Debbie Rumbaugh

Ezekiel 18:1

Ezekiel 18:1 (MSG)
God's Message to me: "What do you people mean by going around the country repeating the saying, The parents ate green apples, The children got the stomachache?

Psalm 143:8

Psalm 143:8 (MSG)
If you wake me each morning with the sound of your loving voice, I'll go to sleep each night trusting in you. Point out the road I must travel; I'm all ears, all eyes before you.

Romans 12:1-2

Romans 12:1-2 (MSG)
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. 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 Peter 1:15-17

1 Peter 1:15-17 (MSG)
As obedient children, let yourselves be pulled into a way of life shaped by God's life, a life energetic and blazing with holiness.

Isaiah 45:1

Isaiah 45:1 (MSG)
God's Message to his anointed, to Cyrus, whom he took by the hand To give the task of taming the nations, of terrifying their kings— He gave him free rein, no restrictions: "I'll go ahead of you, clearing and paving the road. I'll break down bronze city gates, smash padlocks, kick down barred entrances. I'll lead you to buried treasures, secret caches of valuables— Confirmations that it is, in fact, I, God, the God of Israel, who calls you by your name. It's because of my dear servant Jacob, Israel my chosen, That I've singled you out, called you by name, and given you this privileged work. And you don't even know me! I am God, the only God there is. Besides me there are no real gods. I'm the one who armed you for this work, though you don't even know me, So that everyone, from east to west, will know that I have no god-rivals. I am God, the only God there is. I form light and create darkness, I make harmonies and create discords. I, God, do all these things.

Be Alert

Colossians 3:1-2 (MSG)
So if you're serious about living this new resurrection life with Christ, act like it. Pursue the things over which Christ presides. Don't shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ—that's where the action is. See things from his perspective.

What's it all about

Colossians 2:8-10 (MSG)
Watch out for people who try to dazzle you with big words and intellectual double-talk. They want to drag you off into endless arguments that never amount to anything. They spread their ideas through the empty traditions of human beings and the empty superstitions of spirit beings. But that's not the way of Christ. Everything of God gets expressed in him, so you can see and hear him clearly. You don't need a telescope, a microscope, or a horoscope to realize the fullness of Christ, and the emptiness of the universe without him. When you come to him, that fullness comes together for you, too. His power extends over everything.

Soar like eagles

Isaiah 40:31 (MSG)
But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don't get tired, they walk and don't lag behind.

God's Provision

Isaiah 27:3-5 (MSG)
I, God, tend it. I keep it well-watered. I keep careful watch over it so that no one can damage it.

Ephesians 3:1

Ephesians 3:1 (MSG)
This is why I, Paul, am in jail for Christ, having taken up the cause of you outsiders, so-called. I take it that you're familiar with the part I was given in God's plan for including everybody. I got the inside story on this from God himself, as I just wrote you in brief.

Isaiah 32:9

Isaiah 32:9 (MSG)
Take your stand, indolent women! Listen to me! Indulgent, indolent women, listen closely to what I have to say. In just a little over a year from now, you'll be shaken out of your lazy lives. The grape harvest will fail, and there'll be no fruit on the trees. Oh tremble, you indolent women. Get serious, you pampered dolls! Strip down and discard your silk fineries. Put on funeral clothes. Shed honest tears for the lost harvest, the failed vintage. Weep for my people's gardens and farms that grow nothing but thistles and thornbushes. Cry tears, real tears, for the happy homes no longer happy, the merry city no longer merry. The royal palace is deserted, the bustling city quiet as a morgue, The emptied parks and playgrounds taken over by wild animals, delighted with their new home.

06/17/11

Isaiah 29:1 (MSG)
Doom, Ariel, Ariel, the city where David set camp! Let the years add up, let the festivals run their cycles, But I'm not letting up on Jerusalem. The moaning and groaning will continue. Jerusalem to me is an Ariel. Like David, I'll set up camp against you. I'll set siege, build towers, bring in siege engines, build siege ramps. Driven into the ground, you'll speak, you'll mumble words from the dirt— Your voice from the ground, like the muttering of a ghost. Your speech will whisper from the dust.

Start 06/16

Isaiah 27:1 (MSG)
At that time God will unsheathe his sword, his merciless, massive, mighty sword. He'll punish the serpent Leviathan as it flees, the serpent Leviathan thrashing in flight. He'll kill that old dragon that lives in the sea.

Proverbs 31:11

Proverbs 31:11 (NASB)
The heart of her husband trusts in her, And he will have no lack of gain.

Proverbs 31:25

Proverbs 31:25 (NASB)
Strength and dignity are her clothing, And she smiles at the future.

Proverbs 31:27

Proverbs 31:27 (NASB)
She looks well to the ways of her household, And does not eat the bread of idleness.

Proverbs 31:4

Proverbs 31:4 (MSG)
"Leaders can't afford to make fools of themselves, gulping wine and swilling beer, Lest, hung over, they don't know right from wrong, and the people who depend on them are hurt. Use wine and beer only as sedatives, to kill the pain and dull the ache Of the terminally ill, for whom life is a living death.

Proverbs 31:4

Proverbs 31:4 (MSG)
"Leaders can't afford to make fools of themselves, gulping wine and swilling beer, Lest, hung over, they don't know right from wrong, and the people who depend on them are hurt. Use wine and beer only as sedatives, to kill the pain and dull the ache Of the terminally ill, for whom life is a living death.

Proverbs 31:6

Proverbs 31:6 (MSG)
Use wine and beer only as sedatives, to kill the pain and dull the ache

Proverbs 31:7

Proverbs 31:7 (MSG)
Of the terminally ill, for whom life is a living death.

Proverbs 31:7

Proverbs 31:7 (MSG)
Of the terminally ill, for whom life is a living death.

Proverbs 31:11

Proverbs 31:11 (MSG)
Her husband trusts her without reserve, and never has reason to regret it.

Proverbs 31:20

Proverbs 31:20 (MSG)
She's quick to assist anyone in need, reaches out to help the poor.

Proverbs 31:25

Proverbs 31:25 (MSG)
Her clothes are well-made and elegant, and she always faces tomorrow with a smile.

Proverbs 31:30

Proverbs 31:30 (MSG)
Charm can mislead and beauty soon fades. The woman to be admired and praised is the woman who lives in the Fear-of-God.