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Jesus answered him, “You would have no authority over me at allunless it had been given you from above.”John 19:11When the Gentiles heard this,they began rejoicing and glorifying the word of the Lord,and as many as were appointed to eternal life believed.Acts 13:48This Jesus, delivered upaccording to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God,you crucified and killedby the hands of lawless men.Acts 2:23For he will complete what he appoints for me,and many such things are in his mind.Job 23:14And we know that for those who love Godall things work together for good,for those who are called according to his purpose.For those whom he foreknew he also predestinedto be conformed to the image of his Son,in order that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.Romans 8:28-29God chose what is foolish in the world to shame the wise;God chose what is weak in the world to shame the strong;God chose what is low and despised in the world,even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are,so that no human being might boast in the presence of God.1 Corinthians 1:27-291 Prayer Begins with God13

Building Faith in the PromisesBy Meditation on God’s FaithfulnessKnow therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful Godwho keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love himand keep his commandments, to a thousand generations.Deuteronomy 7:9You know in your hearts and souls, all of you,that not one word has failed of all the good thingsthat the LORD your God promised concerning you.All have come to pass for you; not one of them has failed.Joshua 23:14You have kept your promise, for you are righteous.Nehemiah 9:8And those who know your name put their trust in you,for you, O LORD, have not forsaken those who seek you.Psalms 9:10I have loved you with an everlasting love;therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you.Jeremiah 31:3But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope:The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases;his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning;great is your faithfulness. “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul,“therefore I will hope in him.” The LORD is goodto those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.It is good that one should wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.Lamentations 3:21-26God is faithful, by whom you were calledinto the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.1 Corinthians 1:914Take Words with You

But the Lord is faithful.He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.2 Thessalonians 3:3If we are faithless, he remains faithful – for he cannot deny himself.2 Timothy 2:13Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering,for he who promised is faithful.Hebrews 10:23Praising God for Who He isand What He has Done(To Jacob) I myself will go down with you to Egypt, and I will alsobring you up again, and Joseph’s hand shall close your eyes.Genesis 46:4Who is like you, O LORD, among the gods? Who is like you,majestic in holiness, awesome in glorious deeds, doing wonders?Exodus 15:11Behold, to the LORD your God belong heavenand the heaven of heavens, the earth with all that is in it.Deuteronomy 10:14For the LORD your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great,the mighty, and the awesome God, who is not partial and takes nobribe. He executes justice for the fatherless and the widow,and loves the sojourner, giving him food and clothing.Deuteronomy 10:17-18Consider the discipline of the LORD your God,his greatness, his mighty hand and his outstretched arm.Deuteronomy 11:21 Prayer Begins with God15

It is the LORD who goes before you.He will be with you; he will not leave you or forsake you.Do not fear or be dismayed.Deuteronomy 31:8The Rock, his work is perfect, for all his ways are justice.A God of faithfulness and without iniquity, just and upright is he.Deuteronomy 32:4See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god beside me;I kill and I make alive; I wound and I heal;and there is none that can deliver out of my hand.Deuteronomy 32:39But will God indeed dwell on the earth?Behold, heaven and the highest heaven cannot contain you;how much less this house that I have built!1 Kings 8:27Let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for his mercy is great;but let me not fall into the hand of man.2 Samuel 24:14Yours, O LORD, is the greatness and the power and the glory andthe victory and the majesty, for all that is in the heavens and in theearth is yours. Yours is the kingdom, O LORD, and you are exaltedas head above all. Both riches and honor come from you, and yourule over all. In your hand are power and might, and in your hand itis to make great and to give strength to all. And now we thank you,our God, and praise your glorious name.1 Chronicles 29:10-13O LORD, God of our fathers, are you not God in heaven?You rule over all the kingdoms of the nations.In your hand are power and might,so that none is able to withstand you.2 Chronicles 20:616Take Words with You

For he is manifold in understanding.Know then that God exacts of you less than your guilt deserves.Job 11:6Behold, these are but the outskirts of his ways,and how small a whisper do we hear of him!But the thunder of his power who can understand?Job 26:14The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nothing;he frustrates the plans of the peoples. The counsel of the LORDstands forever, the plans of his heart to all generations.Psalms 33:10-11The LORD reigns; he is robed in majesty; the LORD is robed;he has put on strength as his belt. Yes, the world is established;it shall never be moved. Your throne is established from of old;you are from everlasting. Your decrees are very trustworthy;holiness befits your house, O LORD, forevermore.Psalms 93:1-2, 5Splendor and majesty are before him;strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.Psalms 96:6The LORD has established his throne in the heavens,and his kingdom rules over all.Psalms 103:19O LORD my God, you are very great! You are clothed with splendorand majesty, covering yourself with light as with a garment.Psalms 104:1-2Our God is in the heavens; he does all that he pleases.Psalms 115:3Gracious is the LORD, and righteous; our God is merciful.Psalms 116:51 Prayer Begins with God17

