Eileen Hogan

be vigilant and pray that you may not be led into temptation.

Matthew 26:31 (CPDV)
Then Jesus said to them: “You will all fall away from me in this night. For it has been written: ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’

Matthew 26:41 (CPDV)
Be vigilant and pray, so that you may not enter into temptation. Indeed, the spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak.”

focus on living for christ...

Colossians 3:2-5 (AMP)
And set your minds and keep them set on what is above (the higher things), not on the things that are on the earth.

so kill the evil lurking ....

Colossians 3:5 (AMP)
So kill (deaden, deprive of power) the evil desire lurking in your members [those animal impulses and all that is earthly in you that is employed in sin]: sexual vice, impurity, sensual appetites, unholy desires, and all greed and covetousness, for that is idolatry (the deifying of self and other created things instead of God).

john 3:16

1 John 3:16-17 (CPDV)
We know the love of God in this way: because he laid down his life for us. And so, we must lay down our lives for our brothers.

1 John 3:23 (CPDV)
And this is his commandment: that we should believe in the name of his Son, Jesus Christ, and love one another, just as he has commanded us.

charity is love

1 Corinthians 13:1 (CPDV)
If I were to speak in the language of men, or of Angels, yet not have charity, I would be like a clanging bell or a crashing cymbal.

matt 14;22-33

Matthew 14:22 (CPDV)
And Jesus promptly compelled his disciples to climb into the boat, and to precede him in crossing the sea, while he dismissed the crowds.