Anna Bennett

Pruning

John 15:1-5 (NIV)
"I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener.

baptism of the holy spirit

Acts 19:4-6 (NIV)
Paul said, "John's baptism was a baptism of repentance. He told the people to believe in the one coming after him, that is, in Jesus."

The end does not justify the means

Romans 3:8 (NIV)
Why not say—as some slanderously claim that we say—"Let us do evil that good may result"? Their condemnation is just!

Tongues

1 Corinthians 14:2-3 (NIV)
For anyone who speaks in a tongue does not speak to people but to God. Indeed, no one understands them; they utter mysteries by the Spirit.

1 Corinthians 14:15 (NIV)
So what shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my understanding; I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my understanding.

1 Corinthians 14:18 (NIV)
I thank God that I speak in tongues more than all of you.

1 Corinthians 14:21-25 (NIV)
In the Law it is written: "With other tongues and through the lips of foreigners I will speak to this people, but even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord."

1 Corinthians 10:13

1 Corinthians 10:13 (NIV)
No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can endure it.

in and out

Deuteronomy 28:3 (NIV)
You will be blessed in the city and blessed in the country.

Deuteronomy 28:6 (NIV)
You will be blessed when you come in and blessed when you go out.

Deuteronomy 28:8 (NIV)
The lord will send a blessing on your barns and on everything you put your hand to. The lord your God will bless you in the land he is giving you.

Psalm 139:13-16

Psalm 139:13-16 (MSG)
Oh yes, you shaped me first inside, then out; you formed me in my mother's womb. I thank you, High God—you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration—what a creation! You know me inside and out, you know every bone in my body; You know exactly how I was made, bit by bit, how I was sculpted from nothing into something. Like an open book, you watched me grow from conception to birth; all the stages of my life were spread out before you, The days of my life all prepared before I'd even lived one day.

Proverbs 25:26

Proverbs 25:26 (MSG)
A good person who gives in to a bad person is a muddied spring, a polluted well.

Matthew 6:16-18

Matthew 6:16-18 (NIV)
"When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

Matthew 6:33

Matthew 6:33 (MSG)
Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

Matthew 5:3-12

Matthew 5:3-12 (MSG)
"You're blessed when you're at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.

Ezekiel 2:4-8

Ezekiel 2:4-8 (MSG)
They're a hard case, these people to whom I'm sending you-hardened in their sin. Tell them, 'This is the Message of God, the Master.'

Isaiah 46:3

Isaiah 46:3 (MSG)
"Listen to me, family of Jacob, everyone that's left of the family of Israel. I've been carrying you on my back from the day you were born, And I'll keep on carrying you when you're old. I'll be there, bearing you when you're old and gray. I've done it and will keep on doing it, carrying you on my back, saving you.

1 Peter 5:7

1 Peter 5:7 (NIV)
Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.

Psalm 55:22

Psalm 55:22 (MSG)
Pile your troubles on god's shoulders— he'll carry your load, he'll help you out. He'll never let good people topple into ruin. But you, God, will throw the others into a muddy bog, Cut the lifespan of assassins and traitors in half. And I trust in you. A David Psalm, When He Was Captured by the Philistines in Gath

Romans 1:24-27, Romans 1:32

Romans 1:24-27 (ESV)
Therefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts to impurity, to the dishonoring of their bodies among themselves,

Romans 1:32 (ESV)
Though they know God's decree that those who practice such things deserve to die, they not only do them but give approval to those who practice them.

James 4:7-8

James 4:7-8 (MSG)
So let God work his will in you. Yell a loud no to the Devil and watch him scamper. Say a quiet yes to God and he'll be there in no time. Quit dabbling in sin. Purify your inner life. Quit playing the field. Hit bottom, and cry your eyes out. The fun and games are over. Get serious, really serious. Get down on your knees before the Master; it's the only way you'll get on your feet.

Hebrews 10:19, Hebrews 10:22

Hebrews 10:19 (NIV)
Therefore, brothers and sisters, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus,

Hebrews 10:22 (NIV)
let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance that faith brings, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water.

1 Kings 19:11-13

1 Kings 19:11-13 (MSG)
Then he was told, "Go, stand on the mountain at attention before god. god will pass by." A hurricane wind ripped through the mountains and shattered the rocks before god, but god wasn't to be found in the wind; after the wind an earthquake, but god wasn't in the earthquake; and after the earthquake fire, but god wasn't in the fire; and after the fire a gentle and quiet whisper.

Romans 7:20

Romans 7:20 (MSG)
My decisions, such as they are, don't result in actions. Something has gone wrong deep within me and gets the better of me every time.

Romans 8:5

Romans 8:5 (MSG)
Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God's action in them find that God's Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn't pleased at being ignored.

Romans 8:9

Romans 8:9 (MSG)
But if God himself has taken up residence in your life, you can hardly be thinking more of yourself than of him. Anyone, of course, who has not welcomed this invisible but clearly present God, the Spirit of Christ, won't know what we're talking about. But for you who welcome him, in whom he dwells—even though you still experience all the limitations of sin—you yourself experience life on God's terms. It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself? When God lives and breathes in you (and he does, as surely as he did in Jesus), you are delivered from that dead life. With his Spirit living in you, your body will be as alive as Christ's!

Psalm 51:4

Psalm 51:4 (MSG)
You're the One I've violated, and you've seen it all, seen the full extent of my evil. You have all the facts before you; whatever you decide about me is fair. I've been out of step with you for a long time, in the wrong since before I was born. What you're after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.

Psalm 51:5

Psalm 51:5 (MSG)
I've been out of step with you for a long time, in the wrong since before I was born.

Psalm 51:6

Psalm 51:6 (MSG)
What you're after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.