Wednesday, November 30, 2011

This is the whole story of the Israelites freedom from Egypt!
Ex 4:21-23
21 GOD said to Moses, "When you get back to Egypt, be prepared: All the wonders that I will do through you, you'll do before Pharaoh. But I will make him stubborn so that he will refuse to let the people go. 22 Then you are to tell Pharaoh, 'GOD's Message: Israel is my son, my firstborn! 23 I told you, "Free my son so that he can serve me." But you refused to free him. So now I'm going to kill your son, your firstborn.'"
Ex 4:11
11 GOD said, "And who do you think made the human mouth? And who makes some mute, some deaf, some sighted, some blind? Isn't it I, GOD?

Don’t ever doubt your abilities when God asks you to do something! That is why I don’t doubt myself as handicapped as I am because it’s not up to me it’s up to Him!
Ex 4:15
teaching you step by step.

This is how God teaches us!
This is how the Israelites had money in the desert:
Ex 3:22
22 Each woman will ask her neighbor and any guests in her house for objects of silver and gold, for jewelry and extra clothes; you'll put them on your sons and daughters. Oh, you'll clean the Egyptians out!"
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Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Gen 30:22
God listened to her and opened her womb.

God does this but people take all the credit.
Gen 28:16
GOD is in this place

God is everywhere and not just in one place or another. He is God and not a human.
In the Bible we are taught that birthrights and such don’t matter to us but God does.
Gen 26:9
Why did you tell us 'She's my sister'?"

This happened repeatedly to teach us not to be concerned with others rather than the truth.
Gen 26:5
Because Abraham obeyed my summons and kept my charge — my commands, my guidelines, my teachings."
Do you focus on God or are you more sure to keep other people happy?
Gen 25:33
traded away rights as the firstborn.

This is how we become heirs! Jesus did the same thing! He didn’t hold on to His rights, He gave them to us!
Gen 25:23
23 GOD told her,
Two nations are in your womb

People don’t realize that God knows even this!
It’s always said in the Bible that a person lived for a number of years and I’s clear that God has seen it all but I’ve never heard anyone say that it is obvious that God never dies. He has seen the extent of all human lives.
On Earth humans depend on each other rather than on their creator which is a shame.
Gen 21:5
5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born.
Gen 20:11
11 Abraham said, "I just assumed that there was no fear of God in this place.”

Don’t assume things! God knows your heart. The World doesn’t fear God!
The example of Abraham saying that his wife Sarah was his sister and Sarah saying the same thing was not the truth but it was what they thought that people wanted to hear it is there to teach us that making humans happy at the expense of the truth is not good.
The report of God telling Abraham about Sodom and Gomorrah is the same as the end of the World but He’ll save people not the World it will be destroyed and replaced.
God has told us that He has overcome the World so why do we try to meet the World’s demands? And the World does have demands!
This is what we have to do. Don’t depend on what the World tells you instead do what God (who has overcome the World) says.

Gen 17:1
I am The Strong God, live entirely before me, live to the hilt!
Gen 15:13
13 GOD said to Abram, "Know this: your descendants will live as outsiders in a land not theirs; they'll be enslaved and beaten down for 400 years.

God was telling Abram about the children of Israel being slaves in Egypt!
Gen 14:21-23
21 The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give me back the people but keep all the plunder for yourself."
22 But Abram told the king of Sodom, "I swear to GOD, The High God, Creator of Heaven and Earth, this solemn oath, 23 that I'll take nothing from you, not so much as a thread or a shoestring.

Most people would see this as a good opportunity but not Abram! What people decided other than what God decided was not the ultimate.
In the story of Abraham all he had to do was focus on and trust God which is all we have to do. Focusing on ourselves may bring us a good right now but focusing on God will bring us the ultimately good later on which should be the most important thing to us.
Gen 12:13
13 Do me a favor: tell them you're my sister. Because of you, they'll welcome me and let me live."

This is an example of giving the World what they need rather than just telling them the truth.
Gen 12:7
7 GOD appeared to Abram and said, "I will give this land to your children."

This was the land of Canaan far in advance of the children of Israel.
Following God is not just a decision that you make it is a choice that you make for a lifetime and it becomes a lifestyle. It is much more simple to make a decision that you may or may not keep than it is to make a choice that becomes a lifestyle, especially in this World.

Monday, November 28, 2011

Gen 10:32
32 This is the family tree of the sons of Noah as they developed into nations. From them nations developed all across the Earth after the flood.

This is never taught.
God said regarding humans:
Gen 9:7
7 You're here to bear fruit, reproduce, lavish life on the Earth, live bountifully!"

NOT TO BE SOMETHING SPECIAL!
God said:
Gen 8:21
I know they have this bent toward evil from an early age.
Gen 8:19
19 Then all the animals, crawling creatures, birds — every creature on the face of the Earth — left the ship family by family.
The animals left the ship in families.
Gen 7:8-9
8 Clean and unclean animals, birds, and all the crawling creatures 9 came in pairs to Noah and to the ship, male and female, just as God had commanded Noah.

It wasn’t as if Noah had to find them because they came to the ship!
Gen 6:9-14

9 This is the story of Noah: Noah was a good man, a man of integrity in his community. Noah walked with God. 10 Noah had three sons: Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

11 As far as God was concerned, the Earth had become a sewer; there was violence everywhere. 12 God took one look and saw how bad it was, everyone corrupt and corrupting — life itself corrupt to the core.

13 God said to Noah, "It's all over. It's the end of the human race. The violence is everywhere; I'm making a clean sweep.

Thankfully this won’t happen again. Yes things are bad and getting worse and God will come again but there won’t be a flood. Remember, the road is narrow and few will find it…
Gen 6:5-8

GOD saw that human evil was out of control. People thought evil, imagined evil — evil, evil, evil from morning to night. 6 GOD was sorry that he had made the human race in the first place; it broke his heart. 7 GOD said, "I'll get rid of my ruined creation, make a clean sweep: people, animals, snakes and bugs, birds — the works. I'm sorry I made them."
8 But Noah was different. GOD liked what he saw in Noah.
Gen 6:3
3 Then GOD said, "I'm not going to breathe life into men and women endlessly. Eventually they're going to die; from now on they can expect a life span of 120 years."
Gen 5:32
32 When Noah was 500 years old, he had Shem, Ham, and Japheth.
Gen 5:24
24 Enoch walked steadily with God. And then one day he was simply gone: God took him.

The only man in scripture that God took.
Gen 5:1-2
This is the family tree of the human race: When God created the human race, he made it godlike, with a nature akin to God. 2 He created both male and female and blessed them, the whole human race.

Even though they hadn’t listened to God He made the human race.
Gen 4:26
That's when men and women began praying and worshiping in the name of GOD.

NOT IN THE NAME OF ANY MAN MADE ORGANIZATION!
Gen 3:22
22 GOD said, "The Man has become like one of us, capable of knowing everything, ranging from good to evil.

Man celebrates knowledge as if he is responsible for it but he’s not, God formed him to be who he is!
Gen 3:21
21 GOD made leather clothing for Adam and his wife and dressed them.

They had chosen to do what God had told them not to do and made excuses but God still cared for them.
Gen 3:20
20 The Man, known as Adam, named his wife Eve because she was the mother of all the living.
Gen 3:16-18
16 He told the Woman: "I'll multiply your pains in childbirth; you'll give birth to your babies in pain. You'll want to please your husband, but he'll lord it over you." 17 He told the Man: "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree That I commanded you not to eat from, 'Don't eat from this tree,' The very ground is cursed because of you; getting food from the ground Will be as painful as having babies is for your wife; you'll be working in pain all your life long. 18 The ground will sprout thorns and weeds,

See? This is what happened just because they didn’t listen to God! So you had better listen to Him and not Satan!
Gen 3:12
12 The Man said, "The Woman you gave me as a companion, she gave me fruit from the tree, and, yes, I ate it."

Blaming someone else for his own behavior. This is still going on.
Gen 3:4
The serpent told the Woman, "You won't die.
He lied! And people believed him! He still does!
Gen 3:4
The serpent told the Woman, "You won't die.
He lied!
Gen 2:25
25 The two of them, the Man and his Wife, were naked, but they felt no shame.

Later they did!
Gen 2:24
24 Therefore a man leaves his father and mother and embraces his wife. They become one flesh.

Often a man and woman become one flesh just because they can and they don’t become husband and wife.
Gen 2:16-17
16 GOD commanded the Man, "You can eat from any tree in the garden, 17 except from the Tree-of-Knowledge-of-Good-and-Evil. Don't eat from it. The moment you eat from that tree, you're dead."

This is what God told man but Satan will have a different opinion.
Gen 2:15
15 GOD took the Man and set him down in the Garden of Eden to work the ground and keep it in order.

God developed man to do things. Man didn’t have to prove himself! God still knows…
Gen 2:11-12
11 The first is named Pishon; it flows through Havilah where there is gold. 12 The gold of this land is good. The land is also known for a sweet-scented resin and the onyx stone

God knew than would like valuable things! That’s why He made them.
Gen 2:8
8 Then GOD planted a garden in Eden, in the east.

God planned for man to eat and He have him food.

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Gen 2:8-9
8 Then GOD planted a garden in Eden, in the east. He put the Man he had just made in it. 9 GOD made all kinds of trees grow from the ground, trees beautiful to look at and good to eat.

See? What is called Nature is really God!
Gen 2:7
7 GOD formed Man out of dirt from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life. The Man came alive — a living soul!

