THE TIDE IS TURNING by Mary Dorian Sunday, October 23, 2022

Ps 118:14 and now he’s my salvation.

15 Hear the shouts, hear the triumph songs in the camp of the saved? “The hand of God has turned the tide!

16 The hand of God is raised in victory! The hand of God has turned the tide!”  msg

Ps 56:9  My enemies will retreat when I call to you for help. This I know: God is on my side!

10 I praise God for what he has promised; Yes, I praise the Lord for what he has promised. TLB

Luke 8:22-23 One day Jesus said to his disciples, “Let’s get in a boat and go across to the other side of the lake.” So they set sail, and soon Jesus fell asleep. But a fierce wind arose and became a violent squall that threatened to swamp their boat. TPT

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LU 8:22  On a certain day, he suggested to his disciples that they cross the lake by boat. 

8:23 While sailing, he fell into a deep sleep. Suddenly a massive storm broke upon them and the raging waves were surging dangerously over the boat and filling it with water.  MIRROR

Ps 57:1 BE MERCIFUL and gracious to me, O God, be merciful and gracious to me, for my soul takes refuge and finds shelter and confidence in You; yes, in the shadow of Your wings will I take refuge and be confident until calamities and destructive storms are passed.

2 I will cry to God Most High, Who performs on my behalf and rewards me [Who brings to pass His purposes for me and surely completes them]!

3 He will send from heaven and save me from the slanders and reproaches of him who would trample me down or swallow me up, and He will put him to shame. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]! God will send forth His mercy and loving-kindness and His truth and faithfulness.  AMP

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Ps 57:1  Be good to me, God — and now! I’ve run to you for dear life. I’m hiding out under your wings until the hurricane blows over.

2 I call out to High God, the God who holds me together.

3 He sends orders from heaven and saves me, he humiliates those who kick me around. God delivers generous love, he makes good on his word. MSG

Nah 1:7 The Lord is good, a Strength and Stronghold in the day of trouble; He knows (recognizes, has knowledge of, and understands) those who take refuge and trust in Him.  AMP

Psalms 34:4 Listen to my testimony: I cried to God in my distress and he answered me. He freed me from all my fears! TPT

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Ps 34:4  God met me more than halfway, he freed me from my anxious fears. MSG

JN 14:27 Peace be with you! I give you my own peace – this is not the kind the world gives – this is peace in the midst of troubled times; therefore you have nothing to fear! Let not your hearts be timid. MIRROR

Isa 42:10 Sing to God a brand-new song, sing his praises all over the world!

 with all the far-flung islands joining in.  MSG

Ps 107:29-30  He quieted the wind down to a whisper, put a muzzle on all the big waves.

30 And you were so glad when the storm died down, and he led you safely back to harbor. MSG

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Psalms 107:29 God stilled the storm, calmed the waves, and he hushed the hurricane winds to only a whisper.

³⁰We were so relieved, so glad as he guided us safely to harbor in a quiet haven. TPT

Prov 3:25  No need to panic over alarms or surprises, or predictions that doomsday’s just around the corner,

26 Because God will be right there with you; he’ll keep you safe and sound. MSG

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Proverbs 3:25 You will not be subject to terror, for it will not terrify you. Nor will the disrespectful be able to push you aside,

²⁶because God is your confidence in times of crisis, keeping your heart at rest in every situation.  TPT

Isa 32:1 But look! A king will rule in the right way, and his leaders will carry out justice.

2 Each one will stand as a shelter from high winds, provide safe cover in stormy weather. Each will be cool running water in parched land, a huge granite outcrop giving shade in the desert.

3 Anyone who looks will see, anyone who listens will hear.

4 The impulsive will make sound decisions, the tongue-tied will speak with eloquence.

5 No more will fools become celebrities, nor crooks be rewarded with fame.

6 For fools are fools and that’s that, thinking up new ways to do mischief. They leave a wake of wrecked lives and lies about God,  Turning their backs on the homeless hungry,

ignoring those dying of thirst in the streets.  MSG

Isa 32:8  But those who are noble make noble plans, and stand for what is noble. MSG

John 16:33  I’ve told you all this so that trusting me, you will be unshakable and assured, deeply at peace. In this godless world you will continue to experience difficulties. But take heart! I’ve conquered the world.”  MSG

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JN 16:33 I have spoken these things to you that in me you will know the sweet and assured resonance of my peace! In the world you encounter extreme and stressful times, but be of good courage, I have conquered the world-order!”  MIRROR

Ps 149:4 For the Lord takes pleasure in His people; He will beautify the humble with salvation and adorn the wretched with victory.

5 Let the saints be joyful in the glory and beauty [which God confers upon them]; let them sing for joy upon their beds.

6 Let the high praises of God be in their throats and a two-edged sword in their hands,

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Dan 11:32  And such as violate the covenant he shall pervert and seduce with flatteries, but the people who know their God shall prove themselves strong and shall stand firm and do exploits [for God].  AMP

Isa 25:8  Yes, he’ll banish death forever. And God will wipe the tears from every face.

He’ll remove every sign of disgrace From his people, wherever they are.

Yes! God says so!

9 Also at that time, people will say, “Look at what’s happened! This is our God!

We waited for him and he showed up and saved us! This God, the one we waited for!

Let’s celebrate, sing the joys of his salvation. MSG

1 COR 15:54-57  What was spoken in Isaiah is finally realized even in our physical death: “Death is swallowed up in victory!”

55 Oh death where is your sting? Oh grave, where is your victory?

56 The sting of death is sin; the strength of sin is the law. (It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage. — The Message.)

57 Your victory is not a maybe; because of the magnanimous doing of Jesus Christ, it is a given!  MIRROR

 Isaiah 30:18  For this reason the Lord is still waiting to show his favor to you so he can show you his marvelous love. He waits to be gracious to you. He sits on his throne ready to show mercy to you. For Yahweh is the Lord of justice, faithful to keep his promises. Overwhelmed with bliss are all who will entwine their hearts in him, waiting for him to help them. TPT

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Isa 30:18 And therefore the Lord [earnestly] waits [expecting, looking, and longing] to be gracious to you; and therefore He lifts Himself up, that He may have mercy on you and show loving-kindness to you. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed (happy, fortunate, to be envied) are all those who [earnestly] wait for Him, who expect and look and long for Him [for His victory, His favor, His love, His peace, His joy, and His matchless, unbroken companionship]! AMP

Matt 12:20  He won’t walk over anyone’s feelings, won’t push you into a corner.

Before you know it, his justice will triumph;

21 the mere sound of his name will signal hope, even among far-off unbelievers.

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Matthew 12:20 He won’t brush aside the bruised and broken. He will be gentle with the weak and feeble, until his victory releases justice.

²¹And the fame of his name will birth hope among the people. TPT

1 Cor 15:57  But thank God! He gives us victory over sin and death through our Lord Jesus Christ.

58 So, my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.  TLB

1 John 5:4 Every God-begotten person conquers the world’s ways. The power that brings the world to its knees is our faith.

5 The person who wins out over the world’s ways is simply the one who believes Jesus is the Son of God.

6 Jesus — the Divine Christ! He experienced a life-giving birth and a death-killing death. Not only birth from the womb, but baptismal birth of his ministry and sacrificial death. And all the while the Spirit is confirming the truth, the reality of God’s presence at Jesus’ baptism and crucifixion, bringing those occasions alive for us. MSG

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1 JN 5:4 Whatever is born of God is destined to triumph over the world system. Our faith celebrates a victory that is already accomplished!

