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1 Corinthians 10:23, 24
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2 Thessalonians 1:11
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2 Timothy 2:15
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Acts 10:40, 41
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Acts 16:37-39
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Acts 1:1
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Acts 9:13, 14
Colossians 1:15,16
Colossians 2:3
Colossians 3:15
Colossians 4:16
Ephesians 1:17,18
Ephesians 2:15
Ephesians 5:15,16
Ephesians 6:16
Ex. 7:20,22,24 & 8:22,23
Exodus 12:22
Exodus 15:8,25 & 16:21
Exodus 20:24
Exodus 23:28-30
Exodus 2:16-18
Exodus 5:13
Exodus 7:20, 22, 24
Galations 1:4
Galations 3:13
Galations 4:6, 7
Galations 4:9
Galations 5:24, 25
Galations 6: 2, 3
Galations 6:4, 8
Genesis 4:26
Hebrews 10:32
Hebrews 11:1,3
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Hebrews 2:3b
Hebrews 3:19
Hebrews 4:12
Hebrews 5:14
Hebrews 6:19,20
Hebrews 7:14, 17
Hebrews 8:10
John 18:1
John 19:41
Maark 16:17, 18
Mark 10:8, 9
Mark 11:8-10
Mark 11:8-20
Mark 12:14-17
Mark 13:14-16
Mark 14:3
Mark 15:15
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Mark 16:7
Mark 1:28, 33, 38
Mark 1:44
Mark 2: 2, 4
Mark 3:9, 10
Mark 4:11, 12, 34
Mark 4:24, 34
Mark 5:2, 3
Mark 5:37 & 40
Mark 6:1
Mark 7:24
Mark 8:33
Mark 9:24-27
Mark 9:50
Matthew 11:4-6
Matthew 12:33
Matthew 14:24,25
Matthew 15:6
Matthew 16:19
Matthew 16:24-26
Matthew 17:1,2
Matthew 17:6-8
Matthew 21:12
Matthew 21:19-21
Matthew 23:11,12
Matthew 23:38,39
Matthew 24:2
Matthew 24:32,33
Matthew 26:32
Matthew 26:7
Matthew 28:7, 20
Matthew 2:13-15
Matthew 3:8
Matthew 5:8
Matthew 7:20
Matthew 8:10 (MSG)
Matthew 8:22, 23
Matthew 8:8
Numbers 22:20-34
Numbers 25:11, 12
Philippians 1:11 (MSG)
Philippians 2:5
Philippians 3:10,11
Philippians 4:7
Phillipians 1:6
Psalm 104:9-11
Psalm 106:4,5
Psalm 10:7
Psalm 119:57, 58 (MSG)
Psalm 12:6, 7
Psalm 132:6,7
Psalm 135:10-12
Psalm 136:25
Psalm 15:1, 2
Psalm 20:7,8
Psalm 22:3
Psalm 24:6, 7
Psalm 2:12
Psalm 30:11,12
Psalm 34:7
Psalm 37:4-6
Psalm 38:12-15
Psalm 40:1-3
Psalm 42:6,7
Psalm 50:11
Psalm 55:6-8
Psalm 56:8
Psalm 59:16
Psalm 64:8,10
Psalm 69:5,6
Psalm 77:19
Psalm 78:1-3
Psalm 83:17,18
Psalm 91:1
Psalm 95:6-8
Psalms 149:1-4 (MSG)
Romans 10:4
Romans 11:29, 36
Romans 12: 1, 2
Romans 13:12
Romans 14:18
Romans 14:19, 20
Romans 15:2,3
Romans 16:19,20
Romans 1:19,20
Romans 2:2
Romans 2:29
Romans 3:3,4
Romans 6:7,8
Romans 7:24,25
Romans 8:19-23
Romans 8:5,6
Romans 9:31,32
Titus 1:15,16
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Food for the Spirit
Wednesday, 21 November 2012
'SIMPLE TRUST IN GOD' or 'I Can't Harvest or Reap UNTIL I am Harvested and Reaped Myself
Mood:
 a-ok
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: Matthew 8:10 (MSG)
 "SIMPLE TRUST IN GOD"OR "I Can't Harvest or Reap UNTIL I have been Harvested and Reaped MYSELF" S. Matthew 8:10 (MSG)Taken aback, Jesus said, "I've yet to come across this kind of simple trust in Israel, the very people who are supposed to know all about God and how he works. (Israel=those who prevail/contend with God...US) O. Simple trust in God...Jesus never found it, not even in His home town. In Matthew 9:1 Jesus goes to His very own hometown (likened to the Church), finding no one who had 'simple trust' in God. In Matthew 9, He saw their needs, sickness, disease, demonic influences....and the chance to rescue His own people! And His heart broke for them. He saw the need for a 'Harvest' and 'more Harvesters'...FOR His own people/church. His DESIRE was that His own HOMETOWN would be healed, whole, and KNOW SIMPLE TRUST IN GOD! A. I'm a Believer...everyone knows it. But if I am spiritually broken, spiritually or physically sick and diseased, and believing Satan's lies....how can I say, "Jesus lives in me...SEE?" I can't! Simple trust in God doesn't show in my life. I would be living a lie. No one would believes me because of what my life shows. BUT, if I let Jesus rescue me, live in SIMPLE TRUST IN GOD...THEN I will be BELIEVED! I need THE Harvester to