Eric Naiman

2 Corinthians 9:10-11

2 Corinthians 9:10-11 (ESV)
He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness.

Proverbs 21:5

Proverbs 21:5 (ESV)
The plans of the diligent lead surely to abundance, but everyone who is hasty comes only to poverty.

Hebrews 12:1

Hebrews 12:1 (ESV)
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

Matthew 6:33

Matthew 6:33 (ESV)
But seek first the kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Romans 12:9-13

Romans 12:9-13 (ESV)
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

Church planting

Ecclesiastes 2:20-21 (ESV)
So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun,

Prosperous seeds

Ecclesiastes 11:6 (ESV)
In the morning sow your seed, and at evening withhold not your hand, for you do not know which will prosper, this or that, or whether both alike will be good.

He is on the job!

1 Peter 4:12-13 (MSG)
Friends, when life gets really difficult, don't jump to the conclusion that God isn't on the job. Instead, be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced. This is a spiritual refining process, with glory just around the corner.

A Plumb Line

Amos 7:7-9 (ESV)
This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand.

Build House on the rock

Matthew 7:24-27 (NLT)
“Anyone who listens to my teaching and follows it is wise, like a person who builds a house on solid rock.

A victory stone: court rm judge

Revelation 2:17 (NASB)
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, to him I will give some of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and a new name written on the stone which no one knows but he who receives it.'

Have not grown weary

Revelation 2:2-3 (ESV)
"'I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.

To him who overcomes...

Revelation 2:7 (NASB)
He who has an ear, let him hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes, I will grant to eat of the tree of life which is in the Paradise of God.'

Patient Endurance...

Hebrews 10:36 (NLT)
Patient endurance is what you need now, so that you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.

Don't shrink back!

Hebrews 10:38-39 (ESV)
but my righteous one shall live by faith, and if he shrinks back, my soul has no pleasure in him."

Hold Fast

Hebrews 10:23 (ESV)
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for he who promised is faithful.

Serve all men

1 Corinthians 9:19-23 (MSG)
Even though I am free of the demands and expectations of everyone, I have voluntarily become a servant to any and all in order to reach a wide range of people: religious, nonreligious, meticulous moralists, loose-living immoralists, the defeated, the demoralized—whoever. I didn't take on their way of life. I kept my bearings in Christ—but I entered their world and tried to experience things from their point of view. I've become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life. I did all this because of the Message. I didn't just want to talk about it; I wanted to be in on it!

City prospers, you prosper!

Jeremiah 29:7 (TNIV)
Also, seek the peace and prosperity of the city to which I have carried you into exile. Pray to the Lord for it, because if it prospers, you too will prosper.”

Do good works for the city

Jeremiah 29:7 (NCV)
Also do good things for the city where I sent you as captives. Pray to the Lord for the city where you are living, because if good things happen in the city, good things will happen to you also.”

By grace are we saved, not works

Ephesians 2:8-10 (ESV)
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not your own doing; it is the gift of God,

Unless faith produces good works

James 2:17-18 (NLT)
So you see, faith by itself isn’t enough. Unless it produces good deeds, it is dead and useless.

His generosity exceeds ours

Philippians 4:19 (MSG)
You can be sure that God will take care of everything you need, his generosity exceeding even yours in the glory that pours from Jesus.

Life marked by giving not getting

Ephesians 5:25 (MSG)
Husbands, go all out in your love for your wives, exactly as Christ did for the church—a love marked by giving, not getting. Christ's love makes the church whole. His words evoke her beauty. Everything he does and says is designed to bring the best out of her, dressing her in dazzling white silk, radiant with holiness. And that is how husbands ought to love their wives. They're really doing themselves a favor—since they're already "one" in marriage.

Enriched to be generous...

2 Corinthians 9:11 (ESV)
You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which through us will produce thanksgiving to God.

Whatever situation

Philippians 4:11-12 (ESV)
Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content.

Philippians 4:17 (ESV)
Not that I seek the gift, but I seek the fruit that increases to your credit.