But to all who did receive him, who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God.
Holy Spirit
Gal 5: 22, 23
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23 gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.
Discipleship
Mat 6: 24
"No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money."
Worldliness
2 Cor 6: 14 - 17
Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? 15 What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you."
Worldly Relatives
Backsliders
Gal 5: 1
For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.
Our Job
Prov 11: 30
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life, and whoever captures souls is wise.
The Word
Psalm 119: 130
The unfolding of your words gives light; it imparts understanding to the simple.
Love
1 John 4: 7, 8
Beloved, let us love one another, for love is from God, and whoever loves has been born of God and knows God. 8 Anyone who does not love does not know God, because God is love.
It's Only Jesus
Jer 17: 5
Thus says the Lord: "Cursed is the man who trusts in man and makes flesh his strength, whose heart turns away from the Lord."
Faith
Mat 9: 29
Then he touched their eyes, saying, "According to your faith be it done to you."
Prayer
Jer 29: 13
"You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart."
Healing
Isa 40: 29
He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength.
Freedom From Fear
Psalm 23: 4
Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me.
Overcoming Attacks
Mat 17: 19 - 21
Then the disciples came to Jesus privately and said, "Why could we not cast it out?" 20 He said to them, "Because of your little faith. For truly, I say to you, if you have faith like a grain of mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to there,' and it will move, and nothing will be impossible for you."
Trials and Tests
Heb 5: 8
Although he was a son, he learned obedience through what he suffered.
Chastening
Prov 22:15
Folly is bound up in the heart of a child, but the rod of discipline drives it far from him.
Persecution
Luke 21: 15
"For I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which none of your adversaries will be able to withstand or contradict."
Thankfulness and Murmuring
Faithfulness
Obedience
Yieldedness
Leaders
Prov 27: 23
Know well the condition of your flocks, and give attention to your herds.
Fruitfulness
Money / Giving
Romans 8: 32
He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?
Other Verses
Isa 59: 1
Behold, the Lord's hand is not shortened, that it cannot save, or his ear dull, that it cannot hear;