HARVEST (the gathering of a ripened crop...I NEED TO BE RIPENED) and REAP (to gather the fruit of labor or works by God; God receives a return for what has been done by Jesus in my life; to gather, as a harvest, by cutting away my flesh and showing ONLY Jesus.) ME....BEFORE I can even BEGIN to harvest out in the world myself. P. I need SIMPLE TRUST in You, Father...allowing YOU to do all that needs done in my life. I can not live before others until You harvest and reap ME! As I go through this cutting away of flesh, help me to keep my eyes on YOU, Father...AND Your purposes for my life. Keep me ever hopeful in YOU!
Tuesday, 20 November 2012
Seeing from the Inside Out
Mood:
 surprised
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: Matthew 5:8
 S. Matthew 5:8 (msg) "You're blessed when you get your inside world—your mind and heart—put right. Then you can see God in the outside world." O. When our heart is changed toward God by salvation, we begin to understand the rights and wrongs of the outside world. We then become more sensitive to what God does in the world of man; past, present and future. A. The word see in this scripture is "to see with the mind, to perceive, know; to see, i.e. become acquainted with by experience, to experience. In my personal life, this meant that I would come to know God personally on the inside of me. I would actually EXPERIENCE Him! And when I did experience Him, my life could never ever be the same. He changed my inside vision of the world with glimpses of the way He sees it. When a person sees in this way, they are changed forever. To know God is to co-subside with Him...to be like Jesus...to walk with Him. As partners, it is my job to do life GOD'S way...the purpose He created me in the first place. P. Father, I ask for spiritual eyes to see life in the way You intended it. Help me to see it through Your eyes. Help me to be an example, by shadowing Jesus, so that I can help others to see this life too...the way You created it to truly be.
Monday, 19 November 2012
Troubles cause wisdom cause growth cause fruit; Tilling Life's Soil
Mood:
 hungry
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: Matthew 2:13-15
 S. Matthew 2:13-15 13.) Now after they had gone, behold, an angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph (increase) in a dream and said, Get up! [Tenderly] take unto you the young Child and His mother and flee to Egypt (troubles/oppression/anguish); and remain there till I tell you [otherwise], for Herod (outward appearnace) intends to search for the Child in order to destroy Him. 14.) And having risen, he took the Child and His mother by night and withdrew to Egypt (troubles/oppresion/anguish) 15And remained there until Herod’s (outward appearance) death. This was to fulfill what the Lord had spoken by the prophet, Out of Egypt (troubles/oppression/anguish) have I called My Son. O. Jesus is our life's example. What He did, we are to do, too. In these scriptures Joseph/Increase obeyed God (No obedience to God, no growth/fruit) ... Joseph wanted Jesus safe and to grow up healthy and wise. As a good father, Joseph led His Son to a place in which to grow. obeying God's direction. That place was 'life'...EGYPT, a place of troubles. Life is where we learn wisdom. Here is where 'increase/Joseph' led our 'Salvation/Jesus' in order to learn wisdom through 'troubles/Egypt' until... His 'outward appearance/flesh/'Herod' woud DIE! A. God wants me to have attain wisdom, learned through my living life...here, in life's troubles, is where my outward/fleshly appearance dies. Just like Jesus as He grew up in Egypt. Growth and fruit are produced in my "Egypts". The soil of my life has to be WORKED UP in order for full growth! THEN, with the wisdom learned, FRUIT CAN GROW. P. Thanks You for showing me that even Jesus had to go through 'Egypt', led by His Father, in order to become wise, drop the fleshly outward appearance, and then produce fruit and growth. I WANT THAT, LORD! Teach me wisdom as I go through my life. I want to grow in health and fruit!
Sunday, 18 November 2012
I Am Armed When I Am ON MY KNEES!
