A people near to Him

Let them praise the name of the Lord, For His name alone is exalted; His glory is above earth and heaven.

And He has lifted up a horn for His people, Praise for all His godly ones; Even for the sons of Israel, a people near to Him. Praise the Lord!

Psalms 148:13-14 (NASB)

Christ our Life

When Christ, who is our life, is revealed, then you also will be revealed with Him in glory.

Therefore consider the members of your earthly body as dead to immorality, impurity, passion, evil desire, and greed, which amounts to idolatry.

Colossians 3:4-5 (NASB)

Practice righteousness

Little children, make sure no one deceives you; the one who practices righteousness is righteous, just as He is righteous;

the one who practices sin is of the devil; for the devil has sinned from the beginning. The Son of God appeared for this purpose, to destroy the works of the devil.

1 John 3:7-8 (NASB)

Do you still walk in darkness?

The one who says he is in the Light and yet hates his brother is in the darkness until now.

The one who loves his brother abides in the Light and there is no cause for stumbling in him.

But the one who hates his brother is in the darkness and walks in the darkness, and does not know where he is going because the darkness has blinded his eyes.

1 John 2:9-11 (NASB)

Help is from God

How blessed is he whose help is the God of Jacob, Whose hope is in the Lord his God,

Who made heaven and earth, The sea and all that is in them; Who keeps faith forever;

Who executes justice for the oppressed; Who gives food to the hungry. The Lord sets the prisoners free.

Psalms 146:5-7 (NASB)

The Lord protects and supports

The Lord opens the eyes of the blind; The Lord raises up those who are bowed down; The Lord loves the righteous;

The Lord protects the strangers; He supports the fatherless and the widow, But He thwarts the way of the wicked.

Psalms 146:8-9 (NASB)

The Lord disciplines

For those whom the Lord loves He disciplines, And He scourges every son whom He receives.”

It is for discipline that you endure; God deals with you as with sons; for what son is there whom his father does not discipline?

But if you are without discipline, of which all have become partakers, then you are illegitimate children and not sons.

Hebrews 12:6-8 (NASB)

Fix our eyes on Jesus

Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us,

fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 12:1-2 (NASB)

Water of life without cost

Then He said to me, “It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give to the one who thirsts from the spring of the water of life without cost.

He who overcomes will inherit these things, and I will be His God and he will be My son.

Revelation 21:6-7 (NASB)

God is Light

This is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, that God is Light, and in Him there is no darkness at all.

If we say that we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth;

but if we walk in the Light as He Himself is in the Light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin.

1 John 1:5-7 (NASB)

Our eyes look to the Lord

To You I lift up my eyes, O You who are enthroned in the heavens!

Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, As the eyes of a maid to the hand of her mistress, So our eyes look to the Lord our God, Until He is gracious to us.

Be gracious to us, O Lord, be gracious to us, For we are greatly filled with contempt.

Our soul is greatly filled With the scoffing of those who are at ease, And with the contempt of the proud.

Psalms 123 (NASB)