5 This is the ultimate victory: the certainty that the human Jesus is the divine Son of God;  

6 This is he who was to come; he arrived in the flesh via his mother’s womb – by water and blood – Jesus Christ. And in his ministry as the Christ, he was not only borne witness to by John the Baptist in the prophetic baptism of water, but he went all the way into his baptism of death, in his shed blood, where he died mankind’s death. And it is the Spirit that bears witness according to her own being, which is truth!   MIRROR

Rom 8:37  None of this fazes us because Jesus loves us.

38 I’m absolutely convinced that nothing — nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow,

39 high or low, thinkable or unthinkable — absolutely nothing can get between us and God’s love because of the way that Jesus our Master has embraced us. MSG

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Romans 8:37 Yet even in the midst of all these things, we triumph over them all, for God has made us to be more than conquerors, and his demonstrated love is our glorious victory over everything!

³⁸So now I live with the confidence that there is nothing in the universe with the power to separate us from God’s love. I’m convinced that his love will triumph over death, life’s troubles, fallen angels, or dark rulers in the heavens. There is nothing in our present or future circumstances that can weaken his love.

³⁹There is no power above us or beneath us—no power that could ever be found in the universe that can distance us from God’s passionate love, which is lavished upon us through our Lord Jesus, the Anointed One!  TPT

“THE BIG LIE” VS THE WHOLE TRUTH  10-21-22  VIDEO A SPIRITUAL BATTLE

We’re living in the day where truth is not easily known. Have you heard the saying “if you keep repeating a lie long enough, some people will accept this as truth. The Father is very opposed to lies. He sent the Holy Spirit who is the Spirit of truth. The devil is a liar. It’s the devils nature to lie. Only two things he can do lie to you and hope you will act in fear. Truth is the aim of belief. Truth is important to know because it will help you thrive and grow. A lie can cost you your life. Lies often flatter someone to get something from them. The truth is it Jesus did not come only to bring people to heaven, but the whole truth/reality is that he came to join them to the Father. We have a mission to bring the truth to the world to the whole world. The big lie and liars have brought are brought to nothing.

John 16:5 But now I am on my way to the One who sent me. Not one of you has asked, ‘Where are you going?’

6 Instead, the longer I’ve talked, the sadder you’ve become.

7 So let me say it again, this truth: It’s better for you that I leave. If I don’t leave, the Friend won’t come. But if I go, I’ll send him to you.

8 “When he comes, he’ll expose the error of the godless world’s view of sin, righteousness, and judgment:

9 He’ll show them that their refusal to believe in me is their basic sin;

10 that righteousness comes from above, where I am with the Father, out of their sight and control;

11 that judgment takes place as the ruler of this godless world is brought to trial and convicted.

12 “I still have many things to tell you, but you can’t handle them now.

13 But when the Friend comes, the Spirit of the Truth, he will take you by the hand and guide you into all the truth there is. He won’t draw attention to himself, but will make sense out of what is about to happen and, indeed, out of all that I have done and said.

14 He will honor me; he will take from me and deliver it to you.  MSG

John 8:30 As He said these things, many believed in Him [trusted, relied on, and adhered to Him].

31 So Jesus said to those Jews who had believed in Him, If you abide in My word [hold fast to My teachings and live in accordance with them], you are truly My disciples.

32 And you will know the Truth, and the Truth will set you free.  AMP

John 8:44 You are of your father, the devil, and it is your will to practice the lusts and gratify the desires [which are characteristic] of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a falsehood, he speaks what is natural to him, for he is a liar [himself] and the father of lies and of all that is false.  AMP

LUKE 4:2 When the forty days were concluded, he felt famished, having not taken anything to eat at all.

3 The Devil had an immediate suggestion, “If you really are the son of God, then prove it and do your magic! Tell this stone to become a loaf of bread!”  

4 And Jesus answered, “It is written that man shall not live on bread alone.”   MIRROR

LUKE 4:5 He then showed him all the kingdom’s of the inhabited world in a split second.

6 And said to him, I will give you the glory and control of all these kingdoms since it was handed over to me and I can do with it whatever I please!

7 It’s all yours if you worship me.

8 Jesus responded with, “Get out of my face Satan! Scripture says, you shall worship the Lord your God with undivided 1adoration.”   MIRROR

LUKE 4:10 It is written, he says, that God would command his celestial messengers to protect you from any harm.

11 They would bear you up on their hands and protect you so that you will not even stumble over a stone.

12 Again, Jesus quoted Deuteronomy and said, you shall not put the Lord your God to the test. Testing is not trusting.  MIRROR

John 3:21 But those who love the truth will come into the Light, for the Light will reveal that it was God who produced their fruitful works.”  TPT

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JOHN 3:21 He who discovers the poetry of truth, faces the light unashamedly – his lifestyle boldly displays the workmanship of union with God! His works speak for themselves -”Made in heaven – wrought in God!”  MIRROR

John 4:24 From now on, worshiping the Father will not be a matter of the right place but with a right heart. For God is a Spirit, and he longs to have sincere worshipers who adore him in the realm of the Spirit and in truth.”  TPT

John 14:6 Jesus explained, “I am the Way, I am the Truth, and I am the Life. No one comes next to the Father except through union with me. To know me is to know my Father too.

⁷And from now on you will realize that you have seen him and experienced him.” TPT

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John 14:6 Jesus said, “I am the Road, also the Truth, also the Life. No one gets to the Father apart from me.

7 If you really knew me, you would know my Father as well. From now on, you do know him. You’ve even seen him!”  MSG

John 14:17 This Friend is the Spirit of Truth. The godless world can’t take him in because it doesn’t have eyes to see him, doesn’t know what to look for. But you know him already because he has been staying with you, and will even be in you!  MSG

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JOHN 14:17  Your eternal companion is the Spirit of truth, whom those trapped in the sense-ruled world, just cannot get to grips with! Their visual horizon is veiled, and they are unable to understand what they cannot see. But,youare familiar with this seamless, intimate union, and the Spirit’s continued presence within you.  MIRROR

John 17:16  They are no more defined by the world Than I am defined by the world.

17 Make them holy — consecrated — with the truth; Your word is consecrating truth.

18 In the same way that you gave me a mission in the world, I give them a mission in the world. MSG

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JOHN 17:16 They are not defined by the cosmos-system even as I am not defined thereby.

17 Define them in your truth – your logos is the unveiled truth.  

18 Just as you have commissioned me into the world so I send them on their mission into the world! MIRROR

John 18:37 Then Pilate said, “So, are you a king or not?” Jesus answered, “You tell me. Because I am King, I was born and entered the world so that I could witness to the truth. Everyone who cares for truth, who has any feeling for the truth, recognizes my voice.”

38 Pilate said, “What is truth?” Then he went back out to the Jews and told them, “I find nothing wrong in this man.

39 It’s your custom that I pardon one prisoner at Passover. Do you want me to pardon the ‘King of the Jews’?”   MSG

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John 18:37 Then Pilate responded, “Oh, so then you are a king?”

“You are right.” Jesus said, “I was born a King, and I have come into this world to prove what truth really is. And everyone who loves the truth will receive my words.”

³⁸Pilate looked at Jesus and said, “What is truth?” As silence filled the room, Pilate went back out to where the Jewish leaders were waiting and said to them, “He’s not guilty. I couldn’t even find one fault with him. TPT

Rom 1:18 But God’s angry displeasure erupts as acts of human mistrust and wrongdoing and lying accumulate, as people try to put a shroud over truth.

19 But the basic reality of God is plain enough. Open your eyes and there it is!

20 By taking a long and thoughtful look at what God has created, people have always been able to see what their eyes as such can’t see: eternal power, for instance, and the mystery of his divine being. So nobody has a good excuse.

