Thematic Bible: Tests divine methods used for testing believers
Thematic Bible
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 » Thirst
{A Psalm of David; when he was in the wilderness of Judah.} O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee. My soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh languisheth for thee, in a dry and weary land without water:
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul, as a parched land, thirsteth after thee. Selah.
Behold, days come, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I will send a famine in the land; not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of Jehovah.
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.