Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;
Proverbs 3:5 New International Version (NIV)
bātah > TRUST : trust, rely on, depend on, feel secure, have confidence in
lēb > inner person, the self, the seat of thought and emotion. The conscience, courage, the mind, understanding
- Do you seek God’s direction in the choices you make, or do you choose based on what you think and feel.
- Do you seek to know God better and his plan for you life by spending time reading Scripture, praying, participating in a small accountability group who are committed to grow in their faith?
- Do you try to view the world through God’s eyes, or are you content to look at the world through your own?
in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:6 (NIV)
Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus, because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit who gives life has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Romans 8:1-2 (NIV)
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.
John 3:17 (NIV)
Therefore, brothers and sisters, we have an obligation—but it is not to the flesh, to live according to it. For if you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the misdeeds of the body, you will live.
Romans 8:12-13 (NIV)
I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
Romans 8:18 (NIV)
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?
Romans 8:31-32 (NIV)
For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:38-39 (NIV)
We love because he first loved us.
1 John 4:19 (NIV)