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An artesian spring within

"Anyone who drinks this water will get thirsty again and again. Anyone who drinks the water I give will never thirst - not ever. The water I give will be an artesian spring within, gushing fountains of…

John 4:13 (MSG), John 4:14 (MSG)

Don't run from suffering...

Jesus says, "Don't run from suffering; embrace it"; THEN he says, "Follow me and I'll show you how". If we don't FOLLOW HIM, let HIM lead, put HIM in the driver's seat, then we WILL suffer...regardless.…

Luke 9:23 (MSG)

Blinding light

Light, so bright, so sudden, so piercing that it instantly blinded Saul...I imagine it was painful too, to be made blind because of it...and that is exactly who/what Jesus is - LIGHT so strong, so pure,…

Acts 9:1 (MSG)

All leaves - no fruit! Matthew 21:19

"Seeing a lone fig tree alongside the road, he approached it anticipating a breakfast of figs. When he got to the tree, there was nothing but fig leaves. He said, "No more figs from this tree-ever!" The…

Don't look down! Matthew 14:30

Matthew 14:30 "But when he looked down at the waves churning beneath his feet, he lost his nerve and started to sink. He cried, "Master, save me!"It was the sight of the CHURNING that did Peter in - from…

The wind with no breath - the sea as smooth as glass. Mark 4:39

Mark 4:39: "Awake now, he told the wind to pipe down and said to the sea, "Quiet! Settle down!" The wind ran out of breath; the sea became smooth as glass."I LOVE this passage, this version and this particular…

Jars for law and jars of life

'Six stoneware pots were there, used by the Jews for ritual washings. Each held 20-30 gallons. Jesus ordered the servants, "Fill the pots with wafer." And they filled them to the brim., Jesus very first…

John 2:6 (MSG)

For God so loved..sheep :-/

What an apt description of us!....as sheep. Easily spooked, easily led, craving to be part of a group of like-minded others, "dumb" in a sense. And so the list goes on and on, depicting humanity's lost…

John 10:14 (MSG)

Sheep.Goats.Smart.Silly

The kingdom of God...goats and sheep...wise and foolish...living side by side and in actual fact, created with many similarities to be almost identical in look and 'feel' and purpose and vicinity and…

Matthew 25:1 (MSG), Matthew 25:31 (MSG)

"You just made them equal to us"

'These last workers put in only one easy hour, and you just made them equal to us, who slaved all day under a scorching sun' Matthew 20:12 Haha...we're a funny lot. Demanding to be acknowledged and compensated…

Matthew 20:12 (MSG)

Jesus grieves

It just hit me as I read this passage, how this news must've impacted Jesus...it did me as I read the section again of Herodias' scheme and Herod ordering John's death....and how that would've played…

Matthew 14:13 (MSG)

The God cycle

Here we see a simple yet profound example of a pattern of behaviour or a cycle that I believe Jesus was demonstrating as to how we are to live and breathe and have our spirit. Take loaves and fish -…

Matthew 14:13 (MSG), Matthew 14:14 (MSG), Matthew 14:15 (MSG), Matthew 14:16 (MSG), Matthew 14:17 (MSG), Matthew 14:18 (MSG), Matthew 14:19 (MSG), Matthew 14:20 (MSG), Matthew 14:21 (MSG)

Noisy ego-music!

Conferences, conventions, projects, slogans, goals, schemes, public relations, image making, ego-music...all stuff that, according to God, has US at the centre of it. Because the next sentence after that…

Amos 5:21 (MSG)

Aaron vs Moses - lol

Holy guacamole! At the first sign of trouble or doubt, Aaron asks all the ppl to hand over their GOLD!! And what for?? So he can melt it down and make it into a, er, golden calf :-\. That's his leadership…

