Assurance
Jude 1:24-25 (KJV)
Now unto him that is able to keep you from
falling, and to present you faultless before the presence
of his glory with exceeding joy, To the only wise God,
our Savior, be glory and majesty, dominion and power,
both now and ever. Amen.
Bad
Day?
Job 2:10 (NCV)
Job answered, "You are talking like a foolish
woman. Should we take only good things from God and
not trouble?" In spite of all this Job did not sin in
what he said.
Job 4:5-6 (NCV)
But now trouble comes to you, and you are
discouraged; trouble hits you, and you are terrified.
You should have confidence because you respect God;
you should have hope because you are innocent.
Job 36:5 (NCV)
"God is powerful, but he does not hate
people; he is powerful and sure of what he wants to
do.
2 Timothy 4:18 (NCV)
The Lord will save me when anyone tries
to hurt me, and he will bring me safely to his heavenly
kingdom. Glory forever and every be the Lord's. Amen.
James 1:2-3 (NCV)
My brothers and sisters, when you have
many kinds of troubles, you should be full of joy, because
you know that these troubles test your faith, and this
will give you patience.
Being
an example
1 Corinthians 8:9-13
(NCV) But be careful that your
freedom does not cause those who are weak on faith to
fall into sin. You have "knowledge," so you eat in an
idol's temple. But someone who is weak in faith might
see you eating there and be encouraged to eat meat sacrificed
to idols while thinking it is wrong to do so. This weak
believer for whom Christ died is ruined because of your
"knowledge." When you sin against your brothers and
sisters in Christ like this and cause them to do what
they feel is wrong, you are also sinning against Christ.
So if the food I eat causes them to fall into sin, I
will never eat meat again so that I will not cause any
of them to sin.
Leviticus 19:2 (NCV)
"Tell all the people of Israel: 'I am the
Lord your God. You must be holy because I am holy.'"
Hebrews 12:1 (RSV)
We have around us many people whose lives
tell us what faith means. So let us run the race that
is before us and never give up. We should remove from
our lives anything that would get in the way and the
sin that so easily holds us back.
Galations 6:2 (NCV)
By helping each other with your troubles,
you truly obey the law of Christ.
Bible
Study
2 Timothy 3:15-17
(NCV) Since you were a child
you have known the Holy Scriptures which are able to
make you wise. And that wisdom leads to salvation through
faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is given by God
and is useful for teaching, for showing people what
is wrong in their lives, for correcting faults, and
for teaching how to live right. Using the Scriptures,
the person who serves God will be capable, having all
that is needed to do every good work.
Evil
Mark 7:23 (NCV)
"All these evil things come from inside
and make people unclean."
Job 34:10 (NCV)
"So listen to me, you who can understand.
God can never do wrong! It is impossible for the Almighty
to do evil."
God's
Gifts
Romans 12:5-12 (NCV)
In the same way, we are many, but in Christ
we are all one body. Each one is a part of that body,
and each part belongs to all the other parts. We all
have different gifts, each of which came because of
the grace God gave us. The person who has the gift of
prophecy should use that gift in agreement with the
faith. Anyone who has the gift of serving should serve.
Anyone who has the gift of being a leader should try
hard when he leads. Whoever has the gift of showing
mercy to others should do so with joy. Your love must
be real. Hate what is evil, and hold on to what is good.
Love each other like brothers and sisters. Give each
other more honor than you want for yourselves. Do not
be lazy but work hard, serving the Lord with all your
heart. Be joyful because you have hope. Be patient when
trouble comes, and paray at all times.
Judgement
Day
2 Peter 3:10-13
(NCV) But the day of the Lord
will come like a thief. The skies will disappear with
a loud noise. Everything in them will be destroyed by
fire, and the earth and everything in it will be burned
up. In that way everything will be destroyed. So what
kind of people should you be? You should live holy lives
and serve God, as you wait for and look forward to the
coming of the day of God. When the day comes, the skies
will be destroyed with fire, and everything in them
will melt with heat. But God made a promise to us, and
we are waiting for a new heaven and a new earth where
goodness lives.
