Noting the importance of discipline in gaining intimacy with Jehovah, the king of Israel advises us: “The discipline of Jehovah, O my son, do not reject; and do not abhor his reproof, because the one whom Jehovah loves he reproves, even as a father does a son in whom he finds pleasure. ” ​ — Proverbs 3: 11, 12.
तसेच, यहोवाचा महिमा करणाऱ्‍या प्रचारकार्यात आणि शिष्य बनवण्याच्या कार्यात भाग घेतल्याने आपले पोषण होते.