Doubt is one of our enemy’s greatest weapons. Since the Garden of Eden he has tried to plant doubt in our minds. Doubt that what God said is true. Doubt that you are really saved. Doubt that God hears you when you pray. The list goes on. Doubt is not from God. He wants us to be assured that His Word is true, that our salvation is sure and that He hears us when we pray. He gives us assurances all throughout the Bible so that we may know these things and be fully convinced. When doubt arises, as it does with all of us at times, combat it with the Word of God. Faith and assurance come from God. Take those thoughts of doubt captive and bring them into submission to the Word of God.
Here are some Bible verses on our assurances.
1. Be assured that the testing of your faith [through experience] produces endurance [leading to spiritual maturity, and inner peace].
James 1:3 AMP
2. Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the holy places by the blood of Jesus, by the new and living way that he opened for us through the curtain, that is, through his flesh, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith, with our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
Hebrews 10:19-22 ESV
3. Now faith is the assurance (title deed, confirmation) of things hoped for (divinely guaranteed), and the evidence of things not seen [the conviction of their reality—faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses].
Hebrews 11:1 AMP
4. I’ve written this letter to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you will be assured and know without a doubt that you have eternal life.
1 John 5:13 TPT
5. But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God’s servant to proclaim it.
Colossians 1:23 NLT
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Devotions by Chris Hendrix 