Incredible things can happen when people are willing to consider other people's needs more than their own.

The church or congregation will only be all it can be when all on the congregation are walking in the fullness of what they have each been called to do.

And the people commended everyone who volunteered to resettle in Jerusalem.

He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for My sake will find it.

If you cling to your life, you will lose it; but if you give up your life for me, you will find it.

For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.

25 If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. 26 And what do you benefit if you gain the whole world but lose your own soul? Is anything worth more than your soul?

Therefore go into the highways, and as many as you find, invite to the wedding.'

16 Then He said to him, "A certain man gave a great supper and invited many,  17 and sent his servant at supper time to say to those who were invited, 'Come, for all things are now ready.'  18 But they all with one accord began to make excuses. The first said to him, 'I have bought a piece of ground, and I must go and see it. I ask you to have me excused.' (Business) 19 And another said, 'I have bought five yoke of oxen, and I am going to test them. I ask you to have me excused.' (Possessions) 20 Still another said, 'I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.' (Relationships)

So that servant came and reported these things to his master. Then the master of the house, being angry, said to his servant, 'Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in here the poor and the maimed and the lame and the blind.'

24 Then Jesus said to His disciples, "If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow Me.  25 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.  26 For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?  27 For the Son of Man will come in the glory of His Father with His angels, and then He will reward each according to his works.

"And behold, I am coming quickly, and My reward is with Me, to give to every one according to his work.

For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive the things done in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

Give your gifts in private, and your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.

But when you pray, go away by yourself, shut the door behind you, and pray to your Father in private. Then your Father, who sees everything, will reward you.

Now he who plants and he who waters are one, and each one will receive his own reward according to his own labor.

For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

24 And let us consider one another in order to stir up love and good works, 25 not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, but exhorting one another, and so much the more as you see the Day approaching.

Five of you shall chase a hundred, and a hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight;
your enemies shall fall by the sword before you.

One man of you shall chase a thousand, for the Lord your God is He who fights for you, as He promised you.

For you have been called to live in freedom, my brothers and sisters. But don't use your freedom to satisfy your sinful nature. Instead, use your freedom to serve one another in love.

Some of the Levites who lived in Judah were sent to live with the tribe of Benjamin.

Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.

Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.

37 Then He said to His disciples, "The harvest truly is plentiful, but the laborers are few.  38 Therefore pray the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into His harvest."

You know the saying, 'Four months between planting and harvest.' But I say, wake up and look around. The fields are already ripe for harvest.

9 But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, His own special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him who called you out of darkness into His marvelous light; 10 who once were not a people but are now the people of God, who had not obtained mercy but now have obtained mercy.