Faith/Perseverance

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you fail to focus on the Lord.  

Victory/Faith

Sometimes spiritual triumph is just hanging on.

Perspective/His will/Sovereignty

Romans 8:28-30   28  And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His purpose. 29For those whom He foreknew, He also predestined to become conformed to the image of His Son, so that He would be the firstborn among many brethren; 30 and these whom He predestined, He also called; and these whom He called, He also justified; and these whom He justified, He also glorified.

Temptation/Wisdom/New life

I Cor. 6:18-20 18 Flee immorality, every other sin that a man commits is outside the body, but the immoral man sins against his own body. 19 Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?  20         For you have been bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body.

Our works/Prayer

John 14:12-14 12  “Truly, truly, I say to you, he who believes in Me, the works that I do, he will do also; and greater works than these he will do; because I go to the Father.13 “Whatever you ask in My name, that will I do, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son. 14  “If you ask Me anything in My name, I will do it.

Prayer/Confession

Psalms 139:23-24  23 Search me, O God, and know my heart; Try me and know my anxious thoughts; 24 And see if there be any hurtful way in me, And lead me in the everlasting way.

Our works/Wisdom

Romans 15:20-21  20 And thus I aspired to preach the gospel, not where Christ was already named, so that I would not build on another man’s foundation; 21 but as it is written, “They who had no news of Him shall see, and they who have not heard shall understand.”

Our strength/Our works

John 15: 5 “I am the vine, you are the branches; he who abides in Me and I in him, he bears much fruit, for apart from Me you can do nothing.”