Todd Avery

Fortune tellers

Deuteronomy 18:10-12 (NLT)
For example, never sacrifice your son or daughter as a burnt offering. And do not let your people practice fortune-telling, or use sorcery, or interpret omens, or engage in witchcraft,

faith is sometimes blind

Daniel 3:18 (NLT)
But even if he doesn’t, we want to make it clear to you, Your Majesty, that we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up.”

faith is sometimes blind

Daniel 3:18 (NLT)
But even if he doesn’t, we want to make it clear to you, Your Majesty, that we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up.”

faith is sometimes blind

Daniel 3:18 (NLT)
But even if he doesn’t, we want to make it clear to you, Your Majesty, that we will never serve your gods or worship the gold statue you have set up.”

Romans 1:21

Romans 1:21 (NLT)
Yes, they knew God, but they wouldn’t worship him as God or even give him thanks. And they began to think up foolish ideas of what God was like. As a result, their minds became dark and confused.

Psalm 139:5-6

Psalm 139:5-6 (MSG)
I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too-your reassuring presence, coming and going.

Psalm 139:5-6

Psalm 139:5-6 (MSG)
I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too-your reassuring presence, coming and going.

Jeremiah 5:22

Jeremiah 5:22 (MSG)
Why don't you honor me? Why aren't you in awe before me? Yes, me, who made the shorelines to contain the ocean waters. I drew a line in the sand that cannot be crossed. Waves roll in but cannot get through; breakers crash but that's the end of them.

Good verse for purity

Galatians 5:16 (MSG)
My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit. Then you won't feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?

Human- this passage shows me a bit of irritableness; that Christ was truly human,

Matthew 17:20 (MSG)
"Because you're not yet taking God seriously," said Jesus. "The simple truth is that if you had a mere kernel of faith, a poppy seed, say, you would tell this mountain, 'Move!' and it would move. There is nothing you wouldn't be able to tackle."

Graceis all we need... His master plan

2 Corinthians 12:9 (MSG)
and then he told me, My grace is enough; it's all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness. Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ's strength moving in on my weakness.

James 2:13

James 2:13 (MSG)
For if you refuse to act kindly, you can hardly expect to be treated kindly. Kind mercy wins over harsh judgment every time.

James 2:1

James 2:1 (MSG)
My dear friends, don't let public opinion influence how you live out our glorious, Christ-originated faith. If a man enters your church wearing an expensive suit, and a street person wearing rags comes in right after him, and you say to the man in the suit, "Sit here, sir; this is the best seat in the house!" and either ignore the street person or say, "Better sit here in the back row," haven't you segregated God's children and proved that you are judges who can't be trusted?

James 1:22

James 1:22 (MSG)
Don't fool yourself into thinking that you are a listener when you are anything but, letting the Word go in one ear and out the other. Act on what you hear! Those who hear and don't act are like those who glance in the mirror, walk away, and two minutes later have no idea who they are, what they look like.

James 1:19

James 1:19 (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.

James 1:15

James 1:15 (MSG)
Lust gets pregnant, and has a baby: sin! Sin grows up to adulthood, and becomes a real killer.

James 1:4

James 1:4 (MSG)
So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.

Psalm 25:10

Psalm 25:10 (MSG)
From now on every road you travel Will take you to god. Follow the Covenant signs; Read the charted directions.

Psalm 24:3-4

Psalm 24:3-4 (MSG)
Who can climb Mount god? Who can scale the holy north-face? Only the clean-handed, only the pure-hearted; Men who won't cheat, women who won't seduce.

Deuteronomy 11:18-19

Deuteronomy 11:18-19 (MSG)
Place these words on your hearts. Get them deep inside you. Tie them on your hands and foreheads as a reminder. Teach them to your children. Talk about them wherever you are, sitting at home or walking in the street; talk about them from the time you get up in the morning until you fall into bed at night. Inscribe them on the doorposts and gates of your cities so that you'll live a long time, and your children with you, on the soil that god promised to give your ancestors for as long as there is a sky over the Earth.

Psalm 25:21

Psalm 25:21 (MSG)
Use all your skill to put me together; I wait to see your finished product.

Psalm 25:8

Psalm 25:8 (MSG)
god is fair and just; He corrects the misdirected, Sends them in the right direction.

Psalm 22:11

Psalm 22:11 (MSG)
Then you moved far away and trouble moved in next-door. I need a neighbor.

James 1:19-20

James 1:19-20 (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.

2 Chronicles 1:8-10

2 Chronicles 1:8-10 (MSG)
Solomon answered, "You were extravagantly generous with David my father, and now you have made me king in his place. Establish, god, the words you spoke to my father, for you've given me a staggering task, ruling this mob of people. Yes, give me wisdom and knowledge as I come and go among this people—for who on his own is capable of leading these, your glorious people?"