Celia Hinson

Listen to God

PROVERBS 1:33 (CEV)
But if you listen to me, you will be safe and secure without fear of disaster.”

Fear God

LUKE 12:4-5 (CEV)
My friends, don't be afraid of people. They can kill you, but after that, there is nothing else they can do.

HEBREWS 11:3

HEBREWS 11:3 (CEV)
Because of our faith, we know that the world was made at God's command. We also know that what can be seen was made out of what cannot be seen.

ROMANS 8:14

ROMANS 8:14 (CEV)
Only those people who are led by God's Spirit are his children.

John 15:4

John 15:4 (MSG)
"Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can't bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can't bear fruit unless you are joined with me.

Deuteronomy 4:9

Deuteronomy 4:9 (MSG)
Just make sure you stay alert. Keep close watch over yourselves. Don't forget anything of what you've seen. Don't let your heart wander off. Stay vigilant as long as you live. Teach what you've seen and heard to your children and grandchildren.

God will take care

Matthew 6:33 (MSG)
Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

Romans 12:12

Romans 12:12 (MSG)
cheerfully expectant. Don't quit in hard times; pray all the harder.

Mark 10:45

Mark 10:45 (MSG)
That is what the Son of Man has done: He came to serve, not to be served-and then to give away his life in exchange for many who are held hostage."

Philippians 3:10

Philippians 3:10 (MSG)
I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself. If there was any way to get in on the resurrection from the dead, I wanted to do it.

Light

John 12:35 (MSG)
Jesus said, "For a brief time still, the light is among you. Walk by the light you have so darkness doesn't destroy you. If you walk in darkness, you don't know where you're going. As you have the light, believe in the light. Then the light will be within you, and shining through your lives. You'll be children of light."

Colossians 3:25

Colossians 3:25 (MSG)
The sullen servant who does shoddy work will be held responsible. Being Christian doesn't cover up bad work.

Don't forget

Romans 12:12 (MSG)
cheerfully expectant. Don't quit in hard times; pray all the harder.

Galatians 3:11

Galatians 3:11 (MSG)
The obvious impossibility of carrying out such a moral program should make it plain that no one can sustain a relationship with God that way. 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. Habakkuk had it right: "The person who believes God, is set right by God—and that's the real life." Rule-keeping does not naturally evolve into living by faith, but only perpetuates itself in more and more rule-keeping, a fact observed in Scripture: "The one who does these things [rule-keeping] continues to live by them."

Jesus is True so you have nothing to risk

Matthew 25:28 (MSG)
"'Take the thousand and give it to the one who risked the most. And get rid of this "play-it-safe" who won't go out on a limb. Throw him out into utter darkness.'

James 1:12

James 1:12 (MSG)
Anyone who meets a testing challenge head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life.

Philippians 2:4

Philippians 2:4 (MSG)
Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.

James 1:12

James 1:12 (MSG)
Anyone who meets a testing challenge head-on and manages to stick it out is mighty fortunate. For such persons loyally in love with God, the reward is life and more life.

Take a Stand

Luke 9:22 (MSG)
He went on, "It is necessary that the Son of Man proceed to an ordeal of suffering, be tried and found guilty by the religious leaders, high priests, and religion scholars, be killed, and on the third day be raised up alive."

Luke 9:25 (MSG)
What good would it do to get everything you want and lose you, the real you?

Luke 9:27 (MSG)
Some who have taken their stand right here are going to see it happen, see with their own eyes the kingdom of God."

Jesus saved us, BELIEVE

John 20:2 (MSG)
She ran at once to Simon Peter and the other disciple, the one Jesus loved, breathlessly panting, "They took the Master from the tomb. We don't know where they've put him."

John 20:11-17 (MSG)
But Mary stood outside the tomb weeping. As she wept, she knelt to look into the tomb and saw two angels sitting there, dressed in white, one at the head, the other at the foot of where Jesus' body had been laid. They said to her, "Woman, why do you weep?"

John 20:19 (MSG)
Later on that day, the disciples had gathered together, but, fearful of the Jews, had locked all the doors in the house. Jesus entered, stood among them, and said, "Peace to you." Then he showed them his hands and side.

John 20:21 (MSG)
The disciples, seeing the Master with their own eyes, were exuberant. Jesus repeated his greeting: "Peace to you. Just as the Father sent me, I send you."

John 20:23 (MSG)
"If you forgive someone's sins, they're gone for good. If you don't forgive sins, what are you going to do with them?"

John 20:25 (MSG)
The other disciples told him, "We saw the Master." But he said, "Unless I see the nail holes in his hands, put my finger in the nail holes, and stick my hand in his side, I won't believe it."