People forget that this is a continuous process! It’s part of the “be fruitful & multiply” or “replenish” blessing so it’s not just you.
Gen 2:5-6
At the time GOD made Earth and Heaven, before any grasses or shrubs had sprouted from the ground — GOD hadn't yet sent rain on Earth, nor was there anyone around to work the ground 6(the whole Earth was watered by underground springs).

God makes it rain!
Jer 5:24-25
24 It never occurs to them to say,
'How can we honor our GOD with our lives,
The God who gives rain in both spring and autumn and maintains the rhythm of the seasons ,
Who sets aside time each year for harvest and keeps everything running smoothly for us?'
25 Of course you don't! Your bad behavior blinds you to all this. Your sins keep my blessings at a distance.
Gen 1:14
Mark seasons

Most people don’t realize that God did this!
Gen 2:1-2
Heaven and Earth were finished, down to the last detail. 2 By the seventh day God had finished his work.
Gen 1:24-28
24 God spoke: "Earth, generate life! Every sort and kind: cattle and reptiles and wild animals — all kinds." And there it was: 25 wild animals of every kind, Cattle of all kinds, every sort of reptile and bug. God saw that it was good.
26 God spoke: "Let us make human beings in our image, make them reflecting our nature so they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, And, yes, Earth itself, and every animal that moves on the face of Earth." 27 God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God's nature. He created them male and female. 28 God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth."
29 Then God said, "I've given you every sort of seed-bearing plant on Earth And every kind of fruit-bearing tree, given them to you for food. 30 To all animals and all birds, everything that moves and breathes, I give whatever grows out of the ground for food." And there it was.
31 God looked over everything he had made; it was so good, so very good! It was evening, it was morning — Day Six.

Recreation was a gift from God. This is why we exist! Not to do something that was designed by the World: so they can be responsible for the fish in the sea, the birds in the air, the cattle, and, yes, Earth itself, and every animal.
Gen 1:20-23
20 God spoke: "Swarm, Ocean, with fish and all sea life! Birds, fly through the sky over Earth!" 21 God created the huge whales, all the swarm of life in the waters, And every kind and species of flying birds. God saw that it was good. 22 God blessed them: "Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Ocean! Birds, reproduce on Earth!" 23 It was evening, it was morning — Day Five.

God blessed everything at creation.
Gen 1:14-19
14 God spoke: "Lights! Come out! Shine in Heaven's sky! Separate Day from Night. Mark seasons and days and years, 15 Lights in Heaven's sky to give light to Earth." And there it was. 16 God made two big lights, the larger to take charge of Day, The smaller to be in charge of Night; and he made the stars. 17 God placed them in the heavenly sky to light up Earth 18 And oversee Day and Night, to separate light and dark. God saw that it was good. 19 It was evening, it was morning — Day Four.

God spoke and creation happened.
Gen 1:9-13
9 God spoke: "Separate! Water-beneath-Heaven, gather into one place; Land, appear!" And there it was. 10 God named the land Earth. He named the pooled water Ocean. God saw that it was good. 11 God spoke: "Earth, green up! Grow all varieties of seed-bearing plants, Every sort of fruit-bearing tree." And there it was. 12 Earth produced green seed-bearing plants, all varieties, And fruit-bearing trees of all sorts. God saw that it was good. 13 It was evening, it was morning — Day Three.

Seed bearing plants…resurrection at the beginning!
Gen 1:6-9
6 God spoke: "Sky! In the middle of the waters; separate water from water!" 7 God made sky. He separated the water under sky from the water above sky. And there it was: 8 he named sky the Heavens; It was evening, it was morning — Day Two.
Gen 1:3-53
God spoke: "Light!" And light appeared. 4 God saw that light was good
and separated light from dark. 5 God named the light Day, he named the dark Night. It was evening, it was morning — Day One.
Gen 1:1
First this: God created the Heavens and Earth — all you see, all you don't see.

All you see and all you don’t see.

Saturday, November 26, 2011

We have proof of resurrection in our daily lives right now! When we plant a seed it looks nothing like it will become when it grows, also it is dead but when it is put in the ground it grows (comes back to life) which is unexpected and becomes something totally different from a dead seed. So a seed to a plant is just like our dead bodies which go into the Earth and will become our resurrected bodies which is something that is not expected. I have learned this from the Bible. So during our lives on Earth we a step in our resurrected lives just as seeds are developed.
Rev 22:20
Yes! Come, Master Jesus!

In His timing NOT MINE!
Rev 22:7
Blessed be the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.

Prophecy…
Rev 22:5
5 Never again will there be any night.
Rev 21:21
The main street of the City was pure gold, translucent as glass.

Pure Gold. It sounds like the wilderness! No stores & nothing but God!
Rev 21:1-4
I saw Heaven and earth new-created. Gone the first Heaven, gone the first earth, gone the sea.
2 I saw Holy Jerusalem, new-created, descending resplendent out of Heaven, as ready for God as a bride for her husband.
3 I heard a voice thunder from the Throne: "Look! Look! God has moved into the neighborhood, making his home with men and women! They're his people, he's their God. 4 He'll wipe every tear from their eyes. Death is gone for good — tears gone, crying gone, pain gone — all the first order of things gone."

This is what we’re waiting for!
Rev 19:18
free and slave, small and great!

You will ever hear this on this Earth!
Rev 18:16-17
16 Doom, doom, the great city doomed! Dressed in the latest fashions, adorned with the finest jewels, 17 in one hour such wealth wiped out!
Rev 18:14
14 Everything you've lived for, gone! All delicate and delectable luxury, lost! Not a scrap, not a thread to be found!
Rev 16:21
they cursed God
this is what the people on Earth did. They would not repent and turn to God. Just like the children of Israel, they were unhappy.
Rev 16:2
2 The first Angel stepped up and poured his bowl out on earth: Loathsome, stinking sores erupted on all who had taken the mark of the Beast and worshiped its image.

On the earth…
Rev 14:18
Harvest earth's vineyard.

Remember the parable that Jesus told about the owner of the vineyard?
Rev 13:8
8 Everyone on earth whose name was not written from the world's foundation in the slaughtered Lamb's Book of Life will worship the Beast.

Friday, November 25, 2011

Rev 11:15
The kingdom of the world is now the Kingdom of our God and his Messiah! He will rule forever and ever!

I have never heard this!
Rev 9:6
6 When this happens, people are going to prefer death to torture, look for ways to kill themselves. But they won't find a way — death will have gone into hiding.

I have ever heard this before.
Rev 7:15-17
The One on the Throne will pitch his tent there for them: 16 no more hunger, no more thirst, no more scorching heat. 17 The Lamb on the Throne will shepherd them, will lead them to spring waters of Life. And God will wipe every last tear from their eyes."

I have lived through unbelievable problems, I don’t get hungry or hot or thirsty and I can’t cry.
Rev 7:9
waving palm branches

This is what the crowd did when Jesus entered Jerusalem.
Rev 7:9
waving palm branches

This is what the crowd did when Jesus entered Jerusalem.
Rev 5:12
The slain Lamb is worthy! Take the power, the wealth, the wisdom, the strength! Take the honor, the glory, the blessing!

All of the power, wealth, the wisdom and the strength belong to Jesus!
Rev 4:11-5:1
11 Worthy, O Master! Yes, our God! Take the glory! the honor! the power! You created it all;
It was created because you wanted it.

Do you realize that all of this was created because He wanted it?
Rev 3:11
Keep a tight grip on what you have so no one distracts you and steals your crown.
Rev 3:10
all over the earth, every man, woman, and child

Even children matter to God because He developed them!
Rev 3:4
4 "You still have a few Christians who haven't ruined themselves wallowing in the muck of the world's ways. They'll walk with me on parade! They've proved their worth!

Is this you? Are you one of those few Christians?
Rev 3:1
"I see right through your work. You have a reputation for vigor and zest, but you're dead, stone dead.

Does this relay to any of you?
Rev 2:27
clay pots

our Earthly bodies are clay pots
Rev 2:21
a career in the god-business

Is this your career?
Rev 2:17
I'll give the sacred manna

Manna was the food given by God to the Israelites in the wilderness.
Jude 3
fight with everything you have in you for this faith entrusted to us as a gift to guard and cherish.
3 John 11
Model the good.
1 John 5:20-21
This Jesus is both True God and Real Life.
1 John 5:11-12
11 This is the testimony in essence: God gave us eternal life; the life is in his Son. 12 So, whoever has the Son, has life; whoever rejects the Son, rejects life.

To have the Son He must come first beyond any personal goal because He is our personal goal.
1 John 5:4-5
The power that brings the world to its knees is our faith. 5 The person who wins out over the world's ways is simply the one who believes Jesus is the Son of God.
1 John 4:21
21 The command we have from Christ is blunt: Loving God includes loving people. You've got to love both.
I had a very difficult time sleeping last night. I woke up and thought about this and couldn’t sleep.
I HAVE NEVER HEARD OR READ ABOUT THIS BEFORE BUT I HAVE READ THE BIBLE SEVERAL TIMES AND IT’S VERY CLEAR!

Jesus told a parable about a man who owned a vineyard and went away (God created the World and was gone.) He sent people to check on things but they were either beaten or killed so he sent his son and he was killed (God sent several prophets but no one believed them and they died so He sent His Son but they killed Him). So the owner cleaned house at the vineyard (each of the prophets told this and the book of Revelation is about this). So clearly we are waiting for the vineyard owner to return and He’s going to clean house.
WHY HAS THIS BEEN IGNORED?

