Andrew Needham

What do you value

Luke 12:21 (NLT)
“Yes, a person is a fool to store up earthly wealth but not have a rich relationship with God.”

Power of the spirit over haters

John 11:49-51 (NLT)
Caiaphas, who was high priest at that time, said, “You don’t know what you’re talking about!

Convicting of sin

John 7:7 (NLT)
The world can’t hate you, but it does hate me because I accuse it of doing evil.

Clean food

Mark 7:18-19 (ESV)
And he said to them, "Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him,

A way to Judge our spirituality

Luke 7:23 (NLT)
And tell him, ‘God blesses those who do not turn away because of me.’”

An interesting interpretation of Jesus

Matthew 11:19 (NLT)
The Son of Man, on the other hand, feasts and drinks, and you say, ‘He’s a glutton and a drunkard, and a friend of tax collectors and other sinners!’ But wisdom is shown to be right by its results.”

Been with Jesus?

Acts 4:12-14 (NLT)
There is salvation in no one else! God has given no other name under heaven by which we must be saved.”

Mercy not sacrifice

Matthew 9:13 (NLT)
Then he added, “Now go and learn the meaning of this Scripture: ‘I want you to show mercy, not offer sacrifices.’ For I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”

Matthew 9:13

Matthew 9:13 (NLT)
Then he added, “Now go and learn the meaning of this Scripture: ‘I want you to show mercy, not offer sacrifices.’ For I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners.”

John 5:39

John 5:39 (NLT)
“You search the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. But the Scriptures point to me!

Afraid of righteousness

John 3:19-20 (NLT)
And the judgment is based on this fact: God’s light came into the world, but people loved the darkness more than the light, for their actions were evil.

Only trust in God

John 6:28-29 (NLT)
They replied, “We want to perform God’s works, too. What should we do?”

Zechariah 13:9

Zechariah 13:9 (NLT)
I will bring that group through the fire and make them pure. I will refine them like silver and purify them like gold. They will call on my name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘These are my people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”

Psalm 62:5-6

Psalm 62:5-6 (NLT)
Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.

Ezekiel 14:20

Ezekiel 14:20 (NLT)
As surely as I live, says the Sovereign LORD, even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were there, they wouldn’t be able to save their own sons or daughters. They alone would be saved by their righteousness.

Ezekiel 36:24-26

Ezekiel 36:24-26 (NLT)
For I will gather you up from all the nations and bring you home again to your land.

Righteousness and wickedness

Ezekiel 33:12-13 (NLT)
“Son of man, give your people this message: The righteous behavior of righteous people will not save them if they turn to sin, nor will the wicked behavior of wicked people destroy them if they repent and turn from their sins.

It is God working in us

Ezekiel 20:12 (ESV)
Moreover, I gave them my Sabbaths, as a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am the Lord who sanctifies them.

Lamentations 3:25

Lamentations 3:25 (NLT)
The LORD is good to those who depend on him, to those who search for him.

Verses for thought

Jeremiah 7:18 (ESV)
The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. And they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.

Jeremiah 7:25-26 (ESV)
From the day that your fathers came out of the land of Egypt to this day, I have persistently sent all my servants the prophets to them, day after day.

Isaiah 66:2

Isaiah 66:2 (NIV)
Has not my hand made all these things, and so they came into being?" declares the lord. "These are the ones I look on with favor: those who are humble and contrite in spirit, and who tremble at my word.

Isaiah 62:4

Isaiah 62:4 (NIV)
No longer will they call you Deserted, or name your land Desolate. But you will be called Hephzibah, and your land Beulah; for the lord will take delight in you, and your land will be married.

Memorizing scripture

Isaiah 59:21 (NIV)
"As for me, this is my covenant with them," says the lord. "My Spirit, who is on you, will not depart from you, and my words that I have put in your mouth will always be on your lips, on the lips of your children and on the lips of their descendants—from this time on and forever," says the lord.

Breaking the Chains of the world

Isaiah 58:5-11 (NIV)
Is this the kind of fast I have chosen, only a day for people to humble themselves? Is it only for bowing one's head like a reed and for lying in sackcloth and ashes? Is that what you call a fast, a day acceptable to the lord?

God is the one who purifies us

Isaiah 48:9-11 (NLT)
Yet for my own sake and for the honor of my name, I will hold back my anger and not wipe you out.