And he said: Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
Holy Spirit
John 15: 26
When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father - the Spirit of truth who goes out from the Father - he will testify about me.
Discipleship
Mat 22: 14
For many are invited, but few are chosen.
Worldliness
2 Cor 6: 14
Do not be yoked together with unbelievers. For what do righteousness and wickedness have in common? Or what fellowship can light have with darkness?
Worldly Relatives
Backsliders
Ezra 8: 22 b
The gracious hand of our God is on everyone who looks to him, but his great anger is against all who forsake him.
Our Job
Dan 12: 3
Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of the heavens, and those who lead many to righteousness, like the stars for ever and ever.
The Word
John 15: 3
You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
Love
1 John 3: 16 - 18
This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers and sisters. 17 If anyone has material possessions and sees a brother or sister in need but has no pity on them, how can the love of God be in that person? 18 Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth.
It's Only Jesus
Zech 4: 6 b
'Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit', says the Lord Almighty.
Faith
Luke 1: 37
For no word from God will ever fail.
Prayer
John 14: 14
You may ask me for anything in my name, and I will do it
Healing
Jer 30: 17 a
But I will restore you to health and heal 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 stronghold of my life - of whom shall I be afraid?
Overcoming Attacks
Eph 4: 27
And do not give the devil a foothold.
Trials and Tests
James 1: 2 - 4
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, 3 because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. 4 Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
Chastening
Prov 27: 5
Better is open rebuke than hidden love.
Persecution
Romans 8: 31
What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Thankfulness and Murmuring
Romans 9: 20
But who are you, a human being, to talk back to God? Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'Why did you make me like this?'
Faithfulness
Gal 6: 9
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Obedience
James 4: 17
If anyone, then, knows the good they ought to do and doesn't do it, it is sin for them.
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 desire and do not have, so you murder. You covet 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 wrongly, to spend it on your passions.
Other Verses
Psalm 127: 3
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord, the fruit of the womb a reward.