Thursday, November 24, 2011

1 John 4:11-12
11 My dear, dear friends, if God loved us like this, we certainly ought to love each other. 12 No one has seen God, ever. But if we love one another, God dwells deeply within us, and his love becomes complete in us — perfect love!
1 John 4:7-10
My beloved friends, let us continue to love each other since love comes from God. Everyone who loves is born of God and experiences a relationship with God. 8 The person who refuses to love doesn't know the first thing about God, because God is love — so you can't know him if you don't love. 9 This is how God showed his love for us: God sent his only Son into the world so we might live through him. 10 This is the kind of love we are talking about — not that we once upon a time loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as a sacrifice to clear away our sins and the damage they've done to our relationship with God.
1 John 4:4-6
4 My dear children, you come from God and belong to God. You have already won a big victory over those false teachers, for the Spirit in you is far stronger than anything in the world. 5 These people belong to the Christ-denying world. They talk the world's language and the world eats it up. 6 But we come from God and belong to God.
1 John 4:1
My dear friends, don't believe everything you hear. Carefully weigh and examine what people tell you. Not everyone who talks about God comes from God. There are a lot of lying preachers loose in the world.
1 John 3:20
For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves.
1 John 3:16
16 This is how we've come to understand and experience love: Christ sacrificed his life for us. This is why we ought to live sacrificially for our fellow believers, and not just be out for ourselves.
1 John 3:13
13 So don't be surprised, friends, when the world hates you. This has been going on a long time.
1 John 3:11
11 For this is the original message we heard: We should love each other.
1 John 2:15-17
15 Don't love the world's ways. Don't love the world's goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father. 16 Practically everything that goes on in the world — wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important — has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him. 17 The world and all its wanting, wanting, wanting is on the way out — but whoever does what God wants is set for eternity.
1 John 2:3
Here's how we can be sure that we know God in the right way: Keep his commandments.
2 Peter 3:11
11 Since everything here today might well be gone tomorrow, do you see how essential it is to live a holy life?
2 Peter 3:8-9
Don't overlook the obvious here, friends. With God, one day is as good as a thousand years, a thousand years as a day. 9 God isn't late with his promise as some measure lateness. He is restraining himself on account of you, holding back the End because he doesn't want anyone lost. He's giving everyone space and time to change.
2 Peter 3:3-7
3 First off, you need to know that in the last days, mockers are going to have a heyday. Reducing everything to the level of their puny feelings, 4 they'll mock, "So what's happened to the promise of his Coming? Our ancestors are dead and buried, and everything's going on just as it has from the first day of creation. Nothing's changed."
5 They conveniently forget that long ago all the galaxies and this very planet were brought into existence out of watery chaos by God's word. 6 Then God's word brought the chaos back in a flood that destroyed the world. 7 The current galaxies and earth are fuel for the final fire. God is poised, ready to speak his word again, ready to give the signal for the judgment and destruction of the desecrating skeptics.
2 Peter 2:1
But there were also lying prophets among the people then, just as there will be lying religious teachers among you.
2 Peter 1:20-21
20 The main thing to keep in mind here is that no prophecy of Scripture is a matter of private opinion. 21 And why? Because it's not something concocted in the human heart. Prophecy resulted when the Holy Spirit prompted men and women to speak God's Word.
2 Peter 1:16
16 We weren't, you know, just wishing on a star when we laid the facts out before you regarding the powerful return of our Master, Jesus Christ.

We weren’t just wishing on a star…
2 Peter 1:3-4
Everything that goes into a life of pleasing God has been miraculously given to us by getting to know, personally and intimately, the One who invited us to God. The best invitation we ever received! 4 We were also given absolutely terrific promises to pass on to you — your tickets to participation in the life of God after you turned your back on a world corrupted by lust.
1 Peter 5:9-11
You're not the only ones plunged into these hard times. It's the same with Christians all over the world. So keep a firm grip on the faith. 10 The suffering won't last forever. It won't be long before this generous God who has great plans for us in Christ — eternal and glorious plans they are! — will have you put together and on your feet for good. 11 He gets the last word; yes, he does.
1 Peter 5:5
God has had it with the proud, But takes delight in just plain people.
1 Peter 4:13
This is a spiritual refining process, with glory just around the corner.
1 Peter 4:1-2
Since Jesus went through everything you're going through and more, learn to think like him. Think of your sufferings as a weaning from that old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way. 2 Then you'll be able to live out your days free to pursue what God wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want.
1 Peter 3:22
22 Jesus has the last word on everything and everyone, from angels to armies. He's standing right alongside God, and what he says goes.
1 Peter 3:14
Don't give the opposition a second thought.

Don't give the opposition a second thought.
1 Peter 3:3-4
3 What matters is not your outer appearance — the styling of your hair, the jewelry you wear, the cut of your clothes — 4 but your inner disposition.

NOT the cut of your clothes.
1 Peter 2:21
21 This is the kind of life you've been invited into, the kind of life Christ lived. He suffered everything that came his way so you would know that it could be done, and also know how to do it, step-by-step.
1 Peter 2:13-17
13 Make the Master proud of you by being good citizens. Respect the authorities, whatever their level; 14 they are God's emissaries for keeping order. 15 It is God's will that by doing good, you might cure the ignorance of the fools who think you're a danger to society. 16 Exercise your freedom by serving God, not by breaking the rules. 17 Treat everyone you meet with dignity. Love your spiritual family. Revere God. Respect the government.
1 Peter 2:11
11 Friends, this world is not your home, so don't make yourselves cozy in it. Don't indulge your ego at the expense of your soul.
1 Peter 1:23-24
23 Your new life is not like your old life. Your old birth came from mortal sperm; your new birth comes from God's living Word. Just think: a life conceived by God himself!
1 Peter 1:11
11 The Messiah's Spirit let them in on some of it — that the Messiah would experience suffering, followed by glory.

The Messiah first experienced suffering and then glory and you are His body so you will too.
James 5:10-11
10 Take the old prophets as your mentors. They put up with anything, went through everything, and never once quit, all the time honoring God. 11 What a gift life is to those who stay the course! You've heard, of course, of Job's staying power, and you know how God brought it all together for him at the end. That's because God cares, cares right down to the last detail.
James 5:1-3
2 Your money is corrupt and your fine clothes stink. 3 Your greedy luxuries are a cancer in your gut, destroying your life from within. You thought you were piling up wealth. What you've piled up is judgment.
James 4:9
Get serious, really serious.
James 4:4-6
4 You're cheating on God. If all you want is your own way, flirting with the world every chance you get, you end up enemies of God and his way. 5 And do you suppose God doesn't care? The proverb has it that "he's a fiercely jealous lover." 6 And what he gives in love is far better than anything else you'll find. It's common knowledge that "God goes against the willful proud; God gives grace to the willing humble."
James 4:1-2
Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. 2 You lust for what you don't have and are willing to kill to get it. You want what isn't yours and will risk violence to get your hands on it.
James 3:18
18 You can develop a healthy, robust community that lives right with God and enjoy its results only if you do the hard work of getting along with each other, treating each other with dignity and honor.

The HARD WORK OF GETTING ALONG WITH OTHERS! It’s not going to be easy!
James 2:25-26
25 The same with Rahab, the Jericho harlot. Wasn't her action in hiding God's spies and helping them escape — that seamless unity of believing and doing — what counted with God? 26 The very moment you separate body and spirit, you end up with a corpse. Separate faith and works and you get the same thing: a corpse.
James 2:21-24
21 Wasn't our ancestor Abraham "made right with God by works" when he placed his son Isaac on the sacrificial altar? 22 Isn't it obvious that faith and works are yoked partners, that faith expresses itself in works? That the works are "works of faith"? 23 The full meaning of "believe" in the Scripture sentence, "Abraham believed God and was set right with God," includes his action. It's that mesh of believing and acting that got Abraham named "God's friend." 24 Is it not evident that a person is made right with God not by a barren faith but by faith fruitful in works?

But why you do things is a key!
James 2:19-20
19 Do I hear you professing to believe in the one and only God, but then observe you complacently sitting back as if you had done something wonderful? That's just great. Demons do that, but what good does it do them? 20 Use your heads! Do you suppose for a minute that you can cut faith and works in two and not end up with a corpse on your hands?
James 2:18
You can no more show me your works apart from your faith than I can show you my faith apart from my works. Faith and works, works and faith, fit together hand in glove.
James 2:12-13
12 Talk and act like a person expecting to be judged by the Rule that sets us free. 13 For if you refuse to act kindly, you can hardly expect to be treated kindly. Kind mercy wins over harsh judgment every time.

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

James 2:8-10
8 You do well when you complete the Royal Rule of the Scriptures: "Love others as you love yourself." 9 But if you play up to these so-called important people, you go against the Rule and stand convicted by it. 10 You can't pick and choose in these things, specializing in keeping one or two things in God's law and ignoring others.
James 2:5
5 Listen, dear friends. Isn't it clear by now that God operates quite differently? He chose the world's down-and-out as the kingdom's first citizens, with full rights and privileges. This kingdom is promised to anyone who loves God.
James 2:1
My dear friends, don't let public opinion influence how you live out our glorious, Christ-originated faith.
James 1:26-27
6 Anyone who sets himself up as "religious" by talking a good game is self-deceived. This kind of religion is hot air and only hot air. 27 Real religion, the kind that passes muster before God the Father, is this: Reach out to the homeless and loveless in their plight, and guard against corruption from the godless world.
James 1:22-24
22 Don't fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! 23 Those who hear and don't act are like those who glance in the mirror, 24 walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.
James 1:21
In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.
James 1:17-18
There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle. 18 He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures.

