Chapter One
God's Plan for
Men Is .
To Worship God
And you shall remember the Lord your
God, for it is He who gives you power to get
wealth, that He may establish His covenant which
He swore to your fathers, as it is this day. Then it
shall be, if you by any means forget the Lord your
God, and follow other gods, and serve them and
worship them, I testify against you this day that
you shall surely perish.
Deuteronomy 8:18-19
God is Spirit, and those who worship Him
must worship in spirit and truth.
John 4:24
For the Lord is the great God, And the great King above all gods.
In His hand are the deep places of the earth; The heights of the hills are His also.
The sea is His, for He made it; And His hands formed the dry land.
Oh come, let us worship and bow down; Let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.
For He is our God, And we are the people of His pasture, And the sheep of His hand.
Psalm 95:3-7
The world is passing away, and the lust of it;
but he who does the will of God abides forever.
1 John 2:17
The Lord is great and greatly to be praised; He is to be feared above all gods.
Give to the Lord the glory due His name; Bring an offering, and come into His courts.
Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of
holiness! Tremble before Him, all the earth.
Psalm 96:4, 8-9
Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour
of His judgment has come; and worship Him who
made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of
water.
Revelation 14:7
Looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher
of our faith, who for the joy that was set before
Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and
has sat down at the right hand of the throne of
God.
For consider Him who endured such hostility
from sinners against Himself, lest you become
weary and discouraged in your souls.
Hebrews 12:2-3
Now I, John, saw and heard these things.
And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship
before the feet of the angel who showed me these
things.
Then he said to me, "See that you do not do
that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your
brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the
words of this book. Worship God."
Revelation 22:8-9
Exalt the Lord our God, And worship at His footstool— He is holy.
Exalt the Lord our God, And worship at His holy hill; For the Lord our God is holy.
Psalm 99:5, 9
Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord.
We are the circumcision, who worship God
in the Spirit, rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no
confidence in the flesh.
Philippians 3:1a, 3
To Obey God's Word
From there you will seek the Lord your
God, and you will find Him if you seek Him with
all your heart and with all your soul. When you are
in distress, and all these things come upon you in
the latter days, when you turn to the Lord your
God and obey His voice (for the Lord your God
is a merciful God), He will not forsake you nor
destroy you, nor forget the covenant of your
fathers which He swore to them.
Deuteronomy 4:29-31
Jesus answered him, saying, "It is written,
`Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every
word of God.'"
Luke 4:4
As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.
Psalm 18:30
Oh, that they had such a heart in them that
they would fear Me and always keep all My commandments,
that it might be well with them and
with their children forever!
Deuteronomy 5:29
Whatever things were written before were
written for our learning, that we through the
patience and comfort of the Scriptures might have
hope.
Romans 15:4
The word of God is living and powerful, and
sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even
to the division of soul and spirit, and of joints and
marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and
intents of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12
As newborn babes, desire the pure milk of
the word, that you may grow thereby.
1 Peter 2:2
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting
the soul;
The testimony of the Lord is sure, making
wise the simple;
The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart;
The commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes.
Psalm 19:7-8
I understand more than the ancients, Because I keep Your precepts.
I have restrained my feet from every evil way, That I may keep Your word.
Psalm 119:100-101
You shall observe My judgments and keep
My ordinances, to walk in them: I am the Lord
your God.
Leviticus 18:4
Draw near to God and He will draw near to
you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify
your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:8
As for God, His way is perfect; The word of the Lord is proven; He is a shield to all who trust in Him.
Psalm 18:30
To Come to God in Prayer
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.
Matthew 7:7-8
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by
prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your
requests be made known to God; and the peace of
God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard
your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:6-7
And whatever things you ask in prayer,
believing, you will receive.
Matthew 21:22
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in
everything give thanks; for this is the will of God
in Christ Jesus for you.
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
If My people who are called by My name will
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.
2 Chronicles 7:14
Again I say to you that if two of you agree
on earth concerning anything that they ask, it
will be done for them by My Father in heaven.
