Evan Erickson

Only by prayer

Mark 9:28-29 (NASB)
When He came into the house, His disciples began questioning Him privately, "Why could we not drive it out?"

Parenting

1 Timothy 4:16 (NASB)
Pay close attention to yourself and to your teaching; persevere in these things, for as you do this you will ensure salvation both for yourself and for those who hear you.

How to teach

1 Thessalonians 5:14 (NASB)
We urge you, brethren, admonish the unruly, encourage the fainthearted, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

Milk for infants

Hebrews 5:12-13 (NASB)
For though by this time you ought to be teachers, you have need again for someone to teach you the elementary principles of the oracles of God, and you have come to need milk and not solid food.

Key to life 2

Matthew 6:33 (NASB)
But seek first His kingdom and His righteousness, and all these things will be added to you.

Strong and couragiouse

Joshua 1:9 (NASB)
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."

Reading

2 Samuel 18:1 (NLT)
David now mustered the men who were with him and appointed generals and captains to lead them.

You knew me and weaved me

Psalm 139:13-16 (NASB)
For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother's womb.

Knit me

Psalm 139:13 (NLT)
You made all the delicate, inner parts of my body and knit me together in my mother’s womb.

Reading

2 Samuel 7:1 (NLT)
When King David was settled in his palace and the LORD had given him rest from all the surrounding enemies,

Works for our good

Romans 8:28 (NIV)
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.

Ask

1 John 5:14 (NASB)
This is the confidence which we have before Him, that, if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.

He first loved us

1 John 4:19 (NASB)
We love, because He first loved us.

His love on the cross

1 John 4:10 (NASB)
In this is love, not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

God is love

1 John 4:8 (NASB)
The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Greater is He

1 John 4:4 (NASB)
You are from God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is He who is in you than he who is in the world.

1 John 4:2

1 John 4:2 (NASB)
By this you know the Spirit of God: every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God;

Prayer time

Mark 1:35 (NASB)
In the early morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house, and went away to a secluded place, and was praying there.

Show his love in deeds

1 John 3:16-18 (NASB)
We know love by this, that He laid down His life for us; and we ought to lay down our lives for the brethren.

Purify

1 John 3:3 (NASB)
And everyone who has this hope fixed on Him purifies himself, just as He is pure.

The love bestowed on us

1 John 3:1 (NASB)
See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us, that we would be called children of God; and such we are. For this reason the world does not know us, because it did not know Him.

Lust of the world

1 John 2:16-17 (NASB)
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

Walk as he walked

1 John 2:6 (NASB)
the one who says he abides in Him ought himself to walk in the same manner as He walked.

Tuning one back to Jesus

James 5:19-20 (NASB)
My brethren, if any among you strays from the truth and one turns him back,

Confess and pray

James 5:16 (NASB)
Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much.