Thematic Bible: Spiritual Tests
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » Divine delays test men's courage and patience
Wait patiently therefore, my brethren, till the coming of the Lord: behold the husbandman expecteth the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it, till he receive the former and the latter rain.
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Therefore when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed indeed two days in the place where He was:
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And Martha said unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
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The Lord is not slow as to his promise (as some count it slowness) but is long-suffering towards us, 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 when called to go out to a place which he was afterwards to receive for an inheritance obeyed: and went out, though he knew not whither he was going.
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By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac: and he who had received the promises, offered up his only son;
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That the proof of your faith, which is much more precious than of gold, (that perisheth, though tried by fire) may be found unto praise, and honor, and glory, when Jesus Christ shall be revealed:
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knowing this, that the trial 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, Do ye believe that I am able to do this? and they say unto Him, Yes Lord.
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But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be satisfied: for it is not fit to take the children's bread, and throw it to the dogs.
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And others had the trial of mockings and scourgings, and of bonds too and imprisonment.
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spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By giving opportunities for choice
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By leading men in a difficult way
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » Final
every man's work shall be made manifest. For the great day will shew it; because it will be discovered by fire, and the fire will prove every man's work of what sort it is.
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Happy is the man who sustaineth temptation; for being approved 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
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By demanding great sacrifices
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
Therefore when He heard that Lazarus was sick, He stayed indeed two days in the place where He was:
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Then Jesus lifted up his eyes, and seeing a great multitude come to Him, saith to Philip, Whence shall we buy bread that these people may eat? (and this He said to try 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 when they had given them many stripes, 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 fastened their feet in the stocks.
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By demanding the last morsel of bread
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring dependence upon a poor widow
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » Faith tested, examples of
spiritual Tests » Divine methods used for testing believers » By permitting temptation
Account it all joy, my brethren, when ye fall into various trials: knowing this, that the trial of your faith worketh patience;
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring extensive preparation with no blessing in sight
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By requiring, what appeared to be, useless work
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » inward life
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By a strange plan of campaign
spiritual Tests » Faith tested » By reducing a general's army
spiritual Tests » Life tested by the lord » storm
he is like a man who in building an house digged deep, and laid the foundation upon a rock; and when a flood came, the torrent beat violently against that house, but could not shake it, for it was founded upon a rock.
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