We are not trapped or doomed by our past failures.

There is a time to talk and a time to take action.

Courage can be contagious.

"But why do you call Me 'Lord, Lord,' and not do the things which I say?

23 For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man observing his natural face in a mirror;24 for he observes himself, goes away, and immediately forgets what kind of man he was.25 But he who looks into the perfect law of liberty and continues in it, and is not a forgetful hearer but a doer of the work, this one will be blessed in what he does.

8 And they said, "What one is there from the tribes of Israel who did not come up to Mizpah to the LORD?" And, in fact, no one had come to the camp from Jabesh Gilead to the assembly.9 For when the people were counted, indeed, not one of the inhabitants of Jabesh Gilead was there.

"Be angry, and do not sin": do not let the sun go down on your wrath,

26 And "don't sin by letting anger gain control over you." Don't let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 for anger gives a mighty foothold to the Devil.

I planted, Apollos watered, but God gave the increase.

praising God and having favor with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily those who were being saved.

But we are all like an unclean thing, And all our righteousnesses are like filthy rags; We all fade as a leaf, And our iniquities, like the wind, Have taken us away.