SpiritLed Promises for Every Day and Every Need: Insights from Scripture from the New Modern English Version

By Charisma House

Your word is a lamp to my feet, and a light to my path. --Psalm 119:105, MEV

 

Living a life of faith means learning to trust God for where you are being led. Some days you question where your life is going, wondering if God is still guiding you. There are times when it feels as if life is just one great, big battlefield and you wonder who is really winning. Other times you might even think God’s not talking to you at all.

 

God knows this--He knows you--and so He has provided promises in His Word that give assurance and direction for every situation you face. SpiritLed Promises for Every Day and Every Need gives you thousands of God’s promises for more than 250 areas of your life. Arranged by topic, this book lets you easily find just the verse you need.

 

Whether you are concerned about love, forgiveness, safety, provision, or speaking to the mountains in your life, God’s Word has a promise that you can lay claim to. Apply each scripture personally, and you will see the power of God’s Word in action. You will discover confidence and celebrate victory when you trust God and His promises to meet your every need.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Charisma House
• Release date: Dec 3, 2013
• ISBN: 9781621366270

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God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.

DIETRICH BONHOEFFER

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SPIRITLED PROMISES FOR Every Day and Every Need

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Scripture taken from the Holy Bible Modern English Version. Copyright © 2012 James F. Linzey. All rights reserved.

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We have ample evidence that the Lord is able to guide. The promises cover every imaginable situation. All we need to do is to take the hand he stretches out.

ELISABETH ELLIOT

CONTENTS

Introduction

Abortion

Abuse

Accepting Others

Accountability

Activating Your Faith

Adultery

Alcohol

Ambition

Angels

Anger

Anointing

Anxiety

Appearance

Assurance

Astrology

Attitude

Authority

Backsliding

Bad Habits

Baptism

Battle for Your Mind

Beauty

Belief

Binding the Enemy

Bitterness

Blessing

Boldness in Christ

Bondage

Born Again (How to Be)

