1. Fear
1 Timothy 6:10 (NLT)
10 For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. And some people, craving money, have wandered from the true faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
2 Timothy 1:6-8 (ESV)
6 For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you through the laying on of my hands, 7 for God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
8 Therefore do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord, nor of me his prisoner, but share in suffering for the gospel by the power of God,
2. Failure
Proverbs 24:16 (ESV)
16 for the righteous falls seven times and rises again,
but the wicked stumble in times of calamity.
3. Rejection
John 1:11 (ESV)
11 He came to his own,[a] and his own people[b] did not receive him.
Romans 8:31 (ESV)
God’s Everlasting Love
31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be[a] against us?
Numbers 23:19 (ESV)
19 God is not man, that he should lie,
or a son of man, that he should change his mind.
Has he said, and will he not do it?
Or has he spoken, and will he not fulfill it?