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1. If we obey God and keep His covenant, what will we be unto the
Lord?
Exod 19:5
Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations
you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine,
(NIV)
2. Where does the Lord desire to put us through obedience?
Deut 28:1
If you fully obey the LORD your God and carefully follow all his commands
I give you today, the LORD your God will set you high above all the nations
on earth. (NIV)
3. What did the people tell Joshua concerning obedience?
Josh 1:17
Just as we fully obeyed Moses, so we will obey you. Only may the LORD
your God be with you as he was with Moses. (NIV)
4. What does God want of our heart?
I King 8:61
But your hearts must be fully committed to the LORD our God, to live by
his decrees and obey his commands, as at this time." (NIV)
5. Why was the heart of king Solomon not devoted to the Lord?
I King 11:4
As Solomon grew old, his wives turned his heart after other gods, and
his heart was not fully devoted to the LORD his God, as the heart of David
his father had been. (NIV)
6. Asa's heart was devoted to the Lord
I King 15:14
Although he did not remove the high places, Asa's heart was fully committed
to the LORD all his life. (NIV)
7. God strengthens hearts that are fully committed to him
2 Chr 16:9
For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those
whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing,
and from now on you will be at war." (NIV)
8. The disciples saw the glory of Christ when they were fully awake
Luke 9:32
Peter and his companions were very sleepy, but when they became fully
awake, they saw his glory and the two men standing with him. (NIV)
9. God wants us to be fully persuaded about what
Rom 4:21
being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised. (NIV)
10. What are we to give ourselves fully to?
1 Cor 15:58
Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always
give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your
labor in the Lord is not in vain. (NIV)
11. What was the content of Epaphras' prayer?
Col 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you and a servant of Christ Jesus, sends greetings.
He is always wrestling in prayer for you, that you may stand firm in all
the will of God, mature and fully assured. (NIV)
Wholehearted
12. King Hezekiah reminds the Lord of his complete devotion
II Ki 20:3
"Remember, O LORD, how I have walked before you faithfully and with
wholehearted devotion and have done what is good in your eyes." And
Hezekiah wept bitterly. (NIV)
13. David instructs Solomon to be wholehearted to the Lord
1 Chr 28:9
"And you, my son Solomon, acknowledge the God of your father, and
serve him with wholehearted devotion and with a willing mind, for the
LORD searches every heart and understands every motive behind the thoughts.
If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will
reject you forever. (NIV)
14. David prays for Solomon
1 Chr 29:19
And give my son Solomon the wholehearted devotion to keep your commands,
requirements and decrees and to do everything to build the palatial structure
for which I have provided." (NIV)
15. God rewards Caleb's wholeheartedness
Num 14:24
But because my servant Caleb has a different spirit and follows me wholeheartedly,
I will bring him into the land he went to, and his descendants will inherit
it. (NIV)
16. The penalty for half hearted devotion
Num 32:11
`Because they have not followed me wholeheartedly, not one of the men
twenty years old or more who came up out of Egypt will see the land I
promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac and Jacob-- (NIV)
17. The Lord will circumcise your heart
Deut 30:6
The LORD your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants,
so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and
live. (NIV)
18. The heart that turns away from God will worship other gods
Deut 30:17
But if thine heart turn away, so that thou wilt not hear, but shalt be
drawn away, and worship other gods, and serve them; (KJV)
19. We are to take heed to the command of the Lord
Josh 22:5
But take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law, which Moses
the servant of the LORD charged you,
· to love the LORD your God, and
· to walk in all his ways, and
· to keep his commandments, and
· to cleave unto him, and
· to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul. (KJV)
20. God wants us to incline our hearts to Him
Josh 24:23
Now therefore put away, said he, the strange gods which are among you,
and incline your heart unto the LORD God of Israel. (KJV)
21. God wants faithful wholehearted service in the fear of God
2 Chr 19:8-9
8 In Jerusalem also, Jehoshaphat appointed some of the Levites, priests
and heads of Israelite families to administer the law of the LORD and
to settle disputes. And they lived in Jerusalem.
9 He gave them these orders: "You must serve faithfully and wholeheartedly
in the fear of the LORD. (NIV)
Num 32:12
not one except Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite and Joshua son of
Nun, for they followed the LORD wholeheartedly.' (NIV)
Deut 1:36
except Caleb son of Jephunneh. He will see it, and I will give him and
his descendants the land he set his feet on, because he followed the LORD
wholeheartedly." (NIV)
Josh 14:8
but my brothers who went up with me made the hearts of the people melt
with fear. I, however, followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly. (NIV)
Josh 14:9
So on that day Moses swore to me, `The land on which your feet have walked
will be your inheritance and that of your children forever, because you
have followed the LORD my God wholeheartedly.' (NIV)
Josh 14:14
So Hebron has belonged to Caleb son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite ever since,
because he followed the LORD, the God of Israel, wholeheartedly. (NIV)
I King 8:23
and said: "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven
above or on earth below-- you who keep your covenant of love with your
servants who continue wholeheartedly in your way. (NIV)
1 Chr 29:9
The people rejoiced at the willing response of their leaders, for they
had given freely and wholeheartedly to the LORD. David the king also rejoiced
greatly. (NIV)
2 Chr 6:14
He said: "O LORD, God of Israel, there is no God like you in heaven
or on earth-- you who keep your covenant of love with your servants who
continue wholeheartedly in your way. (NIV)
2 Chr 15:15
All Judah rejoiced about the oath because they had sworn it wholeheartedly.
They sought God eagerly, and he was found by them. So the LORD gave them
rest on every side. (NIV)
2 Chr 19:9
He gave them these orders: "You must serve faithfully and wholeheartedly
in the fear of the LORD. (NIV)
2 Chr 25:2
He did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.
(NIV)
2 Chr 31:21
In everything that he undertook in the service of God's temple and in
obedience to the law and the commands, he sought his God and worked wholeheartedly.
And so he prospered. (NIV)
Rom 6:17
But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you wholeheartedly
obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted. (NIV)
Eph 6:7
Serve wholeheartedly, as if you were serving the Lord, not men, (NIV)
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