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A Fortress

Psalm 59:16 (AMP)
But I will sing of Your mighty strength and power; yes, I will sing aloud of Your mercy and loving-kindness in the morning; for You have been to me a defense (a fortress and a high tower) and a refuge in the day of my distress.

Hebrews 12:25

Hebrews 12:25 (KJV)
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

Graduation speech at Victory Christian Church: 051912

2 Timothy 1:7-8 (KJV)
For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

1 Timothy 4:15

1 Timothy 4:15 (GWT)
Practice these things. Devote your life to them so that everyone can see your progress.

Friends vs Servants

John 15:15 (BOOKS)
I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master's business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.

Remain in Christ

John 15:7 (BOOKS)
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.

Peace I leave with You

John 14:27 (BOOKS)
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.

John 14:9, John 14:15-17

John 14:9 (BOOKS)
Jesus answered: "Don't you know me, Philip, even after I have been among you such a long time? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father. How can you say, 'Show us the Father'?

John 14:15-17 (BOOKS)
"If you love me, keep my commands.

John 14:1

John 14:1 (BOOKS)
"Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God ; believe also in me.

John 13:1, John 13:16

John 13:1 (BOOKS)
It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the hour had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.

John 13:16 (BOOKS)
Very truly I tell you, no servant is greater than his master, nor is a messenger greater than the one who sent him.

John 13:3-4

John 13:3-4 (GWT)
The Father had put everything in Jesus’ control. Jesus knew that. He also knew that he had come from God and was going back to God.

What I should say

Mark 13:11 (ESV)
And when they bring you to trial and deliver you over, do not be anxious beforehand what you are to say, but say whatever is given you in that hour, for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.

Fear of the Lord

Proverbs 14:27 (ESV)
The fear of the Lord is a fountain of life, that one may turn away from the snares of death.

Proverbs 8:22, Proverbs 8:34-36

Proverbs 8:22 (ESV)
"The Lord possessed me at the beginning of his work, the first of his acts of old.

Proverbs 8:34-36 (ESV)
Blessed is the one who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.

Proverbs 8:19

Proverbs 8:19 (ESV)
My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.

Wisdom

Proverbs 8:11 (ESV)
for wisdom is better than jewels, and all that you may desire cannot compare with her.

Not my sword

Psalm 44:6 (ESV)
For not in my bow do I trust, nor can my sword save me.

Prophet in his home town

Matthew 13:57 (NIVUK)
And they took offence at him. But Jesus said to them, "Only in his home town and in his own house is a prophet without honour."

Hear and understand 2

Matthew 13:23 (NIVUK)
But the one who received the seed that fell on good soil is the man who hears the word and understands it. He produces a crop, yielding a hundred, sixty or thirty times what was sown."

Matthew 13:12

Matthew 13:12 (NIVUK)
Whoever has will be given more, and he will have an abundance. Whoever does not have, even what he has will be taken from him.

Hear and understand

Matthew 13:16 (NIVUK)
"But blessed are your eyes because they see, and your ears because they hear.

Daniel 2:19-23

Daniel 2:19-23 (NIV)
During the night the mystery was revealed to Daniel in a vision. Then Daniel praised the God of heaven

1 Corinthians 3:11-15

1 Corinthians 3:11-15 (NIV)
For no one can lay any foundation other than the one already laid, which is Jesus Christ.

1 Corinthians 2:6-10

1 Corinthians 2:6-10 (CEB)
What we say is wisdom to people who are mature. It isn’t a wisdom that comes from the present day or from today’s leaders who are being reduced to nothing.

1 Corinthians 1:25

1 Corinthians 1:25 (NKJV)
Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men.