Verse/s closest to your heart

• Ironside

  5 Apr 06, 02:52

  
  
  What verse/s of Scripture touched your heart that brought change in you savingly or edifyingly? Can you post it here. Post it with some explanation as to how God used the verse to change you.
• Ironside

  5 Apr 06, 02:53

  I'll go first.
  
  Ro 4:25 "who was delivered up because of our offenses, and was raised because of our justification."
  
  I was once a very materialistic young man. Money was my god. This continued until i was 18 years old. During this time i was brought under conviction of sin [which i did not know at that time]. I repented of my sins and i became a totally changed man.
  
  I had this super desire for righteousness. It became my all-consuming passion to be perfectly righteous in the eyes of God. For five years, i worked so hard to be perfectly righteous until i found it an impossibility. I was so depressed that i could never be perfectly righteous. I found myself a helpless sinner in the eyes of God. I cried out to God to please stoop down to my level.
  
  Until one night as i was reading Romans chapter 3 [ a chapter on righteousness ], i can somehow sense someone guiding me as i was reading the verses. It's as if I knew what the next verse would say. This continued on until i reached chapter 4 verse 25.
  
  There my quest for perfect righteousness was ended. It was in Christ Jesus' work on the cross that i became perfectly righteous in the eyes of God [praise God].. there i understood Christ work and it was there i first believed on Christ alone for salvation. Ohhh what ecstatic joy i experienced.........peace came into me like a flood. My mind kept on saying on and on: 'I'm a friend of God.............i am a friend of God'
  
  I stood up and leaped for joy. So much joy and peace as the words: "I am friends with God..............I am friends with God kept on repeating in my mind without me deliberately thinking it.
  
  Moments later i returned to my reading...............and the next verse said:
  
  Romans 5:1 "Therefore, having been justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,"
  
  And a whole round of joy and peace embraced me again............i can sense God smiling at me for the first time in my life.......the joy was so ecstatic.....i felt i was taken to heaven for a nanosecond and back.
  
  P.S. anyone looking for perfect righteousness?.............it's in Christ my friend.....place your trust in Him.
  
  He is the Lord our righteousness. Jeremiah 23:6
  
  
• Chin Eng

  5 Apr 06, 07:45

  Isaiah 40:31
• laoda99

  5 Apr 06, 20:31

  THERE is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit. Romans 8:1
• fallin

  5 Apr 06, 21:29

  I've only got one very little verse.
  
  Luke 5:32
  I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
  
  Its nothing much,when I was struggling very intensely with doubt, this feeling that because my doubts God would totally abandon me and leave me alone. Then this little verse came in to remind me that God came to die for doubtful faithless people and like me. I must say, very comforting indeed.
• sgFish

  8 Apr 06, 23:05

  Psalm 18:2 and Isaiah 40:29-31
• Icemoon

  9 Apr 06, 00:01

  Micah 6:8 - He has told you, O mortal, what is good; and what does the Lord require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God?
  
  Isaiah 6:8 - Then I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ And I said, ‘Here am I; send me!’