My ordinary life

Romans 12:1 (MSG)
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.

Loose him b/c the Lord has need of him!!!

Mark 11:3 (MSG)
If anyone asks, 'What are you doing?' say, 'The Master needs him, and will return him right away.'"

Pray about everything--great and small

Mark 11:24 (MSG)
That's why I urge you to pray for absolutely everything, ranging from small to large. Include everything as you embrace this God-life, and you'll get God's everything.

Prayed fir HOF ti be fruitful this Easter

Mark 11:13 (MSG)
Off in the distance he saw a fig tree in full leaf. He came up to it expecting to find something for breakfast, but found nothing but fig leaves. (It wasn't yet the season for figs.)

When you leave "Bethany" you will be hungry

Mark 11:12 (MSG)
As they left Bethany the next day, he was hungry. Off in the distance he saw a fig tree in full leaf. He came up to it expecting to find something for breakfast, but found nothing but fig leaves. (It wasn't yet the season for figs.) He addressed the tree: "No one is going to eat fruit from you again—ever!" And his disciples overheard him.

Playing the blame game

Mark 8:16 (MSG)
Meanwhile, the disciples were finding fault with each other because they had forgotten to bring bread. Jesus overheard and said, "Why are you fussing because you forgot bread? Don't you see the point of all this? Don't you get it at all? Remember the five loaves I broke for the five thousand? How many baskets of leftovers did you pick up?" They said, "Twelve."

We can't handle the whole.

Mark 8:6 (MSG)
So Jesus told the crowd to sit down on the ground. After giving thanks, he took the seven bread loaves, broke them into pieces, and gave them to his disciples so they could hand them out to the crowd. They also had a few fish. He pronounced a blessing over the fish and told his disciples to hand them out as well. The crowd ate its fill. Seven sacks of leftovers were collected. There were well over four thousand at the meal. Then he sent them home. He himself went straight to the boat with his disciples and set out for Dalmanoutha.

Mark 8:35 (MSG)
Self-help is no help at all. Self-sacrifice is the way, my way, to saving yourself, your true self.

Wait for HOPE to appear

Lamentations 3:29-30 (MSG)
Bow in prayer. Don't ask questions: Wait for hope to appear.

God doesn't take pleasure in death

Ezekiel 18:32 (MSG)
I take no pleasure in anyone's death. Decree of God, the Master. "Make a clean break! Live!"

We can do this!

Philippians 2:15 (MSG)
Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society. Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God. Carry the light-giving Message into the night

look into people's eyes and loved him!

Mark 10:21 (MSG)
Jesus looked him hard in the eye—and loved him! He said, "There's one thing left: Go sell whatever you own and give it to the poor. All your wealth will then be heavenly wealth. And come follow me."

Saves our tears

Psalm 56:8 (MSG)
You've kept track of my every toss and turn through the sleepless nights, Each tear entered in your ledger, each ache written in your book.

His love is deep, long,wide and high

Ephesians 3:18 (MSG)
you'll be able to take in with all Christians the extravagant dimensions of Christ's love. Reach out and experience the breadth! Test its length! Plumb the depths! Rise to the heights!

Vanessa prayed for women in ministry

Matthew 5:16 (MSG)
Now that I've put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand-shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you'll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven.

1 Corinthians 9:10

1 Corinthians 9:10 (NKJV)
Or does He say it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written, that he who plows should plow in hope, and he who threshes in hope should be partaker of his hope.

Zechariah 9:12

Zechariah 9:12 (NKJV)
Return to the stronghold, You prisoners of hope. Even today I declare That I will restore double to you.

Romans 15:4

Romans 15:4 (NLT)
Such things were written in the Scriptures long ago to teach us. And the Scriptures give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God’s promises to be fulfilled.

Romans 15:13

Romans 15:13 (NLT)
I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.

Romans 5:5

Romans 5:5 (NLT)
And this hope will not lead to disappointment. For we know how dearly God loves us, because he has given us the Holy Spirit to fill our hearts with his love.

Be "rooted" so your children can grow

Romans 11:16 (NLT)
And since Abraham and the other patriarchs were holy, their descendants will also be holy—just as the entire batch of dough is holy because the portion given as an offering is holy. For if the roots of the tree are holy, the branches will be, too.

Fresh start with the Lord

Psalm 51:10 (MSG)
God, make a fresh start in me, shape a Genesis week from the chaos of my life.

My job

Psalm 51:13 (MSG)
Give me a job teaching rebels your ways so the lost can find their way home.

Grow up

Matthew 5:48 (MSG)
"In a word, what I'm saying is, Grow up. You're kingdom subjects. Now live like it. Live out your God-created identity. Live generously and graciously toward others, the way God lives toward you."

My purpose as a believer

Matthew 5:13-14 (MSG)
"Let me tell you why you are here. You're here to be salt-seasoning that brings out the God-flavors of this earth. If you lose your saltiness, how will people taste godliness? You've lost your usefulness and will end up in the garbage.

Man shall not live by bread alone.

Matthew 5:6 (MSG)
"You're blessed when you've worked up a good appetite for God. He's food and drink in the best meal you'll ever eat.