Bible Promises for Graduates Raspberry E-Book

BroadStreet Publishing Group LLC

• Herausgeber: BroadStreet Publishing Group, LLC
• Kategorie: Religion und Spiritualität
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2019

Seitenzahl: 101

Beschreibung

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? Place 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!

Leseprobe

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 andstrengthen your weak knees. Mark out a straightpath for your feet so that those who are weak andlame will not fall but become strong.

HEBREWS 12:12-13 NLT

“My grace is sufficient for you, for my power ismade perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boastall the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that thepower of Christ may rest upon me.

2 CORINTHIANS 12:9 ESV

We can rejoice, too, when we run into problemsand trials, for we know that they help us developendurance. And endurance develops strengthof character, and character strengthens ourconfident hope of salvation. And this hope willnot lead to disappointment. For we know howdearly God loves us, because he has given us theHoly Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

ROMANS 5:3-5 NLT

After you have suffered for a little while, the Godof all grace, who called you to His eternal glory inChrist, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthenand 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 willalways accept them.”

JOHN 6:37 NCV

Before he made the world, God chose us to be his veryown through what Christ would do for us; he decidedthen to make us holy in his eyes, without a singlefault—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 anyonehears my voice and opens the door, I will come inand 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 yoursbecause 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 intofear, but you have received a spirit of adoption. Whenwe cry, “Abba! Father!” it is that very Spirit bearingwitness with our spirit that we are children of God.

ROMANS 8:15-16 NRSV

The LORD will not abandon His people on account ofHis great name, because the LORD has been pleasedto make you a people for Himself.

1 SAMUEL 12:22 NASB

A father of the fatherless and a judge forthe 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 himto 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 fearfullyand wonderfully made.Wonderful are your works;that I know very well.

PSALM 139:13-14 NRSV

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

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

You may be questioning why you were born withsuch and such, or why you have this or thatpersonality trait. But he made you that way onpurpose, to use it for his glory, because he sawthe beauty in you!

PRAYER:

Lord, help me to see how wonderfullyyou’ve made me, every day. You don’t makemistakes. I want to believe that. You formedeach part of me with your perfect design.I want to embrace my unique purpose andwalk in all you have called me to.

ANXIETY

Be still in the presence of the LORDand wait patiently for him to act.Don’t worry about evil people who prosperor 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 everysituation, 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 togetherby strong ties of love. I want them to havecomplete confidence that they understand God’smysterious plan, which is Christ himself.

COLOSSIANS 2:2 NLT

“I have told you all this so that you may havepeace in me. Here on earth you will have manytrials and sorrows. But take heart, because I haveovercome the world.”

JOHN 16:33 NLT

ASSURANCE

Your promises have been thoroughly tested,and your servant loves them.My eyes stay open through thewatches of the night,that I may meditate on your promises.

PSALM 119:140, 148 NIV

He has granted to us his precious and very greatpromises, so that through them you may becomepartakers of the divine nature, having escaped fromthe corruption that is in the world.

2 PETER 1:3-4 ESV

To him who is able to do immeasurably more thanall we ask or imagine, according to his power thatis at work within us, to him be glory…for ever andever! Amen.

EPHESIANS 3:20-21 NIV

All of God’s promises have been fulfilled in Christwith a resounding “Yes!”

2 CORINTHIANS 1:20 NLT

These things I have written to you who believe inthe name of the Son of God, that you may knowthat you have eternal life, and that you maycontinue to believe in the name of the Son of God.

1 JOHN 5:13 NKJV

Jesus Christ is the sameyesterday and today and forever.

HEBREWS 13:8 NASB

The LORD always keeps his promises;he is gracious in all he does.

PSALM 145:13 NLT

BEAUTY

I will praise You,for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;Marvelous are Your works,And that my soul knows very well.

PSALM 139:14 NKJV

Don’t be concerned about the outward beauty offancy hairstyles, expensive jewelry, or beautifulclothes. You should clothe yourselves instead withthe beauty that comes from within, the unfadingbeauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is soprecious to God.

1 PETER 3:3-4 NLT

The LORD doesn’t see things the way you see them.People judge by outward appearance,but the LORD looks at the heart.

1 SAMUEL 16:7 NLT

“And why do you worry about clothes? See howthe wild flowers grow. They don’t work or makeclothing. But here is what I tell you. Not evenSolomon in all his royal robes was dressed like oneof these flowers. If that is how God dresses thewild grass, won’t he dress you even better? Yourfaith is so small! After all, the grass is here onlytoday. Tomorrow it is thrown into the fire. So don’tworry. Don’t say, ‘What will we eat?’ Or, ‘What willwe drink?’ Or, ‘What will we wear?’ People whoare ungodly run after all those things. Your Fatherwho is in heaven knows that you need them.”

MATTHEW 6:27-29 NIRV

He has made everything beautiful in its time.

ECCLESIASTES 3:11 NIV

BELONGING

God chose us to belong to Christ before the worldwas created. He chose us to be holy and withoutblame in his eyes. He loved us.

EPHESIANS 1:4 NIRV

We know that all things work together for good tothose who love God, to those who are the calledaccording to His purpose.

ROMANS 8:28 NKJV

No eye has seen, no ear has heard,and no mind has imaginedwhat God has preparedfor those who love him.

1 CORINTHIANS 2:9 NLT

You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, aholy nation, God’s special possession, that youmay declare the praises of him who called youout of darkness into his wonderful light.

1 PETER 2:9 NIV

There is a time for everything,and everything on earth has its special season.

ECCLESIASTES 3:1 NCV

WISDOM AT EVERY TURN

If you are wise and understand God’s ways, proveit by living an honorable life, doing good workswith the humility that comes from wisdom.

JAMES 3:13 NLT

When you think of a wise person, is there anyonespecific who comes to mind? What is it about thatperson that makes you think they are so wise?Certain qualities define a wise person. How they livetheir lives and show wisdom is the most importantquality of all.