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 in the night; thou hast tried me, and shalt find nothing; I have purposed that my mouth shall not transgress.
But, in the business of the embassadors 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 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 » 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 longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;
My soul thirsteth for God, for the living God: when shall I come and appear before God?
I stretch forth my hands to thee: my soul thirsteth after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.
Behold, the days come, saith the Lord GOD, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the LORD:
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 hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldst keep his commandments, or not.
Thou shalt not hearken to 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 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 your faces, that ye sin not.
And it came to pass after these things, that God tempted Abraham, and said to him, Abraham: and he said, Behold, here I am.
Spiritual » Tests divine methods used for testing believers » By proposing hard tasks
When therefore he had heard 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 to him, he saith to 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 jailer 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 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.