This memory just popped in my head. I don’t know if you did this in Sunday school, but we made a “phone book” of bible verses to call (call meaning just read in your Bible). For example: Call 1 Peter 4:10 when you don’t feel motivated…or call Isaiah 41:10 when you’re afraid.
What are your go-to Bible verses??
Jeremiah 29:11
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Everytime people crush prisoners under their feet, the Lord knows all about it.
Lamentations 3:34
Love this idea! here are a few on my “speed-dial”:
#guidance — Proverbs 3:5-6
#anxiety — Philippians 4:6-7
#fear — Psalm 23:4
#lonely/heartbroken — Psalm 34:18
#tired/burned out — Matthew 11:28-30
#temptation — 1 Corinthians 10:13
#forgiveness — 1 John 1:9
#identity/assurance — Romans 8:38-39
curious to see everyone else’s “contacts”!
** **This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. ** **If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? ** **Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. I John 3:16-18
It reminds you that love is not words but actions. I think we forget that sometimes.
Preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, ~ 2 Timothy 4:2-3
I apologize, but this just raises a red flag for me since it’s been misused by prosperity preachers more than almost any other verse, which is sad. But Jeremiah 29: 11 in context was NOT written to make anyone rich or comfortable. God was speaking to Israel in exile, not luxury, under the chastening of judgment. They were being held captive in Babylon for the sin that they had committed. Even there, God promised them that He had not broken His covenant with them. The “plans to prosper you” were not material but spiritual restoration.
Yes, I have encountered that several times… 