Keeping
Faith
Mark 11:22-23 (NCV)
Jesus answered, Have faith in God. I tell
you the truth, you can say to this mountain, "Go, fall
into the sea." And if you have no doubts in your mind
and believe that what you say will happen, God will
do it for you.
Matthew 17:20 (NCV)
Jesus answered, "Because your faith is
too small. I tell you the truth, if your faith is as
big as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain,
'Move from here to there,' and it will move. All things
will be possible for you."
Matthew 21:22 (NCV)
"If you believe, you will get anything
you ask for in prayer."
Matthew 28:20 (NCV)
Teach them to obey everything that I have
taught you, and I will be with you always, even until
the end of this age."
1 Timothy 4:10 (NCV)
This is why we work and struggle: We hope
in the living God who is the Savior of all people, especially
of those who believe.
2 Kings 6:16 (NCV)
Elisha said, "Don't be afraid. The
army that fights for us is larger than the one against
us." Then Elisha prayed, "Lord, open my servant's eyes,
and let him see." The Lord opened the eyes of the young
man, and he saw that the mountain was full of horses
and chariots of fire all around Elisha.
Knowing
God
Exodus 34:6-7 (NCV)
The Lord passed in front of Moses and said,
"I am the Lord. The Lord is a God who shows mercy, who
is kind, who doesn't become angry quickly, who has great
love and faithfulness and is kind to thousands of people.
The Lord forgives people for evil, for sin, and for
turning against him, but he does not forget to punish
guilty people. He will punish not only the guilty people,
but also their children, their grandchildren, their
great-grandchildren, and their great-great-grandchildren."
2 Peter 1:5-10 (NCV)
Because you have these blessings, do your
best to add these things to your lives: to your faith,
add goodness; and to your goodness, add knowledge; and
to your knowledge, add self-control; and to your self-control,
add patience; and to your pateince, add service for
God; and to your service for God, add kindness for your
brothers and sisters in Christ; and to this kindness,
add love. If all these things are in you and are growing,
they will help you to be useful and productive in you
knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But anyone who does
not have these things cannot see clearly. He is blind
and has forgotten that he was made clean from his past
sins. My brothers and sisters, try hard to be certain
that you really are called and chosen by God. If you
do all these things, you will never fall.
2 Peter 2:4-10 (NCV)
When angels sinned, God did not let them
go free without punishment. He sent them to hell and
put them in caves of darkness where they are being held
for judgment. And God punished the world long ago when
he brought a flood to the world that was full of people
who were against him. But God saved Noah, who preached
about being right with God, and seven other people with
him. And God also destroyed the evil cities of Sodom
and Gomorrah by buring them until they were ashes. He
made those cities an example of what will happen to
those who are against God. But he saved Lot from those
cities. Lot, a good man, was troubled because of the
filthy lives of evil people. (Lot was a good man, but
because he lived with evil people every day, his good
heart was hurt by the evil things he saw and heard.)
So the Lord knows how to save those who serve him when
troubles come. He will hold evil people and punish them,
while waiting for the Judgment Day. That punishment
is especially for those who live by doing the evil things
their sinful selves want and who hate authority.
Revelation 21:6
(NCV) The One on the throne
said to me, "It is finished. I am the Alpha and the
Omega, the Beginning and the End. I will give free water
from the spring of the water of life to anyone who is
thirsty."
Mark 9:40 (NCV)
So the followers brought him to Jesus.
As soon as the evil spirit saw Jesus, it made the boy
lose control of himself, and he fell down and rolled
on the ground, foaming at the mouth.
Ephesians 6:11 (NCV)
Put on the full armor of God so that you
can fight against the devil's evil tricks.
Numbers 23:19 (NCV)
God is not a human being, and he will not
lie. He is not a human, and does not change his mind.
What he says he will do, he does. What he promises,
he makes come trued.
