John Ditchburn

Know the Lord intimately

1 Chronicles 28:9 (NLT)
“And Solomon, my son, learn to know the God of your ancestors intimately. Worship and serve him with your whole heart and a willing mind. For the LORD sees every heart and knows every plan and thought. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.

Trials in James

James 1:2 (MSG)
Consider it a sheer gift, friends, when tests and challenges come at you from all sides. You know that under pressure, your faith-life is forced into the open and shows its true colors. So don't try to get out of anything prematurely. Let it do its work so you become mature and well-developed, not deficient in any way.

River of delights

Psalm 36:8-9 (NLT)
You feed them from the abundance of your own house, letting them drink from your river of delights.

Maturity

James 1:4 (NIV)
Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.

Trust in the Lord and He wii give you the desires of your heart

Psalm 37:4-7 (NLT)
Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you your heart’s desires.

David's heartfelt prayer of praise and thanks for the temple

1 Chronicles 29:11 (NLT)
Yours, OLORD, is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, OLORD, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things.

Solomon exhorted not to be discouraged

1 Chronicles 28:20 (NLT)
Then David continued, “Be strong and courageous, and do the work. Don’t be afraid or discouraged, for the LORD God, my God, is with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. He will see to it that all the work related to the Temple of the LORD is finished correctly.

Solomon charged to know the Lord intimately

1 Chronicles 28:9 (NLT)
“And Solomon, my son, learn to know the God of your ancestors intimately. Worship and serve him with your whole heart and a willing mind. For the LORD sees every heart and knows every plan and thought. If you seek him, you will find him. But if you forsake him, he will reject you forever.

From the one who invented humour :D

James 1:2-8 (NKJV)
My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,

John 15:15

John 15:15 (NLT)
I no longer call you slaves, because a master doesn’t confide in his slaves. Now you are my friends, since I have told you everything the Father told me.

John 10:4

John 10:4 (NLT)
After he has gathered his own flock, he walks ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.

Start of Gideon Word

Judges 7:16 (NLT)
He divided the 300men into three groups and gave each man a ram’s horn and a clay jar with a torch in it.

Colossians 1:3

Colossians 1:3 (NLT)
We always pray for you, and we give thanks to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Romans 11:11

Romans 11:11 (NLT)
Did God’s people stumble and fall beyond recovery? Of course not! They were disobedient, so God made salvation available to the Gentiles. But he wanted his own people to become jealous and claim it for themselves.

Ephesians 5:10

Ephesians 5:10 (AMP)
And try to learn [in your experience] what is pleasing to the Lord [let your lives be constant proofs of what is most acceptable to Him].

Ezekiel 21:27

Ezekiel 21:27 (NLT)
Destruction! Destruction! I will surely destroy the kingdom. And it will not be restored until the one appears who has the right to judge it. Then I will hand it over to him.

Philippians 1:4

Philippians 1:4 (NLT)
Whenever I pray, I make my requests for all of you with joy,

Ephesians 3:18

Ephesians 3:18 (AMP)
That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it];

Ephesians 3:18

Ephesians 3:18 (AMP)
That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it];

Romans 1:16

Romans 1:16 (NLT)
For I am not ashamed of this Good News about Christ. It is the power of God at work, saving everyone who believes—the Jew first and also the Gentile.

Diligent prayer for Romans

Romans 1:9 (NLT)
God knows how often I pray for you. Day and night I bring you and your needs in prayer to God, whom I serve with all my heart by spreading the Good News about his Son.

Jeremiah 33:3

Jeremiah 33:3 (NLT)
Ask me and I will tell you remarkable secrets you do not know about things to come.

Malachi 2:16

Malachi 2:16 (NLT)
“For I hate divorce!” says the LORD, the God of Israel. “To divorce your wife is to overwhelm her with cruelty,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. “So guard your heart; do not be unfaithful to your wife.”

Malachi 1:6

Malachi 1:6 (NLT)
The LORD of Heaven’s Armies says to the priests: “A son honors his father, and a servant respects his master. If I am your father and master, where are the honor and respect I deserve? You have shown contempt for my name! “But you ask, ‘How have we ever shown contempt for your name?’

Deuteronomy 29:29

Deuteronomy 29:29 (NLT)
“The LORD our God has secrets known to no one. We are not accountable for them, but we and our children are accountable forever for all that he has revealed to us, so that we may obey all the terms of these instructions.