Mood:
surprised
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: 2 Corinthians 12:7
 S. 2 Corinthians 11: 13-15 (MSG) Satan does it all the time, dressing up as a beautiful angel of light. So it shouldn't surprise us when his servants masquerade as servants of God. 12:7 (MSG) Satan's angel did his best to get me down; what he in fact did was push me to my knees. No danger then of walking around high and mighty! O. Satan knows God, and he knows us. If he can fool us, he will, even coming to us through any disguise. When we discover these deceits, we are to fight. 2 Corinthians 12:7 gives us the answer to HOW to fight...on our knees. Prayer, praise and humility to God is our weapon against satan. Everything in the Kingdom is opposite the world. Satan has no power through prayer, praise and humility. These things are Truth...and satan has no Truth in him. This is how we break through and find out Truth. We bow to God and let Him take it! A. The only way to discern Truth from lies is in humility. When I humble myself to God in prayer and praise, Holy Spirit reveals to me the Truth even through the disguise of deception. Being sensitive to Holy Spirit helps me to 'see' what satan tries to hide. I can then know WHO the enemy is, and what he is trying to disguise himself as. ON MY KNEES I FIND TRUTH AND POWER! P. Father, I pray for eyes to see the enemy. I pray for discernment of his ways of attack. Make me quick to remember, Holy Spirit, that when deceit comes in disguise, it is time to get armed on my knees!
Saturday, 17 November 2012
A 'Fish' in 'Life's-Net': LEARNING 24/7 JOY!
Mood:
 happy
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: 2 Corinthians 7:10,11
A 'FISH' IN LIFE'S 'NET'; LEARNING 24/7 JOY S. 2 Corinthians 7:10,11 (MSG) Distress that drives us to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation. We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive them away from God are full of regrets, end up on a deathbed of regrets. And now, isn't it wonderful all the ways in which this distress has goaded you closer to God? You're more alive, more concerned, more sensitive, more reverent, more human, more passionate, more responsible. Looked at from any angle, you've come out of this with purity of heart. O. The definition of 'distress' is: "to afflict with pain, physical or mental; oppress or crush with suffering, misfortune, or calamity; make miserable." Sounds like 'life' to me. God uses my 'life' and 'living' to 'work out my 'salvation'. I can either wiggle like a fish in a net, taking longer to learn and knowing the end result is the same ...OR I can surrender in the joy of knowing that I am learning what God has sent that 'distress' to teach me...and KEEP my joy! The choice is always mine! A. During my last BIG 'distress', I wiggled like a 'crazy fish' in the net of life. The end result could have come alot faster if I would have surrendered to what God was trying to teach me in the first place. I now see that I need to EQUALIZE MY JOY! (which I can't do alone...HOLY SPIRIT is my Helper in this). When 'distresses' of the net-of-life comes again, I need to rest in the knowledge that God has me there for a reason...and learn it in JOY! (AND curiosity!) P. Father, make me 'life-smart'! I SO need eyes to see and a heart that trusts You in ALL life's 'nets'! Equalize my joy, Father...both in distressful times and times of joy! That would be MY proof to MYSELF that I trust in YOU totally...in or out of the 'fishing net'! Learning Your 24/7 JOY...no matter what!
Friday, 16 November 2012
Our Lives Publish God
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: 2 Corinthians 3:3,6 (MSG)
 S. 2 Corinthians 3:3,6 (MSG) Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God's living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it. vs. 6 The plan wasn't written out with ink on paper, with pages and pages of legal footnotes, killing your spirit. It's written with Spirit on spirit, his life on our lives! O. We Believers are an open book for all to see what God's character is because He lives in us. Our lives and everyday living are what people 'see' as the character of God. Our lives 'PUBLISH' The Living God. A. Every step I take, every move I make, every work I say, every gesture I do....all point to who God is. If my life doesn't show Him in HIS character, then He doesn't rule inside of me. If my total life and living doesn't reveal His love through me, then something needs to change inside of me. Oozing Jesus from an inner overflow to the outside of my life, is my goal...to be like Jesus. P. Father, help me to be more like Jesus. Increase my desire to be so close to You that Your character automatically flows through me.