21 What happened was this: People knew God perfectly well, but when they didn’t treat him like God, refusing to worship him, they trivialized themselves into silliness and confusion so that there was neither sense nor direction left in their lives.

22 They pretended to know it all, but were illiterate regarding life.

23 They traded the glory of God who holds the whole world in his hands for cheap figurines you can buy at any roadside stand.  MSG

Rom 1:25 And all this because they traded the true God for a fake god, and worshiped the god they made instead of the God who made them — the God we bless, the God who blesses us. Oh, yes!   MSG

Rom 10:9 Because if you acknowledge and confess with your lips that Jesus is Lord and in your heart believe (adhere to, trust in, and rely on the truth) that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved. AMP

1 COR 13:6 Love sees no joy in injustice. Love’s delight is in everything that truth celebrates. MIRROR

2 COR  4:2 We have renounced hidden agendas we have distanced ourselves from any obscure craftiness to manipulate God’s word to make it mean what it does not say! With truth on open display in us, we highly recommend our lives to everyone’s conscience! Truth finds its most authentic and articulate expression in human life, mirrored in the face of God.   MIRROR

Gal 1:20 Now [note carefully what I am telling you, for it is the truth], I write this as if I were standing before the bar of God; I do not lie. AMP

Eph 1:13 It’s in Christ that you, once you heard the truth and believed it (this Message of your salvation), found yourselves home free — signed, sealed, and delivered by the Holy Spirit.

14 This signet from God is the first installment on what’s coming, a reminder that we’ll get everything God has planned for us, a praising and glorious life. MSG

EPH 4:15 Love gives truth its voice. The conversation that truth inspires creates the atmosphere wherein growth is both spontaneous and inevitable. The whole person is addressed in Christ who is the head of the body; he is the conclusion of God’s communication with mankind. MIRROR

EPH 6:14 Take your position: you have the truth [of who you are in Christ] wrapped around your hips like a soldier’s belt, holding the complete body armor together. MIRROR

2 Tim 1:14 Guard this precious thing placed in your custody by the Holy Spirit who works in us. MSG

2 Thessalonians 2:6 Now you are aware of the ruling power so that he may be fully revealed when his time comes.

⁷For the mystery of lawlessness is already active, but the one who prevails will do so until he is separated from out of the midst.

⁸Then the “outlaw” will be openly revealed, and the Lord will overthrow him by the breath of his mouth and bring him to an end by the dazzling manifestation of his presence.

⁹The presence of the “outlaw” is apparent by the activity of Satan, who uses all kinds of counterfeit miracles, signs, spurious wonders,

¹⁰and every form of evil deception in order to deceive those who are perishing because they rejected the love of the truth that would lead them to being saved.

¹¹Because of this, God sends them a powerful delusion that leads them to believe what is false.

¹²So then all who found their pleasure in unrighteousness and did not believe the truth will be judged. TPT

2JN 1:2 because of the living truth that has a permanent home in us and will be with us forever. TPT

Gal 5:7 You were running the race nobly. Who has interfered in (hindered and stopped you from) your heeding and following the Truth?  AMP

Heb 12:1 THEREFORE THEN, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses [who have borne testimony to the Truth], let us strip off and throw aside every encumbrance (unnecessary weight) and that sin which so readily (deftly and cleverly) clings to and entangles us, and let us run with patient endurance and steady and active persistence the appointed course of the race that is set before us,   AMP

3 John 4  I have no greater joy than this, to hear that my [spiritual] children are living their lives in the Truth.   AMP

Rev 19:10 Then I fell prostrate at his feet to worship (to pay divine honors) to him, but he [restrained me] and said, Refrain! [You must not do that!] I am [only] another servant with you and your brethren who have [accepted and hold] the testimony borne by Jesus. Worship God! For the substance (essence) of the truth revealed by Jesus is the spirit of all prophecy [the vital breath, the inspiration of all inspired preaching and interpretation of the divine will and purpose, including both mine and yours]. AMP

FAITH RIGHTEOUSNESS OR THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF FAITH 10-7-22

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We inherit and become Gods people by our believing in Jesus Christ and His finished work. We are made righteous by our faith in Christ. So then what is righteousness? We receive it by faith. Righteousness means that we are made right. Right standing before God. God is ours now because of our faith in Jesus. God knew we would be His. And that we would be His sons so we were made righteous before the creation of the world. We have rights standing and we are innocent before God.

Rom 4:13  For the promise to Abraham or his posterity, that he should inherit the world, did not come through [observing the commands of] the Law but through the righteousness of faith. 

14 If it is the adherents of the Law who are to be the heirs, then faith is made futile and empty of all meaning and the promise [of God] is made void (is annulled and has no power).  AMP

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Romans 4:13 God promised Abraham and his descendants that they would have an heir who would reign over the world. This royal promise was not fulfilled because Abraham kept all the law, but through the righteousness that was transferred by faith.

 ¹⁴For if keeping the law earns the inheritance, then faith is robbed of its power and the promise becomes useless. TPT

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Rom 4:13-14 The ancient promise made to Abraham and his descendants, that they should eventually possess the world, was given not because of any achievements made through obedience to the Law, but because of the righteousness which had its root in faith. For if, after all, they who pin their faith to keeping the Law were to inherit God’s world, it would make nonsense of faith in God himself, and destroy the whole point of the promise.   PHILLIPS

ROM 4:16 Therefore since faith sponsors the gift of grace, the promise is equally secured for all the children. The law has no exclusive claim on anyone [the reward system cannot match the gift principle]. Faith is our source, and that makes Abraham our father.    MIRROR

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Romans 4:16 The promise depends on faith so that it can be experienced as a grace-gift, and now it extends to all the descendants of Abraham. This promise is not only meant for those who obey the law, but also to those who enter into the faith of Abraham, the father of us all.  TPT

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Rom 4:16-17 The whole thing, then, is a matter of faith on man’s part and generosity on God’s. He gives the security of his own promise to all men who can be called “children of Abraham”, i.e. both those who have lived in faith by the Law, and those who have exhibited a faith like that of Abraham. PHILLIPS

Rom 4:20 No unbelief or distrust made him waver (doubtingly question) concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God,

21 Fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised.

22 That is why his faith was credited to him as righteousness (right standing with God).

23 But [the words], It was credited to him, were written not for his sake alone,

24 But [they were written] for our sakes too. [Righteousness, standing acceptable to God] will be granted and credited to us also who believe in (trust in, adhere to, and rely on) God, Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,  AMP

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Rom 4:20 He didn’t tiptoe around God’s promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God,

21 sure that God would make good on what he had said.

22 That’s why it is said, “Abraham was declared fit before God by trusting God to set him right.”

23 But it’s not just Abraham;

24 it’s also us! The same thing gets said about us when we embrace and believe the One who brought Jesus to life when the conditions were equally hopeless. MSG

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Romans 4:20 He never stopped believing God’s promise, for he was made strong in his faith to father a child. And because he was mighty in faith and convinced that God had all the power needed to fulfill his promises, Abraham glorified God!

²²So now you can see why Abraham’s faith was credited to his account as righteousness before God.

