1 Thessalonians 5:17 "Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly]"   We are encouraged to 'pray at all times'. Prayer is part of our daily lives. No matter what we are doing—whether going off to work, in meetings, driving our kids around, at home doing...

Habakkuk 2:3 "For the vision is yet for an appointed time and it hastens to the end [fulfillment]; it will not deceive or disappoint. Though it tarry, wait [earnestly] for it, because it will surely come; it will not be behindhand on its appointed day."   Do not...

Psalm 42:1-2 "As the hart pants and longs for the water brooks, so I pant and long for You, O God. My inner self thirsts for God, for the living God. When shall I come and behold the face of God?"    There are many times in life when we find ourselves in a place...

Philippians 1:6 "And I am convinced and sure of this very thing, that He Who began a good work in you will continue until the day of Jesus Christ [right up to the time of His return], developing [that good work] and perfecting and bringing it to full completion in...

1 Corinthians 2:14 "But the natural, nonspiritual man does not accept or welcome or admit into his heart the gifts and teachings and revelations of the Spirit of God, for they are folly (meaningless nonsense) to him; and he is incapable of knowing them [of...

Philippians 3:16 "Only let us hold true to what we have already attained and walk and order our lives by that."  The preceding verses mention that we need to be pressing forward toward the goal—to win the prize. In V: 16, it speaks of holding true to what we have...

Matthew 6:34 "So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble."    There is so much in life we can be anxious about, but by worrying about it we only magnify the...