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A real fast.

Isaiah 58:1-8 (MSG)
"Shout! A full-throated shout! Hold nothing back—a trumpet-blast shout! Tell my people what's wrong with their lives, face my family Jacob with their sins! They're busy, busy, busy at worship, and love studying all about me. To all appearances they're a nation of right-living people— law-abiding, God-honoring. They ask me, 'What's the right thing to do?' and love having me on their side. But they also complain, 'Why do we fast and you don't look our way? Why do we humble ourselves and you don't even notice?'

Get real. Grow up. Be serious

Matthew 12:30 (MSG)
"This is war, and there is no neutral ground. If you're not on my side, you're the enemy; if you're not helping, you're making things worse.

Endless energy, boundless strength.

Ephesians 1:17-19 (MSG)
But I do more than thank. I ask-ask the God of our Master, Jesus Christ, the God of glory-to make you intelligent and discerning in knowing him personally,

Fruits

Galatians 5:16-26 (MSG)
My counsel is this: Live freely, animated and motivated by God's Spirit. Then you won't feed the compulsions of selfishness. For there is a root of sinful self-interest in us that is at odds with a free spirit, just as the free spirit is incompatible with selfishness. These two ways of life are antithetical, so that you cannot live at times one way and at times another way according to how you feel on any given day. Why don't you choose to be led by the Spirit and so escape the erratic compulsions of a law-dominated existence?

Freedom

Romans 6:1-2 (MSG)
So what do we do? Keep on sinning so God can keep on forgiving? I should hope not! If we've left the country where sin is sovereign, how can we still live in our old house there? Or didn't you realize we packed up and left there for good? That is what happened in baptism. When we went under the water, we left the old country of sin behind; when we came up out of the water, we entered into the new country of grace—a new life in a new land!

Cried my eyes out. Hollow inside

Psalm 31:9 (MSG)
Be kind to me, God-I'm in deep, deep trouble again. I've cried my eyes out; I feel hollow inside.

Life in your hands

Psalm 31:3-5 (MSG)
You're my cave to hide in, my cliff to climb. Be my safe leader, be my true mountain guide. Free me from hidden traps; I want to hide in you. I've put my life in your hands. You won't drop me, you'll never let me down.

Live full lives

Ephesians 3:14-19 (MSG)
My response is to get down on my knees before the Father, this magnificent Father who parcels out all heaven and earth. I ask him to strengthen you by his Spirit—not a brute strength but a glorious inner strength—that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love, you'll be able to take in with all followers of Jesus the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights! Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.

Nothing can come between

Romans 8:29-30 (MSG)
God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him. After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.

Salvation

Romans 10:8-11 (MSG)
So what exactly was Moses saying? The word that saves is right here, as near as the tongue in your mouth, as close as the heart in your chest.

Many sins forgiven

Luke 7:46-47 (MSG)
You provided nothing for freshening up, but she has soothed my feet with perfume.

Cool winged feathers

Psalm 17:1-15 (MSG)
Listen while I build my case, god, the most honest prayer you'll ever hear. Show the world I'm innocent— in your heart you know I am.

Psalm 16:1-11

Psalm 16:1-11 (MSG)
Keep me safe, O God, I've run for dear life to you. I say to god, "Be my Lord!" Without you, nothing makes sense.

Rock and a hard place

Isaiah 43:2 (MSG)
When you're in over your head, I'll be there with you. When you're in rough waters, you will not go down. When you're between a rock and a hard place, it won't be a dead end -

Isaiah 43:4 (MSG)
That's how much you mean to me! That's how much I love you! I'd sell off the whole world to get you back, trade the creation just for you.

Woman at the well!

John 4:48 (MSG)
Jesus put him off: "Unless you people are dazzled by a miracle, you refuse to believe."