For God did not give us a spirit of timidity
or cowardice
or fear,
but [He has given us a spirit] of power
and of love
and of sound judgment
and personal disciplin
[abilities that result in a calm, well-balanced mind and self-control].
2 Timothy 1:7
Oh, magnify the Lord with me,
and let us exalt his name together! Psalm 34:3
Behold, children are a heritage from the Lord,
the fruit of the womb a reward.
4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior
are the children of ones youth.
Psalm 127:3-4
He established a testimony in Jacob
and appointed a law in Israel,
which he commanded our fathers
to teach to their children,
6 that the next generation might know them,
the children yet unborn,
and arise and tell them to their children,
7 so that they should set their hope in God
and not forget the works of God,
but keep his commandments;
Psalm 78:5-7
How then will they call on him in whom they have not
believed? And how are they to believe in him of
whom they have never heard?
And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
Romans 10:14
loving the Lord your God,
obeying his voice and holding
fast to him,
for he is your life and length of days.
Deuteronomy 30:20
Even to your old age I will be the same;
I have made you, I
will carry you, I will bear you up.
Isaiah 46:4
Each day the Lord pours his unfailing love upon me,
and through each night I sing His songs,
praying to the God
who gives me LIFE.
Psalms 42:8
This grief, this sorrow,
this total loss that empties my
hands and breaks my heart,
I may, if I will, accept and
accepting it, I find in my hands something to offer.
And so I give it back to Him,
who in mysterious exchange gives Himself to me. Elizabeth Eliot
