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 wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.
Mine eyes fail for thy word, saying, When wilt thou comfort me?
When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
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.
I am weary of my crying: my throat is dried: mine eyes fail while I wait for my God.
Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
Verse Concepts
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Other examples of
By faith Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should after receive for an inheritance, obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son,
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ:
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience.
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 said unto him, Yea, Lord.
But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children's bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.
And others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment:
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By giving opportunities for choice
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
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.
In Gibeon the LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream by night: and God said, Ask what I shall give thee.
The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
Oh let the wickedness of the wicked come to an end; but establish the just: for the righteous God trieth the hearts and reins.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By leading men in a difficult way
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.
Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » Final
Every man's work shall be made manifest: for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it is.
Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath 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 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 hear them: I will say, It is my people: and they shall say, The LORD 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 offer unto the LORD an offering in righteousness.
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 your faces, that ye sin not.
And it came to pass after these things, that God did tempt Abraham, and said unto him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
When he had heard therefore that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was.
When Jesus then lifted up his eyes, and saw a great company come unto him, he saith unto Philip, Whence shall we 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, 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 unto her, Fear not; go and do as thou hast said: but make me thereof a little cake first, and bring it unto me, and after make for thee and for thy son.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring dependence upon a poor widow
Arise, get thee to Zarephath, which belongeth to Zidon, and dwell there: behold, I have commanded a widow woman there to sustain thee.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Faith tested, examples of
And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, 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.
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; Knowing this, that the trying 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 neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring, what appeared to be, useless work
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » inward life
Thou hast proved mine heart; thou hast visited me in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I am purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By a strange plan of campaign
And ye shall compass the city, all ye men of war, and go round about the city once. Thus shalt thou do six days.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By reducing a general's army
And the LORD said unto Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and deliver the Midianites into thine hand: and let all the other people go every man unto his place.
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » storm
He is like a man which built an house, and digged deep, and laid the foundation on a rock: and when the flood arose, the stream beat vehemently upon that house, and could not shake it: for it was founded upon a rock.