Matthew 18:19
Praying always with all prayer and supplication
in the Spirit, being watchful to this end
with all perseverance and supplication for all
the saints.
Ephesians 6:18
Hear a just cause, O Lord, Attend to my cry; Give ear to my prayer which is not from
deceitful lips.
Psalm 17:1
For the eyes of the Lord are on the
righteous, And His ears are open to their prayers; But the face of the Lord is against
those who do evil.
1 Peter 3:12
Hear me when I call, O God of my
righteousness! You have relieved me in my distress; Have mercy on me, and hear my prayer.
Psalm 4:1
To Listen to the Holy Spirit
As His divine power has given to us all things
that pertain to life and godliness, through the
knowledge of Him who called us by glory and
virtue, by which have been given to us exceedingly
great and precious promises, that through these
you may be partakers of the divine nature, having
escaped the corruption that is in the world
through lust.
2 Peter 1:3-4
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 40:31
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,
gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no
law. And those who are Christ's have crucified the
flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the
Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Galatians 5:22-25
Your ears shall hear a word behind you, saying, "This is the way, walk in it,"
Whenever you turn to the right hand
Or whenever you turn to the left.
Isaiah 30:21
If you ask anything in My name, I will do it.
If you love Me, keep My commandments.
And I will pray the Father, and He will give you
another Helper, that He may abide with you forever—the
Spirit of truth, whom the world cannot
receive, because it neither sees Him nor knows
Him; but you know Him, for He dwells with you
and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans; I
will come to you.
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the
Father will send in My name, He will teach you all
things, and bring to your remembrance all things
that I said to you.
John 14:14, 15-18, 26
Nevertheless I tell you the truth. It is to your
advantage that I go away; for if I do not go away,
the Helper will not come to you; but if I depart, I
will send Him to you.
However, when He, the Spirit of truth, has
come, He will guide you into all truth; for He will
not speak on His own authority, but whatever He
hears He will speak; and He will tell you things to
come.
John 16:7, 13
Being assembled together with them, He
commanded them not to depart from Jerusalem,
but to wait for the Promise of the Father, "which,"
He said, "you have heard from Me; for John truly
baptized with water, but you shall be baptized
with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
"But you shall receive power when the Holy
Spirit has come upon you; and you shall be witnesses
to Me in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and
Samaria, and to the end of the earth."
Acts 1:4-5, 8
For everyone who asks receives, and he who
seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be
opened. 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!
Luke 11:10-13
For it is God who works in you both to will
and to do for His good pleasure.
Philippians 2:13
Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, Nor have entered into the heart of man
The things which God has prepared for
those who love Him.
But God has revealed them to us through
His Spirit. For the Spirit searches all things, yes,
the deep things of God. For what man knows the
things of a man except the spirit of the man which
is in him? Even so no one knows the things of God
except the Spirit of God. Now we have received,
not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is
from God, that we might know the things that
have been freely given to us by God. These things
we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom
teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing
spiritual things with spiritual. But the natural
man does not receive the things of the Spirit
of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he
know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1 Corinthians 2:9-14
Who also made us sufficient as ministers of
the new covenant, not of the letter but of the
Spirit; for the letter kills, but the Spirit gives life.
Now the Lord is the Spirit; and where the
Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty. But we all,
with unveiled face, beholding as in a mirror the
glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the
same image from glory to glory, just as by the
Spirit of the Lord.
2 Corinthians 3:6, 17-18
If the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from
the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from
the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies
through His Spirit who dwells in you.
The Spirit Himself bears witness with our
spirit that we are children of God, and if children,
then heirs—heirs of God and joint heirs with
Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may
also be glorified together.
For I consider that the sufferings of this present
time are not worthy to be compared with the
glory which shall be revealed in us.
Likewise the Spirit also helps in our weaknesses.
For we do not know what we should pray
for as we ought, but the Spirit Himself makes
intercession for us with groanings which cannot
be uttered. Now He who searches the hearts
knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He
makes intercession for the saints according to the
will of God.
Romans 8:11, 16-18, 26-27
Continues.