Breakthroughs

Brokenheartedness

Burning Idols

Calling, My

Challenges

Change

Character

Charity

Children

Children’s Duties

Church

Comfort

Commitment

Compassion

Conceit

Condemnation

Confession

Confidence

Conflict

Conformity

Confusion

Contentment

Correction, God’s

Courage

Covenant Plan

Creativity

Criticism

Cults

Curses

Dancing

Dating

Death

Deceit

Defeat

Deliverance

Demons

Depression

Desert Places

Destroying Strongholds

Disappointment

Discipleship

Discouragement

Divine Protection

Divorce

Dominion Over Sin

Doubt

Draw From the Well

Dreams and Visions

Drug Abuse

Ego

Emotional Needs

Encouragement

Enemies

Envy

Eternal Life

Everlasting Kingdom

Evil

Failure

Faith

Faithfulness, God’s

Fame

Family Needs

Fatherhood

Favor, God’s

Fear

Fellowship

Finding God in the Valleys

Flattery

Forgiveness

Friendship

Fruitfulness

Frustration

Fulfillment

Future

Gambling

Garment of Righteousness

Generational Curses

Gifts From God

Gifts of the Spirit

Giving

Goals

God Hears Our Prayers

God’s Care

God’s Name Endures

God’s Presence

Gossip

Grace

Grief and Death

Guidance

Guilt

Healing

Heaven

Hell

Help in Troubles

Holiness

Holy Spirit

Home

Homosexuality

Honesty

Hope

Hospitality

Humility

Husbands

Hypocrisy

Incest

Inheritance

Integrity

Jealousy

Jesus

Joint Heirs

Joy and Gladness

Kindness

Kingdom Keys

Laziness

Lifting the Humble

Light of the World

Long Life

Loneliness

Loose Prisoners of Sin

Lord of All

Love

Love One Another

Love, God’s

Loving God

Loyalty

Lust

Lying

Manhood

Marriage

Meekness

Mercy

Miracles

Money

Moral Purity

Music

Obedience

Occult

Oppression

Overcoming

Overtaking the Enemy

Parental Responsibilities

Patience

Peace

Peer Pressure

Persecution

Perseverance in Adversity

Perspective

Pornography

Position in God

Poverty

Power

Power of God’s Word

Power of Jesus’s Name

Power of Praise

Power of the Blood

Power of the Holy Spirit

Power of the Tongue

Prayer

Praying for Our Nation

Pride

Prisoners

Prophecy

Protection

Punishment

Purpose

Rebellion

Rebuking the Enemy

Redemption

Relationships

Releasing the Spoilers

Renounce Sexual Sin

Repentance

Respect

Rest

Restitution

Resurrection

Revenge

Righteousness

Role Models

Safety in Him

Salvation

Satan, Father of Lies

Savior

Security

Seeking God

Self-Control

Self-Denial

Self-Image

Self-Pity

Self-Righteousness

Self-Worth

Servanthood

Sexual Immorality

Sexual Intimacy

Shame

Sickness and Disease

Sin, Freedom From

Single Parent

Slander

Speaking to Mountains

Speech

Spiritual Warfare

Standing Against Satan

Strength

Stress

Success

Take Away Fear

Talents

Tears and Sorrow

Temptation

Thankfulness

Transformation

Trouble

Trust

Unbelieving Spouse

Unpardonable Sin

Values

Waiting on the Promise

Walking in God’s Ways

War

Widows

Will of God (How to Find and Know)

Wisdom

Witchcraft

Witnessing

Wives

Word of God

Work

Worry

Worship

INTRODUCTION

A person who wholly follows the Lord is one who believes that the promises of God are trustworthy, that He is with His people, and that they are well able to overcome.

—WATCHMAN NEE

LIVING A LIFE of faith means learning to trust God for where you are being led. Some days you question where your life is going, and you wonder if God is still guiding you. There are times when you might feel that life is just one great, big battlefield—and you question who is really winning. Other times you might even think He’s not talking to you at all. God sees that you often get caught up in the concerns and demands of life, and you don’t realize that He is always here to take care of you and provide for all your needs. God wants you to know that He has a very special purpose for your life, and He has provided promises in His Word that supply assurance and direction for every day and every need.

Without a doubt there are spiritual forces waging against God’s children and His creation. Satan is definitely our enemy—and his goal is to wreak havoc in our lives. Unfortunately our enemy doesn’t acknowledge the Lord’s victory and remains in the attack mode. But be assured, Jesus has already won the war—and He shares that victory with you! God offers that victory, that assurance, peace, hope and understanding with every promise He has made. Your biggest needs are answered by His unbreakable promises, showered with His love.

God delights in providing for you. It gives Him great pleasure to bless you—and He loves it when you come to Him! God hates to see you struggle when He has all you could ever want or need. He knows how you’ve always longed to be a strong person. He fully realizes how you desire more power and purpose in your life. God’s Word speaks to all issues in our everyday living. It speaks to our requirements, desires, and requests, as well as our hopes and dreams. God’s promises are inspiring reminders and assurances. You can have God’s personal pledges, and you can rely on them.

SpiritLed Promises for Every Day and Every Need provides you with the opportunity to easily find thousands of God’s promises for more than 250 areas of your life, easily arranged alphabetically by topic so you can always find just the right promise when it’s important to know what God’s Word says. Apply each scripture personally, and you will see the power of God’s Word in action. You will discover confidence and celebrate victory when you trust God and His promises to meet your needs.

God always has your best interests in mind—whether you are concerned about love, forgiveness, safety, money, or speaking to the mountains in your life. His Word has a promise that you can lay claim to for every need. Your prayer life will be strengthened. Your ability to minister to others will be sharper and much more effective. Your attitudes and outlook will begin to change. Your mind will become alert and observant. Your confidence and hope will be enhanced. Embrace each promise, commit it to memory, and allow them to become life changing for you.

The Bible will always hold first place in the life of the spiritual Christian. Reinforce your faith with the confidence of knowing that any work He has begun in you will be completed according to His will and purpose for your life.

