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| ISBN-13: | 9781404103214 |
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| Publisher: | Nelson, Thomas, Inc. |
| Publication date: | 09/03/2005 |
| Pages: | 416 |
| Product dimensions: | 4.00(w) x 5.95(h) x 1.55(d) |
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God's Promises & Answers For Your Life
By Terri Gibbs
Thomas Nelson
Copyright © 1999 J. CountrymanAll rights reserved.
ISBN: 978-1-4041-0321-4
CHAPTER 1
Jesus Is Your Savior
Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit, whom He poured out on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Savior.
Titus 3:5, 6
We have seen and testify that the Father has sent the Son as Savior of the world.
1 John 4:14
My spirit has rejoiced in God my Savior.
Luke 1:47
We ourselves have heard Him and we know that this is indeed the Christ, the Savior of the world.
John 4:42b
The Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost.
Luke 19:10
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
John 3:16
Being justified freely by His grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus, whom God set forth as a propitiation by His blood, through faith, to demonstrate His righteousness, because in His forbearance God had passed over the sins that were previously committed.
Romans 3:24, 25
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).
Ephesians 2:4, 5
Most assuredly, I say to you, he who believes in Me has everlasting life.
John 6:47
For by grace you have been saved through faith, and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God, not of works, lest anyone should boast.
Ephesians 2:8, 9
If you confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Romans 10:9
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.
2 Corinthians 5:17
Who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began.
2 Timothy 1:9
Nevertheless He saved them for His name's sake, that He might make His mighty power known.
Psalm 106:8
Jesus Is Your Lord
Therefore God also has highly exalted Him and given Him the name which is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth, and of those under the earth, and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Philippians 2:9–11
Why do you call Me "Lord, Lord," and not do the things which I say?
Luke 6:46
I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Romans 12:1, 2
For sin shall not have dominion over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
What then? Shall we sin because we are not under law but under grace? Certainly not!
Do you not know that to whom you present yourselves slaves to obey, you are that one's slaves whom you obey, whether of sin leading to death, or of obedience leading to righteousness?
Romans 6:14–16
Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own?
For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God's.
1 Corinthians 6:19, 20
Let all the house of Israel know assuredly that God has made this Jesus, whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ.
Acts 2:36
If we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.
Romans 14:8
For the Lord GOD will help Me;
Therefore I will not be disgraced;
Therefore I have set My face like a flint,
And I know that I will not be ashamed.
Isaiah 50:7
"You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength." This is the first commandment.
Mark 12:30
Jesus Is Your Love
The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime, And in the night His song shall be with me—A prayer to the God of my life.
Psalm 42:8
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God.
He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent His only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through Him.
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.
Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
No one has seen God at any time. If we love one another, God abides in us, and His love has been perfected in us.
1 John 4:7–12
And we have known and believed the love that God has for us. God is love, and he who abides in love abides in God, and God in him.
We love Him because He first loved us.
1 John 4:16, 19
As the Father loved Me, I also have loved you; abide in My love.
If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love, just as I have kept My Father's commandments and abide in His love.
These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full.
This is My commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you.
Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one's life for his friends.
These things I command you, that you love one another.
John 15:9–13, 17
He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father, and I will love him and manifest Myself to him.
John 14:21
But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Romans 5:8
That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height—to know the love of Christ which passes knowledge; that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Ephesians 3:17–19
I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me.
Proverbs 8:17
The Lord has appeared of old to me, saying: "Yes, I have loved you with an everlasting love; Therefore with lovingkindness I have drawn you."
Jeremiah 31:3
I will betroth you to Me forever;
Yes, I will betroth you to Me
In righteousness and justice,
In lovingkindness and mercy.
Hosea 2:19
Jesus Is Your Peace
You will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.
Isaiah 26:3
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near by the blood of Christ.
For He Himself is our peace, who has made both one, and has broken down the middle wall of separation.
Ephesians 2:13, 14
The God of peace will crush Satan under your feet shortly. The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you.
Romans 16:20
The things which you learned and received and heard and saw in me, these do, and the God of peace will be with you.
Philippians 4:9
And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful.
Colossians 3:15
The LORD will give strength to His people; The LORD will bless His people with peace.
Psalm 29:11
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
John 14:27
Jesus Is Your Forgiveness
To the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of sins, according to the riches of His grace.
Ephesians 1:6, 7
You have forgiven the iniquity of Your people; You have covered all their sin.
Psalm 85:2
As far as the east is from the west, So far has He removed our transgressions from us.
Psalm 103:12
My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.
1 John 2:1
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9
I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.
Hebrews 8:12
Let the wicked forsake his way,
And the unrighteous man his thoughts;
Let him return to the LORD,
And He will have mercy on him;
And to our God,
For He will abundantly pardon.
Isaiah 55:7
You, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses.