John 20:28 (MSG)
Thomas said, "My Master! My God!"

John 20:30-31 (MSG)
Jesus provided far more God-revealing signs than are written down in this book. These are written down so you will believe that Jesus is the Messiah, the Son of God, and in the act of believing, have real and eternal life in the way he personally revealed it.

Jesus knows everything

John 21:6-7 (MSG)
He said, "Throw the net off the right side of the boat and see what happens." They did what he said. All of a sudden there were so many fish in it, they weren't strong enough to pull it in.

John 21:14-17 (MSG)
This was now the third time Jesus had shown himself alive to the disciples since being raised from the dead.

John 21:19 (MSG)
He said this to hint at the kind of death by which Peter would glorify God. And then he commanded, "Follow me."

John 21:25 (MSG)
There are so many other things Jesus did. If they were all written down, each of them, one by one, I can't imagine a world big enough to hold such a library of books.

Luke 24:5-8, Luke 24:25, Luke 24:36-39

Luke 24:5-8 (MSG)
The women were awestruck and bowed down in worship. The men said, "Why are you looking for the Living One in a cemetery?

Luke 24:25 (MSG)
Then he said to them, "So thick-headed! So slow-hearted! Why can't you simply believe all that the prophets said? Don't you see that these things had to happen, that the Messiah had to suffer and only then enter into his glory?" Then he started at the beginning, with the Books of Moses, and went on through all the Prophets, pointing out everything in the Scriptures that referred to him.

Luke 24:36-39 (MSG)
While they were saying all this, Jesus appeared to them and said, "Peace be with you." They thought they were seeing a ghost and were scared half to death. He continued with them, "Don't be upset, and don't let all these doubting questions take over. Look at my hands; look at my feet—it's really me. Touch me. Look me over from head to toe. A ghost doesn't have muscle and bone like this." As he said this, he showed them his hands and feet. They still couldn't believe what they were seeing. It was too much; it seemed too good to be true.

Matthew 26:13, Matthew 26:21, Matthew 26:25, Matthew 26:42

Matthew 26:13 (MSG)
You can be sure that wherever in the whole world the Message is preached, what she has just done is going to be remembered and admired."

Matthew 26:21 (MSG)
During the meal, he said, "I have something hard but important to say to you: One of you is going to hand me over to the conspirators."

Matthew 26:25 (MSG)
Then Judas, already turned traitor, said, "It isn't me, is it, Rabbi?" Jesus said, "Don't play games with me, Judas."

Matthew 26:42 (MSG)
He then left them a second time. Again he prayed, "My Father, if there is no other way than this, drinking this cup to the dregs, I'm ready. Do it your way."

Jesus is the Messiah

Matthew 26:64 (MSG)
Jesus was curt: "You yourself said it. And that's not all. Soon you'll see it for yourself: The Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Mighty One, Arriving on the clouds of heaven."

Jesus is the living Bread

John 6:27 (MSG)
"Don't waste your energy striving for perishable food like that. Work for the food that sticks with you, food that nourishes your lasting life, food the Son of Man provides. He and what he does are guaranteed by God the Father to last."

John 6:32-33 (MSG)
Jesus responded, "The real significance of that Scripture is not that Moses gave you bread from heaven but that my Father is right now offering you bread from heaven, the real bread. The Bread of God came down out of heaven and is giving life to the world."

John 6:37-38 (MSG)
Every person the Father gives me eventually comes running to me. And once that person is with me, I hold on and don't let go.

John 6:44 (MSG)
You're not in charge here. The Father who sent me is in charge. He draws people to me-that's the only way you'll ever come. Only then do I do my work, putting people together, setting them on their feet, ready for the End.

John 6:47-48 (MSG)
"I'm telling you the most solemn and sober truth now: Whoever believes in me has real life, eternal life. I am the Bread of Life. Your ancestors ate the manna bread in the desert and died. But now here is Bread that truly comes down out of heaven. Anyone eating this Bread will not die, ever. I am the Bread—living Bread!—who came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats this Bread will live—and forever! The Bread that I present to the world so that it can eat and live is myself, this flesh-and-blood self."

John 6:51 (MSG)
I am the Bread-living Bread!-who came down out of heaven. Anyone who eats this Bread will live-and forever! The Bread that I present to the world so that it can eat and live is myself, this flesh-and-blood self."

John 6:56 (MSG)
By eating my flesh and drinking my blood you enter into me and I into you.

John 6:65-66 (MSG)
He went on to say, "This is why I told you earlier that no one is capable of coming to me on his own. You get to me only as a gift from the Father."