Tabby Kirby

Ezekiel 3:14

Ezekiel 3:14 (MSG)
The Spirit lifted me and took me away. I went bitterly and angrily. I didn't want to go. But God had me in his grip. I arrived among the exiles who lived near the Kebar River at Tel Aviv. I came to where they were living and sat there for seven days, appalled.

Proverbs 3:9

Proverbs 3:9 (MSG)
Honor God with everything you own; give him the first and the best.

Malachi 2:2

Malachi 2:2 (MSG)
If you refuse to obediently listen, and if you refuse to honor me, God-of-the-Angel-Armies, in worship, then I'll put you under a curse. I'll exchange all your blessings for curses. In fact, the curses are already at work because you're not serious about honoring me.

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Malachi 1:7-8 (MSG)
"When you say, 'The altar of God is not important anymore; worship of God is no longer a priority,' that's defiling. And when you offer worthless animals for sacrifices in worship, animals that you're trying to get rid of—blind and sick and crippled animals—isn't that defiling? Try a trick like that with your banker or your senator—how far do you think it will get you?" God-of-the-Angel-Armies asks you.

Romans 4:6

Romans 4:6 (MSG)
David confirms this way of looking at it, saying that the one who trusts God to do the putting-everything-right without insisting on having a say in it is one fortunate man: Fortunate those whose crimes are carted off, whose sins are wiped clean from the slate. Fortunate the person against whom the Lord does not keep score. Do you think for a minute that this blessing is only pronounced over those of us who keep our religious ways and are circumcised? Or do you think it possible that the blessing could be given to those who never even heard of our ways, who were never brought up in the disciplines of God? We all agree, don't we, that it was by embracing what God did for him that Abraham was declared fit before God?

Romans 4:4-5

Romans 4:4-5 (MSG)
If you're a hard worker and do a good job, you deserve your pay; we don't call your wages a gift. 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.

Romans 4:3

Romans 4:3 (MSG)
What we read in Scripture is, "Abraham entered into what God was doing for him, and that was the turning point. He trusted God to set him right instead of trying to be right on his own."

2 Peter 2:1

2 Peter 2:1 (MSG)
But there were also lying prophets among the people then, just as there will be lying religious teachers among you. They'll smuggle in destructive divisions, pitting you against each other—biting the hand of the One who gave them a chance to have their lives back! They've put themselves on a fast downhill slide to destruction, but not before they recruit a crowd of mixed-up followers who can't tell right from wrong.

Matthew 6:5

Matthew 6:5 (MSG)
"And when you come before God, don't turn that into a theatrical production either. All these people making a regular show out of their prayers, hoping for stardom! Do you think God sits in a box seat?

Psalm 22:22

Psalm 22:22 (MSG)
Here's the story I'll tell my friends when they come to worship, and punctuate it with Hallelujahs: Shout Hallelujah, you God-worshipers; give glory, you sons of Jacob; adore him, you daughters of Israel. He has never let you down, never looked the other way when you were being kicked around. He has never wandered off to do his own thing; he has been right there, listening.

Philippians 2:1

Philippians 2:1 (MSG)
If you've gotten anything at all out of following Christ, if his love has made any difference in your life, if being in a community of the Spirit means anything to you, if you have a heart, if you care— then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends. Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead. Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.

Philippians 2:2

Philippians 2:2 (MSG)
then do me a favor: Agree with each other, love each other, be deep-spirited friends.

Philippians 2:3

Philippians 2:3 (MSG)
Don't push your way to the front; don't sweet-talk your way to the top. Put yourself aside, and help others get ahead.

Philippians 2:4

Philippians 2:4 (MSG)
Don't be obsessed with getting your own advantage. Forget yourselves long enough to lend a helping hand.

Philippians 2:11

Philippians 2:11 (MSG)
and call out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honor of God the Father.

Philippians 2:9

Philippians 2:9 (MSG)
Because of that obedience, God lifted him high and honored him far beyond anyone or anything, ever, so that all created beings in heaven and on earth—even those long ago dead and buried—will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ, and call out in praise that he is the Master of all, to the glorious honor of God the Father.

Philippians 2:10

Philippians 2:10 (MSG)
so that all created beings in heaven and on earth-even those long ago dead and buried-will bow in worship before this Jesus Christ,

Philippians 2:8

Philippians 2:8 (MSG)
Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death-and the worst kind of death at that: a crucifixion.

Philippians 2:7

Philippians 2:7 (MSG)
Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human!

Philippians 2:6

Philippians 2:6 (MSG)
He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what.

Philippians 2:5

Philippians 2:5 (MSG)
Think of yourselves the way Christ Jesus thought of himself. He had equal status with God but didn't think so much of himself that he had to cling to the advantages of that status no matter what. Not at all. When the time came, he set aside the privileges of deity and took on the status of a slave, became human! Having become human, he stayed human. It was an incredibly humbling process. He didn't claim special privileges. Instead, he lived a selfless, obedient life and then died a selfless, obedient death—and the worst kind of death at that—a crucifixion.