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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSM96OA39ic&feature=youtu.be

God is Trustworthy 

On this day given to pranks and hoaxes, I wanted to submit and proclaim truth that is steadfast and reliable.
April Fools' Day or April Fool's Day(sometimes called All Fools' Day) is an annual celebration commemorated on April 1 by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes. The jokes and their victims are called April fools. People playing April Fool jokes often expose their prank by shouting "April fool(s)" at the unfortunate victim(s). 
(source Wikipedia)

However, on every day we can depend on God.

Verses about the trust worthiness of God

  • For men indeed swear by the greater, and an oath for confirmation is for them an end of all dispute. Thus God, determining to show more abundantly to the heirs of promise the immutability of His counsel, confirmed it by an oath, that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before us. This hope we have as an anchor of the soul, both sure and steadfast, and which enters the Presence behind the veil,
     
  • Genesis 22:18
    In your seed all the nations of the earth shall be blessed, because you have obeyed My voice."
     
  • Numbers 14:9
    Only do not rebel against the LORD, nor fear the people of the land, for they are our bread; their protection has departed from them, and the LORD is with us. Do not fear them.'
     
  • Numbers 23:19
    "God is not a man, that He should lie,
    Nor a son of man, that He should repent.
    Has He said, and will He not do?
    Or has He spoken, and will He not make it good?
     
  • Deuteronomy 7:6-10
    "For you are a holy people to the LORD your God; the LORD your God has chosen you to be a people for Himself, a special treasure above all the peoples on the face of the earth. The LORD did not set His love on you nor choose you because you were more in number than any other people, for you were the least of all peoples; but because the LORD loves you, and because He would keep the oath which He swore to your fathers, the LORD has brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you from the house of bondage, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. "Therefore know that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and mercy for a thousand generations with those who love Him and keep His commandments; and He repays those who hate Him to their face, to destroy them. He will not be slack with him who hates Him; He will repay him to his face.
     
  • 1 Samuel 12:22
    For the LORD will not forsake His people, for His great name’s sake, because it has pleased the LORD to make you His people.
     
  • Isaiah 46:9-10
    Remember the former things of old,
    For I am God, and there is no other;
    I am God, and there is none like Me,
    Declaring the end from the beginning,
    And from ancient times things that are not yet done,
    Saying, ‘My counsel shall stand,
    And I will do all My pleasure,’

     
  • Isaiah 55:8-9
    "For My thoughts are not your thoughts,
    Nor are your ways My ways," says the LORD.
    'For as the heavens are higher than the earth,
    So are My ways higher than your ways,
    And My thoughts than your thoughts.

     
  • John 14:6
    Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through Me.
     
  • Romans 8:29
    For whom He foreknew, He also predestined to beconformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren.
     
  • Romans 8:38-39
    For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
     
  • 1 Corinthians 1:9
    God is faithful, by whom you were called into the fellowship of His Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.
     
  • 1 Corinthians 10:13
    No temptation has overtaken you except such as is common to man; but God is faithful, who will not allow you to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will also make the way of escape, that you may be able to bear it.
     
  • 2 Timothy 1:9
    who has saved us and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to His own purpose and grace which was given to us in Christ Jesus before time began,
     
  • 2 Timothy 2:13
    If we are faithless, He remains faithful;
    He cannot deny Himself.
     
  • Hebrews 11:11
    By faith Sarah herself also received strength to conceive seed, and she bore a child when she was past the age, because she judged Him faithful who had promised.
     
  • 1 Peter 1:3
    Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His abundant mercy has begotten us again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
     
  • 1 Peter 4:19
    Therefore let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator. 

I hope the acronym doesn’t seem disrespectful but in honor of this day when people are pulling pranks on others I’m proposing untrue hoaxes, I thought this acronym will be helpful to remember the true character of God. He is:
Fateful, Omnipotent Omniscient Loving
  • Faithful 
  • https://www.openbible.info/topics/gods_faithfulness
  • Know therefore that the Lord your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments, to a thousand generations
  • Deut. 7:9
  • 2Thess. 3:3
  • But the Lord is faithful. He will establish you and guard you against the evil one.

  • Omnipotent

  • But Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.”
  • Matt. 19:26

  • Ah, Lord God! It is you who have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and by your outstretched arm! Nothing is too hard for you.
  • Jer. 32:17

  • Omniscient
  • https://www.openbible.info/topics/omniscience
  • Can anyone teach knowledge to God, since he judges even the highest?” (Job 21:22). 
  • Who can fathom the Spirit of the LORD, or instruct the LORD as his counselor? Whom did the LORD consult to enlighten him, and who taught him the right way? Who was it that taught him knowledge, or showed him the path of understanding?” (Isaiah 40:13-14). 

  • Loving
  • https://www.openbible.info/topics/gods_love
  • “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
  • John 3:16
  • So we have come to know and to believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and whoever abides in love abides in God, and God abides in him.
  • 1John 4:18
So on this April 1, the wise and remember that God is faithful, omnipotent omniscent loving.

Enjoy this worship song: Forever God is Faithful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSM96OA39ic&feature=youtu.be


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