Habakuk
2:1-2 - '1 I will stand
at my watch and station myself on the ramparts; I will look to see
what he will say to me, and what answer I am to give to this complaint.
2 Then the LORD replied: "Write
down the revelation and make it plain on tablets so that a herald
may run with it.'
Matthew
6:33 - '33
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things
will be given to you as well.'
John
13:34-35 - '34 "A
new command I give you: Love one another. As I loved you, so you must
love one another. 35
By this all men will know that you are
my disciples, if you love one another." 36
Simon Peter asked him, "Lord, where are you going?" Jesus
replied, "Where I am going, you cannot
follow now, but you will follow later." '
Ephesians
4:11-13 - '11 It was he
who gave some to be apostles, some to be prophets, some to be evangelists,
and some to be pastors and teachers, 12
to prepare God's people for works of service, so that the body of
Christ may be built up 13 until
we all reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of
God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness
of Christ.'
Malachi
3:6-12 - '6 "I the
LORD do not change. So you, O descendants of Jacob, are not destroyed.
7 Ever since the time of your
forefathers you have turned away from my decrees and have not kept
them. Return to me, and I will return to you," says the LORD
Almighty. "But you ask, 'How are we to return?' 8
Will a man rob God? Yet you rob me. But you ask, 'How do we rob you?'
In tithes and offerings. 9 You
are under a curse—the whole nation of you—because you
are robbing me. 10 Bring the
whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house.
Test me in this," says the LORD Almighty, "and see if I
will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much
blessing that you will not have room enough for it. 11
I will prevent pests from devouring your crops, and the vines in your
fields will not cast their fruit," says the LORD Almighty. 12
"Then all the nations will call you blessed, for yours will be
a delightful land," says the LORD Almighty.'