There is a book by one of the Worlds authors called: “When God doesn’t make sense” and I remember thinking that’s not possible and so I didn’t read it.
James 1:10-11
Prosperity is as short-lived as a wildflower, so don't ever count on it. 11 You know that as soon as the sun rises, pouring down its scorching heat, the flower withers. Its petals wilt and, before you know it, that beautiful face is a barren stem. Well, that's a picture of the "prosperous life." At the very moment everyone is looking on in admiration, it fades away to nothing.
James 1:10
Prosperity is as short-lived as a wildflower, so don't ever count on it.

It says that prosperity is short lived but the World will tell you differently.
James 1:2-8
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. 3 You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. 4 So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.
5 If you don't know what you're doing, pray to the Father. He loves to help. You'll get his help, and won't be condescended to when you ask for it. 6 Ask boldly, believingly, without a second thought. People who "worry their prayers" are like wind-whipped waves. 7 Don't think you're going to get anything from the Master that way, 8 adrift at sea, keeping all your options open.
Heb 13:20-21
20 May God, who puts all things together, makes all things whole, Who made a lasting mark through the sacrifice of Jesus,
the sacrifice of blood that sealed the eternal covenant, Who led Jesus, our Great Shepherd, up and alive from the dead,
21 Now put you together, provide you with everything you need to please him, Make us into what gives him most pleasure,
by means of the sacrifice of Jesus, the Messiah. All glory to Jesus forever and always! Oh, yes, yes, yes.

It says that God puts you together to give you everything you need to please himself not that you are responsible to please yourself.
All I care about is living well before God.
Heb 13:16
16 Make sure you don't take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of worship — a different kind of "sacrifice" — that take place in kitchen and workplace and on the streets.
Heb 13:13-15
13 So let's go outside, where Jesus is, where the action is — not trying to be privileged insiders, but taking our share in the abuse of Jesus. 14 This "insider world" is not our home. We have our eyes peeled for the City about to come. 15 Let's take our place outside with Jesus, no longer pouring out the sacrificial blood of animals but pouring out sacrificial praises from our lips to God in Jesus' name.
Heb 13:9
The grace of Christ is the only good ground for life.

The ONLY good ground for life.
Heb 13:8
8 For Jesus doesn't change — yesterday, today, tomorrow, he's always totally himself.
Heb 13:5-6
5 Don't be obsessed with getting more material things. Be relaxed with what you have. Since God assured us, "I'll never let you down, never walk off and leave you," 6 we can boldly quote,
God is there, ready to help; I'm fearless no matter what. Who or what can get to me?

So much for fashions and wish lists…
Heb 12:16-17
16 Watch out for the Esau syndrome: trading away God's lifelong gift in order to satisfy a short-term appetite. 17 You well know how Esau later regretted that impulsive act and wanted God's blessing — but by then it was too late, tears or no tears.
Heb 12:14
14 Work at getting along with each other and with God. Otherwise you'll never get so much as a glimpse of God.
Heb 12:7-12
7 God is educating you; that's why you must never drop out. He's treating you as dear children. This trouble you're in isn't punishment; it's training, 8 the normal experience of children. Only irresponsible parents leave children to fend for themselves. Would you prefer an irresponsible God? 9 We respect our own parents for training and not spoiling us, so why not embrace God's training so we can truly live? 10 While we were children, our parents did what seemed best to them. But God is doing what is best for us, training us to live God's holy best. 11 At the time, discipline isn't much fun. It always feels like it's going against the grain. Later, of course, it pays off handsomely, for it's the well-trained who find themselves mature in their relationship with God.
Heb 12:4-5
4 In this all-out match against sin, others have suffered far worse than you, to say nothing of what Jesus went through — all that bloodshed! 5 So don't feel sorry for yourselves. Or have you forgotten how good parents treat children, and that God regards you as his children?
Heb 12:1-3
Do you see what this means — all these pioneers who blazed the way, all these veterans cheering us on? It means we'd better get on with it. Strip down, start running — and never quit! No extra spiritual fat, no parasitic sins. 2 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed — that exhilarating finish in and with God — he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. 3 When you find yourselves flagging in your faith, go over that story again, item by item, that long litany of hostility he plowed through. That will shoot adrenaline into your souls!
Heb 11:39-40
39 Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised. 40 God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours.

It says that God had a better plan for their faith, so they didn’t base anything on what they could see…
Heb 11:32-38
2 I could go on and on, but I've run out of time. There are so many more — Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets. . . . 33 Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions, 34 fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies. 35 Women received their loved ones back from the dead. There were those who, under torture, refused to give in and go free, preferring something better: resurrection. 36 Others braved abuse and whips, and, yes, chains and dungeons. 37 We have stories of those who were stoned, sawed in two, murdered in cold blood; stories of vagrants wandering the earth in animal skins, homeless, friendless, powerless — 38 the world didn't deserve them! — making their way as best they could on the cruel edges of the world.
Heb 11:31
31 By an act of faith, Rahab, the Jericho harlot, welcomed the spies and escaped the destruction that came on those who refused to trust God.
Heb 11:30
30 By faith, the Israelites marched around the walls of Jericho for seven days, and the walls fell flat.
Heb 11:29
29 By an act of faith, Israel walked through the Red Sea on dry ground. The Egyptians tried it and drowned.
Heb 11:24-28
24 By faith, Moses, when grown, refused the privileges of the Egyptian royal house. 25 He chose a hard life with God's people rather than an opportunistic soft life of sin with the oppressors. 26 He valued suffering in the Messiah's camp far greater than Egyptian wealth because he was looking ahead, anticipating the payoff. 27 By an act of faith, he turned his heel on Egypt, indifferent to the king's blind rage. He had his eye on the One no eye can see, and kept right on going. 28 By an act of faith, he kept the Passover Feast and sprinkled Passover blood on each house so that the destroyer of the firstborn wouldn't touch them.
Heb 11:23
23 By an act of faith, Moses' parents hid him away for three months after his birth. They saw the child's beauty, and they braved the king's decree.
Heb 11:22
22 By an act of faith, Joseph, while dying, prophesied the exodus of Israel, and made arrangements for his own burial.
Heb 11:21
21 By an act of faith, Jacob on his deathbed blessed each of Joseph's sons in turn, blessing them with God's blessing, not his own — as he bowed worshipfully upon his staff.
Heb 11:20
20 By an act of faith, Isaac reached into the future as he blessed Jacob and Esau.
Heb 11:12-16
13 Each one of these people of faith died not yet having in hand what was promised, but still believing. How did they do it? They saw it way off in the distance, waved their greeting, and accepted the fact that they were transients in this world. 14 People who live this way make it plain that they are looking for their true home. 15 If they were homesick for the old country, they could have gone back any time they wanted. 16 But they were after a far better country than that — heaven country. You can see why God is so proud of them, and has a City waiting for them.
Heb 11:8-10
8 By an act of faith, Abraham said yes to God's call to travel to an unknown place that would become his home. When he left he had no idea where he was going. 9 By an act of faith he lived in the country promised him, lived as a stranger camping in tents. Isaac and Jacob did the same, living under the same promise. 10 Abraham did it by keeping his eye on an unseen city with real, eternal foundations — the City designed and built by God.
In Hebrews 11 it is clear that faith and works are very interrelated.
Heb 11:7
7 By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn't see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.
Heb 11:5-6
5 By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. "They looked all over and couldn't find him because God had taken him." We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken "he pleased God." 6 It's impossible to please God apart from faith. And why? Because anyone who wants to approach God must believe both that he exists and that he cares enough to respond to those who seek him.
Heb 11:4
4 By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. That's what God noticed and approved as righteous. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice.
Heb 11:3
3 By faith, we see the world called into existence by God's word, what we see created by what we don't see.
Heb 11:1
The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It's our handle on what we can't see.

No eye candy here!

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Heb 10:24
24 Let's see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out.
Heb 8:10-11
I'll be their God, they'll be my people.
11 They won't go to school to learn about me
Heb 7:23-25
23 Earlier there were a lot of priests, for they died and had to be replaced. 24 But Jesus' priesthood is permanent. He's there from now to eternity 25 to save everyone who comes to God through him, always on the job to speak up for them.
Heb 4:3
3 If we believe, though, we'll experience that state of resting. But not if we don't have faith.
Believing in God and NOT in ourselves or what we can do.
Titus 3:14
14 Our people have to learn to be diligent in their work so that all necessities are met (especially among the needy) and they don't end up with nothing to show for their lives.

