David Westergaard

God's plans

Jeremiah 10:23-24 (NLT)
I know, LORD, that our lives are not our own. We are not able to plan our own course.

Focus of Life

Jeremiah 9:23-24 (NLT)
This is what the LORD says: “Don’t let the wise boast in their wisdom, or the powerful boast in their power, or the rich boast in their riches.

There are Consequences

2 Samuel 12:13-14 (NLT)
Then David confessed to Nathan, “I have sinned against the LORD.” Nathan replied, “Yes, but the LORD has forgiven you, and you won’t die for this sin.

Isaiah 30:20

Isaiah 30:20 (NLT)
Though the Lord gave you adversity for food and suffering for drink, he will still be with you to teach you. You will see your teacher with your own eyes.

Stepping Out

Ecclesiastes 11:4 (NLT)
Farmers who wait for perfect weather never plant. If they watch every cloud, they never harvest.

Enjoying My Work

Ecclesiastes 5:19-20 (NLT)
And it is a good thing to receive wealth from God and the good health to enjoy it. To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life—this is indeed a gift from God.

Walk by the Spirit

Galatians 5:16 (NIV)
So I say, walk by the Spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh.

God will never leave me of forsake me

Joshua 1:5 (NLT)
No one will be able to stand against you as long as you live. For I will be with you as I was with Moses. I will not fail you or abandon you.

Come To Me

Matthew 11:28-30 (AMP)
Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.]

Numbers 23:10

Numbers 23:10 (NLT)
Who can count Jacob’s descendants, as numerous as dust? Who can count even a fourth of Israel’s people? Let me die like the righteous; let my life end like theirs.”

Galatians 6:9

Galatians 6:9 (NIV)
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.

God's amazing love

1 Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

Paul's prayer for the Ephesians

Ephesians 3:14-21 (MSG)
My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.

Philippians 2:6-11

Philippians 2:6-11 (MSG)
He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what.

1 John 4:19

1 John 4:19 (NASB)
We love, because He first loved us.

1 Samuel 30:6

1 Samuel 30:6 (NASB)
Moreover David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, for all the people were embittered, each one because of his sons and his daughters. But David strengthened himself in the Lord his God.

Ephesians 3:14-21

Ephesians 3:14-21 (MSG)
My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.

Who am I trying to please

1 Thessalonians 2:4 (NCV)
But we speak the Good News because God tested us and trusted us to do it. When we speak, we are not trying to please people, but God, who tests our hearts.

2 Corinthians 12:7-9

2 Corinthians 12:7-9 (NIV)
or because of these surpassingly great revelations. Therefore, in order to keep me from becoming conceited, I was given a thorn in my flesh, a messenger of Satan, to torment me.

What do you bring to the battle?

1 Samuel 17:45 (NCV)
But David said to him, “You come to me using a sword and two spears. But I come to you in the name of the Lord All-Powerful, the God of the armies of Israel! You have spoken against him.

The cup of suffering

Matthew 26:39 (NASB)
And He went a little beyond them, and fell on His face and prayed, saying, "My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from Me; yet not as I will, but as You will."

1 Samuel 13:14

1 Samuel 13:14 (NLT)
But now your kingdom must end, for the LORD has sought out a man after his own heart. The LORD has already appointed him to be the leader of his people, because you have not kept the LORD’s command.”

1 Samuel 11:6

1 Samuel 11:6 (NLT)
Then the Spirit of God came powerfully upon Saul, and he became very angry.

God changing Saul. God helping Saul

1 Samuel 10:6-7 (NCV)
Then the Spirit of the Lord will rush upon you with power. You will prophesy with these prophets, and you will be changed into a different man.

I don't want to blend.

1 Samuel 8:20 (NCV)
Then we will be the same as all the other nations. Our king will judge for us and go with us and fight our battles.”