You are good and do good.Psalms 119:68You know when I sit down and when I rise up;you discern my thoughts from afar.You search out my path and my lying downand are acquainted with all my ways.Psalms 139:2-3Great is the LORD, and greatly to be praised,and his greatness is unsearchable.Psalms 145:3The LORD is good to all, and his mercy is over all that he has made.Psalms 145:9Great is our Lord, and abundant in power;his understanding is beyond measure.Psalms 147:5Therefore the LORD waits to be gracious to you,and therefore he exalts himself to show mercy to you.For the LORD is a God of justice;blessed are all those who wait for him.Isaiah 30:18Behold, the nations are like a drop from a bucket,and are accounted as the dust on the scales;behold, he takes up the coastlands like fine dust.Isaiah 40:15All the nations are as nothing before him,they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.Isaiah 40:17Have you not known? Have you not heard? The LORD is theeverlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does notfaint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.Isaiah 40:2818Take Words with You

Thus says the LORD, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the LORDof hosts: “I am the first and I am the last; besides me there is no god.Isaiah 44:6I form light and create darkness, I make well-beingand create calamity, I am the LORD, who does all these things.Isaiah 45:7Only in the LORD,it shall be said of me, are righteousness and strength.Isaiah 45:24There is none like you, O LORD; you are great, and your name isgreat in might. Who would not fear you, O King of the nations?For this is your due; for among all the wise ones of the nationsand in all their kingdoms there is none like you.Jeremiah 10:6-7But the LORD is the true God;he is the living God and the everlasting King.At his wrath the earth quakes,and the nations cannot endure his indignation.Jeremiah 10:10Am I a God at hand, declares the LORD, and not a God far away?Can a man hide himself in secret places so that I cannot see him?declares the LORD. Do I not fill heaven and earth? declares the LORD.Jeremiah 23:23-24Ah, Lord GOD! It is you who have made the heavens and the earthby your great power and by your outstretched arm!Nothing is too hard for you.Jeremiah 32:17Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh.Is anything too hard for me?Jeremiah 32:271 Prayer Begins with God19

I have been broken over their whoring heart that has departedfrom me and over their eyes that go whoring after their idols.Ezekiel 6:9Now I will soon pour out my wrath upon you, and spend my angeragainst you, and judge you according to your ways, and I willpunish you for all your abominations. And my eye will not spare,nor will I have pity. I will punish you according to your ways, whileyour abominations are in your midst. Then you will know that I amthe LORD, who strikes.Ezekiel 7:8-9And all the trees of the field shall know that I am the LORD;I bring low the high tree, and make high the low tree,dry up the green tree, and make the dry tree flourish.I am the LORD; I have spoken, and I will do it.Ezekiel 17:24I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep,and I myself will make them lie down, declares the Lord GOD.Ezekiel 34:15Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, to whom belongwisdom and might. He changes times and seasons; he removeskings and sets up kings; he gives wisdom to the wise andknowledge to those who have understanding; he reveals deepand hidden things; he knows what is in the darkness,and the light dwells with him.Daniel 2:20-22He does according to his will among the host of heavenand among the inhabitants of the earth;and none can stay his hand or say to him,“What have you done?”Daniel 4:35The God in whose hand is your breath,and whose are all your ways, you have not honored.Daniel 5:232 Take Words with You

But they do not consider that I remember all their evil.Now their deeds surround them; they are before my face.Hosea 7:2I led them with cords of kindness, with the bands of love,and I became to them as one who eases the yoke on their jaws,and I bent down to them and fed them.Hosea 11:4For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind,and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morningdarkness, and treads on the heights of the earth –the LORD, the God of hosts, is his name!Amos 4:13He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darknessinto the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for thewaters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth,the LORD is his name.Amos 5:8Who is a God like you, pardoning iniquity and passing overtransgression for the remnant of his inheritance? He does notretain his anger forever, because he delights in steadfast love.Micah 7:17-18The LORD is slow to anger and great in power, and the LORD willby no means clear the guilty. His way is in whirlwind and storm,and the clouds are the dust of his feet.Nahum 1:3The LORD is good, a stronghold in the day of trouble;he knows those who take refuge in him.Nahum 1:7Are you not from everlasting, O LORD my God, my Holy One?Habakkuk 1:121 Prayer Begins with God21

You who are of purer eyes than to see evil and cannot look at wrong.Habakkuk 1:13But the LORD is in his holy temple;let all the earth keep silence before him.Habakkuk 2:20He makes his sun rise on the evil and on the good,and sends rain on the just and on the unjust.Matthew 5:45For nothing will be impossible with God.Luke 1:37But while he was still a long way off, his father saw himand felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him.Luke 15:20God, having raised up his servant, sent him to you first,to bless you by turning every one of you from your wickedness.Acts 3:26The God who made the world and everything in it,being Lord of heaven and earth,does not live in temples made by man,nor is he served by human hands,as though he needed anything,since he himself gives to all mankindlife and breath and everything.Acts 17:24-25In him we live and move and have our being.Acts 17:28The God who gives life to the dead and calls into existence thethings that do not exist.Romans 4:1722Take Words with You

