8 tests to help you Biblically sound decisions
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- Scriptural Test- "Has God already spoken about it in His Word?"
2 Timothy 3:16 All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness
- Secrecy Test- "Would it bother me if everyone knew this was my choice?"
Proverbs 11:3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: But the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
- Survey Test- *"What if everyone followed my example?"
1 Timothy 4:12 Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
- Spiritual Test-"Am I being people-pressured or Spirit-led?"
** Galatians 1:10** For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
- Stumbling Test- "Could this cause another person to stumble?"
** Romans 14:21** It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
- Serenity Test-"Have I prayed and received peace about this decision?"
** Philippians 4:6-7**
6: Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God.
7: And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.
- Sanctification Test- "Will this keep me from growing in the character of Christ?"
** 2Corinthians 3:18** But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.
- Supreme Test- "Does this glorify God?"
**1 Corinthians 10:31 Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.