NOTICE that the stuff to show for your lives has NOTHING TO DO WITH YOU.
Titus 1:16
16 They say they know God, but their actions speak louder than their words.
2 Tim 4:7
7 This is the only race worth running.
2 Tim 4:3
3 You're going to find that there will be times when people will have no stomach for solid teaching, but will fill up on spiritual junk food — catchy opinions that tickle their fancy.
2 Tim 4:1
4:1 I can't impress this on you too strongly. God is looking over your shoulder. Christ himself is the Judge, with the final say on everyone, living and dead.
2 Tim 3:15-17
There's nothing like the written Word of God for showing you the way to salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. 16 Every part of Scripture is God-breathed and useful one way or another — showing us truth, exposing our rebellion, correcting our mistakes, training us to live God's way. 17 Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us.
2 Tim 3:12
12 Anyone who wants to live all out for Christ is in for a lot of trouble; there's no getting around it.
2 Tim 2:19
GOD KNOWS WHO BELONGS TO HIM.
SPURN EVIL, ALL YOU WHO NAME GOD AS GOD.
2 Tim 2:15
15 Concentrate on doing your best for God.
2 Tim 2:3
3 When the going gets rough, take it on the chin with the rest of us, the way Jesus did.
2 Tim 1:2
All the best from our God and Christ be yours!
1 Tim 6:20-21
Avoid the talk-show religion and the practiced confusion of the so-called experts. 21 People caught up in a lot of talk can miss the whole point of faith.
1 Tim 6:5
They think religion is a way to make a fast buck.
1 Tim 5:25
25 The same with good deeds. Some you see right off, but none are hidden forever.
1 Tim 3:8
8 The same goes for those who want to be servants in the church: serious, not deceitful, not too free with the bottle, not in it for what they can get out of it.
1 Tim 2:9-10
9 And I want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions 10 but doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it.
1 Tim 2:1
The first thing I want you to do is pray.
1 Tim 1:19
After all, this is a fight we're in.
1 Tim 1:15
Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.
1 Tim 1:7
7 They set themselves up as experts on religious issues, but haven't the remotest idea of what they're holding forth with such imposing eloquence.
1 Tim 1:5
5 The whole point of what we're urging is simply love — love uncontaminated by self-interest and counterfeit faith, a life open to God.
2 Thess 3:15
15 But don't treat him as an enemy. Sit him down and talk about the problem as someone who cares.

Monday, November 21, 2011

2 Tim 3:2-5
2 As the end approaches, people are going to be self-absorbed, money-hungry, self-promoting, stuck-up, profane, contemptuous of parents, crude, coarse, 3 dog-eat-dog, unbending, slanderers, impulsively wild, savage, cynical, 4 treacherous, ruthless, bloated windbags, addicted to lust, and allergic to God. 5 They'll make a show of religion, but behind the scenes they're animals. Stay clear of these people.
2 Tim 2:19
GOD KNOWS WHO BELONGS TO HIM.
1 Tim 6:20-21
Avoid the talk-show religion and the practiced confusion of the so-called experts. 21 People caught up in a lot of talk can miss the whole point of faith.
1 Tim 6:17-18
17 Tell those rich in this world's wealth to quit being so full of themselves and so obsessed with money, which is here today and gone tomorrow. Tell them to go after God, who piles on all the riches we could ever manage — 18 to do good, to be rich in helping others, to be extravagantly generous.
1 Tim 6:11-12
Pursue a righteous life — a life of wonder, faith, love, steadiness, courtesy. 12 Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to.
1 Tim 6:9-10
9 But if it's only money these leaders are after, they'll self-destruct in no time. 10 Lust for money brings trouble and nothing but trouble. Going down that path, some lose their footing in the faith completely and live to regret it bitterly ever after.
1 Tim 6:5
They think religion is a way to make a fast buck.
1 Tim 4:8-9
8 Workouts in the gymnasium are useful, but a disciplined life in God is far more so, making you fit both today and forever. 9 You can count on this.
1 Tim 3:1
If anyone wants to provide leadership in the church, good! 2 But there are preconditions: A leader… not money-hungry.

Are your leaders money-hungry?
1 Tim 2:8-10
8 Since prayer is at the bottom of all this, what I want mostly is for men to pray — not shaking angry fists at enemies but raising holy hands to God. 9 And I want women to get in there with the men in humility before God, not primping before a mirror or chasing the latest fashions 10 but doing something beautiful for God and becoming beautiful doing it.
1 Tim 1:19
After all, this is a fight we're in.

SURPRISE! Life is way more than what we are told!
1 Tim 1:19
After all, this is a fight we're in.
1 Tim 1:15
15 Here's a word you can take to heart and depend on: Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners.
1 Tim 1:5
love uncontaminated by self-interest and counterfeit faith, a life open to God.
I thought this but I didn’t know that the Bible said this.
2 Thess 3:2
Not all "believers" are believers.
2 Thess 1:2-3
2 Our God gives you everything you need, makes you everything you're to be.

So much for making something out of yourself…
1 Thess 5:23-24
23 May God himself, the God who makes everything holy and whole, make you holy and whole, put you together — spirit, soul, and body — and keep you fit for the coming of our Master, Jesus Christ. 24 The One who called you is completely dependable. If he said it, he'll do it!
1 Thess 5:18
18 thank God no matter what happens.
1 Thess 5:10-11
Whether we're awake with the living or asleep with the dead, we're alive with him!
1 Thess 4:13-14
First off, you must not carry on over them like people who have nothing to look forward to, as if the grave were the last word. 14 Since Jesus died and broke loose from the grave, God will most certainly bring back to life those who died in Jesus.
1 Thess 2:4
4 Be assured that when we speak to you we're not after crowd approval — only God approval.

No eye candy here!
Col 3:16
16 Let the Word of Christ — the Message — have the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives.
Col 3:14
14 And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.
Col 3:14
14 And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.
Col 3:10
Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete.

So much for fashions…
Col 3:1-4
So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. 2 Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ — that's where the action is. See things from his perspective. 3 Your old life is dead. Your new life, which is your real life — even though invisible to spectators — is with Christ in God. He is your life. 4 When Christ (your real life, remember) shows up again on this earth, you'll show up, too — the real you, the glorious you. Meanwhile, be content with obscurity, like Christ.
Col 2:20-23
20 So, then, if with Christ you've put all that pretentious and infantile religion behind you, why do you let yourselves be bullied by it? 21 "Don't touch this! Don't taste that! Don't go near this!" 22 Do you think things that are here today and gone tomorrow are worth that kind of attention? 23 Such things sound impressive if said in a deep enough voice. They even give the illusion of being pious and humble and ascetic. But they're just another way of showing off, making yourselves look important.
Col 2:18-19
18 Don't tolerate people who try to run your life, ordering you to bow and scrape, insisting that you join their obsession with angels and that you seek out visions. They're a lot of hot air, that's all they are. 19 They're completely out of touch with the source of life, Christ, who puts us together in one piece, whose very breath and blood flow through us. He is the Head and we are the body. We can grow up healthy in God only as he nourishes us.
Col 2:11-15
11 Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It's not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you're already in — insiders — not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin. 12 If it's an initiation ritual you're after, you've already been through it by submitting to baptism. Going under the water was a burial of your old life; coming up out of it was a resurrection, God raising you from the dead as he did Christ. 13 When you were stuck in your old sin-dead life, you were incapable of responding to God. God brought you alive — right along with Christ! Think of it! All sins forgiven, 14 the slate wiped clean, that old arrest warrant canceled and nailed to Christ's Cross.
Col 2:8-10
8 Watch out for people who try to dazzle you with big words and intellectual double-talk. They want to drag you off into endless arguments that never amount to anything. They spread their ideas through the empty traditions of human beings and the empty superstitions of spirit beings. But that's not the way of Christ. 9 Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don't need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him. 10 When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything.
Col 2:6-7
Just go ahead with what you've been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him. 7 You're deeply rooted in him. You're well constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith. Now do what you've been taught. School's out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving.
Col 2:2-3

2 I want you woven into a tapestry of love, in touch with everything there is to know of God. Then you will have minds confident and at rest, focused on Christ, God's great mystery. 3 All the richest treasures of wisdom and knowledge are embedded in that mystery and nowhere else.
On Hebrews 11:1 which is the backsplash for my computer God says that eye candy is not faith.

Sunday, November 20, 2011

GOD IS NOT EYE CANDY!
Col 1:28-29
To be mature is to be basic. Christ! No more, no less. 29 That's what I'm working so hard at day after day, year after year, doing my best with the energy God so generously gives me.
Col 1:26-27
26 This mystery has been kept in the dark for a long time, but now it's out in the open. 27 God wanted everyone, not just Jews, to know this rich and glorious secret inside and out, regardless of their background, regardless of their religious standing. The mystery in a nutshell is just this: Christ is in you, therefore you can look forward to sharing in God's glory.
Col 1:24
There's a lot of suffering to be entered into in this world — the kind of suffering Christ takes on.
The #1 thing that ANY human asks is: “How do you feel that I did?” Humans depend on what other humans think or say which is like the clay asking the clay: “How did I do?” but no one asks the potter who formed them and planned their lives for Him.
Col 1:15-20
We look at this Son and see the God who cannot be seen. We look at this Son and see God's original purpose in everything created. 16 For everything, absolutely everything, above and below, visible and invisible, rank after rank after rank of angels — everything got started in him and finds its purpose in him. 17 He was there before any of it came into existence and holds it all together right up to this moment. 18 And when it comes to the church, he organizes and holds it together, like a head does a body. He was supreme in the beginning and — leading the resurrection parade — he is supreme in the end. From beginning to end he's there, towering far above everything, everyone. 19 So spacious is he, so roomy, that everything of God finds its proper place in him without crowding. 20 Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe — people and things, animals and atoms — get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the Cross.
Col 1:13-14
13 God rescued us from dead-end alleys and dark dungeons. He's set us up in the kingdom of the Son he loves so much, 14 the Son who got us out of the pit we were in, got rid of the sins we were doomed to keep repeating.
Phil 4:13
13 Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.
Phil 4:11
11 Actually, I don't have a sense of needing anything personally.
Phil 3:13-14
13 Friends, don't get me wrong: By no means do I count myself an expert in all of this, but I've got my eye on the goal, where God is beckoning us onward — to Jesus. 14 I'm off and running, and I'm not turning back.
Phil 3:7-9
7 The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I'm tearing up and throwing out with the trash — along with everything else I used to take credit for. And why? Because of Christ. 8 Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant — dog dung. I've dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ 9 and be embraced by him. I didn't want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ — God's righteousness.

