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Divine Help from God for a True Christian (selected and responded to by Bill Stevenson) Note: Many of the following indicated Bible verses were from Jack Taylor's “Who We Are In Christ” list. So I have changed some of my responses to first person tense. I hope that you can identify personally too. Titus 2:14-- Jesus Christ gave Himself for us so that He could redeem us from every lawless deed and purify for Himself His own special people zealous for good works. Romans 5:1-- I have peace with God the Father through my Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:56-57 & 1 John 4:18-- Because I believe the Gospel, I don’t have to have any fear about death (physical or spiritual). 2 Timothy 1:7-- God has given me a spirit of power, of love, and of a sound mind, not a spirit of fear. 2 Corinthians 5:1-8 & 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18-- I will eventually physically see and be with Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 2:12-- I can know the things (especially Salvation) that have been freely given to me by God. Colossians 1:9-12-- I can be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding so that I can live worthy of Jesus Christ, fully pleasing Him being fruitful or successful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God At any time, I can be strengthened with God’s divine power for patience, longsuffering with joy. I should be thankful to God the Father Who has qualifies me to be a partaker of the inheritance in Heaven. Romans 8:3-6-- Because of the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, the righteous requirement of the Law was fulfilled for me. I am now able to walk according to the Holy Spirit, being guided by Him whenever I want. I can set my mind on the things of the Holy Spirit, the wisdom and promises of God the Father. I can live for good purposes and have peace (that surpasses all understanding, Philippians 4:7) from God. Romans 5:17-- I have received abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness from God. I will always be able to reign in my life through Jesus Christ. I can always have proper confidence and I don’t have to feel like I am a failure. Romans 8:28-- I can always have hope for my situation getting better. Romans 8:38-39-- I can always experience the unselfish agapè love of God. Romans 5:3-5-- I am able to glory in tribulations (troubles, upsets, tragedies, betrayals) because I know that tribulation produces perseverance, which produces character, which produces hope, and that hope does not disappoint because the wonderful love of God has been poured out in my heart by the indwelling Holy Spirit. 2 Corinthians 1:3-5-- The God of mercies and all comfort comforts me in all my tribulation so that I can be able to comfort and encourage those who are in any trouble. 2 Corinthians 2:14-- God will always lead me in success (triumph over challenges) in Christ Jesus and through me His Word will be exemplified and taught.

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2 Corinthians 3:5 & Philippians 4:11-12 & 19-- My sufficiency is from God; He will always provide for all of my needs. I can learn to always be content or satisfied in all situations. Hebrews 13:5-6-- I am to keep my conduct without covetousness and be content the things I possess already because God said that He will never leave or forsake me. 2 Thessalonians 3:5-- Jesus Christ, via the Holy Spirit, will direct my heart and mind into the love of God the Father and into the patience of Christ. Philippians 4:6-7-- When I communicate with God in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving, I will receive the peace of God which surpasses all understanding guards my heart and mind through Christ Jesus. 1 John 5:14-15-- I can ask anything according to God’s will. God hears me and I can know that I have the petitions that I have asked of Him. Philippians 4:13-- I have the talents and strength to do anything that Jesus Christ approves of (which is urged by the Holy Spirit). 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 & Philippians 1:6-I will be sanctified completely by the faithful God of peace. Because of divinely helped sanctification, my whole spirit, soul, and body can be preserved blameless until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hebrews 13:20-21-- God the Father Who is the God of peace and Who brought up my Lord Jesus from the dead will make me complete in every good work to do His will working in me what is well pleasing in His sight through Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit. Hebrews 12:7-11-- God loves me so much that He disciplines me when necessary for my sanctification. His discipline is not joyful or painless, but it always yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it. 1 John 2:5, 3:24, & 4:12-- God’s love is perfected in me when I obey His commandments. 2 Thessalonians 2:16-17-- My Lord Jesus Christ and God the Father comforts my heart and establishes me in every good word and work. (According to Ephesians 2:10, the latter is already prepared by God.) 2 Timothy 3:16-17-- I can become complete, thoroughly equipped for every good work, if I use the Bible for inspiration, profitable doctrine, reproof, correction, and instruction in righteousness. 2 Corinthians 12:9-10 & Philippians 4:13 & 4-God’s grace is sufficient for me. His strength is made perfect in my weaknesses. The power of God can rest upon me and help me. I can even take pleasure for Christ while I am sick, physically hindered, of needs, being persecuted, or in distress. I can rejoice in any situation. Things could always be worse. Hebrews 4:16-- Because of Jesus Christ and my faith in Him, I can boldly pray to God the Father, Who rules with grace, so that I can obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of my need. Hebrews 1:13-14-- God has created angels who are ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation.

