Laurance Draves

Priorities

Luke 10:38 (NLT)
As Jesus and the disciples continued on their way to Jerusalem, they came to a certain village where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home.

Fellowship

Acts 2:42-47 (NLT)
All the believers devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching, and to fellowship, and to sharing in meals (including the Lord’s Supper), and to prayer.

1 Timothy 1:15

1 Timothy 1:15 (NLT)
This is a trustworthy saying, and everyone should accept it: “Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners”—and I am the worst of them all.

1 Timothy 1:16

1 Timothy 1:16 (NLT)
But God had mercy on me so that Christ Jesus could use me as a prime example of his great patience with even the worst sinners. Then others will realize that they, too, can believe in him and receive eternal life.

1 Timothy 1:17

1 Timothy 1:17 (NLT)
All honor and glory to God forever and ever! He is the eternal King, the unseen one who never dies; he alone is God. Amen.

Acts 20:17

Acts 20:17 (NLT)
But when we landed at Miletus, he sent a message to the elders of the church at Ephesus, asking them to come and meet him.

Acts 20:28

Acts 20:28 (NLT)
“So guard yourselves and God’s people. Feed and shepherd God’s flock—his church, purchased with his own blood—over which the Holy Spirit has appointed you as elders.

Hosea 4:6

Hosea 4:6 (NLT)
My people are being destroyed because they don’t know me. Since you priests refuse to know me, I refuse to recognize you as my priests. Since you have forgotten the laws of your God, I will forget to bless your children.

Romans 10:17

Romans 10:17 (NLT)
So faith comes from hearing, that is, hearing the Good News about Christ.

Romans 8:18

Romans 8:18 (NLT)
Yet what we suffer now is nothing compared to the glory he will reveal to us later.

Romans 8:19

Romans 8:19 (NLT)
For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are.

Romans 8:20

Romans 8:20 (NLT)
Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope,

Romans 8:21

Romans 8:21 (NLT)
the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay.

Romans 8:22

Romans 8:22 (NLT)
For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Romans 8:23

Romans 8:23 (NLT)
And we believers also groan, even though we have the Holy Spirit within us as a foretaste of future glory, for we long for our bodies to be released from sin and suffering. We, too, wait with eager hope for the day when God will give us our full rights as his adopted children, including the new bodies he has promised us.

Romans 8:24

Romans 8:24 (NLT)
We were given this hope when we were saved. (If we already have something, we don’t need to hope for it.

Romans 8:25

Romans 8:25 (NLT)
But if we look forward to something we don’t yet have, we must wait patiently and confidently.)

Hebrews 11:6

Hebrews 11:6 (ASV)
And without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him; for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that seek after him.

Psalm 143:12

Psalm 143:12 (ASV)
And in thy lovingkindness cut off mine enemies, And destroy all them that afflict my soul; For I am thy servant.

Psalm 143:12

Psalm 143:12 (ASV)
And in thy lovingkindness cut off mine enemies, And destroy all them that afflict my soul; For I am thy servant.

Psalm 143:11

Psalm 143:11 (ASV)
Quicken me, O Jehovah, for thy name’s sake: In thy righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.

Psalm 143:11

Psalm 143:11 (ASV)
Quicken me, O Jehovah, for thy name’s sake: In thy righteousness bring my soul out of trouble.

Psalm 143:10

Psalm 143:10 (ASV)
Teach me to do thy will; For thou art my God: Thy Spirit is good; Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Psalm 143:10

Psalm 143:10 (ASV)
Teach me to do thy will; For thou art my God: Thy Spirit is good; Lead me in the land of uprightness.

Psalm 143:9

Psalm 143:9 (ASV)
Deliver me, O Jehovah, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.