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Rhythm of grace

Matthew 11:28 (MSG)
"Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you'll recover your life. I'll show you how to take a real rest. Walk with me and work with me—watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won't lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly."

New heaven and earth - details

Isaiah 65:17 (MSG)
"Pay close attention now: I'm creating new heavens and a new earth. All the earlier troubles, chaos, and pain are things of the past, to be forgotten. Look ahead with joy. Anticipate what I'm creating: I'll create Jerusalem as sheer joy, create my people as pure delight. I'll take joy in Jerusalem, take delight in my people: No more sounds of weeping in the city, no cries of anguish; No more babies dying in the cradle, or old people who don't enjoy a full lifetime; One-hundredth birthdays will be considered normal— anything less will seem like a cheat. They'll build houses and move in. They'll plant fields and eat what they grow. No more building a house that some outsider takes over, No more planting fields that some enemy confiscates, For my people will be as long-lived as trees, my chosen ones will have satisfaction in their work. They won't work and have nothing come of it, they won't have children snatched out from under them. For they themselves are plantings blessed by God, with their children and grandchildren likewise God-blessed. Before they call out, I'll answer. Before they've finished speaking, I'll have heard. Wolf and lamb will graze the same meadow, lion and ox eat straw from the same trough, but snakes—they'll get a diet of dirt! Neither animal nor human will hurt or kill anywhere on my Holy Mountain," says God.

Leadership Organized

Exodus 18:17 (MSG)
Moses' father-in-law said, "This is no way to go about it. You'll burn out, and the people right along with you. This is way too much for you—you can't do this alone. Now listen to me. Let me tell you how to do this so that God will be in this with you. Be there for the people before God, but let the matters of concern be presented to God. Your job is to teach them the rules and instructions, to show them how to live, what to do. And then you need to keep a sharp eye out for competent men—men who fear God, men of integrity, men who are incorruptible—and appoint them as leaders over groups organized by the thousand, by the hundred, by fifty, and by ten. They'll be responsible for the everyday work of judging among the people. They'll bring the hard cases to you, but in the routine cases they'll be the judges. They will share your load and that will make it easier for you. If you handle the work this way, you'll have the strength to carry out whatever God commands you, and the people in their settings will flourish also."

Golden Rule

Matthew 7:12 (MSG)
"Here is a simple, rule-of-thumb guide for behavior: Ask yourself what you want people to do for you, then grab the initiative and do it for them. Add up God's Law and Prophets and this is what you get.

Empowered

1 Samuel 16:13 (MSG)
Samuel took his flask of oil and anointed him, with his brothers standing around watching. The Spirit of god entered David like a rush of wind, God vitally empowering him for the rest of his life. Samuel left and went home to Ramah.

God's Motivation

Isaiah 48:11 (MSG)
Out of myself, simply because of who I am, I do what I do. I have my reputation to keep up. I'm not playing second fiddle to either gods or people.

You can do nothing

John 15:5 (MSG)
"I am the Vine, you are the branches. When you're joined with me and I with you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant. Separated, you can't produce a thing. Anyone who separates from me is deadwood, gathered up and thrown on the bonfire. But if you make yourselves at home with me and my words are at home in you, you can be sure that whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon. This is how my Father shows who he is—when you produce grapes, when you mature as my disciples.

2 Corinthians 1:4

2 Corinthians 1:4 (MSG)
He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us.

2 Timothy 3:17

2 Timothy 3:17 (MSG)
Through the Word we are put together and shaped up for the tasks God has for us.

Psalm 50:11

Psalm 50:11 (MSG)
I know every mountain bird by name; the scampering field mice are my friends.

Ephesians 3:17

Ephesians 3:17 (MSG)
that Christ will live in you as you open the door and invite him in. And I ask him that with both feet planted firmly on love,

Deuteronomy 9:6

Deuteronomy 9:6 (MSG)
Know this and don't ever forget it: It's not because of any good that you've done that god is giving you this good land to own. Anything but! You're stubborn as mules. Keep in mind and don't ever forget how angry you made god, your God, in the wilderness. You've kicked and screamed against god from the day you left Egypt until you got to this place, rebels all the way. You made god angry at Horeb, made him so angry that he wanted to destroy you. When I climbed the mountain to receive the slabs of stone, the tablets of the covenant that god made with you, I stayed there on the mountain forty days and nights: I ate no food; I drank no water. Then god gave me the two slabs of stone, engraved with the finger of God. They contained word for word everything that god spoke to you on the mountain out of the fire, on the day of the assembly.

Deuteronomy 9:5

Deuteronomy 9:5 (MSG)
No, it's nothing good that you've done, no record for decency that you've built up, that got you here; it's because of the vile wickedness of these nations that God, your God, is dispossessing them before you so that he can keep his promised word to your ancestors, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

Proverbs 31:8

Proverbs 31:8 (MSG)
"Speak up for the people who have no voice, for the rights of all the down-and-outers. Speak out for justice! Stand up for the poor and destitute!"

Proverbs 26:2

Proverbs 26:2 (MSG)
You have as little to fear from an undeserved curse as from the dart of a wren or the swoop of a swallow.

Ephesians 3:19

Ephesians 3:19 (MSG)
Live full lives, full in the fullness of God.

Ephesians 3:20

Ephesians 3:20 (MSG)
God can do anything, you know—far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us. Glory to God in the church! Glory to God in the Messiah, in Jesus! Glory down all the generations! Glory through all millennia! Oh, yes!

Proverbs 29:25

Proverbs 29:25 (MSG)
The fear of human opinion disables; trusting in God protects you from that.

Proverbs 29:21

Proverbs 29:21 (MSG)
If you let people treat you like a doormat, you'll be quite forgotten in the end.

Proverbs 13:24

Proverbs 13:24 (MSG)
A refusal to correct is a refusal to love; love your children by disciplining them.

Proverbs 14:28

Proverbs 14:28 (MSG)
The mark of a good leader is loyal followers; leadership is nothing without a following.

Proverbs 28:9

Proverbs 28:9 (MSG)
God has no use for the prayers of the people who won't listen to him.

Deuteronomy 1:31

Deuteronomy 1:31 (MSG)
you saw what he did in the wilderness, how God, your God, carried you as a father carries his child, carried you the whole way until you arrived here.

Proverbs 11:14

Proverbs 11:14 (MSG)
Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances.

Proverbs 8:33

Proverbs 8:33 (MSG)
Mark a life of discipline and live wisely; don't squander your precious life.