Promises for Men: from the New International Version

By Zondervan

With over 1,500 Scripture promises specifically for men, this collection of inspirational verses taken from the New International Version Bible, are sure to inspire and guide with 130 topics such as guidance, prayer, and wisdom.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Release date: Oct 5, 2010
• ISBN: 9780310866688

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My son, do not forget my teaching,

but keep my commands in your heart,

for they will prolong your life many years

and bring you prosperity.

PROVERBS 3:1-2

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ZONDERVAN

Promises for Men: from the New International Version

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INTRODUCTION

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The great and glorious promises of God— they are our security in a world of uncertainty and turmoil. They are life vests, intended to protect us through stormy seas. They are God’s gifts given corporately to all of his children— but personally to each one of us.

We’ve compiled this book,Promises for Men, so that you can take hold of God’s promises for your life. We pray that as you read, you will begin to understand how vast his promises really are, covering virtually every area of daily life. Then, it’s our hope that you will appropriate them as God intended, whether your skies are sunny or gray, both in good times and bad. God’s promises are sufficient to cover any need you might have.

So read them, believe them, rely on them, treasure them. Most of all, thank God for them. Though freely given, they have been bought with a great price—the holy, righteous blood of God’s precious son, Jesus.

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For the sake of your servant and according to your will, you have done this great thing and made known all these great promises.

CHRONICLES 17:19

TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Title Page

Copyright Page

Acceptance

Accomplishment

Advice and Counsel

Ambition

Answered Prayer

Assurance

Attitude

Belief

Bible Study

Blessings

Celebration

Challenges

Change

Character

Church

Comfort

Commitment

Communication

Compassion

Confidence

Conflict

Contentment

Courage

Daily Walk

Decisions

Deliverance

Determination

Discipleship

Doubt

Encouragement

Eternal Life

Evangelism

Expectations

Faith

Faithfulness

Family

Fear

Fellowship

Finances

Forgiveness

Freedom

Friendship

Future

Generosity

Gentleness

Giving

Goals

God’s Faithfulness

God’s Love

God’s Mercy

God’s Presence

God’s Will

God’s Word

Goodness

Grace

Grief

Guidance

Guilt

Happiness

Health and Healing

Heaven

Help

Holy Spirit

Honesty

Hope

Humility

Identity

Integrity

Jesus Christ

Joy

Justice

Kindness

Kingdom of God

Knowledge

Leadership

Life

Love

Meditation

Ministry

Nature

Obedience

Patience

Peace

Perseverance

Possessions

Power

Praise and Worship

Prayer

Priorities

Protection

Provision

Purity

Purpose

Quietness and Solitude

Redemption

Rejection

Relationships

Renewal

Repentance

Rest

Restoration

Reward

Righteousness

Sacrifice

Salvation

Satisfaction

Security

Seeking God

Self-Control

Self-Esteem

Service

Sincerity

Speech

Spiritual Growth

Stability

Stewardship

Strength

Stress

Success

Talents and Gifts

Thankfulness

Thoughts

Time

Trials

Trouble

Trust

Truth

Understanding

Unity

Unselfishness

Values

Victory

Wealth

Wisdom

Work

About the Publisher

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ACCEPTANCE

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God said, "You are my servant;

I have chosen you and have not rejected you."

ISAIAH 41:9

Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God.

ROMANS 15:7

There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

GALATIANS 3:28

Jesus said, All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never drive away.

JOHN 6:37

How good and pleasant it is

when brothers live together in unity!

PSALM 133:1

Jesus said, He who receives you receives me, and he who receives me receives the one who sent me.

MATTHEW 10:40

Jesus said, Give to the one who asks you, and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. You have heard that it was said, ‘Love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I tell you:Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.

MATTHEW 5:42-44

To love [God] with all your heart, with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.

MARK 12:33

For the sake of his great name the LORD will not reject his people, because the LORD was pleased to make you his own.

1 SAMUEL 12:22

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ… . He chose us in him before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in his sight. In love he predestined us to be adopted as his sons through Jesus Christ, in accordance with his pleasure and will.

