For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. – Jeremiah 29:11

[Prologue: Exhortations to Embrace Wisdom][Warning Against the Invitation of Sinful Men] Listen, my son, to your fathers instruction and do not forsake your mothers teaching. They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck. – Proverbs 1:8-9

[Psalm 62] For the director of music. For Jeduthun. A psalm of David. Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him. – Psalm 62:1

Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. Many are the plans in a persons heart, but it is the LORDs purpose that prevails. – Proverbs 19:20-21

It is the LORD your God you must follow, and him you must revere. Keep his commands and obey him; serve him and hold fast to him. – Deuteronomy 13:4

I, even I, am the LORD, and apart from me there is no savior. I have revealed and saved and proclaimed I, and not some foreign god among you. You are my witnesses, declares the LORD, that I am God. – Isaiah 43:11-12

[Psalm 63] A psalm of David. When he was in the Desert of Judah. You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek you; I thirst for you, my whole being longs for you, in a dry and parched land where there is no water. – Psalm 63:1

Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD himself, is the Rock eternal. – Isaiah 26:4

Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. – Isaiah 55:6

Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring. – Proverbs 27:1