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Top 7 Bible Verses About God’s People

Top 7 Bible Verses About God’s People

Last updated on: June 28, 2016 at 3:46 pm by Jack Wellman

Top 7 Bible Verses About God’s People 2016-06-28T15:46:33-05:00 Jack Wellman

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Here are seven great Bible verses about the children of God or God’s own people.

Psalm 28:8 “The Lord is the strength of his people; he is the saving refuge of his anointed.”

We cannot be strong in our own strength but only in the strength of God can we endure. The Apostle Paul wrote that we can do all things…but only if Christ will strengthen us (Phil 4:13). God is also the saving refuge for those who are His to run to. They can find shelter from the storms of life but most importantly, they receive eternal life in Jesus Christ. Only by this can we be called the children of God.

Second Chronicles 7:14 “If my people who are called by my name humble themselves, and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land.”

This chapter contains one of the greatest prayers of repentance in the Bible as Nehemiah, the appointed governor of Jerusalem, prayed to God about His people humbling themselves before God since He is opposed to every prideful person (James 4:6). Only when they turn or repent from their wickedness will God hear their cries and answer their prayers, but He will also forgive those who repent and then heal the land where they live. This prayer should be on the lips of every Christian today in regards to their own country.

Psalm 3:8 “Salvation belongs to the Lord; your blessing be on your people! Selah.”

This verse indicates that salvation is fully a work of God and from the Lord alone. This squares with John 1:12-13 where the Apostle John wrote “to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God, who were born, not of blood nor of the will of the flesh nor of the will of man, but of God.” Even being born again is a work of God because salvation is a free gift and cannot possibly be earned (Eph 2:8-9).

Proverbs 29:2 “When the righteous increase, the people rejoice, but when the wicked rule, the people groan.”

Can you almost hear the people groaning right now because of our so-called political “leadership” in Washington, DC? The people are groaning because of all the corruption in the political system and pork barrel politics where politicians are only concerned with their own districts and their own reelection. Term limits are the last thing that Congress would ever do because they’re not about to cut off their feeding in the trough, so it it’s true that when the righteous rule, the people can rejoice, but that’s been so long ago that most of us can’t remember that time.

Psalm 29:11 “May the Lord give strength to his people! May the Lord bless his people with peace!”

We were created to glorify God and to praise Him, so let the people of God bless His holy name for His perfect righteousness. This psalm is almost like a prayer where the psalmist asks God to strengthen His people because he knows that in our own strength, we can’t really do anything. Jesus said “apart from me you can do nothing” (John 15:5) and nothing doesn’t mean a “little something.”

Nehemiah 1:10 “They are your servants and your people, whom you have redeemed by your great power and by your strong hand.”

Nehemiah nails it by stating the truth that God has redeemed a people unto Himself but by Himself in the work at Calvary by Christ. It was by God’s providence that Jesus suffered and died and was then raised from the dead so that we might be redeemed. We need that strength because we can’t do anything unless we are strengthened by Christ (Phil 4:13).

Psalm 33:12 “Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord, the people whom he has chosen as his heritage!”

The nation that has God as their Lord is a nation that is blessed, but of course the opposite of that is also true. Just as God warned Israel through Moses (and by application, all nations) he wrote, “When you father children and children’s children, and have grown old in the land, if you act corruptly by making a carved image in the form of anything, and by doing what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, so as to provoke him to anger, I call heaven and earth to witness against you today, that you will soon utterly perish from the land” (Deut 4:25-26a). Today, instead of carved images for idols, our idols might be money, power, sports, cars, shopping, and the acclaim of men. The nation that falls into idolatry as ours already has will cause God to withdraw His blessing. It is true that our hearts are little idol factories producing idols for us to all but bend down to and worship.

Conclusion

After the walls of Jerusalem were rebuilt, the Book of the Law was discovered and then it was read before the people at the dedication of the rebuilt city of Jerusalem. Nehemiah records the fact that “all the people gathered as one man into the square before the Water Gate. And they told Ezra the scribe to bring the Book of the Law of Moses that the Lord had commanded Israel” (Neh 8:1). After hearing the Law, Nehemiah said, “This day is holy to the Lord your God; do not mourn or weep.” For all the people wept as they heard the words of the Law” (Neh 8:9) and “this day is holy to our Lord. And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength” (Neh 8:10).

Article by Jack Wellman

Jack Wellman is Pastor of the Mulvane Brethren Church in Mulvane Kansas. Jack is also the Senior Writer at What Christians Want To Know whose mission is to equip, encourage, and energize Christians and to address questions about the believer’s daily walk with God and the Bible. You can follow Jack on Google Plus or check out his book Teaching Children the Gospel available on Amazon.

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