EPHESIANS 1:3–5

ACCOMPLISHMENT

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LORD, you establish peace for us;

all that we have accomplished you

have done for us.

ISAIAH 26:12

Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit, says the LORD Almighty.

ZECHARIAH 4:6

A longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

PROVERBS 13:12

Whatever was to my profit I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss compared to the surpassing greatness of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them rubbish, that I may gain Christ and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God and is by faith.

PHILIPPIANS 3:7– 9

The plans of the LORD stand firm forever,

the purposes of his heart through all

generations.

PSALM 33:11

With [God’s] help I can advance

against a troop;

with my God I can scale a wall.

PSALM 18:29

I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award to me on that day— and not only to me, but also to all who have longed for his appearing.

2 TIMOTHY 4:7– 8

Commit to the LORD whatever

you do,

and your plans will succeed.

PROVERBS 16:3

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ADVICE & COUNSEL

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Wisdom is found in those who

take advice.

PROVERBS 13:10

This is what the LORD says:

"Stand at the crossroads and look;

ask for the ancient paths,

ask where the good way is, and walk in it,

and you will find rest for your souls."

JEREMIAH 6:16

The LORD says, Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.

JEREMIAH 33:3

I will praise the LORD, who counsels me;

even at night my heart instructs me.

PSALM 16:7

Plans fail for lack of counsel,

but with many advisers they

succeed.

PROVERBS 15:22

Jesus said, The Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have said to you.

JOHN 14:26

To God belong wisdom and power;

counsel and understanding are his.

JOB 12:13

I will instruct you and teach you in the way you

should go;

I will counsel you and watch over you.

PSALM 32:8

The way of a fool seems right to him,

but a wise man listens to advice.

PROVERBS 12:15

Listen to advice and accept instruction,

and in the end you will be wise.

PROVERBS 19:20

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AMBITION

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Aim for perfection, listen to my appeal, be of one mind, live in peace. And the God of love and peace will be with you.

2 CORINTHIANS 13:11

In his heart a man plans his course,

but the LORD determines his steps.

PROVERBS 16:9

May [the LORD] give you the desire of your heart

and make all your plans succeed.

PSALM 20:4

Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

1 THESSALONIANS 4:11–12

Delight yourself in the LORD

and he will give you the desires of your heart.

PSALM 37:4

Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.

2 CORINTHIANS 5:14–15

Make plans by seeking advice.

PROVERBS 20:18

Be all the more eager to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never fall, and you will receive a rich welcome into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.

2 PETER 1:10 –11

Many are the plans in a man’s heart,

but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.

PROVERBS 19:21

The desires of the diligent are fully

satisfied.

PROVERBS 13:4

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ANSWERED PRAYER

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Jesus said, In that day you will no longer ask me anything. I tell you the truth, my Father will give you whatever you ask in my name. Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.

JOHN 16:23–24

"They will not toil in vain

or bear children doomed to misfortune;

for they will be a people blessed by the LORD,

they and their descendants with them.

Before they call I will answer;

while they are still speaking I will hear,"

says the LORD.

ISAIAH 65:23–24

[God] does not ignore the cry of

the afflicted.

PSALM 9:12

In my distress I called to the LORD,

and he answered me.

From the depths of the grave I called for help,

and you listened to my cry.

JONAH 2:2

The LORD has heard my weeping.

The LORD has heard my cry for mercy;

the LORD accepts my prayer.

PSALM 6:8–9

This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us—whatever we ask—we know that we have what we asked of him.

1 JOHN 5:14 –15

Jesus said, 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; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.

MATTHEW 7:7– 8

[God] will respond to the prayer of the destitute;

he will not despise their plea.

Let this be written for a future generation,

that a people not yet created may praise

the LORD.

PSALM 102:17–18

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The LORD is near to all who call on him,

to all who call on him in truth.

He fulfills the desires of those who fear him;

he hears their cry and saves them.

PSALM 145:18 –19

Jesus said, Whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours.

MARK 11:24

"Call upon me in the day of trouble;