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

—UNKNOWN

The permanence of God’s character guarantees the fulfillment of his promises.

A. W. Pink

ABORTION

Then God said, Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.

—GENESIS 1:26

You shall not murder.

—DEUTERONOMY 5:17

Look, children are a gift of the LORD, and the fruit of the womb is a reward.

—PSALM 127:3

There is a way that seems right to a man, but its end is the way of death.

—PROVERBS 16:25

Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean. Put away the evil from your deeds, from before My eyes. Cease to do evil. Learn to do good. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow. Come now, and let us reason together, says the LORD. Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool.

—ISAIAH 1:16–18

Can a woman forget her nursing child, and have no compassion on the son of her womb? Indeed, they may forget, yet I will not forget.

—ISAIAH 49:15

Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts. And let him return to the LORD, and He will have mercy upon him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon.

—ISAIAH 55:7

Before I formed you in the womb I knew you. And before you came forth out of the womb I sanctified you, and I ordained you a prophet to the nations.

—JEREMIAH 1:5

When Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit.

—LUKE 1:41

She said, No one, Lord. Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.

—JOHN 8:11

But when it pleased God, who set me apart since I was in my mother’s womb and called me by His grace . . .

—GALATIANS 1:15

But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son cleanses us from all sin.

—1 JOHN 1:7

ABUSE

I sought the LORD, and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears. They looked to Him and became radiant, and their faces are not ashamed.

—PSALM 34:4–5

Why, my soul, are you cast down? Why do you groan within me? Wait for God; I will yet thank Him, for He is my deliverance and my God.

—PSALM 42:11

Trust in the LORD forever, for in God the LORD we have an everlasting rock. For He brings down those who dwell on high, the lofty city. He lays it low. He lays it low, even to the ground. He brings it even to the dust.

—ISAIAH 26:4–5

Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

—MATTHEW 11:28

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God. Such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, and you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus by the Spirit of our God.

—1 CORINTHIANS 6:9–11

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and self-control; against such there is no law.

—GALATIANS 5:22–23

Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ also loved the church and gave Himself for it.

—EPHESIANS 5:25

In this way, men ought to love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one ever hated his own flesh, but nourishes and cherishes it, just as the Lord cares for the church.

—EPHESIANS 5:28–29

Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.

—EPHESIANS 6:4

Confess your faults to one another and pray for one another, that you may be healed. The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man accomplishes much.

—JAMES 5:16

Likewise, you husbands, live considerately with your wives, giving honor to the woman as the weaker vessel, since they too are also heirs of the grace of life, so that your prayers will not be hindered.

—1 PETER 3:7

Cast all your care upon Him, because He cares for you.

—1 PETER 5:7

ACCEPTING OTHERS

Now, Israel, what does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all His ways, and to love Him, and to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, to keep the commandments of the LORD and His statutes which I am commanding you today for your good?

—DEUTERONOMY 10:12–13

Truly I say to you, whoever gives you a cup of water to drink in My name, because you belong to Christ, will not lose his reward.

—MARK 9:41

To love Him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the soul, and with all the strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself, is more than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.

—MARK 12:33

Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.

—LUKE 6:31

For I have given you an example, that you should do as I have done to you.

—JOHN 13:15

This is My commandment: that you love one another, as I have loved you. Greater love has no man than this: that a man lay down his life for his friends.

—JOHN 15:12–13

Then Peter began to speak, saying, Truthfully, I perceive that God is no respecter of persons. But in every nation he who fears Him and works righteousness is accepted by Him.

—ACTS 10:34–35

For He is our peace, who has made both groups one and has broken down the barrier of the dividing wall.

—EPHESIANS 2:14

And may the Lord make you increase and abound in love for one another and for all men, even as we do for you.

—1 THESSALONIANS 3:12

And let us consider how to spur one another to love and to good works.

—HEBREWS 10:24

If you fulfill the royal law according to the Scripture, You shall love your neighbor as yourself, you are doing well.

