Key Scriptures:

Luke 9:23​-24 NKJV

23 Then He said to them all, “If anyone desires to come after Me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross [a]daily, and follow Me.

24 For whoever desires to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for My sake will save it.

Luke 5:27​-28 NKJV

27 After these things He went out and saw a tax collector named Levi, sitting at the tax office. And He said to him, “Follow Me.”

28 So he left all, rose up, and followed Him.

Luke 14:33​ NKJV

33 So likewise, whoever of you does not forsake all that he has cannot be My disciple.

Matt 26:53​ NKJV

53 Or do you think that I cannot now pray to My Father, and He will provide Me with more than twelve legions of angels?

Luke 18:22​-23 NKJV

22 So when Jesus heard these things, He said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow Me.”

23 But when he heard this, he became very sorrowful, for he was very rich.

Mark 12:41​-44 NKJV

41 Now Jesus sat opposite the treasury and saw how the people put money into the treasury. And many who were rich put in much.

42 Then one poor widow came and threw in two mites, which make a quadrans.

43 So He called His disciples to Himself and said to them, “Assuredly, I say to you that this poor widow has put in more than all those who have given to the treasury;

44 for they all put in out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty put in all that she had, her whole livelihood.”