Josh Chambers

John 17:7

John 17:7 (ESV)
Now they know that everything that you have given me is from you.

Matthew 6:16-21

Matthew 6:16-21 (MSG)
"When you practice some appetite-denying discipline to better concentrate on God, don't make a production out of it. It might turn you into a small-time celebrity but it won't make you a saint. If you 'go into training' inwardly, act normal outwardly. Shampoo and comb your hair, brush your teeth, wash your face. God doesn't require attention-getting devices. He won't overlook what you are doing; he'll reward you well.

Matthew 6:1-6

Matthew 6:1-6 (MSG)
"Be especially careful when you are trying to be good so that you don't make a performance out of it. It might be good theater, but the God who made you won't be applauding.

2 Corinthians 6:1-10

2 Corinthians 6:1-10 (MSG)
Companions as we are in this work with you, we beg you, please don't squander one bit of this marvelous life God has given us. God reminds us, I heard your call in the nick of time; The day you needed me, I was there to help. Well, now is the right time to listen, the day to be helped. Don't put it off; don't frustrate God's work by showing up late, throwing a question mark over everything we're doing. Our work as God's servants gets validated—or not—in the details. People are watching us as we stay at our post, alertly, unswervingly . . . in hard times, tough times, bad times; when we're beaten up, jailed, and mobbed; working hard, working late, working without eating; with pure heart, clear head, steady hand; in gentleness, holiness, and honest love; when we're telling the truth, and when God's showing his power; when we're doing our best setting things right; when we're praised, and when we're blamed; slandered, and honored; true to our word, though distrusted; ignored by the world, but recognized by God; terrifically alive, though rumored to be dead; beaten within an inch of our lives, but refusing to die; immersed in tears, yet always filled with deep joy; living on handouts, yet enriching many; having nothing, having it all.

2 Corinthians 5:20-21

2 Corinthians 5:20-21 (MSG)
We're Christ's representatives. God uses us to persuade men and women to drop their differences and enter into God's work of making things right between them. We're speaking for Christ himself now: Become friends with God; he's already a friend with you.

Psalm 103:1-22

Psalm 103:1-22 (MSG)
O my soul, bless god. From head to toe, I'll bless his holy name! O my soul, bless god, don't forget a single blessing!

Joel 1:12-17

Joel 1:12-17 (MSG)
Vineyards dried up, fig trees withered, Pomegranates, date palms, and apple trees-deadwood everywhere! And joy is dried up and withered in the hearts of the people. Nothing's Going On in the Place of Worship

Joel 1:1-2

Joel 1:1-2 (MSG)
God's Message to Joel son of Pethuel: Attention, elder statesmen! Listen closely, everyone, whoever and wherever you are! Have you ever heard of anything like this? Has anything like this ever happened before—ever? Make sure you tell your children, and your children tell their children, And their children their children. Don't let this message die out.

Revelation 21:5

Revelation 21:5 (MSG)
The Enthroned continued, "Look! I'm making everything new. Write it all down-each word dependable and accurate."

2 Corinthians 5:17-21

2 Corinthians 5:17-21 (MSG)
Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it!

John 13:35

John 13:35 (MSG)
This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples-when they see the love you have for each other."

Ephesians 4:22-24

Ephesians 4:22-24 (MSG)
Since, then, we do not have the excuse of ignorance, everything-and I do mean everything-connected with that old way of life has to go. It's rotten through and through. Get rid of it! And then take on an entirely new way of life-a God-fashioned life,

Mark 12:30

Mark 12:30 (MSG)
so love the Lord God with all your passion and prayer and intelligence and energy.'

Psalm 139:13

Psalm 139:13 (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.

Psalm 139:14

Psalm 139:14 (MSG)
I thank you, High God-you're breathtaking! Body and soul, I am marvelously made! I worship in adoration-what a creation!

Psalm 139:15

Psalm 139:15 (MSG)
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.

Psalm 139:16

Psalm 139:16 (MSG)
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.

John 16:21

John 16:21 (MSG)
"When a woman gives birth, she has a hard time, there's no getting around it. But when the baby is born, there is joy in the birth. This new life in the world wipes out memory of the pain. The sadness you have right now is similar to that pain, but the coming joy is also similar. When I see you again, you'll be full of joy, and it will be a joy no one can rob from you. You'll no longer be so full of questions.

3 John 1:3-4

3 John 1:3-4 (MSG)
I was most happy when some friends arrived and brought the news that you persist in following the way of Truth.

Psalm 113:9

Psalm 113:9 (MSG)
He gives childless couples a family, gives them joy as the parents of children. Hallelujah!

2 Peter 3:18

2 Peter 3:18 (ESV)
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen.

Proverbs 16:9

Proverbs 16:9 (ESV)
The heart of man plans his way, but the Lord establishes his steps.

1 Timothy 6:11

1 Timothy 6:11 (ESV)
But as for you, O man of God, flee these things. Pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, steadfastness, gentleness.

Romans 8:26

Romans 8:26 (ESV)
Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness. For we do not know what to pray for as we ought, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words.

Luke 14:5

Luke 14:5 (ESV)
And he said to them, "Which of you, having a son or an ox that has fallen into a well on a Sabbath day, will not immediately pull him out?"