²³And this declaration was not just spoken over Abraham,

²⁴but also over us. For when we believe and embrace the one who brought our Lord Jesus back to life, perfect righteousness will be credited to our account as well. TPT

ROM 1:17 Herein lies the secret of the power of the Gospel; there is no good news in it until the righteousness of God is revealed! The dynamic of the gospel is the revelation of God’s faith as the only valid basis for our belief. The Prophets wrote in advance about the fact that God believes that righteousness reveals the life of our design. “Righteousness by his (God’s) faith defines life.” MIRROR

Hab 2:4 Look at the proud; his soul is not straight or right within him, but the [rigidly] just and the [uncompromisingly] righteous man shall live by his faith and in his faithfulness.  AMP

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Hab 2:4 “Look at that man, bloated by self-importance — full of himself but soul-empty.

But the person in right standing before God through loyal and steady believing

is fully alive, really alive.  MSG

Gen 15:6 And he [Abram] believed in (trusted in, relied on, remained steadfast to) the Lord, and He counted it to him as righteousness (right standing with God).  AMP

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Gen 15:6  And he believed! Believed God! God declared him “Set-Right-with-God.” MSG

Gal 3:11  The obvious impossibility of carrying out such a moral program should make it plain that no one can sustain a relationship with God that way. The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into what God does for you. Habakkuk had it right: “The person who believes God, is set right by God — and that’s the real life.”

12 Rule-keeping does not naturally evolve into living by faith, but only perpetuates itself in more and more rule-keeping, a fact observed in Scripture: “The one who does these things [rule-keeping]continues to live by them.”  MSG

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GAL 3:11 Habakkuk confirms conclusively that righteousness by God’s faith is the only basis to life; this terminates any possible justification before God based on moral behavior.

12 Law and faith have nothing in common! Law measures a person’s doing and experience as defining their life. MIRROR

HEB 10:38 Righteousness by God’s faith defines life; reverting to the law of works grieves God’s work of grace.

39 But we are not of the quitting kind; we possess a persuasion of soul that believes against all the odds.  MIRROR

Phil 3:9 And that I may [actually] be found and known as in Him, not having any [self-achieved] righteousness that can be called my own, based on my obedience to the Law’s demands (ritualistic uprightness and supposed right standing with God thus acquired), but possessing that [genuine righteousness] which comes through faith in Christ (the Anointed One), the [truly] right standing with God, which comes from God by [saving] faith. AMP

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Phil 3:8-9 For now my place is in him, and I am not dependent upon any of the self-achieved righteousness of the Law. God has given me that genuine righteousness which comes from faith in Christ. How changed are my ambitions! Now I long to know Christ and the power shown by his resurrection: PHILLIPS

ROM 10:10 This is where believing happens spontaneously, in the heart! The revelation of mankind’s redeemed righteousness ignites a new conversation, announcing salvation.  MIRROR

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Rom 10:10 ” For it is believing in the heart that makes a man righteous before God, and it is stating his belief by his own mouth that confirms his salvation. And the scripture says: ‘Whoever believes on him will not be put to shame’. PHILLIPS

Heb 11:7 By faith, Noah built a ship in the middle of dry land. He was warned about something he couldn’t see, and acted on what he was told. The result? His family was saved. His act of faith drew a sharp line between the evil of the unbelieving world and the rightness of the believing world. As a result, Noah became intimate with God.  MSG ▼▼▼

Heb 11:7 [Prompted] by faith Noah, being forewarned by God concerning events of which as yet there was no visible sign, took heed and diligently and reverently constructed and prepared an ark for the deliverance of his own family. By this [his faith which relied on God] he passed judgment and sentence on the world’s unbelief and became an heir and possessor of righteousness (that relation of being right into which God puts the person who has faith).  AMP

Eph 1:4 Even as [in His love] He chose us [actually picked us out for Himself as His own] in Christ before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy (consecrated and set apart for Him) and blameless in His sight, even above reproach, before Him in love.  AMP

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EPH 1:4  He associated us in Christ before 1the fall of the world! Jesus is God’s mind made up about us! He always knew in his love that he would present us again face-to-face before him in blameless innocence. MIRROR

Psalms 23:3 That’s where he restores and revives my life. He opens before me the right path and leads me along in his footsteps of righteousness so that I can bring honor to his name.  TPT

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Ps 23:3 He refreshes and restores my life (my self); He leads me in the paths of righteousness [uprightness and right standing with Him — not for my earning it, but] for His name’s sake. AMP

Psalms 85:10 Your mercy and your truth have married each other. Your righteousness and peace have kissed.

¹¹Flowers of your faithfulness are blooming on the earth. Righteousness shines down from the sky.

¹²Yes, the Lord keeps raining down blessing after blessing, and prosperity will drench the land with a bountiful harvest.

¹³For deliverance goes before him, preparing a path for his steps.  TPT

Proverbs 11:19 A son of righteousness experiences the abundant life, but the one who pursues evil hurries to his own death. TPT

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Prov 11:19 He who is steadfast in righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) attains to life, but he who pursues evil does it to his own death.  AMP

Prov 21:3 To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.    AMP

Isa 32:17 The work of righteousness is peace, and the result of righteousness is quietness and confidence forever.

18 My people will live free from worry in secure, quiet homes of peace. Mirror

Matt 5:6 Blessed and fortunate and happy and spiritually prosperous (in that state in which the born-again child of God enjoys His favor and salvation) are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God), for they shall be completely satisfied! AMP

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Matthew 5:6 “How enriched you are when you crave righteousness! For you will be satisfied. TPT

Matthew 6:33 “So above all, constantly seek God’s kingdom and his righteousness, then all these less important things will be given to you abundantly.

³⁴Refuse to worry about tomorrow, but deal with each challenge that comes your way, one day at a time. Tomorrow will take care of itself.”  TPT

ROM 5:16  The principle of the gift speaks a different language and brings a radically different equation to the table. Whereas a single sin resulted in a judgment that concluded in condemnation; grace translates countless deviations into acquittal and innocence.

17 Death no longer has the final say. Life rules! If the effect of one man’s crash-landing engaged mankind in a death-dominated lifestyle how much more advantaged is the very same mankind now that they are the recipients of the boundless reservoirs of grace, empowering them to enjoy the dominion of life through the gift of righteousness because of that one man, Jesus Christ. Grace is out of all proportion in superiority to the transgression

18 The conclusion is clear: if one offence condemns the entire human race; then in principle, the righteousness of one vindicates the entire human race.

19 The disobedience of the one exhibits mankind as sinners; the obedience of another exhibits mankind as righteous.  MIRROR

ROM 8:10 The revelation of Christ in you declares that your body is as good as dead to sin’s demands; sin cannot find any expression in a corpse. You co-died together with him. Yet your spirit is alive because of what righteousness reveals.  MIRROR

ROM 10:3  They are tirelessly busy with their own efforts to justify themselves while blatantly ignoring the fact that God already justified them in Christ.

4 Christ is the conclusion of the law, everything the law required of mankind was fulfilled in him; he thus represents the righteousness of the human race, based upon faith [and not personal performance].  MIRROR

ROM 14:17 God’s royal dominion is not based on food and drink regulations, but righteousness, [likeness] friendship [peace] and joy in the Holy Spirit.  MIRROR

2 COR  9:10 The inventor of seed and bread is also the one who supplies and multiplies your resources and increases the harvest of your righteousness!   MIRROR

IN THE NEW YEAR 5783 EXPECT TO RECOVER ALL  10-2-2022 

VIDEO restore everything you lost  #4

In this new year 5783 expect to recover all. Expect restoration of what was lost. In the Bible restoration was always in abundance restoring more then you lost. When something is restored it is always better than it was before. David at the worst time in his life strengthened himself in the Lord. The Lord promised him he would recover all. Restoration is repairing, mending fixing and returning.

1 Sam 30:1  Three days later, David and his men arrived back in Ziklag. Amalekites had raided the Negev and Ziklag. They tore Ziklag to pieces and then burned it down.

