Dean Clarke

Jeremiah 29:7

Jeremiah 29:7 (MSG)
"Make yourselves at home there and work for the country's welfare. "Pray for Babylon's well-being. If things go well for Babylon, things will go well for you."

The Lord Sent me here

Jeremiah 29:4 (ESV)
"Thus says the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, to all the exiles whom I have sent into exile from Jerusalem to Babylon:

Balance Life

Psalm 127:1-2 (MSG)
If god doesn't build the house, the builders only build shacks. If god doesn't guard the city, the night watchman might as well nap. It's useless to rise early and go to bed late, and work your worried fingers to the bone. Don't you know he enjoys giving rest to those he loves?

My body bought by God

1 Corinthians 6:19-20 (NLT)
Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself,

Impossible Dreams

2 Corinthians 1:8-10 (NLT)
We think you ought to know, dear brothers and sisters, about the trouble we went through in the province of Asia. We were crushed and overwhelmed beyond our ability to endure, and we thought we would never live through it.

Tension of Transition

Ezra 3:11-13 (NIV)
With praise and thanksgiving they sang to the lord: "He is good; his love toward Israel endures forever." And all the people gave a great shout of praise to the lord, because the foundation of the house of the lord was laid.

Jabez Prayer

1 Chronicles 4:10 (NIV)
Jabez cried out to the God of Israel, "Oh, that you would bless me and enlarge my territory! Let your hand be with me, and keep me from harm so that I will be free from pain." And God granted his request.

Don't live life in a small way

2 Corinthians 6:12 (MSG)
We didn't fence you in. The smallness you feel comes from within you. Your lives aren't small, but you're living them in a small way.

Go where I tell you

Jeremiah 1:7-8 (NLT)
The LORD replied, “Don’t say, ‘I’m too young,’ for you must go wherever I send you and say whatever I tell you.

Proverbs 17:22

Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Psalm 50:15

Psalm 50:15 (GNT)
Call to me when trouble comes; I will save you, and you will praise me.”

Hope in God

Lamentations 3:31 (NLT)
For no one is abandoned by the Lord forever.

God: Restore or Reject

Lamentations 5:21-22 (NLT)
Restore us, OLORD, and bring us back to you again! Give us back the joys we once had!

Deuteronomy 30:20

Deuteronomy 30:20 (NIV)
and that you may love the lord your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the lord is your life, and he will give you many years in the land he swore to give to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

Proverbs 17:22

Proverbs 17:22 (NIV)
A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones.

Matthew 3:8

Matthew 3:8 (NLT)
Prove by the way you live that you have repented of your sins and turned to God.

Jeremiah 10:23

Jeremiah 10:23 (NLT)
I know, LORD, that our lives are not our own. We are not able to plan our own course.

2 Chronicles 31:21

2 Chronicles 31:21 (GNT)
He was successful, because everything he did for the Temple or in observance of the Law, he did in a spirit of complete loyalty and devotion to his God.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Ecclesiastes 11:5 (NLT)
Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things.

Ecclesiastes 3:14

Ecclesiastes 3:14 (NLT)
And I know that whatever God does is final. Nothing can be added to it or taken from it. God’s purpose is that people should fear him.

Psalm 100:3

Psalm 100:3 (MSG)
Know this: god is God, and God, god. He made us; we didn't make him. We're his people, his well-tended sheep.

Hebrews 4:14

Hebrews 4:14 (NLT)
So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe.

Acts 16:25

Acts 16:25 (NLT)
Around midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening.

Habakkuk 3:17

Habakkuk 3:17 (NLT)
Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the vines; even though the olive crop fails, and the fields lie empty and barren; even though the flocks die in the fields, and the cattle barns are empty,

Hebrews 13:15

Hebrews 13:15 (NLT)
Therefore, let us offer through Jesus a continual sacrifice of praise to God, proclaiming our allegiance to his name.