Start the Day off Right!

Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. (Hebrews 12:1 ESV)

Seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. (Colossians 3:9-10 ESV)

For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. (1 Samuel 16;7b KJV)

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. (Matthew 22:37–39 KJV)

Forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you. (Ephesians 4:32 NKJV)

I have told you these things so that you will be filled with my joy. Yes, your joy will overflow! (John 15:11 NLT)

Casting all your anxieties on him, because he cares for you. (1Peter 5:7)

You are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. (1Peter 2:9 NIV)

Lord, how often will my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? As many as seven times? (Matthew 18:21 ESV)