Psalm 4:8

I will both lie down in peace, and sleep;

For You alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.

In a world that has gone crazy, we can rest in peace, knowing that God keeps us safe. When the news tries to influence us to think only in fear, we can turn it off and open the Bible.  What is happening isn’t a surprise to God. All He asks is that we trust Him going through it.  

Matthew 7:7,8

Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.  For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.  

Sometimes we have to press in to find the answers because sometimes the answers don’t come instantly.  Our persistence in faith will open the closed doors.  We know that not everything is easy and that trusting in God and His word is the way.  We can’t give up in the face of adversity because we are in overcomers’ bloodlines.  

Hebrews 4:16

Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.  

As a born-again believer, we have a covenant relationship with God.  That means we can come boldly before God making requests in our time of need.  We don’t have to beg but pray according to His word.  God said in His word that we are healed, and all our needs are provided for, and we need to reference the promises as we pray.  Be Bold and ask according to His word.  

Psalm 84:11

For the Lord God is a sun and shield; The Lord will give grace and glory; No good thing will He withhold from those who walk uprightly. 

We have a wonderful God in heaven who is a sun and shield.  When we walk uprightly before him, he provides grace and glory for our lives.  We are in partnership with our heavenly Father believing and trusting in His word and promises by faith.  Then our lives will bear fruit from our relationship with God, and our lives show His favor. 

Deuteronomy 10:12

And now, Israel, what does the Lord your God require of you, but to fear the Lord your God, to walk in all His ways and to love Him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.   

God loves us beyond measure.  His plan for our lives has always been for us to have the best.  He has put the bible and examples before us to show us how to live in this life.  He asks for our love and reverential fear of who He is and to serve Him in our hearts and souls.  Which, as a believer, should not intimidate us because we know the benefits we receive as a child of God.   

Joshua 24:15

If it seems evil to you to serve the Lord, choose for yourselves this day whom you will serve, whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the River or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land you dwell.  But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.  

What we choose to serve in this life will affect our lives here and in eternity.  It is no small matter and one that reflects what we truly believe in and guides our decisions.  There is no sitting on the fence with God because His dedication to our lives is a covenant promise.  Jesus died on the cross to save us, and God is just asking us to choose.  

Romans 12:1, 2

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God which is your reasonable service.  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.  

This scripture isn’t as complicated as it seems.  Our spirit with the Holy Spirit’s help and the word of God is supposed to be guiding our minds and our bodies.  The body is just a shell, and our spirit is the real us.  The renewing of the mind to the word of God builds us up on the inside.  Then our spirit full of the word of God will reign over our flesh.  

1 John 5:11

This is the testimony: that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.

God gave the born-again believer eternal life through Jesus Christ.  We are part of a big plan to be a big family living together up in heaven.  Our lives are so much more than just here but have a place in the eternal.  We are important to God because He sees us as His family through Jesus.  

Hebrews 2:18

In that He Himself has suffered, being tempted, He is able to aid those who are tempted.  

Jesus has suffered right along with us in being tempted to sin.  Sin may start as a velvet room but turns into a torture chamber when the door finally slams shut, and we can’t get out.  Jesus tells us to be careful with what we put before our eyes, listen to, and manage our thoughts.  If we keep our minds renewed, we are stronger in the fight. 

Psalm 119:11

Your word I have hidden in my heart, that I might not sin against you.  

We should have the word of God hidden in our hearts ready for the days the devil throws darts our way. Words that knockdown any imaginations that may start that could lead us into sin.  Words that affirm our stance and our faith and remind the devil of our righteousness.