Thou my guide;
Bid darkness turn to day,
Wipe sorrow's tears away,
Nor let me ever stray
From Thee aside.
When ends life's transient dream,
When death's cold, sullen stream
Shall o'er me roll;
Blest Saviour, then, in love,
Fear and distrust remove;
O bear me safe above,
A ransomed soul!                                  Courage

 

 Psalm 27

 

The LORD Is My Light and My Salvation
A Psalm of David.
1	The LORD is my light and my salvation;          whom shall I fear? The LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
2	When the wicked, even mine enemies and my foes,          came upon me to eat up my flesh, they stumbled and fell.
3	Though a host should encamp against me,          my heart shall not fear: though war should rise against me, in this will I be confident.
4	One thing have I desired 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 behold the beauty of the LORD, and to inquire in his temple.
5	For in the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion:          in the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me; he shall set me up upon a rock.
6	And now shall mine head be lifted up          above mine enemies round about me: therefore will I offer in his tabernacle sacrifices of joy; I will sing, yea, I will sing praises unto the LORD.
7	Hear, O LORD, when I cry with my voice:          have mercy also upon me, and answer me.
8	When thou saidst, Seek ye my face;          my heart said unto thee, Thy face, LORD, will I seek.
9	Hide not thy face far from me;          put not thy servant away in anger: thou hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
10	When my father and my mother forsake me,          then the LORD will take me up.
11	Teach me thy way, O LORD,          and lead me in a plain path, because of mine enemies.
12	Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies:          for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13	I had fainted, unless I had believed          to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14	Wait on the LORD:          be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

 Strength

                                 

                                                                       Psalm 46

 

God Is Our Refuge and Strength
To the chief Musician for the sons of Korah, A Song upon Al'amoth.
1	God is our refuge and strength,          a very present help in trouble.
2	Therefore will not we fear,          though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3	though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,          though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4	There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God,          the holy place of the tabernacles of the Most High.
5	God is in the midst of her;          she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6	The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved:          he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7	The LORD of hosts is with us;          the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
8	Come, behold the works of the LORD,          what desolations he hath made in the earth.
9	He maketh wars to cease unto the end of the earth;          he breaketh the bow, and cutteth the spear in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire.
10	Be still, and know that I am God:          I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
11	The LORD of hosts is with us;          the God of Jacob is our refuge.