THIS is NEVER taught in Church!
Phil 3:7-9
7 The very credentials these people are waving around as something special, I'm tearing up and throwing out with the trash — along with everything else I used to take credit for. And why? Because of Christ. 8 Yes, all the things I once thought were so important are gone from my life. Compared to the high privilege of knowing Christ Jesus as my Master, firsthand, everything I once thought I had going for me is insignificant — dog dung. I've dumped it all in the trash so that I could embrace Christ 9 and be embraced by him. I didn't want some petty, inferior brand of righteousness that comes from keeping a list of rules when I could get the robust kind that comes from trusting Christ — God's righteousness.
Phil 2:5-8
5 Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. 6 He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. 7 Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! 8 Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death — and the worst kind of death at that: a crucifixion.
Phil 2:3-4
3 Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. 4 Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.
Phil 1:18
I've decided that I really don't care about their motives, whether mixed, bad, or indifferent. Every time one of them opens his mouth, Christ is proclaimed, so I just cheer them on!

This is a completely different way of looking at things!
Eph 6:14-18
14 Truth, righteousness, 15 peace, 16 faith, 17 and salvation are more than words. Learn how to apply them. You'll need them throughout your life. God's Word is an indispensable weapon. 18 In the same way, prayer is essential in this ongoing warfare. Pray hard and long. Pray for your brothers and sisters. Keep your eyes open. Keep each other's spirits up so that no one falls behind or drops out.
Eph 6:12
12 This is no afternoon athletic contest that we'll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels.
Eph 5:6-7
6 Don't let yourselves get taken in by religious smooth talk. God gets furious with people who are full of religious sales talk but want nothing to do with him. 7 Don't even hang around people like that.
Eph 5:5
5 You can be sure that using people or religion or things just for what you can get out of them — the usual variations on idolatry — will get you nowhere, and certainly nowhere near the kingdom of Christ, the kingdom of God.
Eph 5:1-2
Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. 2 Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn't love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.
Ps 145:9
9 GOD is good to one and all

You NEVER hear this in Church!

Saturday, November 19, 2011

Eph 4:32
32 Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.
Eph 4:26-27
26 Go ahead and be angry. You do well to be angry — but don't use your anger as fuel for revenge. And don't stay angry. Don't go to bed angry. 27 Don't give the Devil that kind of foothold in your life.
Eph 4:25
25 What this adds up to, then, is this: no more lies, no more pretense. Tell your neighbor the truth. In Christ's body we're all connected to each other, after all. When you lie to others, you end up lying to yourself.
Eph 4:22-24
everything — and I do mean everything — connected with that old way of life has to go. It's rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life — a God-fashioned life, 23 a life renewed from the inside 24 and working itself into your conduct as God accurately reproduces his character in you.
Eph 4:17
And so I insist — and God backs me up on this — that there be no going along with the crowd, the empty-headed, mindless crowd.
Eph 3:20
20 God can do anything, you know — far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.
Eph 3:9
9 My task is to bring out in the open and make plain what God, who created all this in the first place, has been doing in secret and behind the scenes all along.
Eph 3:7
7 This is my life work: helping people understand and respond to this Message. It came as a sheer gift to me, a real surprise, God handling all the details.
Eph 2:7-10
7 Now God has us where he wants us, with all the time in this world and the next to shower grace and kindness upon us in Christ Jesus. 8 Saving is all his idea, and all his work. All we do is trust him enough to let him do it. It's God's gift from start to finish! 9 We don't play the major role. If we did, we'd probably go around bragging that we'd done the whole thing! 10 No, we neither make nor save ourselves. God does both the making and saving. He creates each of us by Christ Jesus to join him in the work he does, the good work he has gotten ready for us to do, work we had better be doing.
Eph 2:5
God took our sin-dead lives and made us alive in Christ. He did all this on his own, with no help from us!
Eph 2:2
2 You let the world, which doesn't know the first thing about living, tell you how to live.

Don’t do this!
Eph 1:11
11 It's in Christ that we find out who we are and what we are living for.

People ALWAYS SAY about things other than Christ: “This is what I as meant to do”, which according to scripture is incorrect.
Gal 6:4-5
Don't compare yourself with others. 5 Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.
Gal 5:26
We will not compare ourselves with each other as if one of us were better and another worse.
Gal 5:23-24
Legalism is helpless in bringing this about; it only gets in the way. 24 Among those who belong to Christ, everything connected with getting our own way and mindlessly responding to what everyone else calls necessities is killed off for good — crucified.
Gal 5:14
14 For everything we know about God's Word is summed up in a single sentence: Love others as you love yourself. That's an act of true freedom.
Gal 5:6
6 For in Christ, neither our most conscientious religion nor disregard of religion amounts to anything. What matters is something far more interior: faith expressed in love.
Gal 5:4
When you attempt to live by your own religious plans and projects, you are cut off from Christ, you fall out of grace.
Gal 5:2
2 I am emphatic about this. The moment any one of you submits to any rule-keeping system, at that same moment Christ's hard-won gift of freedom is squandered.
Gal 5:1
Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you.
That even means ratings or standards.
Gal 4:17
They want to shut you out of the free world of God's grace so that you will always depend on them for approval and direction, making them feel important.
Gal 3:28-29
In Christ's family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ. 29 Also, since you are Christ's family, then you are Abraham's famous "descendant," heirs according to the covenant promises.
Gal 3:21
That we are, in ourselves, out of right relationship with God, and therefore to show us the futility of devising some religious system for getting by our own efforts what we can only get by waiting in faith for God to complete his promise. For if any kind of rule-keeping had power to create life in us, we would certainly have gotten it by this time.
Gal 3:11
The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into what God does for you.
Gal 3:9-10
9 So those now who live by faith are blessed along with Abraham, who lived by faith — this is no new doctrine! 10 And that means that anyone who tries to live by his own effort, independent of God, is doomed to failure.
Gal 3:2
2 Let me put this question to you: How does your new life begin? Is it by working your heads off to please God? Or is it by responding to God's Message to you?
Gal 2:21
If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily.
Gal 2:21
Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God?
Gal 2:20
My ego is no longer central.
Gal 2:16
We are set right before God by trusting in the Messiah, not by trying to be good.
Gal 2:15
Jews have no advantage of birth over "non-Jewish sinners."
Gal 1:15
When I was still in my mother's womb God chose and called me out of sheer generosity!
Gal 1:1
My authority for writing does not come from any popular vote of the people, nor does it come through the appointment of some human higher-up. It comes directly from Jesus the Messiah and God the Father, who raised him from the dead. I'm God-commissioned.
Education is like the clay telling the clay what the potter has done and why.

Friday, November 18, 2011

Gal 2:16
Convinced that no human being can please God by self-improvement

Churches has a very bad habit of relying on self improvement.
Gal 1:15
God had designs on me. Why, when I was still in my mother's womb he chose and called me out of sheer generosity!
Gal 1:10-12
10 Do you think I speak this strongly in order to manipulate crowds? Or curry favor with God? Or get popular applause? If my goal was popularity, I wouldn't bother being Christ's slave. 11 Know this — I am most emphatic here, friends. 12 I didn't receive it through the traditions, and I wasn't taught it in some school. I got it straight from God.
Gal 1:4
Jesus Christ rescued us from this evil world we're in by offering himself as a sacrifice for our sins.
2 Cor 12:14
I have no interest in what you have — only in you.
2 Cor 12:7
7 So I wouldn't get a big head, I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations.
2 Cor 10:17-11:1
17 "If you want to claim credit, claim it for God." 18 What you say about yourself means nothing in God's work. It's what God says about you that makes the difference.
2 Cor 10:17-18
17 "If you want to claim credit, claim it for God."
2 Cor 10:15

15 I’m not barging in on the rightful work of others, interfering with their ministries, demanding a place in the sun with them.

I’m concerned that people think this!
2 Cor 8:9
9 You are familiar with the generosity of our Master, Jesus Christ. Rich as he was, he gave it all away for us — in one stroke he became poor and we became rich.
2 Cor 5:19-20
20 We're Christ's representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God's work of making things right between them. We're speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he's already a friend with you.
2 Cor 5:16-19
16 Because of this decision I don't evaluate people by what they have or how they look. I looked at the Messiah that way once and got it all wrong, as you know. I certainly don't look at him that way anymore. 17 Now I look inside, and what I see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it! 18 All this comes from the God who settled the relationship between us and him, and then called us to settle our relationships with each other. 19 God put the world square with himself through the Messiah, giving the world a fresh start by offering forgiveness of sins. God has given me the task of telling everyone what he is doing.
2 Cor 5:14-15

My firm decision is to work from this focused center: One man died for everyone. That puts everyone in the same boat. 15 He included everyone in his death so that everyone could also be included in his life, a resurrection life, a far better life than people ever lived on their own.
2 Cor 5:14
Christ’s love has the first and last word in everything I do.
2 Cor 5:11
It's no light thing to know that we'll all one day stand in that place of Judgment.
2 Cor 5:10
10 Sooner or later we'll all have to face God, regardless of our conditions. We will appear before Christ and take what's coming to us as a result of our actions, either good or bad.
2 Cor 5:9
Cheerfully pleasing God is the main thing
The Spirit of God:
2 Cor 5:5
puts a little of heaven in our hearts so that we'll never settle for less.