Thursday, 15 November 2012
Equal Joy in Trials & Blessings; God's Work in My Salvation
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: 2 Corinthians 2:6-7
 S. 2 Corinthians 2: 6-7 (MSG) When we suffer for Jesus, it works out for your healing and salvation. If we are treated well, given a helping hand and encouraging word, that also works to your benefit, spurring you on, face forward, unflinching. Your hard times are also our hard times. When we see that you're just as willing to endure the hard times as to enjoy the good times, we know you're going to make it, no doubt about it. O. When we rejoice in the hard times as well as the good times, becoming satisfied in BOTH seasons, that we know we are finally 'getting it'; understanding the Kingdom and willing to endure it all, selling out to God. A. When I rejoice in both the good times and the bad times, THEN I will UNDERSTAND that it's all for working out my salvation here on Earth. REJOICING and being GLAD when BOTH blessings and trials come, in equal amounts of joy and being satiated in both seasons of my life, THEN I will know that I AM "going to make it, no doubt about it". THIS IS MY SPIRITUAL GOAL: TO BE SATISFIED IN BLESSINGS AND TRIALS...BECAUSE I'M WORKING OUT MY SALVATION THROUGH BOTH! P. Father, I pray for clear understanding and full satisfaction as You bring blessings my way and allow trials to teach me. I pray for clear vision to see YOUR way in working out my salvation IN FULL SATISFACTION, here on this Earth....in this NOW Kingdom! Help my joy to be equalized in both blessings and trials, knowing that YOU ARE IN BOTH!
Wednesday, 14 November 2012
Our Joy Delights God!
Mood:
happy
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: Psalms 149:1-4 (MSG)
 S. Psalm 149:1-4 (MSG) Hallelujah! Sing to God a brand-new song,...And why? Because God delights in his people,... O. We are to 'sing a new' song in order to 'repair, rebuild and renew' ourselves each day. Fresh joy each day as we go through a new day...all because God delights in us! A. Every new day, God wants me to have NEW joy! This gives Him delight. Because I want to please Him, I need NEW joy everyday. Joy comes from thankfulness. Each morning I want to look for something that renews my gratitude to God. This raises up in me NEW joy, fresh happiness that reveals God's love for me. Just like a father, My Father rejoices in my joy! P. Father, I pray for NEW gratitude each morning. I pray for NEW joy in YOU! I want You delighted in me!
Tuesday, 13 November 2012
True Love
Mood:
 amorous
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: 1 Corinthians 14:1
"TRUE LOVE" S. 1 Corinthians 14:1 (MSG) Go after a life of love as if your life depended on it—because it does. Give yourselves to the gifts God gives you. O. The most important thing is life is love; love of God, love of other people. Love is the only thing that lasts forever. We will be remembered for how we have loved. Love is what God judges us on as we continue our eternal life's journey. And when God gives us His gifts of the Spirit, we are to totally put our whole selves into them; giving them all we've got...studying them, practicing them, learning from mentors about the. In this way our God-given gifts are put to HIS use for man's good. A. All that can matter in my life is how I love God and others. Everything good stems out of love. Everything that is real and truth comes out of love. When I know God's compassion in my heart, allowing His love to reign through me, I feel that love that lasts. In that place of God's compassion, I am real and full of God's Truth. I can't love in a real way without knowing God's love for me and others. When I love HIM, He spreads His love over me, inside and out. It's a love I can not contain or keep for myself. It overflows onto others. This is the place I need to constantly live...KNOWING God's love, personally! P. Teach me more about Your love, Father. Open my eyes, ears and heart to Your kind of love. Fill me up with Your special kind of love...to the top and overflowing. I NEED Your love, compassion and passion, Jesus!
Monday, 12 November 2012
Love, the Aphrodisiac for Spiritual Gifts
Now Playing: Umma23
Topic: 1 Corinthians 12: 29-31
"LOVE, THE APHRODISIAC FOR SPIRITUAL GIFTS" S. 1 Corinthians 12: 29-31 Are all apostles (special messengers)? Are all prophets (inspired interpreters of the will and purposes of God)? Are all teachers? Do all have the power of performing miracles? Do all possess extraordinary powers of healing? Do all speak with tongues? Do all interpret? But earnestly desire and zealously cultivate the greatest and best gifts and graces (the higher gifts and the choicest graces). And yet I will show you a still more excellent way [one that is better by far and the highest of them all--love]. O. The desire for spiritual gifts comes from our love for God. When we desire to please Him because of our love for Him, we want to do what His Son Jesus did; point to the Father through actions then words. Jesus had all the spiritual gifts. Because we also are 'sons of God', we can have them, too...just by stirring up our desire through love of God. A. Wanting to please God stirs up my heart to desire what I can do for Him. God just wants us all to know Him. I must show God's love and desire for ALL people by showing 'proof' that He lives in me. The 'proof' is in the gifts that God gives me. I desire these because I know He loves me...and that I love Him. P. Father, I love how You love me. Stir me up inside, Father, by our love, so that I will desire every gift that You have chosen for me.
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