2 They captured all the women, young and old. They didn’t kill anyone, but drove them like a herd of cattle.

3 By the time David and his men entered the village, it had been burned to the ground, and their wives, sons, and daughters all taken prisoner.

4 David and his men burst out in loud wails — wept and wept until they were exhausted with weeping.

5 David’s two wives, Ahinoam of Jezreel and Abigail widow of Nabal of Carmel, had been taken prisoner along with the rest.

6 And suddenly David was in even worse trouble. There was talk among the men, bitter over the loss of their families, of stoning him. David strengthened himself with trust in his God.

7 He ordered Abiathar the priest, son of Ahimelech, “Bring me the Ephod so I can consult God.” Abiathar brought it to David.  MSG

1 Sam 30:8 And David inquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue this troop? Shall I overtake them? The Lord answered him, Pursue, for you shall surely overtake them and without fail recover all.  AMP

Ps 39:13 O look away from me and spare me, that I may recover cheerfulness and encouraging strength and know gladness before I go and am no more!  AMP

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Psalms 39:13 Don’t let me die without restoring joy and gladness to my soul. May your frown over my failure become a smile over my success. TPT

Joel 2:25 And I will restore or replace for you the years that the locust has eaten — the hopping locust, the stripping locust, and the crawling locust, My great army which I sent among you.

26 And you shall eat in plenty and be satisfied and praise the name of the Lord, your God, Who has dealt wondrously with you. And My people shall never be put to shame.  AMP

Deut 30:3 God, your God, will restore everything you lost; he’ll have compassion on you; he’ll come back and pick up the pieces from all the places where you were scattered.   MSG

Jer 31:25  I’ll refresh tired bodies; I’ll restore tired souls. MSG

1 Cor 15:45  Thus it is written, The first man Adam became a living being (an individual personality); the last Adam (Christ) became a life-giving Spirit [restoring the dead to life].   AMP

2 Cor 5:19 It was God [personally present] in Christ, reconciling and restoring the world to favor with Himself, not counting up and holding against [men] their trespasses [but cancelling them], and committing to us the message of reconciliation (of the restoration to favor).  AMP

2 Sam 2:8-10  In the meantime, Abner son of Ner, commander of Saul’s army, had taken Saul’s son Ish-Bosheth to Mahanaim

9 and made him king over Gilead, over Asher, over Jezreel, over Ephraim, over Benjamin — king, as it turns out, over all Israel.

10 Ish-Bosheth, Saul’s son, was forty years old when he was made king over Israel. He lasted only two years. But the people of Judah stuck with David. MSG

Job 42:10  After Job had interceded for his friends, God restored his fortune — and then doubled it!  MSG

Job 42:12  God blessed Job’s later life even more than his earlier life. He ended up with fourteen thousand sheep, six thousand camels, one thousand teams of oxen, and one thousand donkeys.

13 He also had seven sons and three daughters.

14 He named the first daughter Dove, the second, Cinnamon, and the third, Darkeyes. 15 There was not a woman in that country as beautiful as Job’s daughters. Their father treated them as equals with their brothers, providing the same inheritance.

16 Job lived on another hundred and forty years, living to see his children and grandchildren — four generations of them!  MSG

Isa 58:8 Then shall your light break forth like the morning, and your healing (your restoration and the power of a new life) shall spring forth speedily; your righteousness (your rightness, your justice, and your right relationship with God) shall go before you [conducting you to peace and prosperity], and the glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard.  AMP

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Isa 58:8 Then my favor will bathe you in sunlight until you are like the dawn bursting through a dark night. And then suddenly your healing will manifest. You will see your righteousness march out before you, and the glory of Yahweh will protect you from all harm! TPT

John 10:10 The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have and enjoy life, and have it in abundance (to the full, till it overflows). AMP

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JOHN 10:10 The thief “shepherd” has no other agenda but to steal, kill and he couldn’t care less if he lost some sheep. I have come with the sole purpose for you to have life in its most complete form.   MIRROR

Ps 51:12 Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and uphold me with a willing spirit.

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Psalms 51:12 Let my passion for life be restored, tasting joy in every breakthrough you bring to me. Hold me close to you with a willing spirit that obeys whatever you say. TPT

Isaiah 61:1 The mighty Spirit of Lord Yahweh is wrapped around me because Yahweh has anointed me,  as a messenger to preach good news to the poor. He sent me to heal the wounds of the brokenhearted to tell captives, “You are free,” and to tell prisoners, “Be free from your darkness.” If I am sent to announce a new season of Yahweh’s grace and a time of God’s recompense on his enemies,  to comfort all who are in sorrow,

3 to strengthen those crushed by despair who mourn in Zion to give them a beautiful bouquet in the place of ashes, the oil of bliss instead of tears,  and the mantle of joyous praise instead of the spirit of heaviness. Because of this, they will be known as Mighty Oaks of Righteousness, planted by Yahweh as a living display of his glory.  

4 They will restore ruins from long ago and rebuild what was long devastated. They will renew ruined cities and desolations of past generations.

7 Because you have received a double dose of shame and dishonor, you will inherit a double portion of endless joy and everlasting bliss!  TPT 

1 Peter 5:10 The suffering won’t last forever. It won’t be long before this generous God who has great plans for us in Christ — eternal and glorious plans they are! — will have you put together and on your feet for good.

11 He gets the last word; yes, he does.  MSG

Col 1:20 Not only that, but all the broken and dislocated pieces of the universe — people and things, animals and atoms — get properly fixed and fit together in vibrant harmonies, all because of his death, his blood that poured down from the Cross. MSG

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Colossians 1:20 And by the blood of his cross, everything in heaven and earth is brought back to himself— back to its original intent, restored to innocence again!  TPT

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Col 1:20 It was in him that the full nature of God chose to live, and through him God planned to reconcile in his own person, as it were, everything on earth and everything in Heaven by virtue of the sacrifice of the cross. PHILLIPS

Isa 40:28  Don’t you know anything? Haven’t you been listening? God doesn’t come and go. God lasts. He’s Creator of all you can see or imagine. He doesn’t get tired out, doesn’t pause to catch his breath. And he knows everything, inside and out.

29 He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts.

30 For even young people tire and drop out, young folk in their prime stumble and fall.

31 But those who wait upon God get fresh strength. They spread their wings and soar like eagles, They run and don’t get tired, they walk and don’t lag behind.

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Isaiah 40:28-31 Don’t you know? Haven’t you been listening. Yahweh is the one and only everlasting God, the Creator of all you can see and imagine! He never gets weary or worn out. His intelligence is unlimited; he is never puzzled over what to do! He empowers the feeble and infuses the powerless with increasing strength. Even young people faint and get exhausted; athletic ones may stumble and fall. But those who wait for Yahweh’s grace will experience divine strength. They will rise up on soaring wings and fly like eagles, run their race without growing weary, and walk through life without giving up.  TPT

Jer 17:14 God, pick up the pieces. Put me back together again. You are my praise! MSG

1 John 5:4 You see, every child of God overcomes the world, for our faith is the victorious power that triumphs over the world.

⁵So who are the world conquerors, defeating its power? Those who believe that Jesus is the Son of God.  TPT

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1 JN 5:4 Whatever is born of God is destined to triumph over the world system. Our faith celebrates a victory that is already accomplished!

5 This is the ultimate victory: the certainty that the human Jesus is the divine Son of God;  MIRROR

 “JUST SAYING”  10-30-22  PLANT BEING BULLIED

How do you say there is great power in speaking out loud the Words that God has spoken or the words that are spoken about Him. To declare is to say something clearly for all to hear. Jesus said out loud about us many things. The words that Jesus said from the cross changed everything forever.