That’s what I call Heaven in the real world!
2 Cor 4:18-5:1
Eye candy is here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can't see now will last forever.
2 Cor 4:7-10
7 If you only look at me, you might well miss the brightness. I carry this precious Message around in the unadorned clay pot of my ordinary life. That's to prevent anyone from confusing God's incomparable power with me. 8 As it is, there's not much chance of that. You know for yourselves that I’m not much to look at. I've been surrounded and battered by troubles, but I’m not demoralized; I’m not sure what to do, 9 but I know that God knows what to do; I’m been spiritually terrorized, but God hasn't left my side; I've been thrown down, but I’m not broken. 10 What they did to Jesus, they do to me — trial and torture, mockery and murder; what Jesus did among them, he does in me — he lives!
2 Cor 4:5

5 Remember, my Message is not about myself, I’m proclaiming Jesus Christ, the Master. All I am is a messenger, errand runner from Jesus for you.
2 Cor 4:3-4
3 If our Message is obscure to anyone, it's not because we're holding back in any way. No, it's because these other people are looking or going the wrong way and refuse to give it serious attention. 4 All they have eyes for is the fashionable god of darkness. They think he can give them what they want, and that they won't have to bother believing a Truth they can't see. They're stone-blind to the dayspring brightness of the Message that shines with Christ, who gives us the best picture of God we'll ever get.
You can become more like God but you’ll NEVER become God which is something that Satan forgets.
2 Cor 3:18
And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.

Gradually…no one is perfect yet. It happens gradually…don’t demand or expect anything from anyone. Change happens gradually.
You have got to be real about what you do and what is a blessing but if you feel that God has helped you (and He does far more than we can even imagine!) make certain that the only praise that is given goes to Him!

Thursday, November 17, 2011

2 Cor 2:14
In the Messiah, in Christ, God leads us from place to place in one perpetual victory parade.
I try to be as true to my word as God is to his.
It is God who keeps me focused on him, uncompromised.
This is hard but essential to do! I do this all of the time.

2 Cor 1:9
Instead of trusting in our own strength or wits to get out of it, we were forced to trust God totally — not a bad idea since he's the God who raises the dead!
When I see that you're just as willing to endure the hard times as to enjoy the good times, I know you're going to make it, no doubt about it.
Your hard times are also my hard times.
2 Cor 1:6
Your hard times are also my hard times.
1 Cor 15:57-58
57 But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three — sin, guilt, death — are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!

This has NEVER been said! This is the gift from Jesus.
1 Cor 15:57-58
57 But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three — sin, guilt, death — are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!
1 Cor 15:51-52
51 But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I'll probably never fully understand. We're not all going to die — but we are all going to be changed. 52 You hear a blast to end all blasts from a trumpet, and in the time that you look up and blink your eyes — it's over. On signal from that trumpet from heaven, the dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At the same moment and in the same way, we'll all be changed.
1 Cor 15:45-49
We follow this sequence in Scripture: The First Adam received life, the Last Adam is a life-giving Spirit. 46 Physical life comes first, then spiritual — 47 a firm base shaped from the earth, a final completion coming out of heaven. 48 The First Man was made out of earth, and people since then are earthy; the Second Man was made out of heaven, and people now can be heavenly. 49 In the same way that we've worked from our earthy origins, let's embrace our heavenly ends.
1 Cor 15:42-44
42 This image of planting a dead seed and raising a live plant is a mere sketch at best, but perhaps it will help in approaching the mystery of the resurrection body — but only if you keep in mind that when we're raised, we're raised for good, alive forever! 43 The corpse that's planted is no beauty, but when it's raised, it's glorious. Put in the ground weak, it comes up powerful. 44 The seed sown is natural; the seed grown is supernatural — same seed, same body, but what a difference from when it goes down in physical mortality to when it is raised up in spiritual immortality!
1 Cor 15:37-38
37 We do have a parallel experience in gardening. You plant a "dead" seed; soon there is a flourishing plant. There is no visual likeness between seed and plant. 38 You could never guess what a tomato would look like by looking at a tomato seed. What we plant in the soil and what grows out of it don't look anything alike. The dead body that we bury in the ground and the resurrection body that comes from it will be dramatically different.
1 Cor 15:34
Ignorance of God is a luxury you can't afford in times like these.
1 Cor 15:22
22 Everybody dies in Adam; everybody comes alive in Christ.
1 Cor 15:21
21 There is a nice symmetry in this: Death initially came by a man, and resurrection from death came by a man.
1 Cor 15:10-11
Even then, my work didn't amount to all that much. It was God giving me the work to do, God giving me the energy to do it. 11 So whether you heard it from me or from those others, it's all the same: We spoke God's truth


This is NOT COMMON to say because it takes the focus off of you and puts it on God.
1 Cor 14:1
Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it — because it does.
1 Cor 13:13
We have three things to do to lead us toward that consummation: Trust steadily in God, hope unswervingly, love extravagantly. And the best of the three is love.
1 Cor 13:8-10
8 Love never dies. Inspired speech will be over some day; praying in tongues will end; understanding will reach its limit. 9 We know only a portion of the truth, and what we say about God is always incomplete. 10 But when the Complete arrives, our incompletes will be canceled.
1 Cor 13:4-7
4 Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have.
Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head, 5 Doesn't force itself on others,
Isn't always "me first," Doesn't fly off the handle, Doesn't keep score of the sins of others,
6 Doesn't revel when others grovel, Takes pleasure in the flowering of truth, 7 Puts up with anything,
Trusts God always, Always looks for the best, Never looks back, But keeps going to the end.
1 Cor 13:3
So, no matter what I say, what I believe, and what I do, I'm bankrupt without love.
1 Cor 13:3
3 If I give everything I own to the poor and even go to the stake to be burned as a martyr, but I don't love, I've gotten nowhere
1 Cor 13:2
2 If I speak God's Word with power, revealing all his mysteries and making everything plain as day, and if I have faith that says to a mountain, "Jump," and it jumps, but I don't love, I'm nothing.
1 Cor 13:1
If I speak with human eloquence and angelic ecstasy but don't love, I'm nothing but the creaking of a rusty gate.
1 Cor 12:27-31
27 You are Christ's body — that's who you are! You must never forget this. Only as you accept your part of that body does your "part" mean anything. 28 You're familiar with some of the parts that God has formed in his church, which is his "body": apostles prophets, teachers, miracle workers, healers, helpers , organizers, those who pray in tongues.
29 But it's obvious by now, isn't it, that Christ's church is a complete Body and not a gigantic, unidimensional Part? It's not all Apostle, not all Prophet, not all Miracle Worker, 30 not all Healer, not all Prayer in Tongues, not all Interpreter of Tongues. 31 And yet some of you keep competing for so-called "important" parts.
1 Cor 12:25-27
25 The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don't, 26 the parts we see and the parts we don't. If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance.
1 Cor 12:19
19 But I also want you to think about how this keeps your significance from getting blown up into self-importance. For no matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are a part of.
1 Cor 12:12-13
12 You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts — limbs, organs, cells — but no matter how many parts you can name, you're still one body. It's exactly the same with Christ. 13 By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything. (This is what we proclaimed in word and action when we were baptized.) Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and sustained at one fountain — his Spirit — where we all come to drink. The old labels we once used to identify ourselves — labels like Jew or Greek, slave or free — are no longer useful.
1 Cor 12:8-11
wise counsel, clear understanding 9 simple trust, healing the sick
10 miraculous acts, Proclamation, distinguishing between spirits, tongues, interpretation of tongues.
11 All these gifts have a common origin, but are handed out one by one by the one Spirit of God. He decides who gets what, and when.
NOT IF YOU ASK. The Spirit just gives to whom He want’s to!
1 Cor 12:4-8
4 God's various gifts are handed out everywhere; but they all originate in God's Spirit. 5 God's various ministries are carried out everywhere; but they all originate in God's Spirit. 6 God's various expressions of power are in action everywhere; but God himself is behind it all. 7 Each person is given something to do that shows who God is: Everyone gets in on it, everyone benefits. All kinds of things are handed out by the Spirit, and to all kinds of people! 8 The variety is wonderful:
1 Cor 11:3
The authority of Christ is the authority of God.
1 Cor 11:1
All actual authority stems from Christ.

NOT from status or position or anything else!
1 Cor 10:24
24 We want to live well, but our foremost efforts should be to help others live well.

Is that your foremost effort?
1 Cor 10:22
God wants us — all or nothing.
1 Cor 10:17
We don't reduce Christ to what we are; he raises us to what he is.
1 Cor 10:12
12 Don't be so naive and self-confident. You're not exempt. You could fall flat on your face as easily as anyone else. Forget about self-confidence; it's useless. Cultivate God-confidence.
1 Cor 10:9
9 We must never try to get Christ to serve us instead of us serving him.
1 Cor 10:6
We must be on guard so that we never get caught up in wanting our own way .
1 Cor 10:1-5
10:1 Remember our history, friends, and be warned. All our ancestors were led by the providential Cloud and taken miraculously through the Sea. 2 They went through the waters, in a baptism like ours, as Moses led them from enslaving death to salvation life. 3 They all ate 4 and drank identical food and drink, meals provided daily by God. They drank from the Rock, God's fountain for them that stayed with them wherever they were. And the Rock was Christ. 5 But just experiencing God's wonder and grace didn't seem to mean much — most of them were defeated by temptation during the hard times in the desert, and God was not pleased.
1 Cor 9:26-27
26 I don't know about you, but I'm running hard for the finish line. I'm giving it everything I've got. No sloppy living for me! 27 I'm staying alert and in top condition. I'm not going to get caught napping, telling everyone else all about it and then missing out myself.
1 Cor 9:22
I've become just about every sort of servant there is in my attempts to lead those I meet into a God-saved life.
1 Cor 8:12
12 When you hurt your friend, you hurt Christ.
1 Cor 8:9
9 God does care when you use your freedom carelessly in a way that leads a Christian still vulnerable to those old associations to be thrown off track.
1 Cor 8:2-3
sometimes our humble hearts can help us more than our proud minds. 3 We never really know enough until we recognize that God alone knows it all.

