Bobby Williams

Keep asking

Matthew 7:7 (HCSB)
"Keep asking, and it will be given to you. Keep searching, and you will find. Keep knocking, and the door will be opened to you.

Jesus' first church plant

Matthew 4:16 (HCSB)
The people who live in darkness have seen a great light, and for those living in the shadowland of death, light has dawned.

2 Corinthians 4:2

2 Corinthians 4:2 (HCSB)
Instead, we have renounced shameful secret things, not walking in deceit or distorting God's message, but commending ourselves to every person's conscience in God's sight by an open display of the truth.

Hope in Christ

1 Corinthians 15:10 (HCSB)
But by God's grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God's grace that was with me.

1 Corinthians 15:19 (HCSB)
If we have put our hope in Christ for this life only, we should be pitied more than anyone.

Grace Effective

1 Corinthians 15:10 (HCSB)
But by God's grace I am what I am, and His grace toward me was not ineffective. However, I worked more than any of them, yet not I, but God's grace that was with me.

Can not share w demons

1 Corinthians 10:21 (HCSB)
You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot share in the Lord's table and the table of demons.

Ex of Israel being disciplined

1 Corinthians 10:6 (HCSB)
Now these things became examples for us, so that we will not desire evil things as they did.

Remain w God

1 Corinthians 7:24 (HCSB)
Brothers, each person should remain with God in whatever situation he was called.

Image of God

2 Corinthians 3:18 (HCSB)
We all, with unveiled faces, are looking as in a mirror at the glory of the Lord and are being transformed into the same image from glory to glory; this is from the Lord who is the Spirit.

Coworker

1 Corinthians 3:9 (HCSB)
For we are God's coworkers. You are God's field, God's building.

Foolishness3

1 Corinthians 1:27 (HCSB)
Instead, God has chosen what is foolish in the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen what is weak in the world to shame the strong.

Foolishness2

1 Corinthians 1:25 (HCSB)
because God's foolishness is wiser than human wisdom, and God's weakness is stronger than human strength.

Foolishness

1 Corinthians 1:17-18 (HCSB)
For Christ did not send me to baptize, but to evangelize-not with clever words, so that the cross of Christ will not be emptied [of its effect].

Gods will to suffer

1 Peter 4:19 (HCSB)
So those who suffer according to God's will should, while doing what is good, entrust themselves to a faithful Creator.

Troubles come

Psalm 34:19 (NLT)
The righteous person faces many troubles, but the LORD comes to the rescue each time.

All good, no bad?

Job 2:10 (NLT)
But Job replied, “You talk like a foolish woman. Should we accept only good things from the hand of God and never anything bad?” So in all this, Job said nothing wrong.

God brings suffering

Ruth 1:20-21 (NLT)
“Don’t call me Naomi,” she responded. “Instead, call me Mara, for the Almighty has made life very bitter for me.

God uses suffering

Genesis 50:20 (NLT)
You intended to harm me, but God intended it all for good. He brought me to this position so I could save the lives of many people.

Isaiah 53:12

Isaiah 53:12 (NLT)
I will give him the honors of a victorious soldier, because he exposed himself to death. He was counted among the rebels. He bore the sins of many and interceded for rebels.

Isaiah 53:11

Isaiah 53:11 (NLT)
When he sees all that is accomplished by his anguish, he will be satisfied. And because of his experience, my righteous servant will make it possible for many to be counted righteous, for he will bear all their sins.

1 Corinthians 7:5

1 Corinthians 7:5 (ESV)
Do not deprive one another, except perhaps by agreement for a limited time, that you may devote yourselves to prayer; but then come together again, so that Satan may not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.

Personal Evangelism

Colossians 4:2-6 (ESV)
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.

Colossians 3:5

Colossians 3:5 (ESV)
Put to death therefore what is earthly in you: sexual immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

Colossians 2:12-15

Colossians 2:12-15 (ESV)
having been buried with him in baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the powerful working of God, who raised him from the dead.

Habakkuk 3:17-18

Habakkuk 3:17-18 (ESV)
Though the fig tree should not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines, the produce of the olive fail and the fields yield no food, the flock be cut off from the fold and there be no herd in the stalls,