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Ps 1:1-2 How well God must like you — you don't hang out at Sin Saloon, you don't slink along Dead-End Road, you don't go to Smart-Mouth College. 2 Instead you thrill to GOD's Word, you chew on Scripture day and night. Ps 2:12 Your very lives are in danger, you know; His anger is about to explode, But if you make a run for God — you won't regret it! Ps 4:4 Keep your mouth shut, and let your heart do the talking. Ps 4:6-7 6 Why is everyone hungry for more? "More, more," they say. "More, more." I have God's more-than-enough, 7 More joy in one ordinary day Ps 10:6 6 They live (they think) a charmed life Ps 10:14 I dare to believe that the luckless will get lucky someday in you Matt 3:10 What counts is your life. Is it green and blossoming? Because if it's deadwood, it goes on the fire. And the fire burns for eternity-thus it’s never ending! Matt 4:10 "Worship the Lord your God, and only him. Serve him with absolute single-heartedness." Do you? Matt 7:14 The way to life — to God! — is vigorous and requires total attention. Matt 7:21-23 21 "Knowing the correct password — saying 'Master, Master,' for instance — isn't going to get you anywhere with me. What is required is serious obedience — doing what my Father wills. 22 I can see it now — at the Final Judgment thousands strutting up to me and saying, 'Master, we preached the Message, we bashed the demons, our God-sponsored projects had everyone talking.' 23 And do you know what I am going to say? 'You missed the boat. All you did was use me to make yourselves important. You don't impress me one bit. You're out of here.' Ps 14:6 6 Do you think you can mess with the dreams of the poor? You can't, for God makes their dreams come true. Ps 17:4 4 I'm not trying to get my way in the world's way. I'm trying to get your way, your Word's way. Ps 19:2 2 Madame Day holds classes every morning, Professor Night lectures each evening. Ps 21:7 7 Is it any wonder that I love GOD? that I'm sticking with the Best? Ps 25:4 4 Show me how you work, GOD; School me in your ways. Ps 30:3 3 GOD, you pulled me out of the grave, gave me another chance at life when I was down-and-out. Ps 31:6 6 I hate all this silly religion, but you, GOD, I trust Ps 32:6 Every one of us needs to pray Ps 34:2 2 I live and breathe GOD Ps 37:3 3 Get insurance with GOD Ps 40:8 God's Word entered my life, became part of my very being. Ps 49:7-9 There's no such thing as self-rescue, pulling yourself up by your bootstraps. 8 The cost of rescue is beyond our means, and even then it doesn't guarantee 9 Life forever, or insurance against the Black Hole. Ps 89:18 18 All we are and have we owe to GOD Ps 89:48 there's no back door out of hell Ps 101:2 I'm doing the very best I can, and I'm doing it at home, where it counts Ps 105:7-45 7 He's GOD, our God, in charge of the whole earth. 8 And he remembers, remembers his Covenant — for a thousand generations he's been as good as his word. 9 It's the Covenant he made with Abraham, the same oath he swore to Isaac, 10 The very statute he established with Jacob, the eternal Covenant with Israel, 11 Namely, "I give you the land. Canaan is your hill-country inheritance." 12 When they didn't count for much, a mere handful, and strangers at that, 13 Wandering from country to country, drifting from pillar to post, 14 He permitted no one to abuse them. He told kings to keep their hands off: 15 "Don't you dare lay a hand on my anointed, don't hurt a hair on the heads of my prophets." 16 Then he called down a famine on the country, he broke every last blade of wheat. 17 But he sent a man on ahead: Joseph, sold as a slave. 18 They put cruel chains on his ankles, an iron collar around his neck, 19 Until God's word came to the Pharaoh, and GOD confirmed his promise. 20 God sent the king to release him. The Pharaoh set Joseph free; 21 He appointed him master of his palace, put him in charge of all his business 22 To personally instruct his princes and train his advisors in wisdom. 23 Then Israel entered Egypt, Jacob immigrated to the Land of Ham. 24 God gave his people lots of babies; soon their numbers alarmed their foes. 25 He turned the Egyptians against his people; they abused and cheated God's servants. 26 Then he sent his servant Moses, and Aaron, whom he also chose. 