Ps 91:2 I will say of the Lord, He is my Refuge and my Fortress, my God; on Him I lean and rely, and in Him I [confidently] trust!  AMP

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Ps 91:2 Say this: “God, you’re my refuge. I trust in you and I’m safe!”  MSG

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Psalms 91^::2 He’s the hope that holds me and the stronghold to shelter me, the only God for me, and my great confidence.  TPT

Job 22:28 You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light [of God’s favor] shall shine upon your ways.

29 When they make [you] low, you will say, [There is] a lifting up; and the humble person He lifts up and saves.  AMP

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Job 22:28 You’ll decide what you want and it will happen; your life will be bathed in light.

29 To those who feel low you’ll say, ‘Chin up! Be brave!’ and God will save them. MSG

Isa 43:6 I will say to the north, Give up! and to the south, Keep not back. Bring My sons from afar and My daughters from the ends of the earth — 

7 Even everyone who is called by My name, whom I have created for My glory, whom I have formed, whom I have made.  AMP

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Isa 43:6 will say to the north, ‘Hand them over!’ and to the south, ‘Don’t hold them back!’ Bring me my sons from far away, my daughters from the ends of the earth!

7 Bring me everyone who is called by my name, the ones I created to experience my glory. I myself formed them to be who they are and made them for my glory.”  TPT

Luke 7:7 Neither did I consider myself worthy to come to You. But [just] speak a word, and my servant boy will be healed.

8 For I also am a man [daily] subject to authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my bond servant, Do this, and he does it.  AMP

Isa 42:11 Let the wilderness and its cities lift up their voices, the villages that Kedar inhabits. Let the inhabitants of the rock [Sela or Petra] sing; let them shout from the tops of the mountains!  AMP

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Isa 42:11 Let the desert and its villages lift their voices in praise! Let the tent villages of Kedar l shout their praises! Let the residents of Sela’s cliffs m shout with glee, with a celebration shout from the mountaintops! TPT

Ps 16:2  I say to God, “Be my Lord!” Without you, nothing makes sense. MSG

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Psalms 16:2 I said to Yahweh, “You are my Maker and my Master. Any good thing you find in me has Come from you”. TPT

Ps 66:3 Say to God, How awesome and fearfully glorious are Your works! Through the greatness of Your power shall Your enemies submit themselves to You [with feigned and reluctant obedience].  AMP

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Psalms 66:3 For he’s the awe-inspiring God, great and glorious in power! We’ve never seen anything like him! Mighty in miracles, you cause your enemies to tremble. No wonder they all surrender and bow before you!  TPT

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Ps 66:3 Say of God, “We’ve never seen anything like him!” When your enemies see you in action, they slink off like scolded dogs. MSG

1 Sam 7:12 Then Samuel took a stone and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and he called the name of it Ebenezer [stone of help], saying, Heretofore the Lord has helped us.  AMP

Isa 14:24 God-of-the-Angel-Armies speaks: “Exactly as I planned, it will happen. Following my blueprints, it will take shape. MSG

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Isa 14:24 The Lord Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, makes this solemn decree: “Be sure of this: Just as I have planned, aa so it will be. Every purpose of my heart will surely come to pass.  TPT

Isa 30:21 urging you on whenever you wander left or right: “This is the right road. Walk down this road.”

22 You’ll scrap your expensive and fashionable god-images. You’ll throw them in the trash as so much garbage, saying, “Good riddance!”  MSG

Isa 46:10 “I declare from the beginning how it will end and foretell from the start what has not yet happened. I decree that my purpose will stand, and I will fulfill my every plan.”  TPT

John 12:50 And I know exactly what his command produces: real and eternal life. That’s all I have to say. What the Father told me, I tell you.”   MSG

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JN 12:50 And I know that this instruction is the life of the ages – the detail of what I say echoes exactly what I’ve heard my Father say. MIRROR

1 Tim 1:15  Here’s a word you can take to heart and depend on: Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners. I’m proof — Public Sinner Number One —  

16 of someone who could never have made it apart from sheer mercy. And now he shows me off — evidence of his endless patience — to those who are right on the edge of trusting him forever.  MSG

2 Tim 2:11 The saying is sure and worthy of confidence: If we have died with Him, we shall also live with Him.  AMP

Matt 17:5 While he was still speaking, behold, a shining cloud [composed of light] overshadowed them, and a voice from the cloud said, This is My Son, My Beloved, with Whom I am [and have always been] delighted. Listen to Him! 

6 When the disciples heard it, they fell on their faces and were seized with alarm and struck with fear.  AMP

Luke 23:46  And Jesus, crying out with a loud voice, said, Father, into Your hands I commit My spirit! And with these words, He expired.  AMP

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Luke 23:46 Jesus called loudly, “Father, I place my life in your hands!” Then he breathed his last.  MSG

1 Chron 16:24 Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all peoples.  AMP

Ps 9:11 Sing praises to the Lord, Who dwells in Zion! Declare among the peoples His doings!  AMP

Ps 19:1 THE HEAVENS declare the glory of God; and the firmament shows and proclaims His handiwork. 

2 Day after day pours forth speech, and night after night shows forth knowledge.

3 There is no speech nor spoken word [from the stars]; their voice is not heard.

4 Yet their voice [in evidence] goes out through all the earth, their sayings to the end of the world. Of the heavens has God made a tent for the sun,  AMP

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Ps 19:1-4 God’s splendor is a tale that is told, written in the stars. Space itself speaks his story through the marvels of the heavens. His truth is on tour in the starry vault of the sky, showing his skill in creation’s craftsmanship. Each day gushes out its message to the next, night by night whispering its knowledge to all— without a sound, without a word, without a voice being heard, yet all the world can hear its echo. Everywhere its message goes out. What a heavenly home God has set for the sun, shining in the superdome of the sky! TPT

Ps 50:6 And the heavens declare His righteousness (rightness and justice), for God, He is judge. Selah [pause, and calmly think of that]!  AMP

Ps 96:3 Declare His glory among the nations, His marvelous works among all the peoples.

4 For great is the Lord and greatly to be praised; He is to be reverently feared and worshiped above all [so-called] gods.  AMP

Ps 145:4 Generation after generation stands in awe of your work; each one tells stories of your mighty acts. MSG

Luke 8:52 And all were weeping for and bewailing her; but He said, Do not weep, for she is not dead but sleeping.

53 And they laughed Him to scorn, knowing full well that she was dead.

54 And grasping her hand, He called, saying, Child, arise [from the sleep of death]!

55 And her spirit returned [from death], and she arose immediately; and He directed that she should be given something to eat.  AMP

Prov 31:8 “Speak up for the people who have no voice, for the rights of all the down-and-outers.

9 Speak out for justice! Stand up for the poor and destitute!”   MSG  

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PROV 31:8 But you are to be a king who speaks up on behalfof the disenfranchised and pleads for the legal rights of the defenseless and those who are dying.

9 Be a righteous king, judging on behalf of the poor and interceding for those most in need TPT

Deut 32:1 GIVE EAR, O heavens, and I [Moses] will speak; and let the earth hear the words of my mouth.

2 My message shall drop as the rain, my speech shall distil as the dew, as the light rain upon the tender grass, and as the showers upon the herb.