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Ephesians 1:17-21-- I can receive wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of God the Father. I can understand better so that I can know what is the hope of God’s desires for me what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints is the exceeding greatness of His resurrection power toward me and for me. 2 Peter 1:2-4-- Grace and peace are increased in me via my learning more about God the Father and Jesus Christ. I can receive the wisdom that pertains to life and Godliness by knowing Christ more. I can be a partaker of the divine nature, Christ-likeness by believing God’s great and precious promises. God helped me escape “the corruption that is in the world through lust”. 2 Peter 3:13-- I have the greatest hope of all according to one of God’s greatest promises to look forward to, new heavens and a new Earth in which righteousness dwells. Matthew 11:25-30-- I can receive all about what is pleasing and displeasing to God the Father. Jesus Christ has willed revelation about God for me to learn. I can get rest in my soul and mind from Jesus whenever I labor and feel very stressed, just by joining with him (letting Him be involved with me in the labor and the stresses) and learning from Him because He is a gentle and humble teacher via the Holy Spirit. Whatever He asks me to do will be easy and not stressful. Ephesians 3:16-20-- I am able to be strengthened with might internally (spiritually) by God the Father according to the riches of His glory and via the Holy Spirit so that Jesus Christ may dwell in my heart through faith. I would be increasingly be rooted and grounded in unselfish agapè love from God. I might be able to comprehend with all the saints the fullness and extent of the love of Christ which passes knowledge. I may be filled with all the fullness of God. I am able to receive blessings from God that are “exceedingly abundantly above all” that I could even imagine. I can be a vessel and instrument of God’s power. Philippians 2:13-- God works in me “both to will and to do for His good pleasure”. Ephesians 6:10, 13, & 16-- I can “be strong in the Lord and the power of His might”. I am able to take up the spiritual armor so that I can “be able to withstand in the evil day” and stand for my faith in God in the spiritual warfare. 1 Peter 5:7-- I can cast all of my care upon God because He cares for me. 2 Timothy 4:18 & 1 Corinthians 10:13-- Jesus Christ will deliver me from every evil work and preserve me for His Heavenly Kingdom. God is faithful and will not allow me to be tempted beyond what I am able, providing an escape if necessary. Hebrews 12:2-3-- Jesus Christ is the author and finisher of my faith, and is the best role model or example for me. 1 Corinthians 2:16 & Philippians 2:5-8-- I can think like the humble and compassionate Jesus Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:4-5 & Ephesians 6:14-18-The weapons of God for me to use-- truth, righteousness, the preparation of the Gospel of peace, faith, Salvation, Scripture (which is the main weapon of the Holy Spirit), and prayer

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are mighty for pulling down strongholds (eliminating bad habits), refuting arguments, theories, reasonings, and whatever is against God’s truth and boasted about. These spiritual weapons can help me to handle every thought that comes to me according to the commandments of Jesus Christ. 2 Thessalonians 3:3-- Jesus Christ is faithful in establishing me and guarding me from Satan. James 1:2-5 & Matthew 5:11-16-I can count I all joy when I am put into various trials knowing that the testing of my faith produces patience and that patience helps me to become perfect and complete lacking nothing. At anytime or in any situation I lack wisdom, I can ask God, Who gives to all liberally and without reproach, and I will receive the needed wisdom. Jesus said that when I am reviled, persecuted, and falsely criticized for His sake, I will be divinely blessed and can rejoice and be exceedingly glad because great will be my reward in Heaven. I can be a spiritual salt and light of the world by my good works and the just mentioned will glorify God the Father. Philippians 3:7-11-- I am allowed to get to know Christ, which is the excellence of knowledge and is far better than my past successes or anything of the world. By my increasingly learning more about Christ, my consecration to Him will be obvious, not because of my own righteousness in obeying the Law, but because of the Holy Spirit-guided changes I make to be Christ-like. I can know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the understanding of His sufferings. I will attain the resurrection from the dead if I die before the Second Coming. Hebrews 6:17-20 & 12:22-24-I have the wonderful hope based on God’s immutable and sure New Covenant as an anchor of my soul (divine assurance with divine peace). I am registered in Heaven (in the Book of Eternal Life-- see Revelation 21:27c). Jude 24-- Jesus Christ, via the Holy Spirit and the Bible, is able to keep me from making mistakes in my life of faith and is able to present me faultless before the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. In conclusion, read Revelation 22 and respond to what it states personally to you.

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