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Faith comes thru the word

Romans 10:17 (NIV)
Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word about Christ.

Give your attention to what God is doing right now

Matthew 6:34 (MSG)
"Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don't get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes.

Be moved by the spirit

Isaiah 11:3 (NIV)
and he will delight in the fear of the lord. He will not judge by what he sees with his eyes, or decide by what he hears with his ears;

Secret to contentment

Philippians 4:10 (MSG)
I'm glad in God, far happier than you would ever guess—happy that you're again showing such strong concern for me. Not that you ever quit praying and thinking about me. You just had no chance to show it. Actually, I don't have a sense of needing anything personally. I've learned by now to be quite content whatever my circumstances. I'm just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I've found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty. Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am. I don't mean that your help didn't mean a lot to me—it did. It was a beautiful thing that you came alongside me in my troubles.

Christ will dispel your worries

Philippians 4:6 (MSG)
Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

Christ will dispel your worries

Philippians 4:6 (MSG)
Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

Romans 5:3

Romans 5:3 (MSG)
There's more to come: We continue to shout our praise even when we're hemmed in with troubles, because we know how troubles can develop passionate patience in us, and how that patience in turn forges the tempered steel of virtue, keeping us alert for whatever God will do next. In alert expectancy such as this, we're never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary—we can't round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit!

Good comes for us

2 Samuel 14:14 (MSG)
We all die sometime. Water spilled on the ground can't be gathered up again. But God does not take away life. He works out ways to get the exile back."

Jesus thanks God, releasing his miracles

John 11:41 (NIV)
So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.

Jesus thanks God in faith

John 11:41 (NIV)
So they took away the stone. Then Jesus looked up and said, "Father, I thank you that you have heard me.

Focus on Gods word not facts

Numbers 21:9 (MSG)
So Moses made a snake of fiery copper and put it on top of a flagpole. Anyone bitten by a snake who then looked at the copper snake lived.

Persistent prayer

Luke 18:7-8 (MSG)
So what makes you think God won't step in and work justice for his chosen people, who continue to cry out for help? Won't he stick up for them?

Prayer: don't give up or take no for an answer

Luke 18:7 (MSG)
So what makes you think God won't step in and work justice for his chosen people, who continue to cry out for help? Won't he stick up for them?

It's obvious I can't do this on my own, even with the best of intentions

Romans 7:23 (MSG)
but it's pretty obvious that not all of me joins in that delight. Parts of me covertly rebel, and just when I least expect it, they take charge.

Free to live a new life

Romans 7:5-6 (MSG)
For as long as we lived that old way of life, doing whatever we felt we could get away with, sin was calling most of the shots as the old law code hemmed us in. And this made us all the more rebellious. In the end, all we had to show for it was miscarriages and stillbirths.

Not by my effort: I do the very thing I try not to do

Romans 7:19 (MSG)
I decide to do good, but I don't really do it; I decide not to do bad, but then I do it anyway.

Influenced to sin, but God can help

Romans 7:24-25 (MSG)
I've tried everything and nothing helps. I'm at the end of my rope. Is there no one who can do anything for me? Isn't that the real question?

Resting in God

Hebrews 4:3 (NIV)
Now we who have believed enter that rest, just as God has said, "So I declared on oath in my anger, 'They shall never enter my rest.'" And yet his works have been finished since the creation of the world.

Peter leads 3,000 Christ

Acts 2:41 (MSG)
That day about three thousand took him at his word, were baptized and were signed up. They committed themselves to the teaching of the apostles, the life together, the common meal, and the prayers.

from dark into the light

Matthew 4:16-17 (MSG)
People sitting out their lives in the dark saw a huge light; Sitting in that dark, dark country of death, they watched the sun come up.

2 Corinthians 5:17

2 Corinthians 5:17 (MSG)
Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it!

Proverbs 26:4, Proverbs 26:6, Proverbs 26:11, Proverbs 26:20, Proverbs 26:22, Proverbs 26:27

Proverbs 26:4 (MSG)
Don't respond to the stupidity of a fool; you'll only look foolish yourself.

Proverbs 26:6 (MSG)
You're only asking for trouble when you send a message by a fool.

Proverbs 26:11 (MSG)
As a dog eats its own vomit, so fools recycle silliness.

Proverbs 26:20 (MSG)
When you run out of wood, the fire goes out; when the gossip ends, the quarrel dies down.

Proverbs 26:22 (MSG)
Listening to gossip is like eating cheap candy; do you want junk like that in your belly?

Proverbs 26:27 (MSG)
Malice backfires; spite boomerangs.

Proverbs 26:4, Proverbs 26:6, Proverbs 26:11, Proverbs 26:20, Proverbs 26:22

Proverbs 26:4 (MSG)
Don't respond to the stupidity of a fool; you'll only look foolish yourself.

Proverbs 26:6 (MSG)
You're only asking for trouble when you send a message by a fool.

Proverbs 26:11 (MSG)
As a dog eats its own vomit, so fools recycle silliness.

Proverbs 26:20 (MSG)
When you run out of wood, the fire goes out; when the gossip ends, the quarrel dies down.

Proverbs 26:22 (MSG)
Listening to gossip is like eating cheap candy; do you want junk like that in your belly?

Proverbs 26:4, Proverbs 26:6, Proverbs 26:11, Proverbs 26:20

Proverbs 26:4 (MSG)
Don't respond to the stupidity of a fool; you'll only look foolish yourself.

Proverbs 26:6 (MSG)
You're only asking for trouble when you send a message by a fool.

Proverbs 26:11 (MSG)
As a dog eats its own vomit, so fools recycle silliness.

Proverbs 26:20 (MSG)
When you run out of wood, the fire goes out; when the gossip ends, the quarrel dies down.

Proverbs 26:4, Proverbs 26:6, Proverbs 26:11

Proverbs 26:4 (MSG)
Don't respond to the stupidity of a fool; you'll only look foolish yourself.

Proverbs 26:6 (MSG)
You're only asking for trouble when you send a message by a fool.

Proverbs 26:11 (MSG)
As a dog eats its own vomit, so fools recycle silliness.