Love
1 Corinthians 13:7
(NCV) Love patiently accepts
all things. It always trusts, always hopes, and always
remains strong.
1 John 4:12 (NCV)
No one has ever seen God, but if we love
each other, God lives in us, and his love is made perfect
in us.
Proverbs Chapter
31 (NCV) This is a great chapter.
First you look up the day of your birth: this is your
Proverbs verse (You're supposed to be female.) I've
found that they are usually pretty accurate.
1 Peter 3:4 (NCV)
No, your beauty should come from within
you--the beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit that will
never be destroyed and is very precious to God.
Matthew 5:44-45
(NCV) But I say to you, love
your enemies. Pary for those who hurt your Father in
heaven. He causes the sun to rise on good people and
on evil people, and he sends rain to those who do right
and to those who do wrong.
Non-Christians
Matthew 7:3-5 (NCV)
"Why do you notice the little piece of
dust in your freind's eye, but you don't notice the
big piece of wood in your own eye? How can you say to
your friend, 'Let me take that little piece of dust
out of your eye'? Look at yourself! You still have that
big piece of wood in your own eye. You hypocrite! First,
take the wood out of your own eye. Then you will see
clearly to take the dust out of your friend's eye."
Matthew 9:12 (NCV)
When Jesus heard them, he said, "It is
not the healthy people who need a doctor, but the sick."
Job 5:9 (NCV)
God does wonders that cannot be understood;
he does so many miracles they cannot counted.
Job 25:2-4 (NCV)
"God rules and he must be honored; he set
up order in his high heaven. No one can count God's
armies. His light shines on all people. So no one can
be good in the presence of God, and no one born to a
woman can be pure.
Daniel 6:27 (NCV)
God rescues and saves people and does mighty
miracles in heaven and on earth. He is the one who saved
Daniel from the power of the lions.
1 Timothy 1:14 (NCV)
But the grace of our Lord was fully given
to me, and with that grace came the faith and love that
are in Christ Jesus.
1 John 5:16 (NCV)
If anyone sees a brother or sister sinning
(sin that does not lead to eternal death), that person
should pray, and God will give the sinner life.
Prayer
John 14:14 (NCV)
If you ask me for anything in my name,
I will do it.
Luke 11:9-10 (NCV)
So I tell you, ask, and God will give to
you. Search, and you will find. Knock, and the door
will open for you. Yes, everyone who asks will receive.
The one who searches will find. And everyone who knocks
will have the door opened.
Jeremaih 33:3 (NCV)
'..., pray to me, and I will answer you.
I will tell you important secrets you have never heard
before.'
Matthew 6:9-13 (NCV)
'Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed
be thy name. Thy kingdom come thy will be done, on earth
as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread,
and forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors.
Lead us not into temtation, but deliver us from evil.
For Thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory
forever, Amen.'
Matthew 7:7-8 (NCV)
"Ask, and God will give to you. Search,
and you will find. Knock, and the door will open for
you. Yes, everyone who asks will receive. Everyone who
searches will find. And everyone who knocks will have
the door opened.
Matthew 18:19-20
(NCV) "Also, I tell you that
if two of you on earth agree about something and pray
for it, it will be done for you by my Father in heaven,
This is true because if two or three people come together
in my name, I am there with them."
Psalms 13 (NCV)
How long will you forget me, Lord? Forever?
How long will you hide from me? How long must I worry
and feel sad in my heart all day? How long will my enemy
win over me? Lord, look at me. Answer me, my God; tell
me, or I will die. Otherwise my enemy will say, " I
have won!" Those against me will rejoice that I've been
defeated. I trust in your love. My heart is happy because
you saved me. I sing to the Lord because he has taken
care of me.
James 4:1-6 (NCV)
Do you know where your fights and arguments
come from? They come from the selfish desires that war
within you. You want things, but you do not have them.
So you are ready to kill and are jealous of other people,
but you still cannot get what you want. So you argue
and fight. You do not get what you want, because you
do not ask God. Or when you ask, you do not receive
because the reason you ask is wrong. You want things
so you can use them for your own pleasures.
