"And they said, 'You have saved our lives; may it please my lord, we will be servants to Pharaoh.'"
Genesis 47:25

"For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live."
Romans 8:13

No heart can conceive,

Which He drank quite up,

That sinners might live!

His way was much rougher

And darker than mine;

Did Christ, my Lord, suffer,

And shall I repine?

Since all that I meet

Shall work for my good,

The bitter is sweet,

The medicine, food;

Though painful at present,

’Twill cease before long,

And then, oh, how pleasant

The conqueror’s song!"

- "Begone Unbelief" by John Newton

The day I first truly saw Jesus is burned into

"His delight is not in the strength of the horse, nor his pleasure in the legs of a man, but the Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in those who hope in his steadfast love."

“When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron and said to him, ‘Up, make us gods who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has become of him.’”  

Exodus 32:1

"God chose what is low and despised in the world, even things that are not, to bring to nothing things that are."

"Say to my soul, 'I am your salvation!'”

Romans 6:11

Romans 1:7b; 1 Corinthians 1:3; 2 Corinthians 1:2; Galatians 1:3; Ephesians 1:2; Philippians 1:2; 2 Thessalonians 1:2; Philemon 1:3