Beth Graham

Matthew 18:20

Matthew 18:20 (NIV)
For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them."

Grandmother's Verse She Shared With Me

Matthew 11:28 (MSG)
"Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."

Mom's Reminder of God's Grace for Me

2 Corinthians 12:7 (MSG)
Because of the extravagance of those revelations, and so I wouldn't get a big head, I was given the gift of a handicap to keep me in constant touch with my limitations. Satan's angel did his best to get me down; what he in fact did was push me to my knees. No danger then of walking around high and mighty! At first I didn't think of it as a gift, and begged God to remove it. Three times I did that, and then he told me, My grace is enough; it's all you need. My strength comes into its own in your weakness. Once I heard that, I was glad to let it happen. I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift. It was a case of Christ's strength moving in on my weakness. Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations that cut me down to size—abuse, accidents, opposition, bad breaks. I just let Christ take over! And so the weaker I get, the stronger I become.

Mom's Reminder of my Hope

2 Corinthians 1:8 (MSG)
We don't want you in the dark, friends, about how hard it was when all this came down on us in Asia province. It was so bad we didn't think we were going to make it. We felt like we'd been sent to death row, that it was all over for us. As it turned out, it was the best thing that could have happened. Instead of trusting in our own strength or wits to get out of it, we were forced to trust God totally—not a bad idea since he's the God who raises the dead! And he did it, rescued us from certain doom. And he'll do it again, rescuing us as many times as we need rescuing. You and your prayers are part of the rescue operation—I don't want you in the dark about that either. I can see your faces even now, lifted in praise for God's deliverance of us, a rescue in which your prayers played such a crucial part.

Colossians 1:13-14

Colossians 1:13-14 (NIV)
For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves,

Hope

Colossians 1:22-23 (NIV)
But now he has reconciled you by Christ's physical body through death to present you holy in his sight, without blemish and free from accusation—

John 15:16-17

John 15:16-17 (MSG)
"You didn't choose me, remember; I chose you, and put you in the world to bear fruit, fruit that won't spoil. As fruit bearers, whatever you ask the Father in relation to me, he gives you.

John 15:5-7

John 15:5-7 (MSG)
"I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you're joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can't produce a thing. Anyone who separates from me is deadwood, gathered up and thrown on the bonfire. But if you make yourselves at home with me and my words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon. This is how my Father shows who he is—when you produce grapes, when you mature as my disciples.

Acts 2:38-39

Acts 2:38-39 (MSG)
Peter said, "Change your life. Turn to God and be baptized, each of you, in the name of Jesus Christ, so your sins are forgiven. Receive the gift of the Holy Spirit. The promise is targeted to you and your children, but also to all who are far away—whomever, in fact, our Master God invites."

Psalm 138:8

Psalm 138:8 (NIV)
The lord will vindicate me; your love, lord, endures forever— do not abandon the works of your hands.

Psalm 138:8

Psalm 138:8 (NASB)
The Lord will accomplish what concerns me; Your lovingkindness, O Lord, is everlasting; Do not forsake the works of Your hands.

Psalm 139:1-18

Psalm 139:1-18 (NIV)
You have searched me, lord, and you know me.

Psalm 139:13-18

Psalm 139:13-18 (NIV)
For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother's womb.

Deuteronomy 30:11-14

Deuteronomy 30:11-14 (NIV)
Now what I am commanding you today is not too difficult for you or beyond your reach.

What's a man to do?

Matthew 1:18-25 (NIV)
This is how the birth of Jesus the Messiah came about: His mother Mary was pledged to be married to Joseph, but before they came together, she was found to be pregnant through the Holy Spirit.

Matthew 2:13-23

Matthew 2:13-23 (NIV)
When they had gone, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream. "Get up," he said, "take the child and his mother and escape to Egypt. Stay there until I tell you, for Herod is going to search for the child to kill him."

His spirit within us

Ephesians 3:20 (NIV)
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,

His spirit within us...

Ephesians 3:20 (MSG)
God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us. Glory to God in the church! Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus! Glory down all the generations! Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes!

Here I am...

Isaiah 58:8-9 (NIV)
Then your light will break forth like the dawn, and your healing will quickly appear; then your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the lord will be your rear guard.

Jeremiah 17:14

Jeremiah 17:14 (NIV)
Heal me, lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.

God's Covenant- The Rainbow

Genesis 9:11-17 (NIV)
I establish my covenant with you: Never again will all life be destroyed by the waters of a flood; never again will there be a flood to destroy the earth."

Jesus' baptism

Luke 3:21-22 (NIV)
When all the people were being baptized, Jesus was baptized too. And as he was praying, heaven was opened

Serve with Godly Attitudes

Romans 12:9-15 (ASV)
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Serve

Romans 12:9-12 (ASV)
Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Serving

Romans 12:12 (ASV)
rejoicing in hope; patient in tribulation; continuing stedfastly in prayer;