Quotes

[God] chooses all of us. He's not willing that any of us parish. Jesus came to save the world, but we choose whether we're going to follow him. When we choose to follow Him, we're going to become targets [for spiritual attacks]. -Pat Boone

Scriptures

Luke 24:5-6 NIV In their fright the women bowed down with their faces to the ground, but the men said to them, "Why do you look for the living among the dead?He is not here; he has risen! Remember how he told you, while he was still with you in Galilee:

Luke 6:39 KJV And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

Daniel 1-3 - Shadrach, Meschach & Abednego & the fiery furnace

Matthew 16:24 KJV Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

Matthew 10:38 KJV And he that taketh not his cross, and followeth after me, is not worthy of me.

II Timothy 3:12 KJV Yea, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Matthew 7:13-14 KJV Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat:Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

Matthew 22:14 KJV For many are called, but few are chosen.

II Peter 3:9 KJV The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

Micah 7:8 NIV Do not gloat over me, my enemy! Though I have fallen, I will rise. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.

Hebrews 10:25 KJV Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching.

John 17:21 KJV That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee, that they also may be one in us: that the world may believe that thou hast sent me.

Luke 16:8 KJV And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.