Colossians 2:13
I will cleanse them from all their iniquity by which they have sinned against Me, and I will pardon all their iniquities by which they have sinned and by which they have transgressed against Me.
Jeremiah 33:8
"Come now, and let us reason together," Says the Lord, "Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool."
Isaiah 1:18
I, even I, am He who blots out your transgressions for My own sake; and I will not remember your sins.
Isaiah 43:25
Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered.
Blessed is the man to whom the LORD does not impute iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
Psalm 32:1, 2
Jesus Is Your Righteousness
He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him.
2 Corinthians 5:21
Of Him you are in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God—and righteousness and sanctification and redemption.
1 Corinthians 1:30
[Being] found in Him, not having my own righteousness, which is from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness which is from God by faith.
Philippians 3:9
Just as Abraham "believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness." Therefore know that only those who are of faith are sons of Abraham.
Galatians 3:6, 7
To him who does not work but believes on Him who justifies the ungodly, his faith is accounted for righteousness.
Romans 4:5
If by the one man's offense death reigned through the one, much more those who receive abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness will reign in life through the One, Jesus Christ.
Romans 5:17
What the law could not do in that it was weak through the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh, on account of sin: He condemned sin in the flesh, that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us who do not walk according to the flesh but according to the Spirit.
Romans 8:3, 4
What shall we say then? That Gentiles, who did not pursue righteousness, have attained to righteousness, even the righteousness of faith.
Romans 9:30
Whom He foreknew, He also predestined to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover whom He predestined, these He also called; whom He called, these He also justified; and whom He justified, these He also glorified.
Romans 8:29, 30
The work of righteousness will be peace, and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance forever.
Isaiah 32:17
With the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.
Romans 10:10
Jesus Is Your Deliverer
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon Me, Because the LORD has anointed Me To preach good tidings to the poor; He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted, To proclaim liberty to the captives, And the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
Isaiah 61:1
You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
Therefore if the Son makes you free, you shall be free indeed.
John 8:32, 36
The law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has made me free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:2
These signs will follow those who believe: In My name they will cast out demons; they will speak with new tongues.
Mark 16:17
You have broken the yoke of his burden and the staff of his shoulder, the rod of his oppressor, as in the day of Midian.
Isaiah 9:4
The Spirit of the LORD is upon Me,
Because He has anointed Me
To preach the gospel to the poor;
He has sent Me to heal the brokenhearted,
To proclaim liberty to the captives
And recovery of sight to the blind,
To set at liberty those who are oppressed.
Luke 4:18
Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
Luke 10:19
Having been set free from sin, and having become slaves of God, you have your fruit to holiness, and the end, everlasting life.
Romans 6:22
Jesus Is Your Fellowship
That which we have seen and heard we declare to you, that you also may have fellowship with us; and truly our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:3
God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
1 Corinthians 1:9
Behold, I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears My voice and opens the door, I will come in to him and dine with him, and he with Me.
Revelation 3:20
Jesus answered and said to him, "If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our home with him."
John 14:23
"Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion! For behold, I am coming and I will dwell in your midst," says the Lord.
Zechariah 2:10
For where two or three are gathered together in My name, I am there in the midst of them.
Matthew 18:20
Abide in Me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.
I am the vine, you are the branches. He who abides in Me, and I in him, bears much fruit; for without Me you can do nothing.
If you abide in Me, and My words abide in you, you will ask what you desire, and it shall be done for you.
John 15:4, 5, 7
Therefore if there is any consolation in Christ, if any comfort of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any affection and mercy, fulfill my joy by being likeminded, having the same love, being of one accord, of one mind.
Philippians 2:1, 2
I am a companion of all who fear You, and of those who keep Your precepts.
Psalm 119:63
Walk in love, as Christ also has loved us and given Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweet-smelling aroma.
Speaking to one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord....
For we are members of His body, of His flesh and of His bones.
Ephesians 5:2, 19, 30
This is the message which we have heard from Him and declare to you, that God is light and in Him is no darkness at all.
If we say that we have fellowship with Him, and walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.
1 John 1:5–7
Jesus Is Your Example
To this you were called, because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that you should follow His steps.
1 Peter 2:21
He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as He walked.
1 John 2:6
If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.
For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.
John 13:14, 15
Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus, who, being in the form of God, did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant, and coming in the likeness of men.
And being found in appearance as a man, He humbled Himself and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the cross.
Philippians 2:5–8
(Continues...)
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WHAT TO DO WHEN YOU FEEL ...,
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GOD'S ANSWERS FOR YOUR LIFE,
BEGINNING IN CHRIST,
GROWING IN CHRIST,
MATURING IN CHRIST,
MINISTERING IN CHRIST,
HOPING IN CHRIST,
UNDERSTANDING IN CHRIST,
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