James1:1-27 ESV / 316 helpful votesHelpfulNot Helpful. James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes in the Dispersion: Greetings. Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect 2Corinthians 9:7 ESV / 773 helpful votes. Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. ESV / 665 helpful votes. Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. Allof us need to increase our desire to make covenants with God. A place to begin is to recognize some things that have already happened to each of us. That stirring we have felt to be better, the thought that there must be some higher life and better place, is a gift of faith in covenants with God. We could ask God in prayer to confirm that EternalRest. Eternal rest grant unto them, O Lord, and let perpetual light shine upon them. May they rest in peace. Amen. Your contribution for a great mission: support us in bringing the Pope's words into every home. Send. Formy yoke is easy, and my burden is light.". Hebrews 4:10-11 ESV / 4 helpful votes. For whoever has entered God's rest has also rested from his works as God did from his. Let us therefore strive to enter that rest, so that no one may fall by the same sort of disobedience. Hebrews 4:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes. Jesusanswered, "The most important is, 'Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.'. The second is this: 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'. Thatis why it depends on faith, in order that the promise may rest on grace and be guaranteed to all his offspring—not only to the adherent of the law but also to the one who shares the faith of Abraham, who is the father of us all, as it is written, "I have made you the father of many nations"—in the presence of the God in whom he Tim There, God chooses one family, the Israelities, from among the nations, and he promises that he's going to rescue the whole world through this family somehow. Jon: And Genesis ends with the family of Abraham in Egypt. Tim: Then the book of Exodus begins, and this book has two large movements. Jon: Right, okay. Hebrews11:6. If you believe this, you will be at rest. Believing it does not mean that you sense it is like that or that you understand it to be like that. Having faith means that you build your life on God's Word; you conduct yourself according to God's Word and reckon that God, who has said it, guides everything and is a rewarder. Answer Solid decision-making begins by discerning the will of God. God delights in revealing His will to those who are eager to follow His precepts ( Psalm 33:18; Psalm 35:27; Psalm 147:11 ). Our attitude towards decision-making should be that of Jesus Himself who affirmed, "Not My will, but Yours be done" ( Luke 22:42; Matthew 6:10 ). y5Uuz.