Day 1 - Week 33 - Starting ten verses of God's Promises!

I'm still being carried along by the spirit of Christian fellowship and encouragement from tonight's Bible study.  What a lesson we had tonight on the immeasurable, beyond our imaginations, ability of God.  I realized how often I limit God to my possibilities, forgetting that He is way beyond my limited conception of His power.  I hope to never again limit my prayers to the scope of what I think is able to be altered by God...EVERYTHING is subject to Him and able to be changed by Him!  What I learned tonight is that my part is to bring all things to God knowing that He is absolutely able to resolve my issues; God's part is to determine how in His sovereignty He will resolve those issues...and His resolution will always be good and will always reflect His love toward me.  I think these realizations on my part were reinforced by many of the
verses that we have meditated on over these past weeks.  God is using all things together to build our faith in Him!

And onward we go....and what a blessing we will receive from the next ten verses as they all contain promises of God to us!  Since this is a group of ten, we will now drop of our section of verses on the gift of Scripture, so you may want to go over those six verses periodically to keep them fresh in your heart!

So starting with The Gift of Prayer and going through our last four verses of Praise.....

The Gift of Prayer (3)
Hebrews 4:16 Therefore, let us approach the throne of grace with boldness that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us at the proper time.

1 John 5:14   Now this is the confidence we have before Him, whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

1 John 5:15   And if we know that He hears whatever we ask, we know that we have what we have asked Him for.

The Gift of Assurance (10)

1 John 5:11 And this is the testimony:  God has given us eternal life and that life is in His Son.

1 John 5:12-13  The one who has the Son has life.  The one who doesn't have the Son of God, does not have life.  I say these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know you have eternal life.

John 14:1  Your heart must not be troubled, you believe in God, believe also in Me.

John 14:2  In my Father's house are many mansion, if it were not so, I would have told you.  I go to prepare a place for you.

John 14:3  And if I go away and prepare a place for you, I will come back and receive you unto Myself, so that where I am, you may be also.

John 14:6  Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father, except through Me.

John 14:27 Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you.  I do not give as the world gives.  Your heart must not be troubled or afraid.

Isaiah 26:3-4  You will keep in perfect peace the mind that is dependent on You, for it is trusting in You.  Trust in the Lord forever, for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting strength.

Isaiah 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed . (KJV)

Isaiah 53:6  We all went astray like sheep; we all have turned to our own way; and the Lord has punished Him for the iniquities of us all.

Praise and Thanksgiving (4)

1 Peter 1:3  Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.  According to His great mercy He has given us a new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.

Psalm 100:4  Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise.  Give thanks to Him and praise His name. 

Psalm 100:5  For the LORD is good and his love endures forever; his faithfulness continues through all generations.
Revelation 4:11  You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things, and by your will they were created and have their being.

Are you wondering which promise will be first...well it will make perfect sense when you hear it!

Matthew 6:33  But seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you. (ESV)

I love this translation of the verse --- but I just have to share how this verse reads in The Message:

Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

Oh how ready I believe I am to abandon the pursuit of the many things that distract me from seeking the Kingdom of God!  Help me, Holy Spirit, to cling to that conviction and throw myself into the reckless pursuit of You...my absolute Provider!