Food for Refocused Thoughts

1) God has promised to love you forever.

Jeremiah 31:3

"I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself. NLT

2) God has promised that He would never leave you.

Hebrews 13:5

be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, "I will never leave you nor forsake you." NKJV

3) God has promised to fill your heart with peace and joy.

John 15:11

"These things I have spoken to you, that My joy may remain in you, and that your joy may be full. NKJV

John 16:33

These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer,
I have overcome the world."

NKJV

4) He’s promised to welcome all who come to Him.

John 6:37

All that the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will by no means cast out. NKJV

5) He’s promised to hear your prayers.

Luke 11:9-10

So I say to you, ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.

For everyone who asks receives,
and he who seeks finds,
and to him who knocks it will be opened. NKJV

6) He’s promised to give you the strength you need for every situation.

Philippians 4:13
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me. NKJV

7) He’s promised to be a father to you by providing for you, protecting you, shaping you.

Luke 11:11-13

If a son asks for bread from any father among you, will he give him a stone? Or if he asks for a fish, will he give him a serpent instead of a fish?

Or if he asks for an egg, will he offer him a scorpion?

If you then, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit
to those who ask Him!" NKJV

Isaiah 64:8

But now, O LORD, You are our Father; We are the clay, and You our potter; And all we are the work of Your hand. NKJV

8) He’s promised to forgive all your sins.

11) Place your eyes on God, and not on your circumstances

1 John 1:9

9 If we confess our sins, He is faithful
and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. NKJV

9) He’s promised to keep you from evil.

Psalm 121:7-8

The LORD shall preserve you from all evil; He shall preserve your soul.

The LORD shall preserve your going out and your coming in From this time forth, and even forevermore.
NKJV

10) He’s promised that you will join Him in heaven.

John 6:40

And this is the will of Him who sent Me,
that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have everlasting life; and I will raise him up at the last day." NKJV

John 14:2-3

In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.

And if I go and prepare a place for you,
I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also. NKJV

Deuteronomy 3:24

'O Sovereign LORD, I am your servant.
You have only begun to show me your greatness and power. Is there any god in heaven or on earth
who can perform such great deeds as yours?
NLT

Deuteronomy 31:6

Be strong and courageous! Do not be afraid of them! The LORD your God will go ahead of you.
He will neither fail you nor forsake you."

Joshua 1:9

Have I not commanded you? Be strong and of good courage; do not be afraid, nor be dismayed,
for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go."

Psalm 24:9

Who is this King of glory? The LORD strong and mighty, The LORD mighty in battle.

Psalm 27:14

Wait on the LORD; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the LORD!

Proverbs 18:10

The name of the LORD is a strong tower; The righteous run to it and are safe.

Isaiah 40:29-31

He gives power to the weak, And to those who have no might He increases strength.

Even the youths shall faint and be weary, And the young men shall utterly fall,

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 41:10

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 right hand.'

2 Corinthians 12:9-10

And He said to me, "My grace is sufficient for you,
for My strength is made perfect in weakness." Therefore most gladly I will rather boast in my infirmities,

that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in needs, in persecutions, in distresses,
for Christ's sake.

For when I am weak, then I am strong.

Ephesians 6:10

be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might.

2 Timothy 1:7

For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.

1 John 4:16-19

We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in him. God is love, and all who live in love live in God,

and God lives in them.

And as we live in God, our love grows more perfect. So we will not be afraid on the day of judgment, but we can face him with confidence because we are like Christ here in this world.

Such love has no fear because perfect love expels all fear. If we are afraid, it is for fear of judgment,
and this shows that his love has not been perfected in us.

We love each other as a result of his loving us first.