James 5:10-11, 17-18 | Don’t Give Up

As an example of suffering and patience, brothers, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord. Behold, we consider those blessed who remained steadfast. You have heard of the steadfastness of Job, and you have seen the purpose of the Lord, how the Lord is compassionate and merciful. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth. Then he prayed again, and heaven gave rain, and the earth bore its fruit. -James 5:10-11, 17-18

James 4:6-10 | God Gives More Grace

But he gives more grace. Therefore it says, “God opposes the proud but gives grace to the humble.” Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. Be wretched and mourn and weep. Let your laughter be turned to mourning and your joy to gloom. Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you. -James 4:6-10

James 3:9-12, 17-18 | Watch Your Words

With it we bless our Lord and Father, and with it we curse people who are made in the likeness of God. From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so. Does a spring pour forth from the same opening both fresh and salt water? Can a fig tree, my brothers, bear olives, or a grapevine produce figs? Neither can a salt pond yield fresh water. But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. -James 3:9-12, 17-18

James 2:14; 18 19 | Faith Has Works

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder! -James 2:14; 18-19

James 1:2-4 | Faith Through Trials

Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds, for you know that the testing of your faith produces steadfastness. And let steadfastness have its full effect, that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing. -James 1:2-4

Galatians 6:9 | Don’t Give Up

Galatians 6:9 “And let us not grow weary in doing good, for in due season we will reap if we do not give up.”

Galatians 5:13 | Use Freedom For Love

Galatians 5:13 “For you were called to freedom, brothers. Only do not use your freedom as an opportunity for the flesh, but through love serve one another.”

Galatians 4:22-23 | In God’s Family

Galatians 4:22-23 "For it is written that Abraham had two sons, one by a slave woman and one by a free woman. But the son of the slave was born according to the flesh, while the son of the free woman was born through promise."

Galatians 3:3 | By God’s Spirit

Galatians 3:3 “Are you so foolish? Having begun by the Spirit are you now being perfected by the flesh?”

Galatians 1:9 | Firm In The Gospel

“If anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to the one you received, let him be accursed.” Galatians 1:9

Malachi 4:2 | A Call To Hope

Malachi 4:2 But for you who fear my name, the sun of righteousness shall rise with healing in its wings. You shall go out leaping like calves from the stall.

Malachi 3:16-17 | A Call For The Savior

Malachi 3:16-17 Then those who feared the Lord spoke with one another. The Lord paid attention and heard them, and a book of remembrance was written before him of those who feared the Lord and esteemed his name. “They shall be mine, says the Lord of hosts, in the day when I make up my treasured possession, and I will spare them as a man spares his son who serves him.

Malachi 2:16 | A Call To Repentance

Malachi 2:16b “So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not be faithless.”

Malachi 1:11 | A Call To Worship

Malachi 1:11 “For from the rising of the sun to its setting my name will be great among the nations, and in every place incense will be offered to my name, and a pure offering. For my name will be great among the nations, says the LORD of hosts.”

Phil 4 | Reasonable Thanksgiving

Phil 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.

Phil 3 | Healthy Reminders

Phil 3:1 Finally, my brothers, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you is no trouble to me and is safe for you.

Phil 2 | Becoming Like Jesus

 Phil 2:5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus

Phil 1 | Finding Joy In Hard Times

 Phil 1:21 For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.