And said, "Truly I say to you, unless you are converted and become like children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven."
Holy Spirit
John 15: 26
"When the Helper comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, that is the Spirit of truth who proceeds from the Father, He will testify about Me."
Discipleship
Mat 22: 14
"For many are called, but few are chosen."
Worldliness
2 Cor 6: 14
Do not be bound together with unbelievers; for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness, or what fellowship has light with darkness?
Worldly Relatives
Backsliders
Ezra 8: 22 b
The hand of our God is favorably disposed to all those who seek Him, but His power and His anger are against all those who forsake Him.
Our Job
Dan 12: 3
Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven, and those who lead the many to righteousness, like the stars forever and ever.
The Word
John 15: 3
"You are already clean because of the word which I have spoken to you."
Love
1 John 3: 16 - 18
We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren. 17 But whoever has the world's goods, and sees his brother in need and closes his heart against him, how does the love of God abide in him? 18 Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth.
It's Only Jesus
Zech 4: 6 b
"Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit." says the Lord of hosts.
Faith
Luke 1: 37
For nothing will be impossible with God.
Prayer
John 14: 14
"If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it."
Healing
Jer 30: 17 a
"For I will restore you to health and I will heal you of your wounds," declares the Lord.
Freedom From Fear
Psalm 27: 1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the defense of my life; whom shall I dread?
Overcoming Attacks
Eph 4: 27
And do not give the devil an opportunity.
Trials and Tests
James 1: 2, 3
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, 3 knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance.
Chastening
Prov 27: 5
Better is open rebuke than love that is concealed.
Persecution
Romans 8: 31
What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who is against us?
Thankfulness and Murmuring
Romans 9: 20
On the contrary, who are you, O man, who answers back to God? The thing molded will not say to the molder, "Why did you make me like this," will it?
Faithfulness
Gal 6: 9
Let us not lose heart in doing good, for in due time we will reap if we do not grow weary.
Obedience
James 4: 17
Therefore, to one who knows the right thing to do and does not do it, to him it is sin.
Yieldedness
Leaders
John 10: 11
"I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep."
Fruitfulness
Money / Giving
James 4: 2, 3
You lust and do not have; so you commit murder. You are envious and cannot obtain; so you fight and quarrel. You do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your pleasures.
Other Verses
Psalm 127: 3
Behold, children are a gift of the Lord, the fruit of the womb is a reward.
