Don’t be afraid, because I am with you.  Don’t be intimidated; I am your God.  I will strengthen you.  I will help you.  I will support you with my victorious right hand.

(Isaiah 41:10 -- GW)

Knock, knock jokes can be funny, even though the door is never "opened."  However, standing outside the door of heaven and finding that it will not be opened to us will not be amusing.  It will be hell. 
(Laura  L. Pickle in Portals of Prayer) 

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What do you think?  If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off?  And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off.  In the same way your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish.

(Matthew 18:12-14 -- NIV)

You reject all who wander away from your laws, because their lies mislead them.
(Psalm 119:118 -- GW)

Then he took Paul and Silas outside and asked, “Sirs, what do I have to do to be saved?”  They answered, “Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you and your family will be saved.”  They spoke the Lord’s word to the jailer and everyone in his home.

(Acts 16:30-32 -- GW)

Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes;
Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.
Heaven's morning breaks, and earth's vain shadows flee;
In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

(by Henry Francis Lyte)

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