Thematic Bible: Spiritual Tests
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » Divine delays test men's courage and patience
How long, O Jehovah? wilt thou forget me for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
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Be patient therefore, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, being patient over it, until it receive the early and latter rain.
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Mine eyes fail for thy word, While I say, When wilt thou comfort me?
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When therefore he heard that he was sick, he abode at that time two days in the place where he was.
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But I am poor and needy; Yet the Lord thinketh upon me: Thou art my help and my deliverer; Make no tarrying, O my God.
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I am weary with my crying; my throat is dried: Mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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Martha therefore said unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
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The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing 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, when he was called, obeyed to go out unto a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
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By faith Abraham, being tried, offered up Isaac: yea, he that had gladly received the promises was offering up his only begotten'son ;
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that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:
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Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.
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And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.
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And he said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
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and others had trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By giving opportunities for choice
Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
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Howbeit in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto 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.
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In Gibeon Jehovah appeared to Solomon in a dream by night; and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
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Jehovah trieth the righteous; But the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
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O let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end, but establish thou the righteous: For the righteous God trieth the minds and hearts.
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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 hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.
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thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or unto 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.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » Final
each man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire itself shall prove each man's work of what sort it is.
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Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » process
And I will bring the third part into 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 hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
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and he will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver, and he will purify the sons of Levi, and refine them as gold and silver; and they shall offer unto Jehovah offerings in righteousness.
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By demanding great sacrifices
And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not.
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And it came to pass after these things, that God did prove Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham. And he said, Here am I.
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
When therefore he heard that he was sick, he abode at that time two days in the place where he was.
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Jesus therefore lifting up his eyes, and seeing that a great multitude cometh unto him, saith unto Philip, Whence are we to buy bread, that these may eat? And this he said to prove 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 when they had 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 made their feet fast in the stocks.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By demanding the last morsel of bread
And Elijah said unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said; but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it forth unto me, and afterward make for thee and for thy son.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring dependence upon a poor widow
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Sidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow there to sustain thee.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Faith tested, examples of
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son, whom thou lovest, even Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah. And offer him there for a burnt-offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
Count it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into manifold temptations; Knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring extensive preparation with no blessing in sight
Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbors, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring, what appeared to be, useless work
And king Jehoram went out of Samaria at that time, and mustered all Israel.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » inward life
Thou hast proved my heart; thou hast visited me in the night; Thou hast tried me, and findest nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By a strange plan of campaign
And ye shall compass the city, all the men of war, going about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By reducing a general's army
And Jehovah said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thy hand; and let all the people go every man unto his place.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » storm
he is like a man building a house, who digged and went deep, and laid a foundation upon the rock: and when a flood arose, the stream brake against that house, and could not shake it: because it had been well builded.
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