Bible Verses Promising & Illustrating Almighty God's Faithfulness

        Bible Verses Promising and Illustrating

Almighty God’s Faithfulness 

1.    Genesis 28:15    2

2.    Exodus 14:13-14

3.    Deuteronomy 31:8

4.    Joshua 1:9

5.    Psalm 18

6.    Psalm 22

7.    Psalm 23

8.    Psalm 24

9.    Psalm 25

10.                       Psalm 27

11.                       Psalm 30

12.                       Psalm 34

13.                       Psalm 35

14.                       Psalm 37

15.                       Psalm 40

16.                       Psalm 42

17.                       Psalm 46

18.                       Psalm 48

19.                       Psalm 62

20.                       Psalm 68

21.                       Psalm 77

22.                       Psalm 84

23.                       Psalm 90

24.                       Psalm 91

25.                       Psalm 100

26.                       Psalm 103

27.                       Psalm 104

28.                       Psalm 118

29.                       Psalm 121

30.                       Psalm 124                   

31.                       Psalm 127

32.                       Psalm 130

33.                       Psalm 136

34.                       Psalm 139

35.                       Proverbs 3:5-8

36.                       Proverbs 4:18

37.                       Proverbs 16:9

38.                       Proverbs 18:24

39.                       Isaiah 12:2

40.                       Isaiah 26:3

41.                       Isaiah 33:2

42.                       Isaiah 33:6

43.                       Isaiah 40:28-31

44.                       Isaiah 41:10-13

45.                       Isaiah 42:16

46.                       Isaiah 43:1-3

47.                       Isaiah 43:19

48.                       Isaiah 43:25

49.                       Isaiah 50:7

50.                       Isaiah 50:8-10

51.                       Isaiah 52:12

52.                       Isaiah 54:17

53.                       Isaiah 55:1-13

54.                       Isaiah 61:10

55.                       Jeremiah 29:11

56.                       Jeremiah 29:12-14

57.                       Jeremiah 33:3

58.                       Lamentations 3:22-23

59.                       Lamentations 3:24

60.                       Lamentations 3:25

61.                       Lamentations 3:26

62.                       Romans 4:18-21

63.                       Romans 5:1-5

64.                       Romans 8:1

65.                       Romans 8:18

66.                       Romans 8:26

67.                       Romans 8:28

68.                       Romans 8:31

69.                       Romans 8:33-39

70.                       Romans 12:1-2

71.                       Romans 12:12

72.                       1 Corinthians 1:9

73.                       1 Corinthians 10:13

74.                       1 Corinthians 15:58

75.                       2 Corinthians 12:9

76.                       Ephesians 1:3

77.                       Ephesians 1:18

78.                       Ephesians 3:14-21

79.                       Ephesians 6:10

80.                       Philippians 1:27

81.                       Philippians 2:1-11

82.                       Philippians 4:4-7

83.                       Philippians 4:8-9

84.                       Philippians 4:13

85.                       2 Timothy 1:7

86.                       Hebrews 4:12

87.                       Hebrews 4:14-16

88.                       Hebrews 10:35-39

89.                       Hebrews 11:1

90.                       Hebrews 11:6

91.                       Hebrews 12:1-2

92.                       Hebrews 12:4-11

93.                       Hebrews 13:5-6

94.                       James 1:2-4

95.                       James 1:5-7

96.                       James 1:12

97.                       1 John 1:9

98.                       1 John 4:18

99.                       1 John 4:19

100.                 Jude 24-25

Extending Genuine Forgiveness is Possible

Extending Genuine Forgiveness is Possible

With the grace and empowerment of Almighty God, extending genuine forgiveness towards persons who harmed us is possible.  Recently, I read the incredible story of Herman Black’s forgiveness of a crack addict who murdered Black’s daughter.  The youngest of his four girls, this young woman worked tirelessly as a social worker to assist alcoholics, addicts and homeless persons to recover from their enslavement to chemical substances and find a new freedom and life.  After graduating from college, this woman returned to the town where she grew up.  She chose social work as a profession, in gratitude for her adoption by Black and his wife who rescued her from a crack-addicted mother.  As a little girl, she went to school unkempt, unclean, smelly and unfed.  The Blacks adopted her and treated her as if she were their natural child; her siblings followed their parents’ example. 

This woman desired to help people who suffered as miserably as her birth mother did.  In her studies and clinical internships, she presumably found the wherewithal to forgive her mother and understand the depth of her brokenness.  The mother’s inability to care properly for the daughter stemmed from her inherent character defects borne of her addiction.  Essentially, she was not a sinful and bad person who refused to make better choices.  Her brokenness prevented her better self from being the loving and faithful mother she desired to be.  Nonetheless, Black’s daughter demonstrated her forgiveness and grateful in her work as a social worker, seeking to help broken people find the internal resources to recover and repair their lives.  It is terribly and inexplicably ironic that she would lose her life at the hands of someone whom she committed to helping.  This crack addict broke into her house one night, forced her to give him the code to her ATM card, and stole other money and valuables she had.  He left to get drugs and satisfy his insatiable craving.  Within hours, he returned to her house.  Fearing she would identify him, he killed her after sexually assaulting her. 

Not surprisingly, the residents of the town expressed universal outrage and condemnation of the perpetrators deeds.  They cried aloud for the maximum possible sentence even the death penalty were it an option. To the chagrin of some of the townsfolks and absolute amazement of other residents, Herman Black attended the defendant’s sentencing hearing to ask the judge for leniency.  Looking upon the frightened, broken, misguided and hapless young man who took his daughter’s life, Black affirmatively told the court that he believed the young defendant possessed the potential of redemption.  Instead of the maximum sentence, Black asked the judge to allow the defendant some possibility of life after serving a reasonable amount of time to remit the debt of his crime. 

Flabbergasted by Black’s magnanimous request and act of forgiveness, a reporter for the local paper asked Black how he could make such a request.  Black expressed his disgust for the defendant’s ingratitude and dastardly deeds.  He understood and shared the community’s rage toward the murderer.  However, as a committed Christian endeavoring to live with integrity, Black asked the Lord to give him the divine strength, spiritual power and personal willingness to forgive his daughter’s murderer as Black believed he ought to do so.

Summarily, Herman Black’s disturbing ordeal reveals that genuine forgiveness is indeed possible with God’s grace and strength.  Should you experience any difficulty in forgiving anyone who harmed you, ask Almighty God for humility, honesty, open mindedness, willingness, and strength and desire to forgive.