Exodus 32:1 (MSG), Exodus 32:2 (MSG), Exodus 32:3 (MSG), Exodus 32:4 (MSG), Exodus 32:5 (MSG), Exodus 32:6 (MSG), Exodus 32:7 (MSG), Exodus 32:8 (MSG), Exodus 32:9 (MSG), Exodus 32:10 (MSG), Exodus 32:11 (MSG), Exodus 32:12 (MSG), Exodus 32:13 (MSG), Exodus 32:14 (MSG), Exodus 32:15 (MSG), Exodus 32:16 (MSG), Exodus 32:17 (MSG), Exodus 32:18 (MSG), Exodus 32:19 (MSG), Exodus 32:20 (MSG), Exodus 32:21 (MSG), Exodus 32:22 (MSG), Exodus 32:23 (MSG), Exodus 32:24 (MSG), Exodus 32:25 (MSG), Exodus 32:26 (MSG), Exodus 32:27 (MSG), Exodus 32:28 (MSG), Exodus 32:29 (MSG), Exodus 32:30 (MSG), Exodus 32:31 (MSG), Exodus 32:32 (MSG), Exodus 32:33 (MSG), Exodus 32:34 (MSG), Exodus 32:35 (MSG)

God's Dinner Party

i love this story for some reason...and shudder at the same time for it says that the host of the dinner party was outraged that those whom he had prepared for and whom he had invited were too "busy"…

Luke 14:15 (MSG), Luke 14:16 (MSG), Luke 14:17 (MSG), Luke 14:18 (MSG), Luke 14:19 (MSG), Luke 14:20 (MSG), Luke 14:21 (MSG), Luke 14:22 (MSG), Luke 14:23 (MSG), Luke 14:24 (MSG)

Protection from Greed

"Take care! Protect yourself against the least bit of greed. Life is not defined by what you have, even when you have a lot." The Word tells us here to be wary of "the LEAST BIT of greed"... ie. any…

Luke 12:15 (MSG)

What defined the samaritan?

"A Samaritan traveling the road came on him. When he saw the man's condition, his heart went out to him. (Luke 10:33 MSG) "His heart"...that is the definition of a Samaritan, one whose heart is moved…

Luke 10:33 (MSG)

Jesus

Jesus was "the talk of the town"...ppl/crowds clung to him and wouldn't let him go...they followed him from town to town...they flocked to him with their needs...they could not get enough of him, what…

Luke 4:31 (MSG), Luke 4:32 (MSG), Luke 4:33 (MSG), Luke 4:34 (MSG), Luke 4:35 (MSG), Luke 4:36 (MSG), Luke 4:37 (MSG), Luke 4:38 (MSG), Luke 4:39 (MSG), Luke 4:40 (MSG), Luke 4:41 (MSG), Luke 4:42 (MSG), Luke 4:43 (MSG), Luke 4:44 (MSG)

Centuries of work

But Jesus insisted. "Do it. God's work, putting things right all these centuries, is coming together right now in this baptism." So John did it. (Matthew 3:15 MSG) Wow....imagine that....CENTURIES of…

Abundant overflowing above & beyond

Genesis 1:1-20 Wow o Wow!! Just reading this it has hit me what that creation time must've been like!!! More and more and more and more...of everything, continually coming and flowing over, layer upon…

Unbelievable amazing scandalous love

But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed. (Isaiah 53:5 MSG) To think…

Bringing people into the light!

To make a start at bringing people into the open, into light: opening blind eyes, releasing prisoners from dungeons, emptying the dark prisons. (Isaiah 42:7 MSG) Wow...what must it have been like…

O the might of Jesus!

For a child has been born—for us! the gift of a son—for us! He’ll take over the running of the world. His names will be: Amazing Counselor, Strong God, Eternal Father, Prince of Wholeness. (Isaiah…

Refinery Fires

I’ll deliver the surviving third to the refinery fires. I’ll refine them as silver is refined, test them for purity as gold is tested. Then they’ll pray to me by name and I’ll answer them personally.…

Blood covenant

“And you, because of my blood covenant with you, I’ll release your prisoners from their hopeless cells. (Zechariah 9:11 MSG) Because of the blood of a god, or because a god shed his blood for ppl, this…