For God has consigned all to disobedience, that he may havemercy on all. Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom andknowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and howinscrutable his ways! “For who has known the mind of the Lord, orwho has been his counselor?”“Or who has given a gift to him thathe might be repaid?” For from him and through him and to him areall things. To him be glory forever. Amen.Romans 11:32-36To the only wise God be glory forevermore through Jesus Christ! Amen.Romans 16:27For us there is one God, the Father,from whom are all things and for whom we exist,and one Lord, Jesus Christ,through whom are all things and through whom we exist.1 Corinthians 8:6When all things are subjected to him, then the Son himself will alsobe subjected to him who put all things in subjection under him,that God may be all in all.1 Corinthians 15:28To the King of ages, immortal, invisible, the only God,be honor and glory forever and ever. Amen.1 Timothy 1:17God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.1 Timothy 6:17He who is the blessed and only Sovereign,the King of kings and Lord of lords,who alone has immortality,who dwells in unapproachable light,whom no one has ever seen or can see.To him be honor and eternal dominion. Amen.1 Timothy 6:15-161 Prayer Begins with God23

And no creature is hidden from his sight, but all are nakedand exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must give account.Hebrews 4:13Our God is a consuming fire.Hebrews 12:29Let marriage be held in honor among all,and let the marriage bed be undefiled,for God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterous.Hebrews 13:4“Great and amazing are your deeds, O Lord God the Almighty!Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations!Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name?For you alone are holy.All nations will come and worship you,for your righteous acts have been revealed.”Revelation 15:3-4Praying with Christ at the Center:Recognizing the Supremacy of Christ in EverythingYou search the Scriptures because you think that in them you haveeternal life; and it is they that bear witness about me.John 5:39Everything written about me in the Law of Moses and the Prophetsand the Psalms must be fulfilled.Luke 24:44And all the prophets who have spoken, from Samuel and thosewho came after him, also proclaimed these days.Acts 3:2424Take Words with You

I will raise up for them a prophet like youfrom among their brothers. And I will put my words in his mouth,and he shall speak to them all that I command him.Deuteronomy 18:18When your days are fulfilled and you lie down with your fathers,I will raise up your offspring after you, who shall come from yourbody, and I will establish his kingdom. He shall build a house formy name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.2 Samuel 7:12-13Even now, behold,my witness is in heaven, and he who testifies for me is on high.Job 16:19For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last he will standupon the earth. And after my skin has been thus destroyed, yet inmy flesh I shall see God, whom I shall see for myself, and my eyesshall behold, and not another. My heart faints within me!Job 19:25-27Ask of me, and I will make the nations your heritage,and the ends of the earth your possession.Psalms 2:8You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.Therefore God, your God, has anointed youwith the oil of gladness beyond your companions.Psalms 45:7I will make him the firstborn,the highest of the kings of the earth.My steadfast love I will keep for him forever,and my covenant will stand firm for him.I will establish his offspring foreverand his throne as the days of the heavens.Psalms 89:27-291 Prayer Begins with God25

The LORD says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make yourenemies your footstool.” The LORD sends forth from Zion yourmighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies!Psalms 110:1-2There I will make a horn to sprout for David; I have prepareda lamp for my anointed. His enemies I will clothe with shame,but on him his crown will shine.Psalms 132:17-18Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign. Behold, the virginshall conceive and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.Isaiah 7:14But there will be no gloom for her who was in anguish.In the former time he brought into contempt the land of Zebulunand the land of Naphtali, but in the latter timehe has made glorious the way of the sea,the land beyond the Jordan, Galilee of the nations.The people who walked in darkness have seen a great light;those who dwelt in a land of deep darkness,on them has light shined.You have multiplied the nation; you have increased its joy;they rejoice before you as with joy at the harvest,as they are glad when they divide the spoil.For the yoke of his burden, and the staff for his shoulder,the rod of his oppressor, you have broken as on the day of Midian.Isaiah 9:1-4For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the governmentshall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called WonderfulCounselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace. Of theincrease of his government and of peace there will be no end, onthe throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and touphold it with justice and with righteousness from this time forthand forevermore. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will do this.Isaiah 9:6-726Take Words with You

And the Spirit of the LORD shall rest upon him,the Spirit of wisdom and understanding,the Spirit of counsel and might,the Spirit of knowledge and the fear of the LORD.And his delight shall be in the fear of the LORD.He shall not judge by what his eyes see,or decide disputes by what his ears hear,but with righteousness he shall judge the poor,and decide with equity for the meek of the earth.Isaiah 11:2-4In that day the root of Jesse,who shall stand as a signal for the peoples – of himshall the nations inquire, and his resting place shall be glorious.Isaiah 11:10-11And I will place on his shoulder the key of the house of David. He shallopen, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.Isaiah 22:22Behold my servant, whom I uphold, my chosen,in whom my soul delights; I have put my Spirit upon him;he will bring forth justice to the nations.He will not cry aloud or lift up his voice,or make it heard in the street; a bruised reed he will not break,and a faintly burning wick he will not quench;he will faithfully bring forth justice.He will not grow faint or be discouragedtill he has established justice in the earth.Isaiah 42:1-4I am the LORD; I have called you in righteousness;I will take you by the hand and keep you;I will give you as a covenant for the people,a light for the nations, to open the eyes that are blind,to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,from the priso

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