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  joelabell bookmarked Psalm 127:2 MSG

  It's useless to rise early and go to bed late, and work your worried fingers to the bone. Don't you know he enjoys giving rest to those he loves?

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  • January 7 at 8:36am
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  joelabell bookmarked Galatians 2:16 MSG

  We know very well that we are not set right with God by rule-keeping but only through personal faith in Jesus Christ. How do we know? We tried it-and we had the best system of rules the world has ever seen! Convinced that no human being can please God by self-improvement, we believed in Jesus as the Messiah so that we might be set right before God by trusting in the Messiah, not by trying to be good.

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  • December 27, 2011 at 10:17pm
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  joelabell bookmarked Psalm 91:9-11 NIV

  If you say, "The lord is my refuge," and you make the Most High your dwelling,

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  • October 22, 2011 at 12:05am
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  joelabell bookmarked Daniel 9:24 NIV

  "Seventy 'sevens' are decreed for your people and your holy city to finish transgression, to put an end to sin, to atone for wickedness, to bring in everlasting righteousness, to seal up vision and prophecy and to anoint the Most Holy Place.

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  • October 9, 2011 at 8:32pm
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  joelabell bookmarked Mark 8:34 MSG

  Calling the crowd to join his disciples, he said, "Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat; I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I'll show you how.

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  • August 30, 2011 at 8:47pm
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  joelabell bookmarked Psalm 33:15 MSG

  He has shaped each person in turn; now he watches everything we do.

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  • July 3, 2011 at 10:54pm
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  joelabell bookmarked Psalm 33:2 MSG

  Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs! Play his praise on a grand piano!

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  • July 3, 2011 at 10:52pm
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  joelabell bookmarked Romans 12:2 MSG

  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.

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  • June 18, 2011 at 8:55pm
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  joelabell bookmarked Romans 12:1 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.

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  • June 18, 2011 at 8:54pm
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  joelabell bookmarked Philippians 1:11 NLT

  May you always be filled with the fruit of your salvation—the righteous character produced in your life by Jesus Christ—for this will bring much glory and praise to God.

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  • June 18, 2011 at 8:54pm
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  joelabell bookmarked Philippians 1:10 NLT

  For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return.

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  • June 18, 2011 at 8:54pm
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  joelabell bookmarked Philippians 1:9 NLT

  I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding.

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  • June 18, 2011 at 8:54pm
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  joelabell bookmarked Psalm 16:7 MSG

  The wise counsel God gives when I'm awake is confirmed by my sleeping heart.

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  • June 16, 2011 at 11:55am
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  joelabell bookmarked Psalm 16:5 MSG

  My choice is you, God, first and only. And now I find I'm your choice!

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  • June 16, 2011 at 11:53am
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  joelabell bookmarked Luke 9:34 MSG

  While he was babbling on like this, a light-radiant cloud enveloped them. As they found themselves buried in the cloud, they became deeply aware of God.

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  • April 10, 2011 at 8:43pm
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  joelabell bookmarked Luke 9:23 MSG

  Then he told them what they could expect for themselves: "Anyone who intends to come with me has to let me lead. You're not in the driver's seat-I am. Don't run from suffering; embrace it. Follow me and I'll show you how.

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  • April 10, 2011 at 8:40pm
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  joelabell bookmarked John 4:23 MSG

  But the time is coming-it has, in fact, come-when what you're called will not matter and where you go to worship will not matter.

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  • April 9, 2011 at 5:08am
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  joelabell bookmarked John 4:14 MSG

  Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst-not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of endless life."

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  • April 9, 2011 at 5:06am
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  joelabell bookmarked 1 Thessalonians 5:10 MSG

  He died for us, a death that triggered life. Whether we're awake with the living or asleep with the dead, we're alive with him!

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  • April 2, 2011 at 7:55pm
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  joelabell bookmarked Revelation 3:19 MSG

  "The people I love, I call to account-prod and correct and guide so that they'll live at their best. Up on your feet, then! About face! Run after God!

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  • April 2, 2011 at 7:47pm
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  joelabell bookmarked 1 Corinthians 15:50 MSG

  I need to emphasize, friends, that our natural, earthy lives don't in themselves lead us by their very nature into the kingdom of God. Their very "nature" is to die, so how could they "naturally" end up in the Life kingdom?

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  • March 27, 2011 at 12:14pm
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  joelabell bookmarked 1 Corinthians 15:48 MSG

  The First Man was made out of earth, and people since then are earthy; the Second Man was made out of heaven, and people now can be heavenly.

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  • March 27, 2011 at 12:13pm
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  joelabell bookmarked 1 Corinthians 15:38 MSG

  You could never guess what a tomato would look like by looking at a tomato seed. What we plant in the soil and what grows out of it don't look anything alike. The dead body that we bury in the ground and the resurrection body that comes from it will be dramatically different.

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  • March 27, 2011 at 12:11pm
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  joelabell bookmarked John 20:23 MSG

  "If you forgive someone's sins, they're gone for good. If you don't forgive sins, what are you going to do with them?"

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  • March 27, 2011 at 8:31am
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  joelabell bookmarked Luke 24:45 MSG

  He went on to open their understanding of the Word of God, showing them how to read their Bibles this way.

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  • March 27, 2011 at 8:18am