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Faith in A World of Fear and Turmoil, Don’t Be Dismayed, His Eye 👁 is on the Sparrow (Part 3)

By Pastor and Mrs Chifamba

Psalm 102:4-7

My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread. 5By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin. 6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert. 7I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.

FOR A SPARROW TO BE ALONE ON THE HOUSE TOP IS A STRANGE SIGHT WHICH DEPICTS REAL LONELINESS! THE HOUSE SPARROW IS A GREGARIOUS BIRD, WICH USUALLY IS ALWAYS IN THE COMPANY OF OTHERS. HUMAN BEINGS ARE LIKE THE SPARROWS THEY ARE MEANT TO LIVE IN CARING COMMUNITIES THUS THE SAYING “NO MAN IS AN ISLAND”

Psalm 38:10-11

Lord, all my desire is before thee; and my groaning is not hid from thee. 10My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me. 11My lovers and my friends stand aloof from my sore; and my kinsmen stand afar off.

Psalm 41:9

Yea, mine own familiar friend, in whom I trusted, which did eat of my bread, hath lifted up his heel against me.

2 Timothy 4:16-18

At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. 17Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion. 18And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

“Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? And one of them shall not fall on the ground without your Father.” Think of it, not one of these little brown sparrows that are caroling forth their praises to God will fall to the ground without the notice of the heavenly Father. Not one of these little brown sparrows that the boys so ruthlessly kill, drops to the ground but his eye marks its fall. “But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.” If God cares for a sparrow that has no soul, how will he care for the purchase of the blood of Christ? One soul is worth more than all the world. For one soul Jesus would have passed through the agony of Calvary that that one might be saved in his kingdom. “Fear ye not therefore, ye are of more value than many sparrows.” – {Review and Herald May 3, 1892 Par. 8}

Psalm 27:10

When my father and my mother forsake me, then the LORD will take me up.

Proverbs‬ ‭18:24‬ ‭RSV‬

“There are friends who pretend to be friends, but there is a friend who sticks closer than a brother.”

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John 15:13

Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.

1 John 4:9-10

In this was manifested the love of God toward us, because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him. 10Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

Hebrews‬ ‭13:5-6‬ ‭RSV‬‬

“Keep your life free from love of money, and be content with what you have; for he has said, “I will never fail you nor forsake you.” Hence we can confidently say, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid; what can man do to me?””

John 10:27–29

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand. 29My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.