3 For I will proclaim the name [and presence] of the Lord. Concede and ascribe greatness to our God.

4 He is the Rock, His work is perfect, for all His ways are law and justice. A God of faithfulness without breach or deviation, just and right is He.  AMP

1 Kings 17:1  And then this happened: Elijah the Tishbite, from among the settlers of Gilead, confronted Ahab: “As surely as God lives, the God of Israel before whom I stand in obedient service, the next years are going to see a total drought — not a drop of dew or rain unless I say otherwise.”   MSG

Num 22:38  Balaam said to Balak, “Well, I’m here now. But I can’t tell you just anything. I can speak only words that God gives me — no others.”  MSG

1 Kings 22:14 But Micaiah said, As the Lord lives, I will speak what the Lord says to me.  AMP

2 Sam 23:1 NOW THESE are the last words of David: David son of Jesse says, and the man who was raised on high, the anointed of the God of Jacob, and the sweet psalmist of Israel, says,

2 The Spirit of the Lord spoke in and by me, and His word was upon my tongue.AMP

Eph 4:29 Let no foul or polluting language, nor evil word nor unwholesome or worthless talk [ever] come out of your mouth, but only such [speech] as is good and beneficial to the spiritual progress of others, as is fitting to the need and the occasion, that it may be a blessing and give grace (God’s favor) to those who hear it.  AMP   ▼▼▼

EPH 4:29 And never let ugly or hateful words come from your mouth, but instead let your words become beautiful giftsthat encourage others; do this by speaking words of grace to help them.  TPT

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EPH 4:29 Instead of cheap talk, your mouth is now a fountain of grace, giving encouragement and inspiration to everyone within earshot.  MIRROR

Num 14:20 God said, “I forgive them, honoring your words.  MSG

HOPE 9-25-2022 VIDEO

No men can live 40 days without food three days without water eight minutes without air one second without hope. Hope it’s been the casualty of these past few years. The world is not expecting good but evil. A loss of hope makes people lose out on their future and destiny. Deferred- means to be postponed, withheld for another time. It seems a long way off or impossible to receive. During the depression years people experience the loss of everything but especially the loss for the future.

Prov 13:12 Unrelenting disappointment leaves you heartsick, but a sudden good break can turn life around.  MSG

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Prov 13:12 Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but when the desire is fulfilled, it is a tree of life. AMP

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Proverbs 13:12 When hope’s dream seems to drag on and on, the delay can be depressing. But when at last your dream comes true, life’s sweetness will satisfy your soul.  TPT

Job 6:11  Where’s the strength to keep my hopes up? What future do I have to keep me going?

12 Do you think I have nerves of steel? Do you think I’m made of iron?

13 Do you think I can pull myself up by my bootstraps? Why, I don’t even have any boots!  MSG

JOHN 10:10 The thief “shepherd” has no other agenda but to steal, kill and he couldn’t care less if he 1lost some sheep. I have come with the sole purpose for you to have life in its most complete form.  MIRROR

Psalms 27:14 Here’s what I’ve learned through it all: Don’t give up; don’t be impatient;

be entwined as one with the Lord. Be brave and courageous, and never lose hope.

Yes, keep on waiting— for he will never disappoint you!  TPT

Ps 31:24 Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for and hope for and expect the Lord! AMP

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Psalms 31:24 So cheer up! Take courage, all you who love him. Wait for him to break through for you, all who trust in him! TPT

Psalms 34:17 Yet when holy lovers of God cry out to him with all their hearts, the Lord will hear them and come to rescue them from all their troubles.

¹⁸The Lord is close to all whose hearts are crushed by pain, and he is always ready to restore the repentant one.

¹⁹Even when bad things happen to the good and godly ones, the Lord will save them and not let them be defeated by what they face.

²⁰God will be your bodyguard to protect you when trouble is near. Not one bone will be broken.

²¹Evil will cause the death of the wicked, for they hate and persecute the devoted lovers of God. Make no mistake about it: God will hold them guilty and punish them; they will pay the penalty!

²²But the Lord has paid for the freedom of his servants, and he will freely pardon those who love him. He will declare them free and innocent when they turn to hide themselves in him. TPT

Ps 39:7  “What am I doing in the meantime, Lord? Hoping, that’s what I’m doing — hoping  MSG

Ps 42:5 Why are you down in the dumps, dear soul? Why are you crying the blues?

Fix my eyes on God — soon I’ll be praising again. He puts a smile on my face.

He’s my God.  MSG

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Psalms 42:5 So then, my soul, why would you be depressed? Why would you sink into despair? Just keep hoping and waiting on God, your Savior. For no matter what, I will still sing with praise, for you are my saving grace!  TPT

Ps 65:5 By fearful and glorious things [that terrify the wicked but make the godly sing praises] do You answer us in righteousness (rightness and justice), O God of our salvation, You Who are the confidence and hope of all the ends of the earth and of those far off on the seas;

6 Who by [Your] might have founded the mountains, being girded with power,  AMP

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Psalms 65:5 You answer our prayers with amazing wonders and with awe-inspiring displays of power. You are the righteous God who helps us like a father. Everyone everywhere looks to you, for you are the confidence of all the earth, even to the farthest islands of the sea.

⁶What jaw-dropping, astounding power is yours! You are the mountain maker who sets them all in place.  TPT

Ps 71:5 For You are my hope; O Lord God, You are my trust from my youth and the source of my confidence.  AMP

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Psalms 71:5 For you are my only hope, Lord! I’ve hung on to you, trusting in you all my life.  TPT

Proverbs 14:32 The wicked are crushed by every calamity, but the righteous find a

in the time of death. TPT

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Prov 14:32 The wicked is overthrown through his wrongdoing and calamity, but the [consistently] righteous has hope and confidence even in death.  AMP

Proverbs 23:18 Your future is bright and filled with a living hope that will never fade away.

¹⁹As you listen to me, my beloved child, you will grow in wisdom and your heart will be drawn into understanding, which will empower you to make right decisions. TPT

Isa 26:4 Depend on God and keep at it because in the Lord God you have a sure thing. MSG

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Isa 26:4 So trust in the Lord (commit yourself to Him, lean on Him, hope confidently in Him) forever; for the Lord God is an everlasting Rock [the Rock of Ages].  AMP

Jer 29:11 I know what I’m doing. I have it all planned out — plans to take care of you, not abandon you, plans to give you the future you hope for.  MSG

Lam 3:21 But there’s one other thing I remember, and remembering, I keep a grip on hope:

22 God’s loyal love couldn’t have run out, his merciful love couldn’t have dried up.

23 They’re created new every morning. How great your faithfulness!

24 I’m sticking with God (I say it over and over).  MSG

Zech 9:12 Come home, hope-filled prisoners! This very day I’m declaring a double bonus — everything you lost returned twice-over! MSG

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Zech 9:12  Return to the stronghold [of security and prosperity], you prisoners of hope; even today do I declare that I will restore double your former prosperity to you.   AMP

Rom 4:18 When everything was hopeless, Abraham believed anyway, deciding to live not on the basis of what he saw he couldn’t do but on what God said he would do. And so he was made father of a multitude of peoples. God himself said to him, “You’re going to have a big family, Abraham!”

19 Abraham didn’t focus on his own impotence and say, “It’s hopeless. This hundred-year-old body could never father a child.” Nor did he survey Sarah’s decades of infertility and give up.

20 He didn’t tiptoe around God’s promise asking cautiously skeptical questions. He plunged into the promise and came up strong, ready for God,

21 sure that God would make good on what he had said.

22 That’s why it is said, “Abraham was declared fit before God by trusting God to set him right.”

23 But it’s not just Abraham;

24 it’s also us! The same thing gets said about us when we embrace and believe the One who brought Jesus to life when the conditions were equally hopeless.

