For Christian, Bible is like our bread and
butter.
We read bible in our quiet time.
We use bible for cell group’s discussion.
We apply verse in the bible, in our
everyday life.
We study bible in bible study.
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The most amazing thing is that, even if the
bible was created 2000 years ago, or maybe older than that, but the verses are never
too old fashioned to be applied in our modern life. And even if the verse is
the same, but people read it and decipher it differently.
For me personally, the more I read bible,
the more I feel closer to God, and the more I understand about what God’s plan
upon my life.
So friends, when times in needs and you
don’t know who to turn to, let’s turn to your bible, open it, read it and be
ready to discover the solution of your problem. J
Let’s jump to the post, shall we?
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- Negative thoughts: “I feel so ugly, I feel fat and not attractive.”
1
Samuel 16:7: The Lord does not
look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but
the Lord looks at the heart.”
Proverbs
31:30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a
woman who fears the LORD is to be praised”
Who ever feel fat and ugly
before? Yes, I do, in fact I ever feel to be the most unattractive women in the
world and start to exercise and diet like crazy until one day I found this
verse and its open up my eyes. After all, God doesn’t need the prettiest and
the sexiest of us. God looks at our hearts. And that’s all that matters.
- Negative thoughts: “After all, I was born out of wed, my parents don’t love me.”
I’m a mother and I can testify that it’s
not easy to carry a child for 9 months. Seriously, pregnancy is A BIG deal. How can A BIG deal is an accident? So
there is no such thing as an “accident” and yes! God created you and He has a
best plan for you.
Psalm
139: 13-14: For you created my inmost being, you
knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and
wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. I know that full well.
- Negative thoughts: “Nobody understand me”
Truth is, God understand us from inside out.
He even knows my deepest needs and desires.
Facts: Psalm
139: 1-6: You have searched me, Lord, and you know
me. You know when I sit and when I rise, you perceive my thoughts from afar.
You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.
Before a word is on my tongue, you, Lord, know it
completely. You hem me in behind and before. And you lay your hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty for me to attain
- Negative thoughts: “Why me, God? Why do I have to go through such a difficult situation?”
Remember that
there is a rainbow after rain. When you are in a deep valley, remember that the
entire difficult situation will eventually come to pass, and green pastures
waiting at the corner of the road.
As per stated in
the bible, verse: Ecclesiastes 3: 1.
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the
heavens: a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to
uproot, a time to kill and a time to heal, a time to tear down and a time to
build, a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance,
a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a
time to refrain from embracing, a time to search and a time to give up, a time
to keep and a time to throw away, a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to
be silent and a time to speak, a time to love and a time to hate, a time for
war and a time for peace.
Jeremiah 29: 11. For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a
future and a hope.
- Negative thoughts:” I can’t trust God anymore, I need to depend on myself!
There’s nothing
wrong with being independent but trust God because He has good plan for us. Only
good things come out from Him.
Look at the
verse of Jeremiah 17: 7-8: But
blessed is the one who trusts in the Lord, whose
confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends
out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are
always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear
fruit.”
- Negative thoughts:” I’m alone and afraid!”
Don’t be afraid.
Take refuge in God. Psalm 18: I love you, Lord, my strength. The
Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God
is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and
the horn of my salvation, my
stronghold.
- Negative thoughts: “I’ve been battling with (disease). God please cure me.”
I don’t have the
exact verse for healing, there are many stories about Jesus healing, such as: Matthew 9: 18-34: Jesus heals the blind
and the mute. In Luke 8, Jesus
healed a woman who has been bleeding for 12 years. And many more healing
stories so put faith in Him.
- Negative thoughts:” I wake up late today, heater broke when I'm about to take a bath, missed the bus, stepped on dog's poo, forget my wallet at home. Why I always be the unlucky one!?”
Ok, the example above might be a bit exxagerating. From what I
understand, maybe the door of opportunity closes because God doesn’t want you
to go through that? I don't know but what I believe is, when we ask with a sincere heart and it will
be given to us :-)
Matthew 7:7-11 “Ask and it will be given to you; seek and
you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For
everyone who asks receives; the one who seeks finds; and to the one who knocks,
the door will be opened. Which of you, if your son asks for bread, will
give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a
snake? If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give
good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good
gifts to those who ask him?”
- Negative thoughts:” I’m so tired!”
Matthew 11:28 Come to me, all you who are weary
and burdened, and I will give you rest”
Revelation 21:4 “He will wipe every tear from their eyes.
There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order
of things has passed away.”
- Negative thoughts:” I serve and serve but nobody appreciate me”
We Christian,
not only to receive God’s blessing and keep it to our self but we are entitled
to steward it, and pass it onto other people surrounds us. After all, action
speaks louder than words. There’s no point saying I love God but no action.
John 12:26 If anyone serves me, he must
follow me; and where I am, there will my servant be also. If anyone serves me,
the Father will honor him.
Even if I serve
and no one thank me.
Even if no one
appreciate me.
Even if no one
sees me.
But I know that
God sees me and my serving heart and that’s all matters.
Ephesians
6:10-13: For it is God who is at work in you, both to will and to work for His
good pleasure.
- Negative thoughts:” I’m a barren woman who unable to conceive ”
Hebrew 11: 11: And by faith even Sarah, who was
past childbearing age, was enabled to bear children because she considered him faithful who had made the
promise.
Isaiah 54: 1 “Sing, barren
woman, you who never bore a child; burst into song, shout for joy, you who were
never in labor; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her
who has a husband,”
- Negative thoughts:” I have committed sin, the damage is done, I don’t deserve second chance ”
Jesus comes not
to judge but to save the lost.
John 3:
17 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in
order that the world might be saved through him.
And in Psalm 30: 2, Lord God is faithful to
help. There’s never been too late.
There’s many more verses that can be
applied to our life but I think I’ll stop here.
God’s
word has power and it indeed giving us an assurance in times of doubts, to give
us confidence in times of needs. Keep your mind focus on Christ alone, He will
give you strength to embrace this life.
Amen.
I hope you enjoy reading this post as much
as I enjoy writing it.
Have a blessed day, everyone.
-Deb-
