Did you know that the Bible tells us how to avoid life’s problems? There are dozens of verses that instruct us, warn us and help us avoid the storms in life. So many people are totally unaware of the benefits of knowing and following God’s Word. Many times there are things we are doing that can actually bring harm to ourselves.
To be clear … everything we receive from God is by His grace. We cannot earn anything. However, searching the Scriptures to be sure we are obeying them doesn’t nullify grace. Obeying His Word is a result of grace. His grace empowers us to do just that; keep His Word. The Bible will open our eyes to see what we might be missing if we will just study it. As you read through these verses, ask yourself, “Does any of this apply to me?”
– Ephesians 6:2-3 (KJV): “Honor thy father and thy mother…that it may be well with thee that thou may live long on the earth.”
– 1 Peter 3:7: “Giving Honor to your wife…that your prayers be not hindered.”
– Proverbs 28:27: “He that giveth to the poor shall not lack.”
– Jeremiah 5:25: “Your sins have withholden good things from you.”
– Proverbs 28:13: “He that covereth his sins shall not prosper.”
– Proverbs 15:27: “He that is greedy of gain troubles his own house.”
– Psalm 66:18: “If I regard iniquity in my heart, the Lord will not hear me.”
– Proverbs 3:21: “The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.”
– Psalm 122:6: “Pray for the peace of Jerusalem: they shall prosper that love thee.”
– Isaiah 66:10-14: “Rejoice with Jerusalem…and your bones shall flourish.”
– Psalm 34:9: “For there is no want to them that fear him.”
– James 4:7: “Submit yourselves…to God, resist the devil and he will flee from you.” (Are you submitted?)
These Bible verses are specifically related to our health:
– Proverbs 3:7-8: “Fear the Lord, depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.”
– Proverbs 11:17: “The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubles his own flesh.”
– Proverbs 14:30: “Envy (is) the rottenness of the bones.”
– Proverbs 18:8: “The words of a talebearer are wounds…to the inner most part of the belly.”
– Proverbs 7:22-23: “Seeing the harlot, till a dart sticks through his liver.”
– Job17:5 (MEV): “He that speaks flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.”
Is there something you identify as a problem area? If the answer is yes, you must choose to obey God’s Word. Christians are in a spiritual war. We have a hedge around us but as Ecclesiastes 10:8 says, “Whoever breaks a hedge, a serpent will bite.” We can open our own hedge by our disobedience or our ignorance of God’s Word. We will all encounter the storms of life but if we obey God, we will arise victoriously through the storm. It is not in our strength that we do this but in His. {eoa}
Bill Wiese is the author of New York Times bestselling book, 23 Minutes In Hell, the story of his life-changing visit to hell in 1998. Bill has since authored six additional book titles and continues to share his experience around the world. He and his wife Annette founded Soul Choice Ministries in late 2006 and have dedicated their lives to reaching the unsaved. For more information about Bill Wiese and Soul Choice Ministries, please visit us at: soulchoiceministries.org/. You can find more of Bill’s teachings at youtube.com/user/BillWieseTV.
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