Treat everyone with politeness
Discover how one man's act of kindness in a supermarket queue transformed a rude encounter. Learn why treating everyone with politeness matters, regardless of their behavior.
We love Him first and foremost
What does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 10:12. ESV)
Create peace by loving others into good will
What you have learned and received and heard and seen in me — practice these things, and the God of peace will be with you. (Philippians 4:9. ESV)
Lift your eyes above the natural
Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. (1 Thessalonians 5:11 ESV)
God gave us the responsibility
Then the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend and keep it. (Genesis 2:15 NKJV)
My angel of comfort
Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant. (Psalm 119:76 KJV)
I can recycle you
Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father which is in heaven. (Matthew 5:16 NKJV)
Be patient and have faith
But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings like eagles, they shall run and not be weary, they shall walk and not faint. (Isaiah 40:31NKJV)
It’s not just about money
Let each one give as he purposes in his heart, not grudgingly or of necessity; for God loves a cheerful giver. (2 Corinthians 9:7 NKJV)
When we do it with God’s help
Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is the upholder of my life. (Psalm 54:4 ESV)
Life is like a book
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. (Philippians 1:6 ESV)
To Jesus, His Father was everything
What does the LORD your God require of you, but to fear the LORD your God, to walk in all his ways, to love him, to serve the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul. (Deuteronomy 10:12)
God is always watching
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.” This is the first and greatest commandment. And the second is like it: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (Matthew 22:37-39 NIV)
God is a fair and generous judge
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit. (Ephesians 6:18a KJV)
Comfort others in their tribulation
The spirit of a man will sustain his infirmity; but a broken spirit who can bear? (Proverbs 18:14 ESV)
Faith in the Bible creates faith in the miraculous
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 My Father. (John 14:12 NKJV)
He will carry us
Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us. (Hebrews 12:1 ESV)
The same holds true for Christians
Seeing that you have put off the old self with its practices and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge after the image of its creator. (Colossians 3:9-10 ESV)
Not to judge according to outward appearances
For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart. (1 Samuel 16;7b KJV)
How does this apply to me?
Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. This is the first and great commandment. And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. (Matthew 22:37–39 KJV)