Powerful Truths for Godly Growth
From Matthew

Subject

Verse

Wealth / Value

“Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
6:21

Temptation

“The eye is the lamp of the body.  If your eyes are good, your whole body will be full of light.  But if your eyes are bad, your whole body will be full of darkness.”
6:22-23a

Worrying

“Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?”
6:27

Judging Others

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged.  For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.  Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?  … First take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.”
7:1-3, 7:5

Love Your Enemies

“Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be sons of your Father in heaven.”
5:44-45a

Praying Powerfully and Truthfully

“When you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by men.  I tell you the truth, they have received their reward in full.  But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.  And when you pray, do not keep on babbling like pagans, for they think they will be heard because of their many words.  Do not be like them, for your Father knows what you need before you ask him.”
6:5-8

Turn from the norm and follow God’s path

“Enter through the narrow gate.  For wide is the gate and broad is the road that leads to destruction, and many enter through it.  But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.”
7:13,14

Building a foundation in Christ

“Everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.  The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock.  But everyone who ears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash.”
7:24-27