What
epic truth in Scripture has radically changed the way you live your life?
Provide a Scripture passage that God has used to teach and mold you during a time
of either hardship or doubt. Or maybe God has encouraged you to grow in some way
and there is a Scripture for that too. Let’s just get some thoughts going about the truth that has changed us
and caused us to follow the call of God to bring his truth to the world.
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The one passage that has had the greatest affect on my life as a whole is where Jesus commands us to seek first the kingdom of God. I first sat down to think about what this meant soon after becoming a Christian, and it just really convicted me of what I was living for and what needed to be changed. I realized that I was living for all the wrong things and I actually began to work on changing them. That’s when I started to get serious about my faith, when I actually started taking action. Even to this day when I hear that passage it continues to provide encouragement(and fear, and conviction as well) as I continue to grow daily.
Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man
who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked or stand in the way of sinners
or sit in the seat of mockers
I came to Christ when I was VERY VERY young, but the last year of H.S. & first year of college were spent completely in sin. And I would ask God… How’d I get here????… and he gave me Psalm 1:1…. teaches me about the process of fallin away from the Lord.
Notice how the man first walks with sinners….he compromises a bit and after walking with them he stands with the sinners… he compromises a bit more and after standing he finally sit with them. I wasn’t God’s perfect son one day and then trapped in sin the next, it was a slow progression, a series of small compromises in my walk with the Lord that led to bigger and bigger ones.
After getting back on track God revealed to me through Psalm 1:1 how to STAY on track and not fall or slip again.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. ~Philippians 4:6-7
Something in my life that has radically changed my view on life and the Lord was my mothers illness. She had cancer from the time i was in 3rd grade to the middle of my sophomore year in high school, she passed away 2 and half years ago. I knew when my mom got sick that i could blame God and turn away from Him or cling to Him and take comfort in His love for me. I found myself at this cross roads at a very young age, i ran to God.
He revealed this verse to me the night before one of my moms surgeries and i kept it with me in my pocket the whole day to keep myself from worrying about it. I still keep with me sometimes to remind myself to be in prayer about something and not to worry about it. I love that is says “peace that transcends all understanding” because we can’t even comprehend how God can bring the amazing comfort that He does, but it’s awesome and more satisfying than anything else we are told to take comfort in!
Luke 10:19
I have given you authority to trample on snakes and scorpians, and to overcome all the power of the enemy, nothing can harm you.
i used to be a really jumpy and skittish person, especially when it came to spiritual things, because i didnt know that i had power over the enemy. now i know that nothing, no matter how big or small, can touch me because of the powere that jesus has given me. i still have a long way to go, but i have become a lot more courageous when it comes to my faith since i learned that verse.
“Be still, and know that I am God.”
It puts everything into perspective.