Nikita Hardrick

Make my body a slave!

1 Corinthians 9:27 (ESV)
But I discipline my body and keep it under control, lest after preaching to others I myself should be disqualified.

Proverbs 13:12

Proverbs 13:12 (ESV)
Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a desire fulfilled is a tree of life.

Mouth guard

Proverbs 13:3 (ESV)
Whoever guards his mouth preserves his life; he who opens wide his lips comes to ruin.

Believers

Acts 2:40 (ESV)
And with many other words he bore witness and continued to exhort them, saying, "Save yourselves from this crooked generation."

Acts 2:42 (ESV)
And they devoted themselves to the apostles' teaching and the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and the prayers.

Broken spirit

Psalm 51:17 (ESV)
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.

Good

Psalm 27:4 (ESV)
One thing have I asked of the Lord, that will I seek after: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple.

Prayers

Colossians 1:9 (ESV)
And so, from the day we heard, we have not ceased to pray for you, asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of his will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding,

Crying out to God

Exodus 2:23 (NLT)
Years passed, and the king of Egypt died. But the Israelites continued to groan under their burden of slavery. They cried out for help, and their cry rose up to God.

Powerful

Micah 4:9 (ESV)
Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seized you like a woman in labor?

Powerful

Micah 4:9 (ESV)
Now why do you cry aloud? Is there no king in you? Has your counselor perished, that pain seized you like a woman in labor?

Establish the Word

1 Samuel 1:12-18 (ESV)
As she continued praying before the Lord, Eli observed her mouth.

1 Samuel 1:23 (ESV)
Elkanah her husband said to her, "Do what seems best to you; wait until you have weaned him; only, may the Lord establish his word." So the woman remained and nursed her son until she weaned him.

Hannah and Eli

1 Samuel 1:12-18 (ESV)
As she continued praying before the Lord, Eli observed her mouth.

1 Peter 1:14-17

1 Peter 1:14-17 (ESV)
As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance,

1 Peter 1:13

1 Peter 1:13 (ESV)
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ.

Noah

Genesis 5:29 (ESV)
and called his name Noah, saying, "Out of the ground that the Lord has cursed this one shall bring us relief from our work and from the painful toil of our hands."