“Do everything readily and cheerfully—no bickering, no second-guessing allowed!    Go out into the world uncorrupted, a breath of fresh air in this squalid and polluted society.     Provide people with a glimpse of good living and of the living God.      Carry the light-giving Message into the night so I’ll have good cause to be […]

“People with their minds set on you, you keep completely whole..steady on their feet, because they keep at it and don’t quit.    Depend on God and keep at it because in the Lord God you have a sure thing. Those who lived high and mighty,  he knocked off their horse.” Isaiah 26:1-3 MSG What is […]

“Here’s how you test for the genuine Spirit of God. Everyone who confesses openly his faith in Jesus Christ—the Son of God, who came as an actual flesh-and-blood person—comes from God and belongs to God.    And everyone who refuses to confess faith in Jesus has nothing in common with God.”1 John 4:2, 3 MSG […]

“When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I’ll listen. When you come looking for me, you’ll find me. Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I’ll make sure you won’t be disappointed.” God ’s Decree.      “I’ll turn things around for you…. […]

“The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing!     God is putting the finishing touches on the salvation work he began when we first believed.    We can’t afford to waste a minute, must not squander these precious daylight hours in frivolity and indulgence, in […]

“Be prepared. You’re up against far more than you can handle on your own. Take all the help you can get, every weapon God has issued, so that when it’s all over but the shouting you’ll still be on your feet.        Truth, righteousness, peace, faith, and salvation are more than words. Learn […]

“Don’t love the world’s ways. Don’t love the world’s goods. Love of the world squeezes out love for the Father.    Practically everything that goes on in the world—wanting your own way, wanting everything for yourself, wanting to appear important—has nothing to do with the Father. It just isolates you from him.    The world and all […]

“But now, God’s Message, the God who made you in the first place, the One who got you started: “Don’t be afraid, I’ve redeemed you. I’ve called your name. You’re mine.    When you’re in over your head, I’ll be there with you. When you’re in rough waters, you will not go down. When you’re between […]

 “You don’t get wormy apples off a healthy tree, nor good apples off a diseased tree. The health of the apple tells the health of the tree.    You must begin with your own life-giving lives. It’s who you are, not what you say and do, that counts. Your true being brims over into true words and […]

“While he was trying to figure a way out, he had a dream. God’s angel spoke in the dream: “Joseph, son of David, don’t hesitate to get married. Mary’s pregnancy is Spirit-conceived. God’s Holy Spirit has made her pregnant.    She will bring a son to birth, and when she does, you, Joseph, will name him […]