Tana Holmes

Be your self!

1 Peter 5:6-7 (MSG)
So be content with who you are, and don't put on airs. God's strong hand is on you; he'll promote you at the right time. Live carefree before God; he is most careful with you.

One minute devotions

Proverbs 17:6 (MSG)
Old people are distinguished by grandchildren; children take pride in their parents.

Friendship

Proverbs 27:17 (MSG)
You use steel to sharpen steel, and one friend sharpens another.

Friendship

Proverbs 17:17 (MSG)
Friends love through all kinds of weather, and families stick together in all kinds of trouble.

1 minute devotions

Romans 12:9-10 (MSG)
Love from the center of who you are; don't fake it. Run for dear life from evil; hold on for dear life to good. Be good friends who love deeply; practice playing second fiddle.

Psalm 15:1-4

Psalm 15:1-4 (MSG)
god, who gets invited to dinner at your place? How do we get on your guest list?

Devotions

Proverbs 3:26 (MSG)
Because God will be right there with you; he'll keep you safe and sound.

Worry

Proverbs 12:25 (NIV84)
An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up.

Isaiah 55:9

Isaiah 55:9 (NIV84)
“As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Ephesians 6:1-24

Ephesians 6:1-24 (MSG)
Children, do what your parents tell you. This is only right. "Honor your father and mother" is the first commandment that has a promise attached to it, namely, "so you will live well and have a long life."

Ephesians 6:2-4

Ephesians 6:2-4 (MSG)
"Honor your father and mother" is the first commandment that has a promise attached to it, namely,

God loves us no matter what

Romans 8:37 (MSG)
None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us.

Hearts

Ezekiel 11:19 (MSG)
I'll give you a new heart. I'll put a new spirit in you. I'll cut out your stone heart and replace it with a red-blooded, firm-muscled heart.

A great way to start your day!:)

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,

Talking to God

Matthew 23:28 (NIV84)
In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Anger

Exodus 10:11 (CPDV)
It will not be so. However, go only with the men, and sacrifice to the Lord. For this, too, is what you yourselves requested.” And immediately they were cast out from the sight of Pharaoh.

Friends forever!!:) :D

Psalm 36:10 (MSG)
Keep on loving your friends; do your work in welcoming hearts. Don't let the bullies kick me around, the moral midgets slap me down. Send the upstarts sprawling flat on their faces in the mud.

Isaiah 32:17

Isaiah 32:17 (MSG)
And where there's Right, there'll be Peace and the progeny of Right: quiet lives and endless trust.

First 7 words!!:)

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.

Friendship

Ephesians 4:32 (MSG)
Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.

Forgiving sisters!!:)

Matthew 18:21 (MSG)
At that point Peter got up the nerve to ask, "Master, how many times do I forgive a brother or sister who hurts me? Seven?"

1 Peter 3:18

1 Peter 3:18 (MSG)
That's what Christ did definitively: suffered because of others' sins, the Righteous One for the unrighteous ones. He went through it all-was put to death and then made alive-to bring us to God.

Devoting yourself to Jesus!!!:)

Proverbs 14:12 (MSG)
There's a way of life that looks harmless enough; look again—it leads straight to hell. Sure, those people appear to be having a good time, but all that laughter will end in heartbreak.

1 John 1:9

1 John 1:9 (MSG)
On the other hand, if we admit our sins-make a clean breast of them-he won't let us down; he'll be true to himself. He'll forgive our sins and purge us of all wrongdoing.

Psalm 86:11

Psalm 86:11 (MSG)
Train me, god, to walk straight; then I'll follow your true path. Put me together, one heart and mind; then, undivided, I'll worship in joyful fear. From the bottom of my heart I thank you, dear Lord; I've never kept secret what you're up to. You've always been great toward me—what love! You snatched me from the brink of disaster! God, these bullies have reared their heads! A gang of thugs is after me— and they don't care a thing about you. But you, O God, are both tender and kind, not easily angered, immense in love, and you never, never quit. So look me in the eye and show kindness, give your servant the strength to go on, save your dear, dear child! Make a show of how much you love me so the bullies who hate me will stand there slack-jawed, As you, god, gently and powerfully put me back on my feet.