Confidence

Memory verses

Memorizing Scripture with your children helps God’s Spirit bring about lasting change. Choose a verse that your children can learn in a pre-determined period of time and aim to review the verse at least once every day.

Genesis 1:27 “So God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.”

1 Samuel 16:7 “But the Lord said to Samuel, ‘Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the Lord looks at the heart.’ ”

Psalm 9:10 “Those who know Your name will trust in You, for You, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek You.”

Psalm 25:3a “No one whose hope is in You will ever be put to shame . . .”

Psalm 25:5 “Guide me in Your truth and teach me, for You are God my Savior, and my hope is in You all day long.”

Psalm 25:21 “May integrity and uprightness protect me, because my hope is in You.”

Psalm 31:24 “Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.”

Psalm 33:22 “May Your unfailing love rest upon us, O Lord, even as we put our hope in You.”

Psalm 42:5 “Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise Him, my Savior and my God.”

Psalm 62:8 “Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge.”

Psalm 71:5 “For you have been my hope, O Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth.”

Psalm 86:2 “Guard my life, for I am devoted to you. You are my God; save your servant who trusts in You.”

Psalm 91:2 “I will say of the Lord, ‘He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.’ ”

Psalm 103:11 “For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His love for those who fear Him . . .”

Psalm 118:6aThe Lord is with me; I will not be afraid.”

Psalm 118:7a “The Lord is with me; He is my helper.”

Psalm 118:8 “It is better to take refuge in the Lord than to trust in man.”

Psalm 139:14 “I praise You because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”

Psalm 147:10-11 “His pleasure is not in the strength of the horse, nor His delight in the legs of a man; the Lord delights in those who fear Him, who put their hope in His unfailing love.”

Proverbs 27:2 “Let another praise you, and not your own mouth; someone else, and not your own lips.”

Proverbs 29:25 “Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.”

Isaiah 12:2 “Surely God is my salvation; I will trust and not be afraid. The Lord, the Lord, is my strength and my song; He has become my salvation.”

Isaiah 26:3 “You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You.”

Jeremiah 17:7 “But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in Him.”

Jeremiah 29:11 “ ‘For I know the plans I have for you,’ declares the Lord, ‘plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.’ ”

Matthew 6:26 “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?”

Luke 12:24 “Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable you are than birds!”

Romans 8:1 “Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus . . .”

Romans 8:28 “And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose.”

Romans 8:37 “No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us.”

Romans 8:38-39 “For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”

2 Corinthians 5:17 “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation: the old has gone, the new has come!”

Ephesians 2:10 “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”

Philippians 4:13 “I can do everything through Him who gives me strength.”

2 Timothy 1:7 “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.”

Hebrews 13:6 “So we say with confidence, ‘The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?’ ”

1 Peter 5:7 “Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.”