JP Tomberlin

Humility

Proverbs 27:2 (NKJV)
Let another man praise you, and not your own mouth; A stranger, and not your own lips.

Step out in faith

Genesis 12:1 (NIV)
The lord had said to Abram, "Go from your country, your people and your father's household to the land I will show you.

Chance/fate

Proverbs 16:33 (NIV)
The lot is cast into the lap, but its every decision is from the lord.

Chance

Acts 1:24 (NIV)
Then they prayed, "Lord, you know everyone's heart. Show us which of these two you have chosen

Acts 1:26 (NIV)
Then they cast lots, and the lot fell to Matthias; so he was added to the eleven apostles.

Paul's Conversion

Acts 9:16 (NIV)
I will show him how much he must suffer for my name."

Blessed Promise

Psalm 112:1-10 (NIV)
Praise the lord. Blessed are those who fear the lord, who find great delight in his commands.

Judgement

James 4:11 (NIV)
Brothers and sisters, do not slander one another. Anyone who speaks against a brother or sister or judges them speaks against the law and judges it. When you judge the law, you are not keeping it, but sitting in judgment on it.

Heart for the city

Luke 19:41 (NKJV)
Now as He drew near, He saw the city and wept over it,

Planting seeds

1 Corinthians 3:6 (ESV)
I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the growth.

Forgiveness

Matthew 6:14-15 (NKJV)
For if you forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you.

Pray in secret

Matthew 6:6 (NKJV)
But you, when you pray, go into your room, and when you have shut your door, pray to your Father who is in the secret place; and your Father who sees in secret will reward you openly.

Use my gifts

1 Peter 4:10 (NKJV)
As each one has received a gift, minister it to one another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Hard work

Ecclesiastes 1:3-4 (NLT)
What do people get for all their hard work under the sun?

Wisdom and sorrow

Ecclesiastes 1:18 (NLT)
The greater my wisdom, the greater my grief. To increase knowledge only increases sorrow.

Ask

James 4:3 (HCSB)
You ask and don't receive because you ask with wrong motives, so that you may spend it on your evil desires.

Fearless Spirit

2 Timothy 1:7 (HCSB)
For God has not given us a spirit of fearfulness, but one of power, love, and sound judgment.

Tongues?

Romans 8:26 (HCSB)
In the same way the Spirit also joins to help in our weakness, because we do not know what to pray for as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with unspoken groanings.

Selfishness

Romans 8:6 (HCSB)
For the mind-set of the flesh is death, but the mind-set of the Spirit is life and peace.

Declutter, Endure

Hebrews 12:1 (NLT)
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.

God's Plan

Hebrews 11:35-40 (NLT)
Women received their loved ones back again from death. But others were tortured, refusing to turn from God in order to be set free. They placed their hope in a better life after the resurrection.

With Me

Isaiah 46:4 (NASB)
Even to your old age I will be the same, And even to your graying years I will bear you! I have done it, and I will carry you; And I will bear you and I will deliver you.

Faithful giving

Luke 16:10-11 (NASB)
"He who is faithful in a very little thing is faithful also in much; and he who is unrighteous in a very little thing is unrighteous also in much.

Psalm 96:5

Psalm 96:5 (NASB)
For all the gods of the peoples are idols, But the Lord made the heavens.

Pure religion

James 1:27 (NIV84)
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

Perseverance

James 1:2-3 (NIV84)
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds,