Tom Powell

Tithe

Malachi 3:10 (MSG)
Bring your full tithe to the Temple treasury so there will be ample provisions in my Temple. Test me in this and see if I don't open up heaven itself to you and pour out blessings beyond your wildest dreams.

Quiver full

Psalm 127:5 (MSG)
Oh, how blessed are you parents, with your quivers full of children! Your enemies don't stand a chance against you; you'll sweep them right off your doorstep.

Kids are God's gift

Psalm 127:3 (MSG)
Don't you see that children are god's best gift? the fruit of the womb his generous legacy? Like a warrior's fistful of arrows are the children of a vigorous youth. Oh, how blessed are you parents, with your quivers full of children! Your enemies don't stand a chance against you; you'll sweep them right off your doorstep.

Too much work?

Psalm 127:2 (MSG)
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?

Nehemiah 1:11

Nehemiah 1:11 (MSG)
O Master, listen to me, listen to your servant's prayer-and yes, to all your servants who delight in honoring you-and make me successful today so that I get what I want from the king." I was cupbearer to the king.

Isaiah 53:6

Isaiah 53:6 (MSG)
We're all like sheep who've wandered off and gotten lost. We've all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we've done wrong, on him, on him.

Isaiah 53:5

Isaiah 53:5 (MSG)
But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him-our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed.

Isaiah 51:6

Isaiah 51:6 (MSG)
Look up at the skies, ponder the earth under your feet. The skies will fade out like smoke, the earth will wear out like work pants, and the people will die off like flies. But my salvation will last forever, my setting-things-right will never be obsolete.

Isaiah 51:2

Isaiah 51:2 (MSG)
Yes, ponder Abraham, your father, and Sarah, who bore you. Think of it! One solitary man when I called him, but once I blessed him, he multiplied.

Isaiah 54:17

Isaiah 54:17 (MSG)
ut no weapon that can hurt you has ever been forged. Any accuser who takes you to court will be dismissed as a liar. This is what God's servants can expect. I'll see to it that everything works out for the best." God's Decree.

Isaiah 41:10

Isaiah 41:10 (MSG)
Don't panic. I'm with you. There's no need to fear for I'm your God. I'll give you strength. I'll help you. I'll hold you steady, keep a firm grip on you.

Romans 12:3

Romans 12:3 (MSG)
I'm speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it's important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he does for us, not by what we are and what we do for him.

Romans 12:2

Romans 12:2 (MSG)
Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

1 John 4:4

1 John 4:4 (MSG)
My dear children, you come from God and belong to God. You have already won a big victory over those false teachers, for the Spirit in you is far stronger than anything in the world. These people belong to the Christ-denying world. They talk the world's language and the world eats it up. But we come from God and belong to God. Anyone who knows God understands us and listens. The person who has nothing to do with God will, of course, not listen to us. This is another test for telling the Spirit of Truth from the spirit of deception.

Psalm 51:1

Psalm 51:1 (MSG)
Generous in love—God, give grace! Huge in mercy—wipe out my bad record. Scrub away my guilt, soak out my sins in your laundry. I know how bad I've been; my sins are staring me down.

Psalm 103:1

Psalm 103:1 (NIV)
Praise the lord, my soul; all my inmost being, praise his holy name.

Psalm 104:33

Psalm 104:33 (NIV)
I will sing to the lord all my life; I will sing praise to my God as long as I live.

Proverbs 13:20

Proverbs 13:20 (KJV)
He that walketh with wise men shall be wise: but a companion of fools shall be destroyed.

Proverbs 13:24

Proverbs 13:24 (KJV)
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Proverbs 23:20

Proverbs 23:20 (KJV)
Be not among winebibbers; among riotous eaters of flesh:

Proverbs 23:21

Proverbs 23:21 (KJV)
For the drunkard and the glutton shall come to poverty: and drowsiness shall clothe a man with rags.

Proverbs 24:6

Proverbs 24:6 (KJV)
For by wise counsel thou shalt make thy war: and in multitude of counsellors there is safety.

Proverbs 24:22

Proverbs 24:22 (KJV)
For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?

Matthew 16:24

Matthew 16:24 (KJV)
Then said Jesus unto his disciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

John 16:33

John 16:33 (KJV)
These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.