You did not choose me, but I chose you …
John 15:16

MOSES: Now Moses was tending the flock … There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in flames of fire from within a bush.
Exodus 3:1-2

GIDEON: The angel of the Lord came and sat down under the oak in Ophrah … where his son Gideon was threshing wheat in a winepress to keep it from the Midianites.
Judges 6:11

ELISHA: Elijah went from there and found Elisha son of Shaphat. He was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen …
1 Kings 19:19

DAVID: So, Samuel asked Jesse, ‘Are these all the sons you have?’ ‘There is still the youngest,’ Jesse answered. ‘He is tending the sheep.’
1 Samuel 16:11

MATTHEW: As Jesus went on from there, he saw a man named Matthew sitting at the tax collector’s booth. “‘Follow me,’ he told him.”
Matthew 9:9

PAUL: As he neared Damascus on his journey, suddenly a light from heaven flashed around him.
Acts 9:3

And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch over their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified.
Luke 2:8-9

As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live …
Ephesians 2:1-2a

When you were dead in your sins … God made you alive with Christ.
Colossians 2:13

Let’s have a feast and celebrate.  For this son of mine was dead and is alive again.
Luke 15:23-24

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit …
John 15:16

Now there was a man in Jerusalem called Simeon, who was righteous and devout. He was waiting for the consolation of Israel, and the Holy Spirit was upon him.  It had been revealed to him by the Holy Spirit that he would not die before he had seen the Lord’s Christ.  Moved by the Spirit, he went into the temple courts.
Luke 2:25-27

Then Simeon blessed them and said to Mary, his mother: “This child is destined to cause the falling and rising of many in Israel, and to be a sign that will be spoken against, so that the thoughts of many hearts will be revealed. And a sword will pierce your own soul too.”
Luke 2:34-35

For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does. The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
2 Corinthians 10:3-4

You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit—fruit that will last.
John 15:16