Work it out with kindness and consideration
He who is slow to wrath has great understanding, But he who is impulsive exalts folly. (Proverbs 14:29 NKJV)
Through the power of God’s Spirit
Thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Corinthians 15:57 ESV)
God wants us to look ahead
For our present troubles are small and won’t last very long. Yet they produce for us a glory that vastly outweighs them and will last forever! (2 Corinthians 4:17 NLT)
What else could I do for you?
Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. (Psalm 25:4 NIV)
Faith isn’t the absence of fear
Don’t be afraid, for I am with you. Don’t be discouraged, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will hold you up with my victorious right hand. (Isaiah 41:10 NLT)
Jesus wants us to be like Him
You are the light of the world… Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven. (Matthew 5:16 ESV)
God will bring good from it
In my distress I called upon the Lord; to my God I cried for help. From his temple he heard my voice. (Psalm 18:6 ESV)
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)
If we have Jesus, we are His ambassadors
As the Father has sent Me, I also send you, (John 20:21)
He eventually made the way clear
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful. (Hebrews 10:23 NIV)
I am with you
We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love. God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them. (1 John 4:16 NLT)
We are safe within His arms
Behold, I am the Lord, the God of all flesh. Is anything too hard for Me? (Jeremiah 32:27)
Jesus made over 40 references to rewards
The Son of Man is going to come in his Father’s glory with his angels, and then he will reward each person according to what they have done. (Matthew 16:27 NIV)
“Tried and Proven.”
The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. (Psalm 37:23)
“Go, and do likewise.”
But he, desiring to justify himself, said to Jesus, "And who is my neighbor?" (Luke 10:29 ESV)
Trust Him for His plan
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. (Romans 8:28)
Jesus wants us to follow His example
Christ Jesus, who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being born in the likeness of men. (Philippians 2:5-7 ESV)
That’s not how forgiveness works
Bearing with one another and, if one has a complaint against another, forgiving each other; as the Lord has forgiven you, so you also must forgive. Colossians 3:13 ESV)
The same will be true for us
Unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains by itself. But if it dies, it produces a large crop. (John 12:24 HCSB)