Let God Strengthen and Settle You

We have been studying 1 Peter 5:10 to see what God does after we have gone through a difficult time.

1 Peter 5:10 (NKJV)

¹⁰But may the God of all grace, who called us to His eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after you have suffered a while, perfect, establish, strengthen, and settle you.

This verse tells us that as God RESTORES, ESTABLISHES, STRENGTHENS, AND SETTLES US, He is giving us what we need, the essential ingredients to cause us to BOUNCE BACK, to experience a RESILIENCE that only He can provide.

We have already looked at the first two words – PERFECT/RESTORE & ESTABLISH.

• PERFECT/RESTORE (katartizo) [Strong’s #2675] – to make someone completely adequate or sufficient for something, to furnish completely, to make fully qualified

Perfect (NKJV) / Restore (NIV, NLT, & ESV)

• ESTABLISH (sterizo) [Strong’s # 4741] – to turn resolutely in a certain direction; to cause someone to become more firm and unchanging in attitude or belief

To set up something so that it remains immovable, fixed

He fixed his face to go toward Jerusalem

Today we will deal with the last two words in this list – STRENGTHEN & SETTLE.

 

 

“LET GOD STRENGTHEN AND SETTLE YOU.”

GOD SAYS WHAT HE WILL DO, BUT WE NEED TO LET HIM DO IT.

STRENGTHEN – to cause someone to become more able or capable / to give vigor

Able – to have the POWER or skill to do something

Capable – to have the POTENTIAL to do something

Give you strength occurs only here in the whole New Testament; it denotes the idea of God giving them strength to bear all their sufferings without wavering in their faith.

• Types of Strength needed to endure the suffering:

1. Physical Strength
2. Psychological Strength

• Strength to overcome internal voices that compete with truth
• Strength to endure while you wait for the answer to come
• Strength to keep believing the right thing about God when the wrong things are happening
• Strength to keep going after failure

Example:  Peter denied the Lord and had to be strengthened to fulfill his assignment.

“After he failed does not mean that he wasn’t useful.” – Pastor Billy Johnson

(John 21:15-19) -see story of Peter’s restoration

“If you’ve failed, cry out to God ‘one more time.’” – Pastor Billy Johnson

Keep Going!

STRENGTH IS NEEDED FOR INTERNAL BATTLES!

 

 

SETTLE – to provide a foundation; to provide a firm basis for belief or practice

SETTLING IS NEEDED FOR EXTERNAL BATTLES

 

• Give you a sure foundation is literally “establish you firmly,” indicating God’s act of making sure that they will be firmly rooted in a strong foundation of trust and confidence in him.

• A sure foundation may be rendered in terms of “cause you to always endure” or “cause you not to be moved in your trust in Christ

Matthew 7:24–27 (NKJV)

²⁴“Therefore whoever hears these sayings of Mine, and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock:

²⁵and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

²⁶“But everyone who hears these sayings of Mine, and does not do them, will be like a foolish man who built his house on the sand:

²⁷and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell. And great was its fall.”

Matthew 7:25 (NKJV)

²⁵and the rain descended, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it did not fall, for it was founded on the rock.

“You and I are not exempt from rains, winds and floods.” – Pastor Billy Johnson

In Times Like These (Lyrics)

In times like these you need a Savior,
In times like these you need an anchor;
Be very sure, be very sure,
Your anchor holds and grips the Solid Rock!

This Rock is Jesus, Yes He’s the One,
This Rock is Jesus, the only One;
Be very sure, be very sure,
Your anchor holds and grips the Solid Rock!