So, you are not loyal to God! You should know that loving
the world is the same as hating God. Anyone who wants
to be a friend of the world becomes God's enemy. Do
you think the Scripture means nothing that says, "The
spirit that God made to live in us wants us for himself
alone." But God gives us even more grace, as the Scipture
says, "God is against the proud,
but he gives strength to the humble."
Salvation
Revelation 22:17
(NCV) The Spirit and the bride
say, "Come!" Let whoever is thirsty come; whoever wishes
may have the water of life as a free gift.
2 Timothy 2:11-13
(NCV) You know how I have been
hurt and have suffered, but the Lord saved me from all
those troubles. Everyone who wants to live as God desires,
in Christ Jesus, will be hurt. But people who are evil
and cheat others will go from bad to worse. They will
fool others, but they will also be fooling themselves.
Temptation
1 Corinthians 10:13
(NCV) The only temptation that
has come to you is that which everyone has. But you
can trust God, who will not permit you to be tempted
more than you can stand. But when you are tempted, he
will also give you a way to escape so that you will
be able to stand it.
Matthew 6:24 (NCV)
"No one can serve two masters. The person
will hate one master and love the other, or will follow
one master and refuse to follow the other. You cannot
serve both God and worldly riches.
Matthew 20:1-16
(NCV) "The kingdom of heaven
is like a person who owned some land. One morning, he
went out very early to hire some people to work in his
vineyard. The man agreed to pay the workers one coin
for working that day. Then he sent them into the vineyard
to work. About nine o'clock the man went to the market
and saw some other people standing there, doing nothing.
So he said to them, 'If you go and work in my vineyard,
I will pay you what your work is worth.' So they went
to work in the vineyard. The man went out again about
twelve o'clock and three o'clock and did the same thing.
About five o'clock the man went to the marketplace again
and saw others standing there. He asked them, 'Why did
you stand here all day doing nothing?' They answered,
'No one gave us a job.' The man said to them, 'Then
you can go and work in my vineyard.'
"At the end of the day, the owner of the vineyard said
to the boss of all the workers, 'Call the workers and
pay them. Start with the last people I hired and end
with those I hired first.' When the
workers who were hired at five o'clock came to get their
pay, they thought they would be paid more than the others.
But each one of them also received one coin. When they
got their coin, they complained to the man who owned
the land. They said, 'Those people were hired last and
worked only one hour. But you paid them the same as
you paid us who worked hard all day in the hot sun.'
But the man who owned the vineyard said to one of those
workers, 'Friend, I am being fair to you. You agreed
to work for one coin. So take your pay and go. I want
to give the man who was hired last the same pay that
I gave you. I can do what I want with my own money.
Are you jealous because I am good to those people?'
2 Timothy 4:6-8
(NCV) My life is being given
as an offering to God, and the time has come for me
to leave this life. I have fought the good fight, I
have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now,
a crown is being held for me-a crown for being right
with God. The Lord, the judge who judges rightly, will
give the crown to me on that day-not only to me but
to all those who have waited with love for him to come
again.
1 John 3:6 (NCV)
So anyone who lives in Christ does not
go on sinning. Anyone who goes on sinng has never really
understood Christ and has never known him.
Ephesians 5:8 (NCV)
In the past you were full of darkness,
but now you are full of light in the Lord. So live like
children who belong to the light.
Testing
the Lord
Matthew 4:7 (NCV)
Jesus answered him, "It also says in the
Scriptures, ‘Do not test the Lord your God.'"
Turned
from Christ?
1 Peter 2:25 (NCV)
You were like sheep that wandered away,
but now you have come back to the Shepherd and Protector
of your souls.
Why
Christianity?
John 14:6 (NCV)
Jesus answered, "I am the way, and the
truth, and the life. The only way to the Father is through
me."
Worry
1 Peter 5:6-7 (NCV)
Be humble under God's powerful hand so
he will lift you up when the right time comes. Give
all your worries to him, because he cares about you.
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