As you give yourself first to Jesus by the will of God, you will receive abundantly more than you ask or think.  

 As you give yourself first to Jesus by the will of God, you will receive abundantly more than you ask or think.  

“And not only as we had hoped, but they first [proton] gave [didomi] themselves to the Lord, and then to us by the will of God.” (2Cor 8:5)

“I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service.” (Rom 12:1)

“Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us” (Eph 3:20)

“He died for all, that those who live should live no longer for themselves, but for Him who died for them and rose again.” (2Cor 5:21)

“For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first [proton] the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added to you.” (Matt 6:32-33)

“Nevertheless I have this against you, that you have left your first [protos] love. Remember therefore from where you have fallen; repent and do the first works, or else I will come to you quickly and remove your lampstand from its place—unless you repent.” (Rev 2:4-5)

“But as it is written: Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared [hetoimazo] for those who love Him.” (1Cor 2:9)

“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will find it.” (Matt 16:25)

“And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My name’s sake, shall receive a hundredfold, and inherit eternal life.” (Matt 19:29)

“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake and the gospel’s will save it.” (Mk 8:35)

“So Jesus answered and said, Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or father or mother or wife or children or lands, for My sake and the gospel’s, who shall not receive a hundredfold now in this time—houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and lands, with persecutions—and in the age to come, eternal life.” (Mk 10:29-30)

“For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.” (Lk 9:24)

“So He said to them, Assuredly, I say to you, there is no one who has left house or parents or brothers or wife or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, who shall not receive many times more in this present time, and in the age to come eternal life.” (Lk 18:29-30)

“Now do not be stiff-necked, as your fathers were, but yield yourselves to the LORD” (2Chr 30:8)

“One will say, I am the LORD’s; another will call himself by the name of Jacob; another will write with his hand, The LORD’s, and name himself by the name of Israel.” (Isa 44:5)

“But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put My law in their minds, and write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.” (Jer 31:33)

“They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, This is My people; and each one will say, The LORD is my God.” (Zech 13:9)

“And do not present your members as instruments of unrighteousness to sin, but present yourselves to God as being alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness to God.” (Rom 6:13)

“For if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore, whether we live or die, we are the Lord’s.” (Rom 14:8)

“Or do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you, whom you have from God, and you are not your own? For you were bought at a price; therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.” (1Cor 6:19-20)

Reading: Jer 16-18; 2Cor 8