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Hurting God's heart

Malachi 3:13-14 (NLT)
“You have said terrible things about me,” says the LORD. “But you say, ‘What do you mean? What have we said against you?’

Tithe and Blessing

Malachi 3:10 (NLT)
Bring all the tithes into the storehouse so there will be enough food in my Temple. If you do,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies, “I will open the windows of heaven for you. I will pour out a blessing so great you won’t have enough room to take it in! Try it! Put me to the test!

Malachi 3:12 (NLT)
“Then all nations will call you blessed, for your land will be such a delight,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

Returning to God

Malachi 3:7-8 (NLT)
Ever since the days of your ancestors, you have scorned my decrees and failed to obey them. Now return to me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. “But you ask, ‘How can we return when we have never gone away?’

He never changes

Malachi 3:6 (NLT)
“I am the LORD, and I do not change. That is why you descendants of Jacob are not already destroyed.

Godly marriage

Malachi 2:15 (NLT)
Didn’t the LORD make you one with your wife? In body and spirit you are his. And what does he want? Godly children from your union. So guard your heart; remain loyal to the wife of your youth.

Godly living

Malachi 2:10 (NLT)
Are we not all children of the same Father? Are we not all created by the same God? Then why do we betray each other, violating the covenant of our ancestors?

Prophecy of Christ

Zechariah 10:4 (NLT)
From Judah will come the cornerstone, the tent peg, the bow for battle, and all the rulers.

NOTHING is impossible

Zechariah 8:6 (NLT)
“This is what the LORD of Heaven’s Armies says: All this may seem impossible to you now, a small remnant of God’s people. But is it impossible for me? says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

God at work

Zechariah 2:13 (NLT)
Be silent before the LORD, all humanity, for he is springing into action from his holy dwelling.”

God's calling

Ecclesiastes 7:29 (NLT)
But I did find this: God created people to be virtuous, but they have each turned to follow their own downward path.”

new lives in Christ

2 Corinthians 5:10 (NLT)
For we must all stand before Christ to be judged. We will each receive whatever we deserve for the good or evil we have done in this earthly body.

2 Corinthians 5:14-15 (NLT)
Either way, Christ’s love controls us. Since we believe that Christ died for all, we also believe that we have all died to our old life.

2 Corinthians 5:17-20 (NLT)
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun!

expecting blessings

2 Kings 3:16 (GWT)
He said, “This is what the lord says: Make this valley full of ditches.

Isaiah 46:4

Isaiah 46:4 (NLT)
I will be your God throughout your lifetime— until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you.

Deuteronomy 33:26-27

Deuteronomy 33:26-27 (NLT)
“There is no one like the God of Israel. He rides across the heavens to help you, across the skies in majestic splendor.

Jeremiah 31:3

Jeremiah 31:3 (NLT)
Long ago the LORD said to Israel: “I have loved you, my people, with an everlasting love. With unfailing love I have drawn you to myself.

Psalm 143:5

Psalm 143:5 (NLT)
I remember the days of old. I ponder all your great works and think about what you have done.

Psalm 77:11

Psalm 77:11 (NLT)
But then I recall all you have done, OLORD; I remember your wonderful deeds of long ago.

Psalm 105:4-5

Psalm 105:4-5 (NLT)
Search for the LORD and for his strength; continually seek him.

1 John 2:15

1 John 2:15 (NLT)
Do not love this world nor the things it offers you, for when you love the world, you do not have the love of the Father in you.

Gods work in us.

Philippians 2:13 (NLT)
For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him.

Luke 11:28

Luke 11:28 (NLT)
Jesus replied, “But even more blessed are all who hear the word of God and put it into practice.”

Deuteronomy 32:18

Deuteronomy 32:18 (NLT)
You neglected the Rock who had fathered you; you forgot the God who had given you birth.

Hebrews 2:1-3

Hebrews 2:1-3 (NLT)
So we must listen very carefully to the truth we have heard, or we may drift away from it.

Hebrews 4:14-16

Hebrews 4:14-16 (NLT)
So then, since we have a great High Priest who has entered heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to what we believe.

Hebrews 4:12-13

Hebrews 4:12-13 (NLT)
For the word of God is alive and powerful. It is sharper than the sharpest two-edged sword, cutting between soul and spirit, between joint and marrow. It exposes our innermost thoughts and desires.