God's Promises for New Believers
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A new book for new believersùdestined to become a classic!
A new life in Christ is something to be celebrated. Brand-new believers are overflowing with excitement and anticipation about their new journey of faith. They deserve a meaningful guidebook that will help them know where to turn for the wonderful things God has promised for them throughout scripture. Divided topically and filled with Scripture promises and teachings for new Christians, this book is a wonderful gift for anyone who has recently become a new believer.
For more than thirty years, the GodÆs Promises« seriesùwhich has sold more than 15 million copiesùhas been guiding and comforting people through topically arranged scriptures addressing many facets of life.
This promise book features short, topically based chapters teaching readers about the basics of their newfound faith. Interwoven within each chapter are scripture verses that address questions and topics that specifically answer the needs of new believers. This book will bring biblical answers to many questions new believers face, offering encouragement, hope, and a taste of the abundant promises of God for those who believe in Him.
Sample topics include:
- New believers in the faith
- What is salvation?
- What to do when you need wisdom
- How to overcome temptation
Jack Countryman
Jack Countryman is the founder of JCountryman gift books, a division of Thomas Nelson, and is the recipient of the Evangelical Christian Publishers Association's Kip Jordan Lifetime Achievement Award. Over the past 30 years, he has developed bestselling gift books such as God's Promises for Your Every Need, God's Promises for Men, God's Promises for Women, God Listens, and Red Letter Words of Jesus. Countryman's books have sold more than 27 million units. His graduation books alone have sold nearly 2 million units.
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God's Promises for New Believers - Jack Countryman
INTRODUCTION
As a new or growing believer who is walking through life with Jesus as your Savior and Lord, you will find that God’s promises offer you guidance, hope, and peace. His Word—the Bible—contains all that new believers, longtime believers, and believers in between need in order to grow in their relationship with Christ and to live each day mindful of His presence with them. As you read about the topics and then see what the Bible says about each, take time to think about what the verses mean and what they mean for your life. Let the Word of God be a source of knowledge, strength, and encouragement as you face life’s challenges and joys.
THE BIBLE IS YOUR . . .
DEED OF INHERITANCE
When you accepted Jesus Christ as your Savior—as the One who died on the cross, taking on the punishment you deserve for your sin—you became a Christian and a member of God’s family. He has adopted you as His child and promised you, His child, eternal life in heaven.
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
ROMANS 8:16–17
So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.
ACTS 20:32
In Him also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestined according to the purpose of Him who works all things according to the counsel of His will, that we who first trusted in Christ should be to the praise of His glory.
In Him you also trusted, after you heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation; in whom also, having believed, you were sealed with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is the guarantee of our inheritance until the redemption of the purchased possession, to the praise of His glory.
EPHESIANS 1:11–14
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you.
1 PETER 1:3–4
GUIDE FOR LIFE
God cares about you so much that He has given you a guide for life. That guide is the Bible, and all of us Christians are to be students of that Book throughout our lives. We grow in our faith, we share our beliefs more clearly, and we gain a big-picture perspective on the course of history when we regularly spend time learning what God wants us to know about His love and how He wants us to respond to it. God desires for you—for all of His children—to know all you can about Him and all you can about how to live in a way that honors Him. This knowledge and wisdom are available to you in the Bible.
Your word is a lamp to my feet
And a light to my path.
PSALM 119:105
If you abide in My word, you are My disciples indeed. And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.
JOHN 8:31–32
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will guide you with My eye.
PSALM 32:8
This Book of the Law shall not depart from your mouth, but you shall meditate in it day and night, that you may observe to do according to all that is written in it. For then you will make your way prosperous, and then you will have good success.
JOSHUA 1:8
How can a young man cleanse his way?
By taking heed according to Your word.
PSALM 119:9
STABLE FOUNDATION FOR LIFE
The truths we find in the Bible nourish our faith and grow our knowledge of God and of what it means to be His child. God’s Word provides a stable foundation for the lifestyle He has designed for your good and His glory. No wonder God urges you and me to pay attention to what He teaches us in His Word, to remember what those instructions are, and to follow them however countercultural they are. With its mantra of tolerance
and its fluid morals, the world’s paths are lined with snares and pitfalls. Since God’s Word can help you avoid those dangers, spend time reading the Bible. Nowhere else will you find as solid a foundation for your life as God’s never-changing truth.
My son, give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings.
Do not let them depart from your eyes;
Keep them in the midst of your heart;
For they are life to those who find them,
And health to all their flesh.
PROVERBS 4:20–22
"The grass withers, the flower fades,
But the word of our God stands forever."
ISAIAH 40:8
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
ROMANS 8:31
"All flesh is as grass,
And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass.
The grass withers,
And its flower falls away,
But the word of the LORD endures forever."
1 PETER 1:24–25
Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will by no means pass away.
MATTHEW 24:35
SOURCE OF STRENGTH
More important than physical strength is the mental, emotional, moral, and spiritual strength we need to stay faithful to God day in and day out. No matter the circumstances, the Bible can give you fortitude—when life is hard or easy, when we feel all alone or completely loved, and when we’re wandering aimlessly or serving God and feeling more fulfilled than we ever thought possible. This kind of strength comes from the Holy Spirit who is with you always and from the love God has promised every follower of Jesus Christ. The more you learn about the Bible and your faith, the stronger you will be in this world that is not always gracious to Christians. The Lord has promised to be your Rock, your Fortress, and your Deliverer, and He calls upon you to trust Him for every kind of strength you need, whatever circumstances you face. The Lord has promised to uphold you with His righteous right hand. Trust Him to do exactly that and call on Him for strength—for whatever kind of strength you need.
[I pray that God] would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man, that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
EPHESIANS 3:16–17
[We pray] that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God; strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy; giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.
COLOSSIANS 1:10–12
But those who wait on the LORD
Shall renew their strength;
They shall mount up with wings like eagles,
They shall run and not be weary,
They shall walk and not faint.
ISAIAH 40:31
"Fear not, for I am with you;
Be not dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you,
Yes, I will help you,
I will uphold you with My righteous