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Luke 12:2-3 (MSG)
You can't keep your true self hidden forever; before long you'll be exposed. You can't hide behind a religious mask forever; sooner or later the mask will slip and your true face will be known.

Psalm 91:1-5

Psalm 91:1-5 (ASV)
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High Shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

1 Corinthians 10:13

1 Corinthians 10:13 (MSG)
No test or temptation that comes your way is beyond the course of what others have had to face. All you need to remember is that God will never let you down; he'll never let you be pushed past your limit; he'll always be there to help you come through it.

grieve the holy spirit

Ephesians 4:30 (MSG)
Don't grieve God. Don't break his heart. His Holy Spirit, moving and breathing in you, is the most intimate part of your life, making you fit for himself. Don't take such a gift for granted.

1 Peter 4:12-13

1 Peter 4:12-13 (MSG)
Friends, when life gets really difficult, don't jump to the conclusion that God isn't on the job. Instead, be glad that you are in the very thick of what Christ experienced. This is a spiritual refining process, with glory just around the corner.

Jesus asks God for His will to be done

Mark 14:36 (NLT)
“Abba, Father,” he cried out, “everything is possible for you. Please take this cup of suffering away from me. Yet I want your will to be done, not mine.”

new bodies

2 Corinthians 5:1-10 (NLT)
For we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.

James 1:22-25

James 1:22-25 (NLT)
But don’t just listen to God’s word. You must do what it says. Otherwise, you are only fooling yourselves.

be transformed by the word

James 1:19-25 (MSG)
Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God's righteousness doesn't grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.

Psalm 33:18

Psalm 33:18 (MSG)
Watch this: God's eye is on those who respect him, the ones who are looking for his love. He's ready to come to their rescue in bad times; in lean times he keeps body and soul together.

transformational change

2 Corinthians 3:17-18 (NASB)
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

transformational change

2 Corinthians 3:17-18 (NASB)
Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

anti-anxiety prayer

Philippians 4:6 (NASB)
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.

Joshua 22:5

Joshua 22:5 (NASB)
Only be very careful to observe the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, to love the Lord your God and walk in all His ways and keep His commandments and hold fast to Him and serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul."

love

1 John 4:8 (NASB)
The one who does not love does not know God, for God is love.

Romans 5:10

Romans 5:10 (NASB)
For if while we were enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, having been reconciled, we shall be saved by His life.

Isaiah 45:7

Isaiah 45:7 (NLT)
I create the light and make the darkness. I send good times and bad times. I, the LORD, am the one who does these things.

Isaiah 45:7

Isaiah 45:7 (NLT)
I create the light and make the darkness. I send good times and bad times. I, the LORD, am the one who does these things.

Isaiah 30:20

Isaiah 30:20 (NLT)
Though the Lord gave you adversity for food and suffering for drink, he will still be with you to teach you. You will see your teacher with your own eyes.

Ephesians 2:8

Ephesians 2:8 (AMP)
For it is by free grace (God’s unmerited favor) that you are saved (delivered from judgment and made partakers of Christ’s salvation) through [your] faith. And this [salvation] is not of yourselves [of your own doing, it came not through your own striving], but it is the gift of God;

Ephesians 2:9

Ephesians 2:9 (AMP)
Not because of works [not the fulfillment of the Law’s demands], lest any man should boast. [It is not the result of what anyone can possibly do, so no one can pride himself in it or take glory to himself.]

Psalm 138:7

Psalm 138:7 (NLT)
Though I am surrounded by troubles, you will protect me from the anger of my enemies. You reach out your hand, and the power of your right hand saves me.

Psalm 138:8

Psalm 138:8 (NLT)
The LORD will work out his plans for my life— for your faithful love, OLORD, endures forever. Don’t abandon me, for you made me.

Psalm 139:23

Psalm 139:23 (NLT)
Search me, OGod, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts.

Psalm 139:24

Psalm 139:24 (NLT)
Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.