Thematic Bible: Spiritual Tests
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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?
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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.
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Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
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When therefore he heard, He is sick, he remained two days then in the place where he was.
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But I am afflicted and needy: the Lord thinketh upon me. Thou art my help and my deliverer: my God, make no delay.
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I am weary with my crying, my throat is parched; mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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Martha therefore said to Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died;
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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.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Other examples of
By faith Abraham, being called, obeyed to go out into the place which he was to receive for an inheritance, and went out, not knowing where he was going.
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By faith Abraham, when tried, offered up Isaac, and he who had received to himself the promises offered up his only begotten son,
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that the proving of your faith, much more precious than of gold which perishes, though it be proved by fire, be found to praise and glory and honour in the revelation of Jesus Christ:
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knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.
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And when he was come to the house, the blind men came to him. And Jesus says to them, Do ye believe that I am able to do this? They say to him, Yea, Lord.
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But Jesus said to her, Suffer the children to be first filled; for it is not right to take the children's bread and cast it to the dogs.
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and others underwent trial of mockings and scourgings, yea, and 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 by night; thou hast tried me, thou hast found nothing: my thought goeth not beyond my word.
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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.
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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 one; but the wicked, and him that loveth violence, his soul hateth.
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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.
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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 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.
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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.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » Final
the work of each shall be made manifest; for the day shall declare it, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire shall try the work of each what it is.
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Blessed is the man who endures temptation; for, having been proved, he shall receive the crown of life, which He has 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 answer them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
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And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he will purify the children of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver; and they shall offer unto Jehovah an oblation in righteousness.
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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.
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And it came to pass after these things, that God tried Abraham, and said to 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, He is sick, he remained two days then in the place where he was.
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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 » Faith tested » By demanding the last morsel of bread
And Elijah said to her, Fear not; go, do as thou hast said; but make me thereof a little cake first; and bring it to me; and afterwards make for thee and for thy son.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring dependence upon a poor widow
Arise, go to Zarephath, which is by Zidon, and abide there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to maintain 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, Isaac, and get thee into the land of Moriah, and there offer him up for a burnt-offering on 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 various temptations, knowing that the proving of your faith works endurance.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring extensive preparation with no blessing in sight
And he said, Go, borrow for thyself vessels abroad from all thy neighbours, empty vessels; let it not be few;
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring, what appeared to be, useless work
And at that time king Jehoram went out of Samaria and inspected all Israel.
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » inward life
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.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By a strange plan of campaign
And ye shall go round the city, all the men of war, encompassing the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
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spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By reducing a general's army
And the LORD said to Gideon, "With the three hundred men that lapped I will deliver you, and give the Mid'ianites into your hand; and let all the others go every man to his home."
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spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » storm
He is like a man building a house, who dug and went deep, and laid a foundation on the rock; but a great rain coming, the stream broke upon that house, and could not shake it, for it had been founded on the rock.
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