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Psalm 37:6

Psalm 37:6 (MSG)
He'll validate your life in the clear light of day and stamp you with approval at high noon.

1 Chronicles 22:19

1 Chronicles 22:19 (MSG)
your part is to give yourselves, heart and soul, to praying to your God. So get moving-build the sacred house of worship to God! Then bring the Chest of the Covenant of God and all the holy furnishings for the worship of God into the sanctuary built in honor of God."

why?

2 Samuel 12:25 (MSG)
and sent word by Nathan the prophet that God wanted him named Jedidiah (God's Beloved).

Psalm 84:10

Psalm 84:10 (MSG)
One day spent in your house, this beautiful place of worship, beats thousands spent on Greek island beaches. I'd rather scrub floors in the house of my God than be honored as a guest in the palace of sin. All sunshine and sovereign is god, generous in gifts and glory. He doesn't scrimp with his traveling companions. It's smooth sailing all the way with god-of-the-Angel-Armies.

Psalm 43:3, Psalm 43:5

Psalm 43:3 (MSG)
Give me your lantern and compass, give me a map, So I can find my way to the sacred mountain, to the place of your presence, To enter the place of worship, meet my exuberant God, Sing my thanks with a harp, magnificent God, my God.

Psalm 43:5 (MSG)
Why are you down in the dumps, dear soul? Why are you crying the blues? Fix my eyes on God— soon I'll be praising again. He puts a smile on my face. He's my God.

Psalm 130:5

Psalm 130:5 (MSG)
I pray to god—my life a prayer— and wait for what he'll say and do. My life's on the line before God, my Lord, waiting and watching till morning, waiting and watching till morning.

Psalm 18:6

Psalm 18:6 (MSG)
A hostile world! I call to god, I cry to God to help me. From his palace he hears my call; my cry brings me right into his presence— a private audience!

Psalm 63:1-2

Psalm 63:1-2 (MSG)
God—you're my God! I can't get enough of you! I've worked up such hunger and thirst for God, traveling across dry and weary deserts.

Psalm 17:4

Psalm 17:4 (MSG)
I'm not trying to get my way in the world's way. I'm trying to get your way, your Word's way. I'm staying on your trail; I'm putting one foot In front of the other. I'm not giving up.

Psalm 31:6

Psalm 31:6 (MSG)
I hate all this silly religion, but you, God, I trust. I'm leaping and singing in the circle of your love; you saw my pain, you disarmed my tormentors, You didn't leave me in their clutches but gave me room to breathe. Be kind to me, God— I'm in deep, deep trouble again. I've cried my eyes out; I feel hollow inside. My life leaks away, groan by groan; my years fade out in sighs. My troubles have worn me out, turned my bones to powder. To my enemies I'm a monster; I'm ridiculed by the neighbors. My friends are horrified; they cross the street to avoid me. They want to blot me from memory, forget me like a corpse in a grave, discard me like a broken dish in the trash. The street-talk gossip has me "criminally insane"! Behind locked doors they plot how to ruin me for good.

Psalm 27:4-5

Psalm 27:4-5 (MSG)
I'm asking god for one thing, only one thing: To live with him in his house my whole life long. I'll contemplate his beauty; I'll study at his feet.

1 Samuel 23:21, 1 Samuel 23:28

1 Samuel 23:21 (MSG)
Saul said, "god bless you for thinking about me! Now go back and check everything out. Learn his routines. Observe his movements—where he goes, who he's with. He's very shrewd, you know. Scout out all his hiding places. Then meet me at Nacon and I'll go with you. If he is anywhere to be found in all the thousands of Judah, I'll track him down!"

1 Samuel 23:28 (MSG)
So Saul called off his pursuit of David and went back to deal with the Philistines. That's how that place got the name Narrow Escape. David left there and camped out in the caves and canyons of En Gedi.

1 Samuel 23:21

1 Samuel 23:21 (MSG)
Saul said, "god bless you for thinking about me! Now go back and check everything out. Learn his routines. Observe his movements—where he goes, who he's with. He's very shrewd, you know. Scout out all his hiding places. Then meet me at Nacon and I'll go with you. If he is anywhere to be found in all the thousands of Judah, I'll track him down!"

1 Samuel 15:22

1 Samuel 15:22 (MSG)
Then Samuel said, Do you think all god wants are sacrifices— empty rituals just for show? He wants you to listen to him! Plain listening is the thing, not staging a lavish religious production. Not doing what god tells you is far worse than fooling around in the occult. Getting self-important around god is far worse than making deals with your dead ancestors. Because you said No to god's command, he says No to your kingship.

James 1:21

James 1:21 (MSG)
So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life.

1 Samuel 2:8

1 Samuel 2:8 (MSG)
He puts poor people on their feet again; he rekindles burned-out lives with fresh hope, Restoring dignity and respect to their lives-a place in the sun! For the very structures of earth are God's; he has laid out his operations on a firm foundation.

1 Samuel 1:27

1 Samuel 1:27 (MSG)
I prayed for this child, and God gave me what I asked for.

Ruth 2:12

Ruth 2:12 (MSG)
God reward you well for what you've done-and with a generous bonus besides from God, to whom you've come seeking protection under his wings."

Ruth 2:12

Ruth 2:12 (MSG)
God reward you well for what you've done-and with a generous bonus besides from God, to whom you've come seeking protection under his wings."

Ruth 2:12

Ruth 2:12 (MSG)
God reward you well for what you've done-and with a generous bonus besides from God, to whom you've come seeking protection under his wings."

Romans 12:6

Romans 12:6 (MSG)
let's just go ahead and be what we were made to be, without enviously or pridefully comparing ourselves with each other, or trying to be something we aren't. If you preach, just preach God's Message, nothing else;

Joshua 23:8, Joshua 23:11

Joshua 23:8 (MSG)
Hold tight to God, your God, just as you've done up to now.

Joshua 23:11 (MSG)
"Now, vigilantly guard your souls: Love god, your God. Because if you wander off and start taking up with these remaining nations still among you (intermarry, say, and have other dealings with them), know for certain that god, your God, will not get rid of these nations for you. They'll be nothing but trouble to you—horsewhips on your backs and sand in your eyes—until you're the ones who will be driven out of this good land that god, your God, has given you.

Matthew 26:41

Matthew 26:41 (MSG)
Stay alert; be in prayer so you don't wander into temptation without even knowing you're in danger. There is a part of you that is eager, ready for anything in God. But there's another part that's as lazy as an old dog sleeping by the fire."

Joshua 7:10

Joshua 7:10 (MSG)
god said to Joshua, "Get up. Why are you groveling? Israel has sinned: They've broken the covenant I commanded them; they've taken forbidden plunder—stolen and then covered up the theft, squirreling it away with their own stuff. The People of Israel can no longer look their enemies in the eye—they themselves are plunder. I can't continue with you if you don't rid yourselves of the cursed things.

Joshua 3:5

Joshua 3:5 (HCSB)
Joshua told the people, "Consecrate yourselves, because the Lord will do wonders among you tomorrow."