Comfort Scriptures

Erudite · #1 02-25-2010, 04:22 PM

Today I'm feeling good in body and spirit, but over the last month or so, I've had the moody blues and the mean reds. As I was waiting for my kids earlier this week, I was thumbing through my scriptures thinking...I need something that just FEELS good, feels comforting, tells me I can overcome and wake up from the blues and the reds. I went to Mark and read about the woman with an issue of blood who touched the Savior's clothing and was healed. There is such wonderful HOPE in that story. This morning I read 3 Nephi 17 where the people are healed by Christ. I love that chapter.

But I'd like to have a few more to pull from in different topic areas. My two examples above are focused on healing because my body doesn't quite work the way it should. So I thought maybe we could create a list of comfort scriptures and maybe scriptures that help us to feel helped in different kinds of problems. I hope that makes sense.

Do you have stories or verses that warm you like a comfortable blanket? Please share.

Meticulous madness · #2 03-03-2010, 09:23 PM

One of my favorite comfort scripture(s):

Psalms 3:5-6

Trust in the lord with all thine heart, lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy paths.

I know there are many more, but that's what's coming to mind at the moment.

runamyrun · #3 03-04-2010, 09:39 AM

I have two that I can think of off the top of my head.

Mosiah 4:27 And see that all these things are done in wisdom and order; for it is not requisite that a man should run faster than he has strength. And again, it is expedient that he should be diligent, that thereby he might win the prize; therefore, all things must be done in order.

Philippians 4:13 I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

The second is explanatory, but the first is a comfort to me because I tend to start adding too much.

trishcook · #4 03-05-2010, 11:16 AM

One of my most favorite "comfort" scriptures is Doctrine & Covenants 25, the revelation given to Joseph Smith's wife Emma. I read this at times when I'm feeling lonely and inadequate as a woman, wife, mother, sister, etc. I especially love being reminded that not only was Emma an "Elect Lady", but that I also am an "Elect Lady" and that truly Heavenly Father does love me as his Daughter, even when I don't feel loved at the moment.

Another of my favorites is in 3 Nephi 17:17 (the last part of this verse) "...and no one can conceive of the joy which filled our souls at the time we heard Him pray for us unto the Father." I read this scripture often, it's so comforting to know and be reminded that not only does our Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ hope for and desire our return, Jesus prays for us. I remember reading and comprehending that for the first time several years ago and the overwhelming emotion that hit me as I realized He does pray for me, by name.

Great thread E!!...I look forward to reading what other's use and hopefully adding many more to my list.

Erudite · #5 03-08-2010, 01:30 PM

These are GREAT!! Keep adding on everyone!

Mamallama · #6 03-08-2010, 10:25 PM

Great idea for a thread.

I'm going to write all of your ideas down. I love all that you guys have shared. Thank you!

Here are a couple I like as well:

Matthew 6:28-34
"Consider the lilies of the field...
...wherefore if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is and to morrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?

Therefore, take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed?

(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek) for your Heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

Take therefore no thought for the morrow; for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself..."

2 Timothy 1:7 "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind."

Erudite · #7 03-19-2010, 02:54 PM

Here is a good one for some of the temptations and shortcomings that we have in our lives:

1 Corinthians 10
13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

Combine that with the footnote on "escape" which takes you to:

Doctrine and Covenants 95
1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you whom I love, and whom I love I also chasten that their sins may be forgiven, for with the chastisement I prepare a way for their deliverance in all things out of temptation, and I have loved you—

I love the idea that with chatisement is also a means of escape, only we have to choose to escape the temptation and in choosing to escape, we can bear whatever the temptation may be.

Erudite · #8 05-12-2010, 10:18 PM

This scripture comforted me today:

Alma 32
41 But if ye will nourish the word, yea, nourish the tree as it beginneth to grow, by your faith with great diligence, and with patience, looking forward to the fruit thereof, it shall take root; and behold it shall be a tree springing up unto everlasting life.
42 And because of your diligence and your faith and your patience with the word in nourishing it, that it may take root in you, behold, by and by ye shall pluck the fruit thereof, which is most precious, which is sweet above all that is sweet, and which is white above all that is white, yea, and pure above all that is pure; and ye shall feast upon this fruit even until ye are filled, that ye hunger not, neither shall ye thirst.
43 Then, my brethren, ye shall reap the rewards of your faith, and your diligence, and patience, and long-suffering, waiting for the tree to bring forth fruit unto you.

Erudite · #9 01-08-2011, 04:01 PM

In seeking to more about the use of the word "light" in the scriptures, I found this one in the topical guide:

1 Nephi 17:13
And I wil also be your light in the wilderness; and I will prepare the way before you, if it so be that ye shall keep my commandments; wherefore, inasmuch as ye shall keep my commandments ye shall be led towards the promised land; and ye shall know that it is by me that ye are led.

This was an answer to my prayers, as I have been feeling rather in the dark of late and needing to know which path I should go down. I loved this one!!