Brian Lemmings

cant out God in box

Isaiah 55:8-9 (ESV)
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.

testing faith

James 1:2-4 (ESV)
Count it all joy, my brothers, when you meet trials of various kinds,

faith without works is dead

James 2:14 (ESV)
What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him?

James 2:17 (ESV)
So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

live like no one else

1 Peter 2:11-12 (ESV)
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.

royal priesthood

1 Peter 2:9 (ESV)
But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for his own possession, that you may proclaim the excellencies of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light.

PSC - body is wasting

2 Corinthians 4:16 (ESV)
So we do not lose heart. Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day.

love is...

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (ESV)
Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant

pursuit of ideals

1 Timothy 6:11-12 (ESV)
But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

leadership in a church

1 Timothy 3:2-7 (ESV)
Therefore an overseer must be above reproach, the husband of one wife, sober-minded, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,

armour of God

Ephesians 6:12 (ESV)
For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.

our adopted father

Romans 8:13-17 (ESV)
For if you live according to the flesh you will die, but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

God speaks through nature

Acts 14:17 (ESV)
Yet he did not leave himself without witness, for he did good by giving you rains from heaven and fruitful seasons, satisfying your hearts with food and gladness."

living in two worlds

John 17:14-15 (ESV)
I have given them your word, and the world has hated them because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

Genesis 32:3

Genesis 32:3 (ESV)
And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother in the land of Seir, the country of Edom,

savior is coming

Isaiah 9:1-7 (NIV)
Nevertheless, there will be no more gloom for those who were in distress. In the past he humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, but in the future he will honor Galilee of the nations, by the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan—

discernment of truth

Isaiah 8:19-20 (NIV)
When someone tells you to consult mediums and spiritists, who whisper and mutter, should not a people inquire of their God? Why consult the dead on behalf of the living?

command to love

John 13:34 (NIV)
"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another.

servant leadership

John 13:15 (NIV)
I have set you an example that you should do as I have done for you.

John 11:24

John 11:24 (ESV)
Martha said to him, "I know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day."

John 11:4

John 11:4 (ESV)
But when Jesus heard it he said, "This illness does not lead to death. It is for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it."

Genesis 12:1

Genesis 12:1 (NKJV)
Now the Lord had said to Abram: Now the Lord had said to Abram: Get out of your country, From your family And from your fathers house, To a land that I will show you.

Genesis 15:6

Genesis 15:6 (NKJV)
And he believed in the Lord, and He accounted it to him for righteousness.

Genesis 39:21

Genesis 39:21 (NKJV)
But the Lord was with Joseph and showed him mercy, and He gave him favor in the sight of the keeper of the prison.

Genesis 45:8

Genesis 45:8 (NKJV)
So now it was not you who sent me here, but God; and He has made me a father to Pharaoh, and lord of all his house, and a ruler throughout all the land of Egypt.

Exodus 4:1

Exodus 4:1 (NKJV)
Then Moses answered and said, But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, The Lord has not appeared to you. Then Moses answered and said, But suppose they will not believe me or listen to my voice; suppose they say, The Lord has not appeared to you.