Thematic Bible: Spiritual Tests
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 will You forget me, O Jehovah? Forever? How long will You hide Your face from me?
Therefore be patient, brothers, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth and has long patience for it, until he receives the early and the latter rain.
My eyes fail for Your Word, saying, When will You comfort me?
Therefore, when He had heard that he was sick, then indeed He remained two days in the place where He was.
But I am poor and needy; Jehovah will care for me; You are my help and my deliverer; O my God, do not wait.
I am weary from my crying; my throat is dried; my eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Then Martha said to Jesus, Lord, if You had been here, my brother would not have died.
The Lord is not slow concerning His promise, as some count slowness, but is long-suffering toward us, not purposing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Other examples of
By faith Abraham obeyed when he was called to go out into a place which he was afterward going to receive for an inheritance. And he went out, not knowing where he went.
By faith Abraham, being tested, offered up Isaac. And he who had received the promises offered up his only-begotten son,
so that the trial of your faith (being much more precious than that of gold that perishes, but being proven through fire) might be found to praise and honor and glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ,
knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.
And when He had come into the house, the blind men came to Him. And Jesus said to them, Do you believe that I am able to do this? They said to Him, Yes, Lord.
But Jesus said to her, Let the children first be filled. For it is not right to take the children's loaves and to throw it to the dogs.
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings; yes, more, of bonds and imprisonments.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By giving opportunities for choice
You have proved my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and You will find nothing; my thoughts do not pass beyond my mouth.
But, in regard to the ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon who sent to him to ask about the wonder that was done in the land, God left him in order to try him, to 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 you!
Jehovah tries the righteous; but His soul hates the wicked and the one who loves violence,
O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish the just. For the righteous God tries the minds and hearts.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By leading men in a difficult way
And you shall remember all the way which Jehovah your God led you these forty years in the wilderness in order to humble you, to prove you, to know what is in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.
you shall not listen to the words of that prophet or that dreamer of dreams. For Jehovah your God is testing you to know whether you love Jehovah your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » Final
each one's work shall be revealed. For the Day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try each one's work as to what kind it is.
Blessed is the man who endures temptation, because having been approved, he will receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those who love Him.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » process
And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on My name, and I will answer them; I will say, It is My people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
And He shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver. And He shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may be offerers of a food offering in righteousness to Jehovah.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By demanding great sacrifices
And Moses said to the people, Do not fear, for God has come to test you, and so that His fear may be before your faces, so that you may not sin.
And it happened after these things that God tested Abraham, and said to him, Abraham! And he said, Behold me.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
Therefore, when He had heard that he was sick, then indeed He remained two days in the place where He was.
Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and saw a great crowd come to Him. He said to Philip, Where shall we buy loaves so that these may eat? And He said this to test him, for He Himself knew what He would do.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting men to suffer when in the pathway of duty (paul and silas)
And after laying on them many stripes, they threw them into prison, commanding the jailor to keep them safely; who, having received such a command, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By demanding the last morsel of bread
And Elijah said to her, Do not fear, go. Do as you have said. But first make me a little cake of it, and bring it to me. And then make for you and for your son.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring dependence upon a poor widow
Arise, go to Zarephath which belongs to Sidon, and live there. Behold, I have commanded a widow to keep you there.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Faith tested, examples of
And He said, Take now your son, your only one, Isaac, whom you love. And go into the land of Moriah, and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will name to you.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
My brothers, count it all joy when you fall into different kinds of temptations, knowing that the trying of your faith works patience.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring extensive preparation with no blessing in sight
And he said, Go, borrow vessels for yourself from outside, from your neighbors, empty vessels. Do not let them be few.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring, what appeared to be, useless work
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » inward life
You have proved my heart; You have visited me in the night; You have tried me, and You will find nothing; my thoughts do not pass beyond my mouth.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By a strange plan of campaign
And you shall go around the city, all the men of war. Go around the city once. So you shall do for six days.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By reducing a general's army
And Jehovah said to Gideon, I will save you by the three hundred men who lapped, and will deliver the Midianites into your hand. And let all the other people go, each man to his place.
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » storm
He is like a man who built a house and dug deep and laid the foundation on a rock; and a flood occurring, the stream burst against that house and could not shake it; for it was founded on a rock.