27 They worked marvels in that spiritual wasteland, miracles in the Land of Ham. 28 He spoke, "Darkness!" and it turned dark — they couldn't see what they were doing. 29 He turned all their water to blood so that all their fish died; 30 He made frogs swarm through the land, even into the king's bedroom; 31 He gave the word and flies swarmed, gnats filled the air. 32 He substituted hail for rain, he stabbed their land with lightning; 33 He wasted their vines and fig trees, smashed their groves of trees to splinters; 34 With a word he brought in locusts, millions of locusts, armies of locusts; 35 They consumed every blade of grass in the country and picked the ground clean of produce; 36 He struck down every firstborn in the land, the first fruits of their virile powers. 37 He led Israel out, their arms filled with loot, and not one among his tribes even stumbled. 38 Egypt was glad to have them go — they were scared to death of them. 39 God spread a cloud to keep them cool through the day and a fire to light their way through the night; 40 They prayed and he brought quail, filled them with the bread of heaven; 41 He opened the rock and water poured out; it flowed like a river through that desert — 42 All because he remembered his Covenant, his promise to Abraham, his servant. 43 Remember this! He led his people out singing for joy; his chosen people marched, singing their hearts out! 44 He made them a gift of the country they entered, helped them seize the wealth of the nations 45 So they could do everything he told them — could follow his instructions to the letter. Ps 107:6 He got you out in the nick of time Ok, who is the “you” it is referring to in this verse? Human beings! Ps 111:2 2 GOD's works are so great, worth A lifetime of study — endless enjoyment! Ps 111:9 God ordered his Covenant kept forever. Ps 115:16 16 The heaven of heavens is for GOD, but he put us in charge of the earth. Ps 119:1-4 You're blessed when you stay on course, walking steadily on the road revealed by GOD. 2 You're blessed when you follow his directions, doing your best to find him. 3 That's right — you don't go off on your own; you walk straight along the road he set. 4 You, GOD, prescribed the right way to live; now you expect us to live it. This is my very favorite chapter in the Bible! I learned so much! Ps 139 GOD, investigate my life; get all the facts firsthand. 2 I'm an open book to you; even from a distance, you know what I'm thinking. 3 You know when I leave and when I get back; I'm never out of your sight. 4 You know everything I'm going to say before I start the first sentence. 5 I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too — your reassuring presence, coming and going. 6 This is too much, too wonderful — I can't take it all in! 7 Is there anyplace I can go to avoid your Spirit? to be out of your sight? 8 If I climb to the sky, you're there! If I go underground, you're there! 9 If I flew on morning's wings to the far western horizon, 10 You'd find me in a minute — you're already there waiting! 11 Then I said to myself, "Oh, he even sees me in the dark! At night I'm immersed in the light!" 12 It's a fact: darkness isn't dark to you; night and day, darkness and light, they're all the same to you. 13 Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. 14 I thank you, High God — you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration — what a creation! 15 You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. 16 Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day. 17 Your thoughts — how rare, how beautiful! God, I'll never comprehend them! 18 I couldn't even begin to count them — any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you! 19 And please, God, do away with wickedness for good! And you murderers — out of here! — 20 all the men and women who belittle you, God, infatuated with cheap god-imitations. 21 See how I hate those who hate you, GOD, see how I loathe all this godless arrogance; 22 I hate it with pure, unadulterated hatred. Your enemies are my enemies! 23 Investigate my life, O God, find out everything about me; Cross-examine and test me, get a clear picture of what I'm about; 24 See for yourself whether I've done anything wrong — then guide me on the road to eternal life.