“I knew you before I formed
you in your mother’s womb.
Before you were born I set you apart
and appointed you as my
prophet to the nations.”
Jeremiah 1:5 New International Version (NIV)
This is what the Lord says: “When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back
from captivity. I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you,” declares the Lord, “and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile.”
Jeremiah 29:10-14 (NIV)
Trust in the Lord with all your heart
and lean not on your own understanding;
in all your ways submit to him,
and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
“You shall have no
other gods before me.”
Exodus 20:3 (NIV)
“The most important one,” answered Jesus,
“is this: ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God,
the Lord is one. Love the Lord your God with
all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind and with all your strength.’”
Mark 12:29-30 (NIV)
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you
as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself.
Each day has enough trouble of its own.
Matthew 6:33-34 (NIV)