Bible Verses About Fear of the Future
Anxiety about what’s coming, surrendering tomorrow to God, trusting His sovereignty over the unknown.
Anxiety about what is coming can often paralyze our present joy, but surrendering tomorrow to God brings a deep rest. When we trust His sovereignty over the unknown, we find that His peace guards our hearts against the shadows of uncertainty. He is already in the future you are worried about, preparing the way.
Key Passages
"¶ For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the LORD."
"The counsel of the LORD standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations."
"But they know not the thoughts of the LORD, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor."
"Many, O LORD my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered."
"My times are in thy hand: deliver me from the hand of mine enemies, and from them that persecute me."
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."
"Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;"
"What time I am afraid, I will trust in thee."
"Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh."
"For the LORD shall be thy confidence, and shall keep thy foot from being taken."
"¶ Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness."
"But now thus saith the LORD that created thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, Fear not: for I have redeemed thee, I have called thee by thy name; thou art mine."
"Declaring the end from the beginning, and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, My counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure:"
"For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end."
"Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment?"
"Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?"
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."
"¶ And he said unto his disciples,Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on."
"If ye then be not able to do that thing which is least, why take ye thought for the rest?"
"Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me."
"And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also."
"Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God."
"And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus."
"So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me."
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