Do not try to fill someone else’s world with yourself, your thoughts, your influence, your perspective. That is not My purpose for you. Leave the filling of lives to Me alone. Withdraw yourself into Me. Remain exclusively Mine.
1 Kings 8:61 And may you be completely faithful to the LORD our God. May you always obey his decrees and commands, just as you are doing today
Matthew 10:37 Jesus said, “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.”
Luke 14:26 You cannot be my disciple, unless you love me more than you love your father and mother, your wife and children, and your brothers and sisters. You cannot follow me unless you love me more than you love your own life.
Isaiah 34:16 Look in the scroll of the LORD and read: None of these will be missing, not one will lack her mate. For it is His mouth that has given the order, and His Spirit will gather them together.
Isaiah 54:5 For your Maker is your husband, the Lord of hosts is his name; and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer, the God of the whole earth he is called.
Isaiah 62:3-5 You shall be a crown of beauty in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of your God.. . . you shall be called My Delight Is in Her, and your land Married; for the Lord delights in you . . . and as the bridegroom rejoices over the bride, so shall your God rejoice over you.
James 4:12 Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself an enemy of God. Or do you suppose it is to no purpose that the Scripture says, “He yearns jealously over the spirit that he has made to dwell in us”? …