Tony Clay

Rest

Matthew 11:28-30 (MSG)
"Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."

Romans 8:26-27

Romans 8:26-27 (NLT)
And the Holy Spirit helps us in our weakness. For example, we don’t know what God wants us to pray for. But the Holy Spirit prays for us with groanings that cannot be expressed in words.

Leviticus 20:8

Leviticus 20:8 (NLT)
Keep all my decrees by putting them into practice, for I am the LORD who makes you holy.

Proverbs 16:9

Proverbs 16:9 (NLT)
We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps.

Romans 8:22-23

Romans 8:22-23 (NLT)
For we know that all creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.

Gods mercy

Joel 2:12-13 (NLT)
That is why the LORD says, “Turn to me now, while there is time. Give me your hearts. Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning.

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.

Matthew 16:25

Matthew 16:25 (NLT)
If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it.

Lamentations 3:21-25

Lamentations 3:21-25 (NIV)
Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope:

Matthew 5:14-16

Matthew 5:14-16 (NLT)
“You are the light of the world—like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden.

Psalm 73:26

Psalm 73:26 (NIV)
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Isaiah 45:8

Isaiah 45:8 (NLT)
“Open up, Oheavens, and pour out your righteousness. Let the earth open wide so salvation and righteousness can sprout up together. I, the LORD, created them.

Called me out

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.

1 Corinthians 13:4-6

1 Corinthians 13:4-6 (NLT)
Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud

Don't give up (Widow Parable)

Luke 18:1-5 (AMP)
ALSO [Jesus] told them a parable to the effect that they ought always to pray and not to turn coward (faint, lose heart, and give up).

Daniel 2:23

Daniel 2:23 (NIV)
I thank and praise you, God of my ancestors: You have given me wisdom and power, you have made known to me what we asked of you, you have made known to us the dream of the king."

Proverbs 16:9

Proverbs 16:9 (AMP)
A man’s mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps and makes them sure.

Psalm 33:11

Psalm 33:11 (AMP)
The counsel of the Lord stands forever, the thoughts of His heart through all generations.

Exodus 9:16

Exodus 9:16 (AMP)
But for this very purpose have I let you live, that I might show you My power, and that My name may be declared throughout all the earth.

1 Corinthians 1:25

1 Corinthians 1:25 (NLT)
This foolish plan of God is wiser than the wisest of human plans, and God’s weakness is stronger than the greatest of human strength.

Romans 3:21

Romans 3:21 (NLT)
But now God has shown us a way to be made right with him without keeping the requirements of the law, as was promised in the writings of Moses and the prophets long ago.

2 Corinthians 5:17

2 Corinthians 5:17 (NLT)
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

1 Corinthians 12:3

1 Corinthians 12:3 (NLT)
So I want you to know that no one speaking by the Spirit of God will curse Jesus, and no one can say Jesus is Lord, except by the Holy Spirit.

Jeremiah 29:12

Jeremiah 29:12 (MSG)
"When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I'll listen.

Jeremiah 29:13

Jeremiah 29:13 (MSG)
"When you come looking for me, you'll find me. "Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I'll make sure you won't be disappointed." god's Decree. "I'll turn things around for you. I'll bring you back from all the countries into which I drove you"—god's Decree—"bring you home to the place from which I sent you off into exile. You can count on it.