Darlene Pitts

Proverbs 4:23

Proverbs 4:23 (MSG)
Keep vigilant watch over your heart; that's where life starts. Don't talk out of both sides of your mouth; avoid careless banter, white lies, and gossip. Keep your eyes straight ahead; ignore all sideshow distractions. Watch your step, and the road will stretch out smooth before you. Look neither right nor left; leave evil in the dust.

Proverbs 4:23

Proverbs 4:23 (AMP)
Keep and guard your heart with all vigilance and above all that you guard, for out of it flow the springs of life.

Hebrews 12:2

Hebrews 12:2 (AMP)
Looking away [from all that will distract] to Jesus, Who is the Leader and the Source of our faith [giving the first incentive for our belief] and is also its Finisher [bringing it to maturity and perfection]. He, for the joy [of obtaining the prize] that was set before Him, endured the cross, despising and ignoring the shame, and is now seated at the right hand of the throne of God.

Hebrews 10:36

Hebrews 10:36 (AMP)
For you have need of steadfast patience and endurance, so that you may perform and fully accomplish the will of God, and thus receive and carry away [and enjoy to the full] what is promised.

Hebrews 10:35

Hebrews 10:35 (AMP)
Do not, therefore, fling away your fearless confidence, for it carries a great and glorious compensation of reward.

Proverbs 17:8

Proverbs 17:8 (MSG)
Receiving a gift is like getting a rare gemstone; any way you look at it, you see beauty refracted.

Proverbs 11:25

Proverbs 11:25 (MSG)
The one who blesses others is abundantly blessed; those who help others are helped.

Prayer of Jabez

1 Chronicles 4:10 (MSG)
Jabez prayed to the God of Israel: "Bless me, O bless me! Give me land, large tracts of land. And provide your personal protection-don't let evil hurt me." God gave him what he asked.

Prayer of Jabez

1 Chronicles 4:9 (MSG)
Jabez was a better man than his brothers, a man of honor. His mother had named him Jabez (Oh, the pain!), saying, "A painful birth! I bore him in great pain!" Jabez prayed to the God of Israel: "Bless me, O bless me! Give me land, large tracts of land. And provide your personal protection—don't let evil hurt me." God gave him what he asked.

Hebrews 12:2

Hebrews 12:2 (MSG)
Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we're in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed-that exhilarating finish in and with God-he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he's there, in the place of honor, right alongside God.

Psalm 20:6

Psalm 20:6 (MSG)
That clinches it—help's coming, an answer's on the way, everything's going to work out.

Luke 3:21

Luke 3:21 (MSG)
After all the people were baptized, Jesus was baptized. As he was praying, the sky opened up and the Holy Spirit, like a dove descending, came down on him. And along with the Spirit, a voice: "You are my Son, chosen and marked by my love, pride of my life."

Psalm 20:5

Psalm 20:5 (MSG)
When you win, we plan to raise the roof and lead the parade with our banners. May all your wishes come true!

Psalm 20:4

Psalm 20:4 (MSG)
Give you what your heart desires, Accomplish your plans.

Malachi 3:10

Malachi 3:10 (MSG)
Bring your full tithe to the Temple treasury so there will be ample provisions in my Temple. Test me in this and see if I don't open up heaven itself to you and pour out blessings beyond your wildest dreams.

Luke 4:28

Luke 4:28 (MSG)
That set everyone in the meeting place seething with anger. They threw him out, banishing him from the village, then took him to a mountain cliff at the edge of the village to throw him to his doom, but he gave them the slip and was on his way.

Malachi 3:8

Malachi 3:8 (MSG)
"Begin by being honest. Do honest people rob God? But you rob me day after day. "You ask, 'How have we robbed you?' "The tithe and the offering—that's how! And now you're under a curse —the whole lot of you—because you're robbing me. Bring your full tithe to the Temple treasury so there will be ample provisions in my Temple. Test me in this and see if I don't open up heaven itself to you and pour out blessings beyond your wildest dreams. For my part, I will defend you against marauders, protect your wheat fields and vegetable gardens against plunderers." The Message of God-of-the-Angel-Armies.

Luke 4:22

Luke 4:22 (MSG)
All who were there, watching and listening, were surprised at how well he spoke. But they also said, "Isn't this Joseph's son, the one we've known since he was a youngster?"

Philippians 3:11

Philippians 3:11 (MSG)
If there was any way to get in on the resurrection from the dead, I wanted to do it.

Philippians 3:10

Philippians 3:10 (MSG)
I gave up all that inferior stuff so I could know Christ personally, experience his resurrection power, be a partner in his suffering, and go all the way with him to death itself. If there was any way to get in on the resurrection from the dead, I wanted to do it.

2 Corinthians 9:5

2 Corinthians 9:5 (AMP)
That is why I thought it necessary to urge these brethren to go to you before I do and make arrangements in advance for this bountiful, promised gift of yours, so that it may be ready, not as an extortion [wrung out of you] but as a generous and willing gift.

2 Corinthians 8:10

2 Corinthians 8:10 (AMP)
[It is then] my counsel and my opinion in this matter that I give [you when I say]: It is profitable and fitting for you [now to complete the enterprise] which more than a year ago you not only began, but were the first to wish to do anything [about contributions for the relief of the saints at Jerusalem].

2 Corinthians 8:7

2 Corinthians 8:7 (AMP)
Now as you abound and excel and are at the front in everything--in faith, in expressing yourselves, in knowledge, in all zeal, and in your love for us--[see to it that you come to the front now and] abound and excel in this gracious work [of almsgiving] also.

Matthew 6:20

Matthew 6:20 (AMP)
But gather and heap up and store for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust nor worm consume and destroy, and where thieves do not break through and steal;

Matthew 6:19

Matthew 6:19 (AMP)
Do not gather and heap up and store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust and worm consume and destroy, and where thieves break through and steal.