Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like. But…

Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight…Their roots will decay and their flowers blow away like dust; for they have rejected the law of the LORD Almighty. Isaiah 5:21, 24. He said to me, “Son of man, can these bones live?” “O LORD God, You know.”…

Do not quench the Spirit. Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; abstain from every form of evil. 1 Thessalonians 5:19-22 NRSV. “Lord, I will follow You, but…” Luke 9:61. Pray in the Spirit at all times and on every occasion. Stay alert and be persistent…

Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Romans 12:2. He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord, “My refuge and my fortress, My God, in whom…

I the Lord search the heart and examine the mind, to reward a man according to his conduct, according to what his deeds deserve. Jeremiah 17:10. Whatever is in your heart determines what you say. A good person produces good things from the treasury of a good heart, and an evil person produces evil things…

The spirit of man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the innermost parts of his being. Proverbs 20:27. Search me, O God, and know my heart; try me and know my anxious thoughts; and see if there be any hurtful way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. Psalm 139:23-24. Praise…

I do not ask on behalf of these alone, but for those also who believe in Me through their word; that they may all be one; even as you, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be in Us, so that the world may believe that You sent Me. John…

But just as it is written, “Things which eye has not seen and ear has not heard, and which have not entered the heart of man, all that God has prepared for those who love Him.” For to us God revealed them through the Spirit; for the Spirit searches all things, even the depths of…

When I saw Him, I fell at His feet like a dead man. And He placed His right hand on me, saying, “Do not be afraid; I am the first and the last, and the living One; and I was dead, and behold, I am alive forevermore, and I have the keys of death and…

In their case the prophecy of Isaiah is being fulfilled, which says, “You will keep on hearing, but will not understand; you will keep on seeing, but will not perceive; for the heart of this people has become dull, with their ears they scarcely hear, and they have closed their eyes, otherwise they would see…