Creating A List of Verses for Our Problems (TMF:1159)

Thursday, June 27, 2019
Peace to Live By: Creating A List of Verses for Our Problems (TMF:1159) - Daniel Litton
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       Let’s say we go to 1 Corinthians chapter 7. That’s a good place to go when discussing marriage. Verse 2 says, “But because of the temptation to sexual immorality, each man should have his own wife and each woman her own husband” (ESV). So, here, in the most basic sense, we learn that if a person feels that he or she needs to be married in life, that it is in fact God’s will for that person to get married. That’s pretty encouraging. I might also add verse 35 to my list, which says the same thing in another way. And I might add verse 37 which says that I can be married to whomever I wish, only in the Lord. So, we can add these verses to our list. Once we have a completed list, we then can speak this list between ourselves and God in prayer. And having this list of verses that addresses our particular problem or desire also encourages us, in our minds, to believe that God wants what we want, because at the heart of a lot of our problems in life is unbelief. We don’t believe God wants us to have this or that because we don’t have it, and therefore, God doesn’t help us because we don’t believe that he wants to.