Jesus calls believers to deny themselves, take up their cross, and follow Him. But what does a life wholly yielded to God even look like in this day and age? It's marked by a willingness to:

- Die to yourself

- Trust God completely

- Know His Word

- Submit to His will

- Point others to Jesus

- Suffer for His name

- Follow Christ alone

- Love others selflessly

We are unpacking all this and more this week on the Loving Life at Home Podcast. I hope you'll listen in and be encouraged.

John 12:23-24 – “...unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.’”

Matthew 16:24 – “Then Jesus said to His disciples, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross and follow Me.” (see also Luke 9:23 and Mark 8:34)

Mark 8:35 – “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel will save it.”

1 John 2:17 – “The world and its desires pass away, but whoever does the will of God lives forever.”

1 Corinthians 10:31 – “Whether, then, you eat or drink or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.”

Philippians 1:21 – “For me, to live is Christ, and to die is gain.”

Luke 22:42 - “Father, not my will, but thine be done.”

Hebrews 12:1 – “... let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.”

2 Timothy 4:7 – “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the course, I have kept the faith”

2:10 – “For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them.”

1 Corinthians 2:14 - “The unbeliever does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him. And he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually discerned.”

1 Corinthians 1:27 - “God has chosen the foolish things of the world to shame the wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to shame the things which are strong,”

Romans 8:28 – “And we know that God causes all things to work together for good to those who love God, to those who are called according to His”

Hebrews 10:23 – “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”

Psalm 100:5 – “…the LORD isgood; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endures to all generations.”

Jeremiah 29:11 – “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”

Psalm 119:105 – “Thy word isa lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.”

Ephesians 2:4-10 – “But God, being rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our transgressions, made us alive together with Christ…”

Isaiah 45:9 – “Woe to the one who quarrels with his Maker— An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, ‘What are you doing?’ Or the thing you are making say, ‘He has no hands ‘?

Romans 9:20-21 – “...Does not the potter have the right to make from the same lump of clay one vessel for special occasions and another for common use?”

John 3:30 – “He must increase; I must decrease.”

Philippians 1:27-29 – “For it has been granted to you on behalf of Christ not only to believe in Him, but also to suffer for Him.”

Philippians 3:10 – “That I might know Him and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of His sufferings, being conformed to His death….”

John 16:33 – “These things I have spoken unto you, that in Me you might have peace. In the world you will have tribulation, but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.”

Psalm 23:4 – “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.”

Matthew 10:28 - “Don’t be afraid of those who want to kill your body; they cannot touch your soul. Fear only God, who can destroy both soul and body in hell.”

2 Corinthians 12:8-9 – “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.”

Hebrews 12:2 – “…fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.”

Job 2:9 - “Then his wife said to him, ‘Do you still hold fast your integrity? Curse God and die!’”

Job 1:21 – “He said, ‘Naked I came from my mother’s womb, And naked I shall return there. The LORD gave and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.’”

John 14:6 – “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.”

1 Corinthians 11:1 – “Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ.”

Jeremiah 17:9 – “The heart is more deceitful than all else And is desperately sick; Who can understand it?”

Hebrews 13:8 – “Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”

Matthew 25:35 – “Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.”

Luke 10:27 – “Love the Lord thy God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength… and love your neighbor as yourself.”

John 13:35 – “By this will all men know you are my disciples, if you love one another.”

Philippians 2:3 – “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves.”

Galatians 6:3 – “If anyone thinks he is something when he is nothing, he deceives himself.”

Romans 12:3 – “Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought…”

Hebrews 3:14 – “… exhort one another daily, as long as it is called today, so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.”

Jim Elliot Was Not First to Say It - references Matthew Henry's biography of his father

"For His Glory and My Good” - CityAlight praise song

Chronicles of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander – some of my husband’s favorite books

M Is for Mama Podcast: Episode 113 – a conversation between Abbie and me

Suffering is Never for Nothing by Elisabeth Elliot

EP 28:Bible Memory Tips & Tricks

EP 85: Memorize Proverbs 3 with Me

A Grand Investment - the Bible memory program I use with my kids & grandkids

"Inspiration" - this poem by Henry David Thoreau contains the line I quoted without attribution, “Time cannot bend the line which God hath writ"

"God Hath Not Promised" - the poem I quoted by Annie Johnson Flint

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