It will be an ongoing lifelong challenge
Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life. (Proverbs 4:23 ESV)
It will be beautiful in His time
There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens. (Ecclesiastes 3:1 NIV)
It rarely yields fruit right away
Do not despise these small beginnings. (Zechariah 4:10 NLT)
Oh yes you can!
Be not weary in well doing, for in due season ye shall reap if ye faint not. (Galatians 6:9)
What else could I do for you?
Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. (Psalm 25:4 NIV)
I can claim the protection, leading, and guidance
For we live by believing and not by seeing. (2 Corinthians 5:7 NLT)
A completely unique creation of God
To be renewed in the spirit of your minds, and to put on the new self, created after the likeness of God. (Ephesians 4:23-24 ESV)
You could freely choose
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. (2 Corinthinans 3:18)
We’re driven to change
So we aren’t depressed. But even if our bodies are breaking down on the outside, the person that we are on the inside is being renewed every day. (2 Corinthians 4:16 CEB)
With God as our point of reference
Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. (Proverbs 3:6 NLT)
My Maker and best Friend is walking with me
I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert. (Isaiah 43:19 KJV)
He asks us to change
Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you. (1 Peter 5:7 NLT)
He will offer guidance through uncertain times
Behold, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth I tell you of them. (Isaiah 42:9 ESV)
We will experience new beginnings
I am about to do something new. See, I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in the dry wasteland. ( Isaiah 43:19 NLT)
The pilgrimage of the Christian life
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. (Psalm 121:1-2 ESV)
Be anxious for nothing
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy—meditate on these things. (Philippians 4:8)
Change is necessary
I will give them singleness of heart and put a new spirit within them. I will take away their stony, stubborn heart and give them a tender, responsive heart. (Ezekiel 11:19 NLT)
