What assurances do you need for your relationship with God and family members?
Your Relationship with Father God
“The Spirit himself bears witness to our spirit that we are God’s children.” —Romans 8:16
“Therefore, be imitators of God as dearly loved children and live in love, just as Christ also loved us and gave himself for us, a sacrificial and fragrant offering to God.” —Ephesians 5:1
“The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.” —John 14:21
“Friendship with the LORD is reserved for those who fear him. With them he shares the secrets of his covenant.” —Psalm 25:14, NLT
“But God demonstrates his own love for us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.” —Romans 5:8
“Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.” —James 4:8
“Remain in me, and I will remain in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself, unless it remains in the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in me. I am the vine; you are the branches. The one who remains in me—and I in him—bears much fruit, because apart from me you can accomplish nothing.” —John 15:4–5
“My Father is honored by this, that you bear much fruit and show that you are my disciples. Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love. If you obey my commandments, you will remain in my love, just as I have obeyed my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.” —John 15:8–10
“‘My hand made them; that is how they came to be,’ says the LORD. ‘I show special favor to the humble and contrite, who respect what I have to say.’” —Isaiah 66:2
“How precious to me are your thoughts, O God! How vast is the sum of them! Were I to count them, they would outnumber the grains of sand.” —Psalm 139:17–18, NIV
“If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want, and it will be done for you.” —John 15:7
“The LORD is good to all, and has compassion on all he has made.” —Psalm 145:9
“If you then, although you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him!” —Matthew 7:11
“Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.” —Psalm 139:23,24, NLT
“And this is the confidence that we have before him: that whenever we ask anything according to his will, he hears us. And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.” —1 John 5:14–15
“And you, my sheep, the sheep of my pasture, are my people, and I am your God, declares the Sovereign Lord.” —Ezekiel 34:31
“My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.” —John 10:27–28
“Since ancient times no one has heard or perceived, no eye has seen any God besides you, who intervenes for those who wait for him.” —Isaiah 64:4
“See what sort of love the Father has given to us: that we should be call God’s children — and indeed we are! For this reason the world does not know us: because it did not know him.” —1 John 3:1
“By this the love of God is revealed in us: that God has sent his one and only Son into the world so that we may live through him. In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the atoning sacrifice for our sins.” —John 4:9–10
“For I am convinced that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor heavenly rulers, nor things that are present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” —Romans 8:38-39
“When you seek me in prayer and worship, you will find me available to you. If you seek me with all your heart and soul.” —Jeremiah 29:13
“And we have come to know and to believe the love that God has in us. God is love, and the one who resides in love resides in God, and God resides in him.” —1 John 4:16
“The person who has my commandments and obeys them is the one who loves me. The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I will love him and will reveal myself to him.” —John 14:21
“Love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind.” —Luke 10:27
“You are good and you do good. Teach me your statutes!” —Psalm 119:68
“All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change.” —James 1:17
“For the LORD God is our sovereign protector. The LORD bestows favor and honor; he withholds no good thing from those who have integrity.” —Psalm 84:11
“For we have all received from his fullness one gracious gift after another.” —John 1:16
“I will tell of the faithful acts of the LORD, of the LORD’s praiseworthy deeds. I will tell about all the LORD did for us, the many good things he did for the family of Israel, because of his compassion and great faithfulness.” —Isaiah 63:7
“O LORD, you have examined my heart and know everything about me. You know when I sit down or stand up. You know my every thought when far away.” —Psalm 139:1–2, NLT
Your Relationship with Family
“For I will pour water on the parched ground and cause streams to flow on the dry land. I will pour my Spirit on your offspring and my blessing on your children. They will sprout up like a tree in the grass, like poplars beside channels of water. One will say, ‘I belong to the LORD,’ and another will use the name ‘Jacob.’ One will write on his hand, ‘The LORD’s,’ and use the name ‘Israel.’” —Isaiah 44:3–5
“If only it would really be their desire to fear me and obey all my commandments in the future, so that it may go well with them and their descendants forever.” —Deuteronomy 5:29
“Then all your children shall be taught by the LORD, and great shall be the peace of your children.” —Isaiah 54:13, ISV
“The children of your servants shall dwell secure; their offspring shall be established before you.” —Psalms 102:28
“Praise the LORD! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in his commandments! His offspring will be mighty in the land; the generation of the upright will be blessed. His descendants will be powerful on the earth; the godly will be blessed.” —Psalms 112:1–2
“I will make a permanent covenant with them. Their descendants will be known among the nations, their offspring among the peoples. All who see them will recognize that the LORD has blessed them.” —Isaiah 61:8–9
“The righteous who walks in his integrity—blessed are his children after him.” —Proverbs 20:7
“In the fear of the LORD one has strong confidence, and his children will have a refuge.” —Proverbs 14:26
“I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me forever, for their own good and the good of their children after them.” —Jeremiah 32:39
“And they said, ‘Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved, you and your household.’ And they spoke the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house. And he took them the same hour of the night and washed their wounds; and he was baptized at once, he and all his family.” —Acts 16:31–33
“Train a child in the way that he should go, and when he is old he will not turn from it.” —Proverbs 22:6
“Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.” —Philippians 1:6, NIV
“Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, the fruit of the womb a reward. Like arrows in the hand of a warrior are the children of one’s youth. How joyful is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates.” —Psalm 127:3–5