God First

"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment." Matthew 22:37

"that [the Macedonian churches] gave as much as they were able, and even beyond their ability ... they gave themselves first to the Lord and then to us in keeping with God's will." 2 Corinthians 8:3,5

"I have come that [you] may have life and have it to the full." John 10:10

"I would like to buy three dollars worth of God, please. Not enough to explode my soul or disturb my sleep, But just enough to equal a cup of warm milk, or a snooze in the sunshine. I don't want enough of Him to make me love a black man, or pick beets with a migrant worker. I want ecstasy, not transformation. I want the warmth of the womb, not a new birth. I want a pound of the eternal in a paper sack. I would like to buy three dollars worth of God, please." Wilbur Reese

"Come to Me with all your stuff and all your burdens and all your cares and concerns, all those kinds of things; cast them on Me, and I will give you rest." Matthew 11:28

"Apart from Me you can do nothing." John 15:5b

"while we were still sinners, Christ died for us." Romans 5:8

"Neither do I condemn you. Go now and leave your life of sin." John 8:11