—JAMES 2:8

Above all things, have unfailing love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins.

—1 PETER 4:8

ACCOUNTABILITY

When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die, and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity. But his blood I will require from your hand. Nevertheless, if you on your part warn the wicked to turn from his way and he does not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity. But you have delivered your soul.

—EZEKIEL 33:8–9

But I say to you that for every idle word that men speak, they will give an account on the Day of Judgment. For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.

—MATTHEW 12:36–37

He told His disciples: There was a rich man who had a steward, who was accused to the rich man of wasting his resources. So he called him and said to him, ‘How is it that I hear this about you? Give an account of your stewardship, for you may no longer be steward.’

—LUKE 16:1–2

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his recompense in the body, according to what he has done, whether it was good or bad.

—2 CORINTHIANS 5:10

Providing for honest things, not only in the sight of the Lord, but also in the sight of men.

—2 CORINTHIANS 8:21

Obey your leaders and submit to them, for they watch over your souls as those who must give an account. Let them do this with joy and not complaining, for that would not be profitable to you.

—HEBREWS 13:17

ACTIVATING YOUR FAITH

. . . by creating the fruit of the lips. Peace, peace to him who is far off and to him who is near, says the LORD, and I will heal him.

—ISAIAH 57:19

For I will restore health to you, and I will heal you of your wounds, says the LORD, because they called you an outcast, saying, ‘This is Zion whom no man cares for.’

—JEREMIAH 30:17

When she had heard of Jesus, she came in the crowd behind Him and touched His garment. For she said, If I may touch His garments, I shall be healed.

—MARK 5:27–28

The apostles said to the Lord, Increase our faith. The Lord said, If you had faith as a grain of mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.

—LUKE 17:5–6

So faith by itself, if it has no works, is dead.

—JAMES 2:17

For you have been born again, not from perishable seed, but imperishable, through the living and eternal word of God.

—1 PETER 1:23

ADULTERY

You shall not commit adultery.

—EXODUS 20:14

If a man commits adultery with another man’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

—LEVITICUS 20:10

But whoever commits adultery with a woman lacks understanding; he who does it destroys his own soul.

—PROVERBS 6:32

He who covers his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and forsakes them will have mercy.

—PROVERBS 28:13

You have heard that it was said by the ancients, You shall not commit adultery. But I say to you that whoever looks on a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.

—MATTHEW 5:27–28

For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, and blasphemies.

—MATTHEW 15:19

And if a woman divorces her husband and marries another, she commits adultery.

—MARK 10:12

Whoever divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and whoever marries her who is divorced by her husband commits adultery.

—LUKE 16:18

She said, No one, Lord. Jesus said to her, Neither do I condemn you. Go and sin no more.

—JOHN 8:11

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

—1 CORINTHIANS 6:9–10

Marriage is to be honored among everyone, and the bed undefiled. But God will judge the sexually immoral and adulterers.

—HEBREWS 13:4

If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

—1 JOHN 1:9

ALCOHOL

Wine is a mocker, strong drink is raging, and whoever is deceived by it is not wise.

—PROVERBS 20:1

He who loves pleasure will be a poor man; he who loves wine and oil will not be rich.

—PROVERBS 21:17

Do not be among winebibbers, among riotous eaters of meat; for the drunkard and the glutton will come to poverty, and drowsiness will clothe a man with rags.

—PROVERBS 23:20–21

Who has woe? Who has sorrow? Who has contentions? Who has babbling? Who has wounds without cause? Who has redness of eyes? Those who tarry long at the wine, those who go to seek mixed wine.

—PROVERBS 23:29–30

Woe to those who rise up early in the morning that they may pursue strong drink, who continue late in the evening until wine inflames them!

—ISAIAH 5:11

Take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts become burdened by excessiveness and drunkenness and anxieties of life, and that Day comes on you unexpectedly.

—LUKE 21:34

Therefore if the Son sets you free, you shall be free indeed.

