“So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You’ll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you.”
Romans 12:1-2 MSG
https://bible.com/bible/97/rom.12.1-2.MSG
Author Archives: Grace
GOD ISN’T PLEASED AT BEING IGNORED
“Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God’s action in them find that God’s Spirit is in them—living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into a spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores who God is and what he is doing. And God isn’t pleased at being ignored.”
Romans 8:5-8 MSG
https://bible.com/bible/97/rom.8.5-8.MSG
REAL REST
““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.””
Matthew 11:28-30 MSG
https://bible.com/bible/97/mat.11.28-30.MSG
TRUST IN ME ALONE
“Yahweh said to me: “Even a strong person is cursed when his confidence rests in his own strength. To place your confidence in the strength of man means that you are turning your heart away from me. That person is like a desert tumbleweed in a dry and dusty desert, in a rocky wilderness without inhabitant. Even when goodness is all around him, he won’t experience it. “I will bless with happiness the one who trusts in me, the one who trusts in me alone. He is like a tree planted on the riverbank, extending its roots into streams of water. It does not fear when scorching heat comes, for its leaves remain fresh and never fading even in a year of drought. It has no anxieties but continues to bear luscious fruit.””
Jeremiah 17:5-8 TPT
https://bible.com/bible/1849/jer.17.8.TPT
ON THE GRINDING WHEEL
“As iron sharpens iron, so one person sharpens another.”
Proverbs 27:17 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/pro.27.17.NIV
CONTINUALLY REVITALIZED, JOYFUL AND THANKFUL
“My beloved ones, just like you’ve always listened to everything I’ve taught you in the past, I’m asking you now to keep following my instructions as though I were right there with you. Now you must continue to make this new life fully manifested as you live in the holy awe of God—which brings you trembling into his presence. God will continually revitalize you, implanting within you the passion to do what pleases him. Live a cheerful life, without complaining or division among yourselves.”
Philippians 2:12-14 TPT
https://bible.com/bible/1849/php.2.14.TPT
NOT OPTIONAL!
“Forgive us the wrongs we have done as we ourselves release forgiveness to those who have wronged us.”
Matthew 6:12 TPT
https://bible.com/bible/1849/mat.6.12.TPT
A DAILY ASK – STAY IN TOUCH!
“Give us today our daily bread.”
Matthew 6:11 NIV
https://bible.com/bible/111/mat.6.11.NIV
DWELLING IN YOU, HIS TEMPLE
“Have you forgotten that your body is now the sacred temple of the Spirit of Holiness, who lives in you? You don’t belong to yourself any longer, for the gift of God, the Holy Spirit, lives inside your sanctuary. You were God’s expensive purchase, paid for with tears of blood, so by all means, then, use your body to bring glory to God!”
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 TPT
https://bible.com/bible/1849/1co.6.19-20.TPT
FIRST THINGS FIRST
““So above all, constantly seek God’s kingdom and his righteousness, then all these less important things will be given to you abundantly. Refuse to worry about tomorrow, but deal with each challenge that comes your way, one day at a time. Tomorrow will take care of itself.””
Matthew 6:33-34 TPT
https://bible.com/bible/1849/mat.6.33-34.TPT