If you're anything like me, then you are growing increasingly stressed out as finals week quickly approaches. You have a list of things to do and due dates that seems to multiply with each passing day. You are on your fourth cup of coffee today and wondering if it'll ever get any easier. Here is a list of verses to remind us that God is not only watching over us, but guiding us and encouraging us as we finish this school year off.
1. Romans 8:31
"What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?"
2. Matthew 6:34
"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own."
3. 1 Samuel 7:12
"Then Samuel took a stone and set it up between Mizpah and Shen. He named it Ebenezee, saying, 'thus far the Lord has helped us'."
4. Matthew 11:28-29
"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take yoke upon you and learn from you, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls."
5. Proverbs 16:9
"In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps."
6. Philippians 3:13-14
"But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead. I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus."
7. 2 Thessalonians 3:16
"Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you."
8. 1 Peter 1:6-7
"... for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith- of greater than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire- may result in praise, glory, and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed."
9. Psalm 34:19
"Many adversities come to the one who is righteous, but the Lord delivers him from them all."
10. Psalm 138:8
"The Lord will fulfill his purpose for me; your steadfast love, O Lord, endures forever."
11. Philippians 4:13
"I can do everything through him who gives me strength."
12. 1 Peter 5:6–7
“Humble yourselves, therefore, under the mighty hand of God so that at the proper time he may exalt you, casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you.”
13. James 1:2–4
"Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing."
14. Proverbs 3:5-6
"Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight."
15. Matthew 6:25-27
“Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”