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

This is in the Bible. Let’s redefine something incredibly important. People make the huge error of saying that a lifetime is defined of as long as you as a human are alive on Earth however and more realistically there is no end to our lives. Lifetime has no physical location so it’s not limited to just this Earth. Human life is as long as a human is alive on Earth but then spiritual life takes over and there is no end to that. So to define a lifetime as just human life on Earth is incorrect. The redefinition is for a lifetime to be never ending rather than just a period of time on Earth. You can make your life on Earth as good as you want but that’s only a small amount of time and you need to realize that money will only help you on only this Earth so your goal should be to make your life on Earth prepare you for a never ending life which changes the way we think about marriage and children.
This is in the Bible. Let’s redefine something incredibly important. People make the huge error of saying that a lifetime is defined of as long as you as a human are alive on Earth however and more realistically there is no end to our lives. Lifetime has no physical location so it’s not limited to just this Earth. Human life is as long as a human is alive on Earth but then spiritual life takes over and there is no end to that. So to define a lifetime as just human life on Earth is incorrect. The redefinition is for a lifetime to be never ending rather than just a period of time on Earth. You can make your life on Earth as good as you want but that’s only a small amount of time and you need to realize that money will only help you on only this Earth so your goal should be to make your life on Earth prepare you for a never ending life which changes the way we think about marriage and children.
1 Cor 7:31
31 Deal as sparingly as possible with the things the world thrusts on you. This world as you see it is on its way out.
1 Cor 7:17
God, not your marital status, defines your life.
1 Cor 4:20
20 God's Way is not a matter of mere talk; it's an empowered life.
1 Cor 4:18
18 I know there are some among you who are so full of themselves they never listen to anyone, let alone me.
1 Cor 4:13
We're treated like garbage, potato peelings from the culture's kitchen.
1 Cor 4:9-10
9 It seems to me that God has put anyone who bears his Message on stage in a theater in which no one wants to buy a ticket. We're something everyone stands around and stares at, like an accident in the street. 10 We're the Messiah's misfits.
1 Cor 4:7-8
Isn't everything you have and everything you are sheer gifts from God? So what's the point of all this comparing and competing? 8 You already have all you need. You already have more access to God than you can handle.
1 Cor 3:9
You happen to be God's field in which I am working.
1 Cor 3:5-7
Servants who waited on you as you gradually learned to entrust your lives to our mutual Master. We each carried out our servant assignment. 6 I planted the seed, someone else watered the plants, but God made you grow. 7 It's not the one who plants or the one who waters who is at the center of this process but God, who makes things grow.
1 Cor 3:3
3 As long as you grab for what makes you feel good or makes you look important, are you really much different than a babe at the breast, content only when everything's going your way?
1 Cor 2:13
We didn't learn this by reading books or going to school; we learned it from God, who taught us person-to-person through Jesus, and we're passing it on to you in the same firsthand, personal way.
1 Cor 1:26-31
26 Take a good look, friends, at who you were when you got called into this life. I don't see many of "the brightest and the best" among you, not many influential, not many from high-society families. 27 Isn't it obvious that God deliberately chose men and women that the culture overlooks and exploits and abuses, 28 chose these "nobodies" to expose the hollow pretensions of the "somebodies"? 29 That makes it quite clear that none of you can get by with blowing your own horn before God. 30 Everything that we have — right thinking and right living, a clean slate and a fresh start — comes from God by way of Jesus Christ. 31 That's why we have the saying, "If you're going to blow a horn, blow a trumpet for God."
1 Cor 1:24-25
25 Human wisdom is so tinny, so impotent, next to the seeming absurdity of God. Human strength can't begin to compete with God's "weakness."
1 Cor 1:21
21 Since the world in all its fancy wisdom never had a clue when it came to knowing God, God in his wisdom took delight in using what the world considered dumb — preaching, of all things!
1 Cor 1:19
19 It's written, I'll turn conventional wisdom on its head, I'll expose so-called experts as crackpots.
1 Cor 1:10
You must get along with each other.
1 Cor 1:9
God will never give up on you. Never forget that.
Rom 15:33
33 God's peace be with all of you.
Rom 15:14
14 Personally, I've been completely satisfied with who you are and what you are doing.
Rom 15:7
7 So reach out and welcome one another to God's glory. Jesus did it; now you do it!
Rom 15:5-6
5 May our dependably steady and warmly personal God develop maturity in you so that you get along with each other as well as Jesus gets along with us all. 6 Then we'll be a choir — not our voices only, but our very lives singing in harmony in a stunning anthem to the God and Father of our Master Jesus!
Rom 15:1-2
15:1 Those of us who are strong and able in the faith need to step in and lend a hand to those who falter, and not just do what is most convenient for us. Strength is for service, not status. 2 Each one of us needs to look after the good of the people around us, asking ourselves, "How can I help?"
Rom 14:20
It’s bad if you trip others up and send them sprawling.
Rom 14:19-20
19 So let's agree to use all our energy in getting along with each other. Help others with encouraging words; 20 don't drag them down by finding fault.
Rom 14:13-14
13 Forget about deciding what's right for each other. Here's what you need to be concerned about: that you don't get in the way of someone else, making life more difficult than it already is. 14 I'm convinced — Jesus convinced me! — that everything as it is in itself is holy. We, of course, by the way we treat it or talk about it, can contaminate it.
Rom 14:12
12 So tend to normal activities. You've got your hands full just taking care of your own life before God.
Rom 14:10-11
10 So where does that leave you when you criticize a brother? And where does that leave you when you condescend to a sister? I'd say it leaves you looking pretty silly — or worse. Eventually, we're all going to end up kneeling side by side in the place of judgment, facing God. Your critical and condescending ways aren't going to improve your position there one bit. 11 Read it for yourself in Scripture: "As I live and breathe," God says, "every knee will bow before me; Every tongue will tell the honest truth that I and only I am God."
Rom 14:7-9
7 None of us are permitted to insist on our own way in matters. 8 It's God we are answerable to — all the way from life to death and everything in between — not each other. 9 That's why Jesus lived and died and then lived again: so that he could be our Master across the entire range of life and death, and free us from the petty tyrannies of each other.
Rom 14:3-4
God, after all, invited everyone to the table. 4 Do you have any business crossing people off the guest list or interfering with God's welcome? If there are corrections to be made or manners to be learned, God can handle that without your help.
Rom 14:1
Welcome with open arms fellow believers who don't see things the way you do. And don't jump all over them every time they do or say something you don't agree with — even when it seems that they are strong on opinions but weak in the faith department. Remember, they have their own history to deal with. Treat them gently.
Rom 13:11
11 But make sure that you don't get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day-by-day obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off, oblivious to God.
Rom 13:8-10
8 Don't run up debts, except for the huge debt of love you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along. 9 The law code — don't sleep with another person's spouse, don't take someone's life, don't take what isn't yours, don't always be wanting what you don't have, and any other "don't" you can think of — finally adds up to this: Love other people as well as you do yourself. 10 You can't go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love.
Rom 13:6-7
6 That's also why you pay taxes — so that an orderly way of life can be maintained. 7 Fulfill your obligations as a citizen. Pay your taxes, pay your bills, respect your leaders.
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Rom 13:3-5
Do you want to be on good terms with the government? Be a responsible citizen and you'll get on just fine, 4 the government working to your advantage. But if you're breaking the rules right and left, watch out. The police aren't there just to be admired in their uniforms. God also has an interest in keeping order, and he uses them to do it. 5 That's why you must live responsibly — not just to avoid punishment but also because it's the right way to live.
People say that if you do this or that then God won’t love you but Jesus clearly said that NOTHING would separate you from His love.
Rom 13:1-3
Insofar as there is peace and order, it's God's order. So live responsibly as a citizen. 2 If you're irresponsible to the state, then you're irresponsible with God, and God will hold you responsible. 3 Duly constituted authorities are only a threat if you're trying to get by with something. Decent citizens should have nothing to fear.
Rom 13:1
Be a good citizen. All governments are under God.

People don’t realize this!

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Rom 12:21
21 Don't let evil get the best of you; get the best of evil by doing good.
Rom 12:20
20 Our Scriptures tell us that if you see your enemy hungry, go buy that person lunch, or if he's thirsty, get him a drink. Your generosity will surprise him with goodness.
Rom 12:19
19 Don't insist on getting even; that's not for you to do. "I'll do the judging," says God. "I'll take care of it."
Rom 12:17
discover beauty in everyone.
Rom 12:14-16
14 Bless your enemies; no cursing under your breath. 15 Laugh with your happy friends when they're happy; share tears when they're down. 16 Get along with each other; don't be stuck-up. Make friends with nobodies; don't be the great somebody.
Rom 12:10
10 Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle.
Rom 12:9
9 Love from the center of who you are; don't fake it.
Rom 12:4-6
4 In this way we are like the various parts of a human body. Each part gets its meaning from the body as a whole, not the other way around. 5 The body we're talking about is Christ's body of chosen people. Each of us finds our meaning and function as a part of his body. But as a chopped-off finger or cut-off toe we wouldn't amount to much, would we? So since we find ourselves fashioned into all these excellently formed and marvelously functioning parts in Christ's body, 6 let's just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren't.
Rom 12:3
it's important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.