Thematic Bible: Divine methods used for testing believers
Thematic Bible
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » Divine delays test men's courage and patience
{To the chief Musician. A Psalm of David.} How long, Jehovah, wilt thou forget me for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Have patience, therefore, brethren, till the coming of the Lord. Behold, the labourer awaits the precious fruit of the earth, having patience for it until it receive the early and the latter rain.
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
When therefore he heard, He is sick, he remained two days then in the place where he was.
But I am afflicted and needy: the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my deliverer: my God, make no delay.
I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Martha therefore said to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;
The Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By giving opportunities for choice
Thou hast proved my heart, thou hast visited me by night; thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing: my thought goeth not beyond my word.
However in the matter of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
Jehovah trieth the righteous one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.
Oh let the wrong of the wicked come to an end, and establish thou the righteous man; even thou that triest the hearts and reins, the righteous God.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By leading men in a difficult way
And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments or not.
thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams; for Jehovah your God proveth you, to know whether ye love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By demanding great sacrifices
And Moses said to the people, Fear not; for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not.
And it came to pass after these things, that God tried Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! and he said, Here am I.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
When therefore he heard, He is sick, he remained two days then in the place where he was.
Jesus then, lifting up his eyes and seeing that a great crowd is coming to him, says to Philip, Whence shall we buy loaves that these may eat? But this he said trying him, for he knew what he was going to do.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting men to suffer when in the pathway of duty (paul and silas)
And having laid many stripes upon them they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely; who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and secured their feet to the stocks.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various temptations, knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.