He said not, “Thou shalt not be Tempested; Thou shalt not be Travailed; Thou shalt not be Afflicted”: But he said, “Thou shalt not be Overcome!” JULIAN OF NORWICK, A.D. 1373

We are not here to be overcome, but we are to rise unvanquished after every knockout blow and laugh the laugh of faith — not fear.

Tempested on the sea of life; Travailed sore, amid earth’s strife; Afflicted often, and sore dismayed; Look up, faint heart, be not afraid, Thou shalt not be overcome!

God’s ways are far beyond our ken; His thoughts are not the thoughts of men; And He knoweth what is best for you. Hope on, my friend, He will bear you through. Thou shalt not be overcome!

Though “The reason why” we cannot see, Our Father knows—’tis enough that we But trust His love, when our eyes are dim. Look up! Holdfast! though the fight is grim. We shall not be overcome!

MARY E. THOMPSON

Thou art fairer than the children of men: grace is poured into thy lips: therefore God hath blessed thee for ever.

The Lord GOD hath given me the tongue of the learned, that I should know how to speak a word in season to him that is weary.

His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend.

All bare him witness, and wondered at the gracious words which proceeded out of his mouth.

He taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom.

The sword of the Spirit . . . is the word of God.

The word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword.

The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

If ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; . . . those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

Fight the good fight of faith.—The weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strongholds; casting down imaginations, . . . and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ.

Brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh. For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die; but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

The flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh; and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.—I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.—We are more than conquerors through him that loved us.