What s your Life Verse?

[Ncdataman]

We all have a verse or two in the Bible that describes our calling or purpose in God's plan I thought it would be neat to see how God is using different verses to speak to His children, I will go first.

Isaiah 53 4-6

4. Surely he took up our infirmities
and carried our sorrows,
yet we considered him stricken by God,
smitten by him, and afflicted.

5 But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was upon him,
and by his wounds we are healed.

6 We all, like sheep, have gone astray,
each of us has turned to his own way;
and the LORD has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.

 

[dannibear]

the verse that really jumped out to me was
1Timothy 4:12

it made me realize that even though I may be
young, it's not an excuse to think I'm not
'mature' enough to know what God wants for me.
He loves me, and I know what I must do
to show Him my love for Him. I know
I can show Him at any age!! Children are a precious
gift to God

 

[RJ]

There are many favorite verses but none that define me more and sustain my hope for glory than these from ST. Paul and how he struggled with sin:
Romans 7: 15-25

15I do not understand what I do. For what I want to do I do not do, but what I hate I do. 16And if I do what I do not want to do, I agree that the law is good. 17As it is, it is no longer I myself who do it, but it is sin living in me. 18I know that nothing good lives in me, that is, in my sinful nature.c For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out. 19For what I do is not the good I want to do; no, the evil I do not want to do—this I keep on doing. 20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but it is sin living in me that does it.
21So I find this law at work: When I want to do good, evil is right there with me. 22For in my inner being I delight in God’s law; 23but I see another law at work in the members of my body, waging war against the law of my mind and making me a prisoner of the law of sin at work within my members. 24What a wretched man I am! Who will rescue me from this body of death? 25Thanks be to God—through Jesus Christ our Lord!

These verses give me strenght and perseverence to keep fighting the "Good Battle", because Christ is with me and I am saved!

 

[Peterorange]

I love the moment in Philippians (ch2: 6-11) where Paul is obviously praising God and writing at the same time! It helps me focus on Jesus who is the centre of our faith. It has been my lifeline especially when hitting rock bottom a few years back where all else left me but Him.

"His state was divine
yet Christ Jesus did not cling to his equality with God
but lowered himself to assume the condition of a slave
and became as men are
And being as men are
he was humbler yet
even to accepting death
death on a cross.
But God raised him high
and gave him the name which is above all names
so that all beings in the heavens, and on earth and in the underworld, should bend the knee at the name of Jesus
and that every tongue should acclaim Jesus Christ as Lord
to the glory of God the Father."

May we all keep this truth in our hearts and proclaim it with boldness today.

 

[jiggyfly]

Romans 8:38 And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons,[o] neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. 39 No power in the sky above or in the earth below—indeed, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate us from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus our Lord.

The reality of what Paul said here in his letter to the Roman believers has brought me to the place now where I am consumed with a passion and yearning for Christ.
God's Love revealed in and through Christ is endless, limitless, unstoppable and always victorious, yes always! There is no force more powerful than God's love, it's an unquenchable, irresistible consuming fire. Oh hallelujah!