Marcel Tookes

he will forgive

Micah 7:8 (MSG)
Don't, enemy, crow over me. I'm down, but I'm not out. I'm sitting in the dark right now, but God is my light. I can take God's punishing rage. I deserve it—I sinned. But it's not forever. He's on my side and is going to get me out of this. He'll turn on the lights and show me his ways. I'll see the whole picture and how right he is. And my enemy will see it, too, and be discredited—yes, disgraced! This enemy who kept taunting, "So where is this God of yours?" I'm going to see it with these, my own eyes— my enemy disgraced, trash in the gutter.

help not hurt

Matthew 5:9 (MSG)
"You're blessed when you can show people how to cooperate instead of compete or fight. That's when you discover who you really are, and your place in God's family.

God wants to you to spread his word!

1 Peter 2:9 (MSG)
But you are the ones chosen by God, chosen for the high calling of priestly work, chosen to be a holy people, God's instruments to do his work and speak out for him, to tell others of the night-and-day difference he made for you—from nothing to something, from rejected to accepted.

you can't do it yourself

Galatians 3:3 (MSG)
Are you going to continue this craziness? For only crazy people would think they could complete by their own efforts what was begun by God. If you weren't smart enough or strong enough to begin it, how do you suppose you could perfect it?

God is the only way to get you through it!

Romans 4:5 (MSG)
But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it's something only God can do, and you trust him to do it-you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked-well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift.

love is the greatest command

John 15:12-13 (MSG)
This is my command: Love one another the way I loved you.

let christ in your life and live with troubles and all

Romans 8:1 (MSG)
With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ's being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.

you can't get yourself right that's up to God

Romans 5:6 (MSG)
Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn't, and doesn't, wait for us to get ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn't been so weak, we wouldn't have known what to do anyway. We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.

you can't get yourself right that's up to God

Romans 5:6 (MSG)
Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn't, and doesn't, wait for us to get ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn't been so weak, we wouldn't have known what to do anyway. We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice. But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.

about working

Proverbs 10:4 (MSG)
Sloth makes you poor; diligence brings wealth.

what is love

1 Corinthians 13:4-8 (MSG)
Love never gives up. Love cares more for others than for self. Love doesn't want what it doesn't have. Love doesn't strut, Doesn't have a swelled head,

helping others

Hebrews 6:10 (MSG)
God doesn't miss anything. He knows perfectly well all the love you've shown him by helping needy Christians, and that you keep at it.

prayer of david when in the cave

Psalm 142:1-7 (MSG)
I cry out loudly to god, loudly I plead with god for mercy. I spill out all my complaints before him, and spell out my troubles in detail:

prayers

Psalm 142:1 (MSG)
I cry out loudly to god, loudly I plead with god for mercy. I spill out all my complaints before him, and spell out my troubles in detail:

believers with unbelievers

1 Corinthians 7:12-14 (MSG)
For the rest of you who are in mixed marriages—Christian married to non-Christian—we have no explicit command from the Master. So this is what you must do. If you are a man with a wife who is not a believer but who still wants to live with you, hold on to her. If you are a woman with a husband who is not a believer but he wants to live with you, hold on to him. The unbelieving husband shares to an extent in the holiness of his wife, and the unbelieving wife is likewise touched by the holiness of her husband. Otherwise, your children would be left out; as it is, they also are included in the spiritual purposes of God.

you can't do it by yourself!

Romans 4:5 (MSG)
But if you see that the job is too big for you, that it's something only God can do, and you trust him to do it-you could never do it for yourself no matter how hard and long you worked-well, that trusting-him-to-do-it is what gets you set right with God, by God. Sheer gift.

Isaiah 43:18-19

Isaiah 43:18-19 (NKJV)
Do not remember the former things, Nor consider the things of old.

Matthew 7:1-3, Matthew 7:5

Matthew 7:1-3 (MSG)
"Don't pick on people, jump on their failures, criticize their faults— unless, of course, you want the same treatment. That critical spirit has a way of boomeranging. It's easy to see a smudge on your neighbor's face and be oblivious to the ugly sneer on your own. Do you have the nerve to say, 'Let me wash your face for you,' when your own face is distorted by contempt? It's this whole traveling road-show mentality all over again, playing a holier-than-thou part instead of just living your part. Wipe that ugly sneer off your own face, and you might be fit to offer a washcloth to your neighbor.

Matthew 7:5 (MSG)
It's this whole traveling road-show mentality all over again, playing a holier-than-thou part instead of just living your part. Wipe that ugly sneer off your own face, and you might be fit to offer a washcloth to your neighbor.

your time

Galatians 4:1-7 (NKJV)
Now I say that the heir, as long as he is a child, does not differ at all from a slave, though he is master of all,

understanding

Romans 3:27 (MSG)
So where does that leave our proud Jewish insider claims and counter-claims? Canceled? Yes, canceled. What we've learned is this: God does not respond to what we do; we respond to what God does. We've finally figured it out. Our lives get in step with God and all others by letting him set the pace, not by proudly or anxiously trying to run the parade.

criticizing others

Romans 2:1 (MSG)
Those people are on a dark spiral downward. But if you think that leaves you on the high ground where you can point your finger at others, think again. Every time you criticize someone, you condemn yourself. It takes one to know one. Judgmental criticism of others is a well-known way of escaping detection in your own crimes and misdemeanors. But God isn't so easily diverted. He sees right through all such smoke screens and holds you to what you've done.

relationship not religion

Hosea 6:6 (MSG)
I'm after love that lasts, not more religion. I want you to know God, not go to more prayer meetings.

time to activate

James 2:17-26 (NKJV)
Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead.

put it in its place

Proverbs 15:23 (NKJV)
A man has joy by the answer of his mouth, And a word spoken in due season, how good it is!

breaking of the bread

Matthew 26:26-28 (MSG)
During the meal, Jesus took and blessed the bread, broke it, and gave it to his disciples: Take, eat. This is my body. Taking the cup and thanking God, he gave it to them: Drink this, all of you. This is my blood, God's new covenant poured out for many people for the forgiveness of sins. "I'll not be drinking wine from this cup again until that new day when I'll drink with you in the kingdom of my Father."