—JOHN 8:36

I urge you therefore, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service of worship. Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

—ROMANS 12:1–2

Let us behave properly, as in the day, not in carousing and drunkenness, not in immorality and wickedness, not in strife and envy.

—ROMANS 13:13

Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived. Neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor male prostitutes, nor homosexuals, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God.

—1 CORINTHIANS 6:9–10

Envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and the like. I warn you, as I previously warned you, that those who do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

—GALATIANS 5:21

Do not be drunk with wine, for that is reckless living. But be filled with the Spirit.

—EPHESIANS 5:18

AMBITION

But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be given to you.

—MATTHEW 6:33

For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

—MATTHEW 16:26

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet loses or forfeits himself?

—LUKE 9:25

Let nothing be done out of strife or conceit, but in humility let each esteem the other better than himself.

—PHILIPPIANS 2:3

Learn to be calm, and to conduct your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you, So that you may walk honestly toward those who are outsiders and that you may lack nothing.

—1 THESSALONIANS 4:11–12

For where there is envying and strife, there is confusion and every evil work.

—JAMES 3:16

ANGELS

The angel of the LORD camps around those who fear Him, and delivers them.

—PSALM 34:7

The chariots of God are twice ten thousand, even thousands of thousands; the Lord is among them, as in Sinai, in the holy place.

—PSALM 68:17

And He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather His elect from the four winds, from one end of the heavens to the other.

—MATTHEW 24:31

Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to minister to those who will inherit salvation?

—HEBREWS 1:14

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to an innumerable company of angels.

—HEBREWS 12:22

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unknowingly.

—HEBREWS 13:2

ANGER

They refused to obey and were not mindful of Your wonders that You performed among them. But they hardened their necks and in their rebellion appointed a leader to return to their bondage. But, You are a God ready to pardon, gracious and merciful, slow to anger and abounding in kindness, and did not forsake them.

—NEHEMIAH 9:17

He who is quick tempered deals foolishly, and a man of wicked devices is hated.

—PROVERBS 14:17

He who is slow to wrath is of great understanding, but he who is hasty of spirit exalts folly.

—PROVERBS 14:29

A wrathful man stirs up strife, but he who is slow to anger appeases strife.

—PROVERBS 15:18

He who is slow to anger is better than the mighty, and he who rules his spirit than he who takes a city.

—PROVERBS 16:32

Do not be quick in your spirit to be angry for irritation settles in the bosom of fools.

—ECCLESIASTES 7:9

But I say to you that whoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment. And whoever says to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the Sanhedrin. But whoever says, You fool, shall be in danger of fire of hell.

—MATTHEW 5:22

Love suffers long and is kind; love envies not; love flaunts not itself and is not puffed up, does not behave itself improperly, seeks not its own, is not easily provoked, thinks no evil.

—1 CORINTHIANS 13:4–5

Be angry but do not sin. Do not let the sun go down on your anger.

—EPHESIANS 4:26

Let all bitterness, wrath, anger, outbursts, and blasphemies, with all malice, be taken away from you. And be kind one to another, tender-hearted, forgiving one another, just as God in Christ also forgave you.

—EPHESIANS 4:31–32

But now you must also put away all these: anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, and filthy language out of your mouth.

—COLOSSIANS 3:8

Therefore, my beloved brothers, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for the anger of man does not work the righteousness of God.

—JAMES 1:19–20

ANOINTING

The holy garments belonging to Aaron are to belong to his sons after him, so that they may be anointed in them and be consecrated in them.

—EXODUS 29:29

And I will raise up for Myself a faithful priest, what is in My heart and in My soul he will do it. And I will build him a sure house, and it will walk before My anointed forever.

—1 SAMUEL 2:35

For he was a good man, full of the Holy Spirit and of faith. And many people were added to the Lord.

—ACTS 11:24

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, and self-control; against such there is no law.

—GALATIANS 5:22–23

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord who has enabled me, because He counted me faithful and appointed me to the ministry.

—1