Kathryn Van Every

Love the Lord with all your heart, soul, and mind

Deuteronomy 6:5 (NIV)
Love the lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.

God is with us all the way!

Isaiah 43:1-5 (NIV)
But now, this is what the lord says— he who created you, Jacob, he who formed you, Israel: "Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine.

Vine

John 15:5 (NIV)
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.

Great things the Lord has done!

Psalm 126:3 (NASB)
The Lord has done great things for us; We are glad.

Living God's Way!

Galatians 5:22-23 (MSG)
But what happens when we live God's way? He brings gifts into our lives, much the same way that fruit appears in an orchard—things like affection for others, exuberance about life, serenity. We develop a willingness to stick with things, a sense of compassion in the heart, and a conviction that a basic holiness permeates things and people. We find ourselves involved in loyal commitments, not needing to force our way in life, able to marshal and direct our energies wisely.

Christian Life

Proverbs 4:21-27 (MSG)
Keep my message in plain view at all times. Concentrate! Learn it by heart!

Doing my best!

2 Timothy 2:7 (MSG)
Think it over. God will make it all plain.

2 Timothy 2:15 (MSG)
Concentrate on doing your best for God, work you won't be ashamed of, laying out the truth plain and simple.

2 Timothy 2:19 (MSG)
Meanwhile, God's firm foundation is as firm as ever, these sentences engraved on the stones: god knows who belongs to him. spurn evil, all you who name god as god.

Love

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (NIV)
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

Life

Proverbs 13:12 (MSG)
Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick, but a sudden good break can turn life around.

Hebrews 4:16

Hebrews 4:16 (MSG)
So let's walk right up to him and get what he is so ready to give. Take the mercy, accept the help.

Ephesians 4:1-2

Ephesians 4:1-2 (NIV)
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.

Peaceful living

Colossians 3:13-15 (NLT)
Make allowance for each other’s faults, and forgive anyone who offends you. Remember, the Lord forgave you, so you must forgive others.

Fruit of the Spirit

Galatians 5:22-23 (NLT)
But the Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness,

Love fosters forgiveness

Proverbs 17:9 (NLT)
Love prospers when a fault is forgiven, but dwelling on it separates close friends.

Love

Deuteronomy 6:5 (NLT)
And you must love the LORD your God with all your heart, all your soul, and all your strength.

God is my quiet retreat

Psalm 119:114 (MSG)
You're my place of quiet retreat; I wait for your Word to renew me.

Study on Love/Dating

John 13:35 (NIV)
By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

Study on Love/Dating

Romans 12:9-10 (NIV)
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.

The pull between our hearts and flesh

Romans 7:25 (MSG)
The answer, thank God, is that Jesus Christ can and does. He acted to set things right in this life of contradictions where I want to serve God with all my heart and mind, but am pulled by the influence of sin to do something totally different.

Temptation

1 Corinthians 10:6 (MSG)
The same thing could happen to us. We must be on guard so that we never get caught up in wanting our own way as they did. And we must not turn our religion into a circus as they did—"First the people partied, then they threw a dance." We must not be sexually promiscuous—they paid for that, remember, with 23,000 deaths in one day! We must never try to get Christ to serve us instead of us serving him; they tried it, and God launched an epidemic of poisonous snakes. We must be careful not to stir up discontent; discontent destroyed them.

1 Corinthians 10:11-13 (MSG)
These are all warning markers—danger!—in our history books, written down so that we don't repeat their mistakes. Our positions in the story are parallel—they at the beginning, we at the end—and we are just as capable of messing it up as they were. Don't be so naive and self-confident. You're not exempt. You could fall flat on your face as easily as anyone else. Forget about self-confidence; it's useless. Cultivate God-confidence.

Amazing life verse

Proverbs 3:5-7 (NIV)
Trust in the lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

Quiet retreat

Psalm 119:114 (MSG)
You're my place of quiet retreat; I wait for your Word to renew me.

Falling apart

Psalm 119:107 (MSG)
Everything's falling apart on me, God; put me together again with your Word.

Psalm 119:92-93

Psalm 119:92-93 (MSG)
If your revelation hadn't delighted me so, I would have given up when the hard times came.

Psalm 119:71

Psalm 119:71 (MSG)
My troubles turned out all for the best-they forced me to learn from your textbook.