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In Christ.

John 15:4 (MSG)
"Live in me. Make your home in me just as I do in you. In the same way that a branch can't bear grapes by itself but only by being joined to the vine, you can't bear fruit unless you are joined with me.

Capacity to hear

Psalm 40:6 (AMP)
Sacrifice and offering You do not desire, nor have You delight in them; You have given me the capacity to hear and obey [Your law, a more valuable service than] burnt offerings and sin offerings [which] You do not require.

God's Handiwork is Me

Ephesians 2:10 (AMP)
For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].

no sense of lack

Matthew 14:16 (AMP)
Jesus said, They do not need to go away; you give them something to eat.

My words must be working

Matthew 12:36 (AMP)
But I tell you, on the day of judgment men will have to give account for every idle (inoperative, nonworking) word they speak.

Lord is my Shepherd

Matthew 9:21 (AMP)
For she kept saying to herself, If I only touch His garment, I shall be restored to health.

Matthew 9:36 (AMP)
When He saw the throngs, He was moved with pity and sympathy for them, because they were bewildered (harassed and distressed and dejected and helpless), like sheep without a shepherd.

keep on saying it

Matthew 9:21 (AMP)
For she kept saying to herself, If I only touch His garment, I shall be restored to health.

i deliberately shut out all hatred and selfishness. i shut out all hypocrisy and falsehood.

Proverbs 3:3 (AMP)
Let not mercy and kindness [shutting out all hatred and selfishness] and truth [shutting out all deliberate hypocrisy or falsehood] forsake you; bind them about your neck, write them upon the tablet of your heart.

Glory in the Word

2 Corinthians 3:18 (KJV)
But we all, with open face beholding as in a glass the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

I'm at my best.

Romans 5:8 (MSG)
But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.

Romans 5:10 (MSG)
If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we're at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life!

Something to think about; how much my life is going to expand and deepen because of His resurrection life.

Romans 5:10 (MSG)
If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we're at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life!

Making something out of nothing, somebody out of nobody. That's faith lifestyle. That's a feature of faith.

Romans 4:14 (MSG)
If those who get what God gives them only get it by doing everything they are told to do and filling out all the right forms properly signed, that eliminates personal trust completely and turns the promise into an ironclad contract! That's not a holy promise; that's a business deal.

Romans 4:17 (MSG)
We call Abraham "father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!"

Grace really has nothing to do with work or labour. My mindset must stay conditioned to expecting results of grace thru faith.

Romans 4:14 (MSG)
If those who get what God gives them only get it by doing everything they are told to do and filling out all the right forms properly signed, that eliminates personal trust completely and turns the promise into an ironclad contract! That's not a holy promise; that's a business deal.

'with a word made something out of nothing'. Faith uses words. Faith has a voice. Faith speaks.

Romans 4:13 (MSG)
That famous promise God gave Abraham—that he and his children would possess the earth—was not given because of something Abraham did or would do. It was based on God's decision to put everything together for him, which Abraham then entered when he believed. If those who get what God gives them only get it by doing everything they are told to do and filling out all the right forms properly signed, that eliminates personal trust completely and turns the promise into an ironclad contract! That's not a holy promise; that's a business deal. A contract drawn up by a hard-nosed lawyer and with plenty of fine print only makes sure that you will never be able to collect. But if there is no contract in the first place, simply a promise—and God's promise at that—you can't break it.

Romans 4:17 (MSG)
We call Abraham "father" not because he got God's attention by living like a saint, but because God made something out of Abraham when he was a nobody. Isn't that what we've always read in Scripture, God saying to Abraham, "I set you up as father of many peoples"? Abraham was first named "father" and then became a father because he dared to trust God to do what only God could do: raise the dead to life, with a word make something out of nothing. When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn't do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, "You're going to have a big family, Abraham!"

Romans 4:19 (MSG)
Abraham didn't focus on his own impotence and say, "It's hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child." Nor did he survey Sarah's decades of infertility and give up. He didn't tiptoe around God's promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God, sure that God would make good on what he had said. That's why it is said, "Abraham was declared fit before God by trusting God to set him right." But it's not just Abraham; it's also us! The same thing gets said about us when we embrace and believe the One who brought Jesus to life when the conditions were equally hopeless. The sacrificed Jesus made us fit for God, set us right with God.

Romans 4:24 (MSG)
it's also us! The same thing gets said about us when we embrace and believe the One who brought Jesus to life when the conditions were equally hopeless.

God has restored me to where He always wanted me to be. i am where God wants me to be now. I am in Christ.

Romans 3:24 (MSG)
God did it for us. Out of sheer generosity he put us in right standing with himself. A pure gift. He got us out of the mess we're in and restored us to where he always wanted us to be. And he did it by means of Jesus Christ.

Doing makes the difference

Romans 2:10 (MSG)
But if you embrace the way God does things, there are wonderful payoffs, again without regard to where you are from or how you were brought up.

Romans 2:13 (MSG)
Merely hearing God's law is a waste of your time if you don't do what he commands. Doing, not hearing, is what makes the difference with God.

Profit,God's way

Romans 2:10 (MSG)
But if you embrace the way God does things, there are wonderful payoffs, again without regard to where you are from or how you were brought up.

Without Christ, there's no identity. if u are who u are thru him, then those without Christ are non existent, dead.

Romans 1:5-6 (MSG)
Through him we received both the generous gift of his life and the urgent task of passing it on to others who receive it by entering into obedient trust in Jesus.

The life of Jesus is the commodity am trading with! The capital was a gift. Now, am in the business of trading Jesus.

Romans 1:5 (MSG)
Through him we received both the generous gift of his life and the urgent task of passing it on to others who receive it by entering into obedient trust in Jesus.

He was declared to be the Son of God with Power. His declaration as the Son of God was with power. Now am I the Son of God. In the same light, my declaration as a Son of God must be with Power, it cannot be a passive declaration. In every place I announce myself as a Son of God, it must be by the Power of the Holy Ghost with an outworking, a God sized result

Romans 1:4 (MSG)
his unique identity as Son of God was shown by the Spirit when Jesus was raised from the dead, setting him apart as the Messiah, our Master.

what is the Gospel?

Romans 1:16 (MSG)
It's news I'm most proud to proclaim, this extraordinary Message of God's powerful plan to rescue everyone who trusts him, starting with Jews and then right on to everyone else! God's way of putting people right shows up in the acts of faith, confirming what Scripture has said all along: "The person in right standing before God by trusting him really lives."

Romans 5:1, Romans 5:17

Romans 5:1 (NIV)
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,

Romans 5:17 (NIV)
For if, by the trespass of the one man, death reigned through that one man, how much more will those who receive God's abundant provision of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ!

grace, reigning on life

Romans 5:1 (NIV)
Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ,