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Loving the Lord God

Mark 12:30 (NKJV)
And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength. This is the first commandment.

The Chief Cornerstone

Mark 12:10-11 (NKJV)
Have you not even read this Scripture: The stone which the builders rejected Has become the chief cornerstone.

Serving God thru serving His people

Mark 10:43-45 (ESV)
But it shall not be so among you. But whoever would be great among you must be your servant,

Servanthood

Mark 9:35 (ESV)
And he sat down and called the twelve. And he said to them, "If anyone would be first, he must be last of all and servant of all."

Take heed to Word and practice

Mark 4:2 (ESV)
And he was teaching them many things in parables, and in his teaching he said to them:

Mark 4:24-25 (ESV)
And he said to them, "Pay attention to what you hear: with the measure you use, it will be measured to you, and still more will be added to you.

Mark 4:31 (ESV)
It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,

Kingdom of God revealed in parables

Mark 4:11 (ESV)
And he said to them, "To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God, but for those outside everything is in parables,

Be steadfast abounding in love

1 Corinthians 15:58 (NKJV)
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is not in vain in the Lord.

QUICK TRANSFORMATION

1 Corinthians 15:51-53 (NKJV)
Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed

Love excels in all things

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NKJV)
Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up;

The Gift of the Holy Spirit is for all

1 Corinthians 12:6-7 (NKJV)
And there are diversities of activities, but it is the same God who works all in all.

Remember to take communion

1 Corinthians 11:25 (NKJV)
In the same manner He also took the cup after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in My blood. This do, as often as you drink it, in remembrance of Me.

Run with purpose

1 Corinthians 9:26-27 (NKJV)
Therefore I run thus: not with uncertainty. Thus I fight: not as one who beats the air.

I am Christ's possession

1 Corinthians 7:23 (NKJV)
You were bought at a price; do not become slaves of men.

The Mind of the Lord

1 Corinthians 2:16 (NKJV)
For who has known the mind of the Lord that he may instruct Him? But we have the mind of Christ.

Eye has pt

1 Corinthians 2:9 (TNIV)
However, as it is written: “What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived— these things God has prepared for those who love him” —

Christ the Power of God

1 Corinthians 1:24-25 (NKJV)
but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God.

Continually offer the sacrifice of Praise

Hebrews 13:15 (TNIV)
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise—the fruit of lips that openly profess his name.

Contentment only found in GOD

Hebrews 13:5-6 (TNIV)
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.”

Embrace hardship as discipline :)

Hebrews 12:3 (TNIV)
Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Hebrews 12:7-9 (TNIV)
Endure hardship as discipline; God is treating you as his children. For what children are not disciplined by their father?

Looking up to Jesus our Best Model

Hebrews 12:2-3 (TNIV)
fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Weary?

Hebrews 12:5 (TNIV)
And have you completely forgotten this word of encouragement that addresses you as children? It says, “My son, do not make light of the Lord’s discipline, and do not lose heart when he rebukes you,

Don't grow wearył

Hebrews 12:3 (TNIV)
Consider him who endured such opposition from sinners, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.

Choosing God's will over pleasure

Hebrews 11:25 (TNIV)
He chose to be mistreated along with the people of God rather than to enjoy the fleeting pleasures of sin.

God who makes things possible with Faith

Hebrews 11:1 (TNIV)
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

The Blood cleansing guilty conscience

Hebrews 10:21-22 (TNIV)
and since we have a great priest over the house of God,