“The suitable capacity appropriate for a particular task.”

The NFL investigation found the Saints had an “active bounty program” during the 2009, 2010 and 2011 seasons in which “bounty” payments were given for “knock-outs” and “cart-offs”: plays in which an opposing player had to leave the game. The bounties even identified specific players as targets.

And now, compelled by the Spirit, I am going to Jerusalem, not knowing what will happen to me there.  I only know that in every city the Holy Spirit warns me that prison and hardships are facing me.  However, I consider my life worth nothing to me, if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace.

Acts 20:22-24

Above all else, a warrior has a vision, he has a transcendence to his life, a cause greater than self-preservation. For years all my daily energy was spent trying to beat the trials in my life and arrange for a little pleasure.  I was a mercenary.  A mercenary fights for pay, for his own benefit. A true warrior serves something– or Someone – higher than himself.

John Eldridge, Wild at Heart

I have found David son of Jesse a man after my own heart; he will do everything I want him to do.

Acts 13:22

For I have come down from heaven not to do my will but to do the will of him who sent me.

John 6:38

Father, if you are willing, take this cup from me; yet not my will, but YOURS be done.

Luke 22:42

Your kingdom come, YOUR will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.

Matthew 6:10

Whoever does the will of my Father in heaven is my brother and sister and mother.

Matthew 12:50

May the God of peace… EQUIP you with everything good for doing his will, and may he work in us what is pleasing to him …

Hebrews 13:20-21

It is God who works in you to WILL and to ACT in order to fulfill his good purpose.

Philippians 2:13

“I must give up the hope of future years, when, God willing, we might still have lived and loved together, and seen our sons grown up to honorable manhood around us.  I have no misgivings about, or lack of confidence in the cause in which I am engaged, and my courage does not halt or falter.  How great a debt we owe to those who went before us through the blood and sufferings of the Revolution.” 

“Sarah, my love for you is deathless, it seems to bind me with mighty cables that nothing but Omnipotence could break, yet a great cause comes over me like a strong wind and bears me unresistably on with all these chains to the battlefield.”