Bible Promises for Graduates E-Book

BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC

• Herausgeber: BroadStreet Publishing Group, LLC
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

The Scriptures give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God's promises to be fulfilled. Romans 15:4 NLT Everything you need to get through each day can be found in the promises of God's Word. Bible Promises for Graduates is a topically organized collection of God's promises with 21 inspiring devotions. As you reflect on God's truth, be inspired by his wisdom and encouraged by his faithfulness. You were created with a purpose, and God's promises are for you every day. 

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CONTENTS

Ability

Acceptance

Adoption

Anxiety

Assurance

Beauty

Belonging

Blessing

Bravery

Care

Comfort

Commitment

Confidence

Contentment

Cooperation

Courage

Creativity

Delight

Deliverance

Depression

Determination

Devotion

Diligence

Encouragement

Enthusiasm

Equipping

Eternity

Faith

Fear

Forgiveness

Freedom

Friendship

Generosity

Gentleness

Grace

Gratitude

Guidance

Happiness

Healing

Honesty

Hope

Humility

Inspiration

Joy

Justice

Life

Love

Patience

Peace

Perseverance

Prayer

Protection

Purity

Purpose

Reconciliation

Redemption

Refreshment

Relationship

Renewal

Restoration

Reward

Royalty

Satisfaction

Security

Strength

Support

Trustworthiness

Truth

Understanding

Victory

Wholeness

Wisdom

Worry

DEVOTIONAL ENTRIES

Made on Purpose

Wisdom at Every Turn

Ultimate GPS

Wisdom in Waiting

Better Ways

A Beautiful Plan

Influencing Voices

Total Dependence

Managing Priorities

Like a Mist

Wanderer

God Is There

Better than Gold

Your Story

Working for the Lord

Unless the Lord

This is the Way

Safer in His Hands

Wait

Equipped to Conquer

A Good Leader

INTRODUCTION

Congratulations! You’ve made it through a significant season of your life and many new adventures await you.

This Bible Promise book is designed to engage you in topics specific to what you face each day. As you embrace God’s words of truth, be filled with joy, strength, wisdom, and renewed purpose for the day ahead. Gain confidence as you learn that the God who created you designed you for something special.

How can you be sure you are making the right choices? By placing your confidence and hope in the incredible goodness of God. He loves you just because you are his, and he is excited to show you his plan!

ABILITY

We are not saying that we can do this work ourselves.

It is God who makes us able to do all that we do.

2 CORINTHIANS 3:5 NCV

Take a new grip with your tired hands and

strengthen your weak knees. Mark out a straight

path for your feet so that those who are weak and

lame will not fall but become strong.

HEBREWS 12:12-13 NLT

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is

made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast

all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the

power of Christ may rest upon me.

2 CORINTHIANS 12:9 ESV

We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems

and trials, for we know that they help us develop

endurance. And endurance develops strength

of character, and character strengthens our

confident hope of salvation. And this hope will

not lead to disappointment. For we know how

dearly God loves us, because he has given us the

Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

ROMANS 5:3–5 NLT

After you have suffered for a little while, the God

of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in

Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen

and establish you.

1 PETER 5:10 NASB

ACCEPTANCE

“The Father gives me the people who are mine.

Every one of them will come to me, and I will

always accept them.”

JOHN 6:37 NCV

Before he made the world, God chose us to be his very

own through what Christ would do for us; he decided

then to make us holy in his eyes, without a single

fault—we who stand before him covered with his love.

EPHESIANS 1:4 TLB

If God is for us, who can be against us?

ROMANS 8:31 ESV

“Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone

hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in

and eat with that person, and they with me.”

REVELATION 3:20 NIV

“Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you.

I have called you by name; you are mine.

When you go through deep waters,

I will be with you.

When you go through rivers of difficulty,

you will not drown.

When you walk through the fire of oppression,

you will not be burned up;

the flames will not consume you.

For I am the LORD, your God,

the Holy One of Israel, your Savior.

I gave Egypt as a ransom for your freedom;

I gave Ethiopia and Seba in your place.

Others were given in exchange for you.

I traded their lives for yours

because you are precious to me.

You are honored, and I love you.”

ISAIAH 43:1–4 NLT

ADOPTION

You did not receive a spirit of slavery to fall back into

fear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. When

we cry, “Abba! Father!” it is that very Spirit bearing

witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

ROMANS 8:15–16 NRSV

The LORD will not abandon His people on account of

His great name, because the LORD has been pleased

to make you a people for Himself.

1 SAMUEL 12:22 NASB

A father of the fatherless and a judge for

the widows, is God in His holy habitation.

God makes a home for the lonely;

He leads out the prisoners into prosperity.

PSALM 68:5-6 NASB

“I will not abandon you as orphans—

I will come to you.”

JOHN 14:18 NLT

But when the right time came, God sent his Son,

born of a woman, subject to the law. God sent him

to buy freedom for us who were slaves to the law,

so that he could adopt us as his very own children.

GALATIANS 4:4-5 NLT

“I will bring the blind by a way they did not know;

I will lead them in paths they have not known.

I will make darkness light before them,

And crooked places straight.

These things will I do for them,

And not forsake them.”

ISAIAH 42:16 NKJV

MADE ON PURPOSE

It was you who formed my inward parts;

you knit me together in my mother’s womb.

I praise you, for I am fearfully

and wonderfully made.

Wonderful are your works;

that I know very well.

PSALM 139:13-14 NRSV

Even before you were born, the Lord was busy working on you. God knew what color your eyes were going to be, and how thick or thin or curly or straight your hair would turn out. And even better, he knew all the character traits that add up to exactly what makes you, you!

Here’s the best thing: God doesn’t make mistakes. What does that mean for you? It means that he knew what he was doing with every trait he gave you. He thinks you are wonderful!

You may be questioning why you were born with such and such, or why you have this or that personality trait. But he made you that way on purpose, to use it for his glory, because he saw the beauty in you!

PRAYER:

Lord, help me to see how wonderfully you’ve made me, every day. You don’t make mistakes. I want to believe that. You formed each part of me with your perfect design. I want to embrace my unique purpose and walk in all you have called me to.

ANXIETY

Be still in the presence of the LORD

and wait patiently for him to act.

Don’t worry about evil people who prosper

or fret about their wicked schemes.

Stop being angry!

Turn from your rage!

Do not lose your temper—

it only leads to harm.

PSALM 37:7-8 NLT

Be still, and know that I am God.

I will be exalted among the nations,

I will be exalted in the earth!

PSALM 46:10 ESV

Do not be anxious about anything, but in every

situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving,

present your requests to God.

PHILIPPIANS 4:6 NIV

In my trouble I cried to the LORD,

And He answered me.

PSALM 120:1 NASB

I want them to be encouraged and knit together

by strong ties of love. I want them to have

complete confidence that they understand God’s

mysterious plan, which is Christ himself.

COLOSSIANS 2:2 NLT

“I have told you all this so that you may have

peace in me. Here on earth you will have many

trials and sorrows. But take heart, because I have

overcome the world.”

JOHN 16:33 NLT

ASSURANCE

Your promises have been thoroughly tested,

and your servant loves them.

My eyes stay open through the

watches of the night,

that I may meditate on your promises.

PSALM 119:140, 148 NIV

He has granted to us his precious and very great

promises, so that through them you may become

partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from

the corruption that is in the world.

2 PETER 1:3-4 ESV

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, to him be glory…for ever and

ever! Amen.

EPHESIANS 3:20–21 NIV

All of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christ

with a resounding “Yes!”

2 CORINTHIANS 1:20 NLT