Every Day Is A Test From God - Soul Choice Ministries

Life is a continual test in which God examines the human heart to reveal what is truly within it. Through trials, Scripture shows that God is looking for genuine faith—expressed through love, patience, and works—as well as obedience to His Word.

Job 7:18 says,
You visit man every morning and try him every moment.

What are the tests for? To reveal our heart.

2 Chronicles 32:31
God left him to try him, to see all that was in his heart.

Psalm 26:2
Examine me, prove me, and try my reins and my heart.

1 Thessalonians 2:4
But God, who tries our hearts. (Proverbs 17:3; Jeremiah 12:3)

What is God looking for in our hearts? Faith

1 Peter 1:7
That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than gold.

James 1:3
The trying of your faith works patience.

Faith has three ingredients:
Galatians 5:6 — love
James 1:3 — patience
James 2:17 — works

God is also looking for obedience.

Deuteronomy 8:2
And you shall remember all the way which the Lord your God led you these forty years in the wilderness, to humble you and to prove you, to know what was in your heart, whether you would keep His commandments or not.

John 14:15
If you love Me, keep My commandments.

Luke 8:21
My mother and My brethren are those who hear the Word of God and do it.

Hebrews 5:8
Though He were a Son, yet learned He obedience by the things which He suffered.

We must learn through the Bible.

Psalm 94:12
Blessed is the man whom You chasten and teach out of Your law, that You may give him rest.

Proverbs 21:11
When the scorner is punished, the simple is made wise; and when the wise is instructed, he receives knowledge.

Psalm 32:8–9
I will instruct you and teach you in the way which you shall go; I will guide you with My eye.
Do not be like the horse, which has no understanding, whose mouth must be held with bit and bridle.

Psalm 119:4
You have commanded us to keep Your precepts diligently.

Pray and read the Bible every morning *(Psalm 63:1; 108:2; 57:8; 78:34)

Mark 1:35
Jesus, rising up a great while before day, prayed.
Psalm 5:3
In the morning I will direct my prayer to You.
Job 7:17–18
You visit him every morning and try him every moment.
Psalm 59:16
I will sing aloud of Your mercy in the morning.
Ezekiel 12:8
In the morning came the Word of the Lord unto me.
Deuteronomy 6:8
Read and pray every morning.
Proverbs 8:17
Those who seek Me early shall find Me. Riches and honor are with Me.

Proverbs 28:27
Give to the poor, and you will not lack.

Ephesians 6:2
Honor your parents, that it may go well with you.

Matthew 5:44
Do good to those who hate you.

Proverbs 28:13
Do not cover your sins, or you will not prosper.

2 Corinthians 2:10
Forgive everyone, or the enemy will gain an advantage over you.

1 Peter 3:7
Honor your wife, or your prayers will be hindered.

Proverbs 15:27
Do not be greedy, or your house will be troubled.

Proverbs 13:18
Poverty will come to him who refuses instruction.

Proverbs 28:22
Do not hasten to be rich; poverty will come upon you.

Proverbs 23:21
The drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty.

Psalm 37:21
The wicked borrows and does not repay.

Proverbs 28:19
He who tills his land will have plenty of bread.

Proverbs 13:11
He who gathers by labor will increase.

Proverbs 10:4
He becomes poor who deals with a slack hand, but the hand of the diligent makes rich.

2 Thessalonians 3:10
If anyone will not work, neither shall he eat.

Psalm 122:6
Pray for the peace of Jerusalem; may they prosper who love you.

Isaiah 66:10–14
Rejoice with Jerusalem, and be glad with her, all you who love her; rejoice for joy with her, all you who mourn for her, that you may feed and be satisfied… your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like grass.

Not condemnation, but correction.
Not performance, but obedience.

Avoid strife.

Philippians 2:3
Let nothing be done through strife.

Proverbs 20:3
It is an honor for a man to cease from strife.

Psalm 35:1
Plead my cause, O Lord, with those who strive with me; fight against those who fight against me.

1 Corinthians 3:3
For you are still carnal; for where there is envy and strife among you.

And James 1:19, “Let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath.”

God’s purpose is not condemnation, but correction, shaping believers into people who trust Him and live according to His commands.