Comfort Ye My People

Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins. comfortably: Heb. to the heart warfare: or, appointed time - Isaiah 40:1-2

    Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith your God. Speak ye to the heart (comfortably) to Jerusalem.

    The ministry of comfort and encouragement is important because it is a command of God to his servants, it is the ministry of the Holy Spirit, who is called, “The Comforter” and because it is our nature to doubt, to fear, to complain, and to murmur. We must be exhorted to believe, to rejoice, to expect great things from our God, and to look only to Christ and not within! No true servant desires to cry “peace” when there is no peace, but neither do we dare to needlessly burden the Lord's little ones nor rob them of the joy of their Lord. We need not fear that we shall give false hope to the unbeliever; the gospel rightly preached will take care of that.