Bible Verses About Preparation for Encounter

And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

Be thou prepared, and prepare for thyself, thou, and all thy company that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

Behold, I send an Angel before thee, to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

Yet have I sent the brethren, lest our boasting of you should be in vain in this behalf; that, as I said, ye may be ready:

And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.

Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that ye may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand.

But when they shall lead you, and deliver you up, take no thought beforehand what ye shall speak, neither do ye premeditate: but whatsoever shall be given you in that hour, that speak ye: for it is not ye that speak, but the Holy Ghost.

And it shall be, when ye are come nigh unto the battle, that the priest shall approach and speak unto the people,

And be ready against the third day: for the third day the Lord will come down in the sight of all the people upon mount Sinai.

This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord: his going forth is prepared as the morning; and he shall come unto us as the rain, as the latter and former rain unto the earth.

As it is written in the book of the words of Esaias the prophet, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

And there I will meet with the children of Israel, and the tabernacle shall be sanctified by my glory.

And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.

And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.

Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Be ye therefore ready also: for the Son of man cometh at an hour when ye think not.

Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Then said he unto me, Fear not, Daniel: for from the first day that thou didst set thine heart to understand, and to chasten thyself before thy God, thy words were heard, and I am come for thy words.

And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before your faces, that ye sin not.

But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

And now when the even was come, because it was the preparation, that is, the day before the sabbath,

Therefore came I forth to meet thee, diligently to seek thy face, and I have found thee.

Hold thy peace at the presence of the Lord God: for the day of the Lord is at hand: for the Lord hath prepared a sacrifice, he hath bid his guests.

The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.

Now Joshua was clothed with filthy garments, and stood before the angel.

But when they deliver you up, take no thought how or what ye shall speak: for it shall be given you in that same hour what ye shall speak.

And let it be, when these signs are come unto thee, that thou do as occasion serve thee; for God is with thee.

Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.

And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

And he informed me, and talked with me, and said, O Daniel, I am now come forth to give thee skill and understanding.

And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.