1 Samuel 16:1-13 “Now the Lord said to Samuel, "How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? Fill your horn with oil, and go; I am sending you to Jesse the Bethlehemite. For I have provided Myself a king am...

Hebrews 8:13 “In that He says, "A new covenant," He has made the first obsolete. Now what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.”   In order for us to have a clearer understanding of how God leads His children under the n...

2 Corinthians 1:17 “Therefore, when I was planning this, did I do it lightly? Or the things I plan, do I plan according to the flesh, that with me there should be Yes, Yes, and No, No?”           &nb...

Hebrews 10:5 “Therefore, when He came into the world, He said: "Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but a body You have prepared for Me.”   In this section we will look at examples in scripture of those who have chosen to walk in God’s p...

Psalms 127:1 “Unless the Lord builds the house, they labour in vain who build it.”   There is also an eternal price to be paid for walking in God’s permissible will. All believers will stand before the Lord Jesus on their day of judgement to gi...

Hebrews 12:9-11 “Furthermore, we have had human fathers who corrected us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much more readily be in subjection to the Father of spirits and live? (10) For they indeed for a few days chastened us as seem...

Romans 12:2 “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.”   As we have already seen, the above quoted passage of scripture ...

Romans 12:2 “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.”   In the above quoted passage of scripture, the Holy Spirit speak...

2 Corinthians 2:10-11 “Now whom you forgive anything, I also forgive. For if indeed I have forgiven anything, I have forgiven that one for your sakes in the presence of Christ, (11) lest Satan should take advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of ...

Matthew 18:34-35 “And his master was angry, and delivered him to the torturers until he should pay all that was due to him. (35) "So, My heavenly Father also will do to you if each of you, from his heart, does not forgive his brother his t...

Matthew 18:32-33 “Then his master, after he had called him, said to him, 'You wicked servant! I forgave you all that debt because you begged me. (33) Should you not also have had compassion on your fellow servant, just as I had pity on you...

Matthew 6:12-15 “And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. … (14) "For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you. (15) But if you do not forgive men their trespasses, neither will your ...

Hebrews 8:12 “For I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their lawless deeds I will remember no more.”   Forgiveness goes hand in hand with forgetting. One cannot forgive from the heart, but refuse to forget the offence...

John 20:22-23 “And when He had said this, He breathed on them, and said to them, "Receive the Holy Spirit. (23) If you forgive the sins of any, they are forgiven them; if you retain the sins of any, they are retained.”   Nevertheless, scri...

1 Corinthians 6:4-8 “If then you have judgments concerning things pertaining to this life, do you appoint those who are least esteemed by the church to judge? (5) I say this to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you, ...