“Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock” Matthew 7:24

MALACHI 3:8 “Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say, Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings”.

I KINGS 17:3“Get thee hence, and turn thee eastward, and hide thyself by the brook Cherith, that is before Jordan.” Instead of a river, God often gives a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow, as it was with Elijah, the Prophet.

James 4:6; 1 Peter 5:5

The suspense of waiting upon the Lord conducts a thorough test as to the character of a person. It divides into two classes: the proud and the humble. The uplifted and the upright. And they are poles apart.

Psalm 119:65-72 There are four things in this section which are given as outstanding things in the psalmist’s life, “Testimony,” “Teaching,” “Testing” and “Treasure.”

HEBREWS 11:27 “By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king: for he endured, as seeing him who is invisible. “

HEBREWS 12:11
“Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous: nevertheless afterward it yieldeth the peaceable fruit of righteousness unto them which are exercised thereby.”

HEBREWS 13:5

“Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee. “

John 4:6

“Now Jacob's well was there. Jesus therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour.”

Psalms 25:7

Remember not the sins of my youth, nor my transgressions: according to thy mercy remember thou me for thy goodness' sake, O LORD.

EPHESIANS 6:16

“Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked.”

PSALM 37:1-2

“Fret not thyself because of evildoers, neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity. For they shall soon be cut down like the grass, and wither as the green herb.”

LUKE 11:29

“And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonah the prophet.

JAMES 5:16-18

One may declare of Elijah’s petition, “what a heartless prayer”! But was it indeed so? We must rightly conclude that desperate situations call for desperate measures.

PSALM 37:23

“The steps of a good man are ordered by the LORD: and he delighteth in his way.”

Luke 24:32

“And they said one to another; did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the Scriptures?”

MARK 10:29-30
“And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel's,
But he shall receive a hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions; and in the world to come eternal life.”

I SAMUEL 27:1
“And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand. “