God’s Verse for God’s people

God's Scalpel:

Hebrews 4:12

12 For the word of God is living and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.

13 Nothing in all creation is hidden from God's sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.

God's Ways:

Isaiah 55:8

“For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD.

My Heavenly Fathers Letter

. I am able to do more for you than you could possibly imagine

Ephesians 3:20  

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,

. For I am your greatest encourager

2 Thessalonians 2:16-17 

16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope,

17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.

. I am also the Father who comforts you in all your troubles

2 Corinthians 1:3-4  

3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort,

4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God.

. When you are brokenhearted, I am close to you

Psalms 34:18  

The LORD is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit.

. As a shepherd carries a lamb, I have carried you close to my heart

Isaiah 40:11  

He tends his flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.

. One day I will wipe away every tear from your eyes

Revelation 21:3-4 

3 And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God.

4 He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.”

The Power of Prayer

Promises that God Will Answer Prayer

Consider several Bible passages expressly stating that God does answer prayer:

1 John 5:14-15  

14 This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.

15 And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

1 John 3:22  

And receive from him anything we ask, because we obey his commands and do what pleases him.

James 5:16

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.

Matthew 7:7-11 

7 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you.

8 For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

9 “Which of you, if his son asks for bread, will give him a stone?

10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a snake?

11 If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!

Peter 5:7  

Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

God’s Verse for God’s people…

Excuse: I cannot break with my Sins:

Luke 13:3  

I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish.

Galatians 6:8  

The one who sows to please his sinful nature, from that nature will reap destruction; the one who sows to please the Spirit, from the Spirit will reap eternal life.

Revelation 21:8  

But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death.”

I Will Answer Them

Joel 2:32 

And everyone who calls on the name of the LORD will be saved; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be deliverance, as the LORD has said, among the survivors whom the LORD calls.

Hosea 2:21-23 

21 “In that day I will respond,” declares the LORD— “I will respond to the skies, and they will respond to the earth;

22 and the earth will respond to the grain, the new wine and oil, and they will respond to Jezreel.

23 I will plant her for myself in the land; I will show my love to the one I called ‘Not my loved one.’ I will say to those called ‘Not my people,’ ‘You are my people’; and they will say, ‘You are my God.’”

Ezekiel 37:27 

My dwelling place will be with them; I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Ezekiel 36:28 

You will live in the land I gave your forefathers; you will be my people, and I will be your God.

Jeremiah 32:28 

Therefore, this is what the LORD says: I am about to hand this city over to the Babylonians and to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, who will capture it.

Jeremiah 31:33 

“This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time,” declares the LORD. “I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people.

Isaiah 44:1-6

1 “But now listen, O Jacob, my servant, Israel, whom I have chosen.

2 This is what the LORD says— he who made you, who formed you in the womb, and who will help you: Do not be afraid, O Jacob, my servant, Jeshurun, whom I have chosen.

3 For I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.

4 They will spring up like grass in a meadow, like poplar trees by flowing streams.

5 One will say, ‘I belong to the LORD’; another will call himself by the name of Jacob; still another will write on his hand, ‘The LORD's,’ and will take the name Israel.

6 “This is what the LORD says— Israel's King and Redeemer, the LORD Almighty: I am the first and I am the last; apart from me there is no God.

Things Men Can Do

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168)

Go to perdition by drawing back

Hebrews 10:38-39  

38 But my righteous one will live by faith. And if he shrinks back, I will not be pleased with him.”

39  But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who believe and are saved.

169)

Fall through unbelief as did others

Hebrews 4:11  

Let us, therefore, make every effort to enter that rest, so that no one will fall by following their example of disobedience.

170)

Became slothful and fail to inherit the promise

Hebrews 6:12  

We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.

171)

Flee for refuge and lay hold of hope

Hebrews 6:18  

God did this so that, by two unchangeable things in which it is impossible for God to lie, we who have fled to take hold of the hope offered to us may be greatly encouraged.

172)

Follow peace and holiness or commit sin and be lost

Hebrews 12:14  

Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.

173)

Be kept by God’s power by committing their lives to Him

1 Peter 1:5  

Who through faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last time.

174)

Gird up the lions of their minds, hope for, and wait for salvation

1 Peter 1:13  

Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be self-controlled; set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.

175)

Fashion themselves to their former lusts and be lost

1 Peter 1:14

 As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance.

176)

Lay aside all malice and sin and be saved or live in them and be lost

2 Peter 3:17  

Therefore, dear friends, since you already know this, be on your guard so that you may not be carried away by the error of lawless men and fall from your secure position.

177)

Sin and die again, or live right and continue to live

Ezekiel 3:20  

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does evil, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die. Since you did not warn him, he will die for his sin. The righteous things he did will not be remembered and I will hold you accountable for his blood.

Do not love the world

Do not love the world

1 John 2:15-17  

15 Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.

16  For everything in the world—the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does—comes not from the Father but from the world.

17 The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever.

 Practice righteousness

1 John 2:29  

If you know that he is righteous, you know that everyone who does what is right has been born of him.

Whoever sins does not know Him

1 John 3:6-9

6 No one who lives in him keeps on sinning. No one who continues to sin has either seen him or known him.

7 Dear children, do not let anyone lead you astray. He who does what is right is righteous, just as he is righteous.

8 He who does what is sinful is of the devil, because the devil has been sinning from the beginning. The reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the devil's work.

9 No one who is born of God will continue to sin, because God's seed remains in him; he cannot go on sinning, because he has been born of God.

Luke warm

Revelation 3:15-16  

15 I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other!

16 So, because you are lukewarm—neither hot nor cold—I am about to spit you out of my mouth.

Ashamed of Jesus

Mark 8:38

 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with the holy angels.”

Luke 9:26

 If anyone is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his glory and in the glory of the Father and of the holy angels.

Teachings of Christ

 Charity

Luke 12:33  

Sell your possessions and give to the poor. Provide purses for yourselves that will not wear out, a treasure in heaven that will not be exhausted, where no thief comes near and no moth destroys.

Cheating

Mark 10:19  

You know the commandments: ‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”

Chosen

Matthew 22:14  

“For many are invited, but few are chosen.”

 Church

Matthew 18:17  

If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church; and if he refuses to listen even to the church, treat him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.

 Circumcision

John 7:22-23  

22 Yet, because Moses gave you circumcision (though actually it did not come from Moses, but from the patriarchs), you circumcise a child on the Sabbath.

23 Now if a child can be circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, why are you angry with me for healing the whole man on the Sabbath?