25 The sacrificed Jesus made us fit for God, set us right with God.  MSG

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Rom 4:18 [For Abraham, human reason for] hope being gone, hoped in faith that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been promised, So [numberless] shall your descendants be. 

19 He did not weaken in faith when he considered the [utter] impotence of his own body, which was as good as dead because he was about a hundred years old, or [when he considered] the barrenness of Sarah’s [deadened] womb. 

20 No unbelief or distrust made him waver (doubtingly question) concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong and was empowered by faith as he gave praise and glory to God,

21 Fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised.

22 That is why his faith was credited to him as righteousness (right standing with God).

23 But [the words], It was credited to him, were written not for his sake alone,

24 But [they were written] for our sakes too. [Righteousness, standing acceptable to God] will be granted and credited to us also who believe in (trust in, adhere to, and rely on) God, Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,  AMP

Rom 5:2 And that’s not all: We throw open our doors to God and discover at the same moment that he has already thrown open his door to us. We find ourselves standing where we always hoped we might stand — out in the wide open spaces of God’s grace and glory, standing tall and shouting our praise.  MSG

Rom 5:5  In alert expectancy such as this, we’re never left feeling shortchanged. Quite the contrary — we can’t round up enough containers to hold everything God generously pours into our lives through the Holy Spirit!  MSG

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ROM 5:5 This kind of hope does not disappoint; the gift of the Holy Spirit completes our every expectation and ignites the love of God within us like an artesian well.  MIRROR

ROM 5:13 The law did not introduce sin; it was just not pointed out yet.   MIRROR

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Rom 5:13  That sin disturbed relations with God in everything and everyone, but the extent of the disturbance was not clear until God spelled it out in detail to Moses. So death, this huge abyss separating us from God, dominated the landscape from Adam to Moses.  MSG

1 COR 15:19 The lines of purpose in your lives never grow slack, tightly tied as they are to If our hope in Christ was restricted to only benefit us in this life then imagine the severity of our disappointment if it all had to come to an abrupt end when we died.

20 However this very moment the risen Christ represents everyone who has ever died; exactly like the first fruit represents the complete harvest.

21 The same mankind who died in a man was raised again in a man. MIRROR

2 Cor 1:10 [For it is He] Who rescued and saved us from such a perilous death, and He will still rescue and save us; in and on Him we have set our hope (our joyful and confident expectation) that He will again deliver us [from danger and destruction and draw us to Himself],  AMP

2 Corinthians 3:12 So then, with this amazing hope living in us, we step out in freedom and boldness to speak the truth.  TPT

Ephesians 1:18 I pray that the light of God will illuminate the eyes of your imagination, flooding you with light, until you experience the full revelation of the hope of his calling— that is, the wealth of God’s glorious inheritances that he finds in us, his holy ones!  TPT

Eph 4:4 [There is] one body and one Spirit — just as there is also one hope [that belongs] to the calling you received —  AMP

Col 1:5 The lines of purpose in your lives never grow slack, tightly tied as they are to your future in heaven, kept taut by hope. The Message is as true among you today as when you first heard it. It doesn’t diminish or weaken over time.  MSG

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Colossians 1:5 Your faith and love rise within you as you access all the treasures of your inheritance stored up in the heavenly realm. For the revelation of the true gospel is as real today as the day you first heard of our glorious hope, now that you have believed in the truth of the gospel.  TPT

Col 1:27 To whom God was pleased to make known how great for the Gentiles are the riches of the glory of this mystery, which is Christ within and among you, the Hope of [realizing the] glory.  AMP

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COL 1:27  Within us, God is delighted to exhibit the priceless treasure of this glorious unveiling of Christ’s indwelling in order that every person on the planet, whoever they are, may now come to the greatest discovery of all time and recognize Christ in them as in a mirror! He is the 1desire of the nations and completes their every expectation!MIRROR

Titus 1:2  My aim is to raise hopes by pointing the way to life without end. This is the life God promised long ago — and he doesn’t break promises! MSG

Titus 2:13 Awaiting and looking for the [fulfillment, the realization of our] blessed hope, even the glorious appearing of our great God and Savior Christ Jesus (the Messiah, the Anointed One), AMP

Heb 6:19 [Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whoever steps out upon it — a hope] that reaches farther and enters into [the very certainty of the Presence] within the veil, AMP

HEB 11:1 Persuasion confirms confident expectation and proves the unseen world to be more real than the seen. Faith celebrates as certain what hope visualizes as future.  MIRROR

ENTER IN 9-23-22  VIDEO a fresh presence 2

God has invited us by the power of the Holy Spirit to enter into His presence. Not just for a moment or a day but for every day of our lives. We’re invited to enter into the presence of the Lord with full confidence. Our prayer in times of trouble allow us to enter into His presence. We enter in through what is already been done by Christ and His blood sacrifice. To enter means to come in to stay to be comforted or to be comfortable. Our youth is renewed in the presence of God. When you gather together in His name, He is in the midst of us right there!

Heb 6:19 [Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whoever steps out upon it — a hope] that reaches farther and enters into [the very certainty of the Presence] within the veil,  AMP   ▼▼▼▼▼▼

Heb 6:19 It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God  MSG

Heb 10:19 Therefore, brethren, since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the [Holy of] Holies [by the power and virtue] in the blood of Jesus,

20 By this fresh (new) and living way which He initiated and dedicated and opened for us through the separating curtain (veil of the Holy of Holies), that is, through His flesh,

21 And since we have [such] a great and wonderful and noble Priest [Who rules] over the house of God,

22 Let us all come forward and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water.

23 So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His word.  AMP

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HEB 10:19 So, fellow family, what the blood of Jesus communicates, seals our immediate access into this ultimate place of sacred encounter, with unashamed confidence.

20 This is the official inauguration of a brand new way of life. The torn flesh of Jesus opened the veil for us. Our own flesh can no longer be a valid excuse to interrupt the expression of the life of our design from within our innermost shrine.   

21 We have a High Priest in the house!

22 We are free to approach God with absolute confidence, fully persuaded in our hearts that nothing can any longer separate us. We are invited to draw near now! We are thoroughly cleansed, inside and out, with no trace of sin’s stains on our conscience or conduct. The sprinkled blood purges our inner thought-patterns; our bodies also are bathed in clean water.

23 Our conversation echoes his persuasion; his faithfulness backs his promises.MIRROR

Ps 100:2 Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence. MSG

Ps 100:4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and a thank offering and into His courts with praise! Be thankful and say so to Him, bless and affectionately praise His name!

5 For the Lord is good; His mercy and loving-kindness are everlasting, His faithfulness and truth endure to all generations.  AMP

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Psalms 100:4 You can pass through his open gates with the password of praise. Come right into his presence with thanksgiving. Come bring your thank offering to him and affectionately bless his beautiful name!

⁵For Yahweh is always good and ready to receive you. He’s so loving that it will amaze you—so kind that it will astound you! And he is famous for his faithfulness toward all. Everyone knows our God can be trusted, for he keeps his promises to every generation! TPT

Ps 95:2 Let’s march into his presence singing praises, lifting the rafters with our hymns!  MSG

Ps 95:2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise!  AMP

Ps 88:2 Let my prayer come before You and really enter into Your presence; incline Your ear to my cry!  AMP

HEB 4:16  For this reason we can approach the authoritative throne of grace with bold utterance. We are welcome there in his embrace, and are reinforced with immediate effect in times of trouble. MIRROR

Gal 3:11 The obvious impossibility of carrying out such a moral program should make it plain that no one can sustain a relationship with God that way. The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into what God does for you. Habakkuk had it right: “The person who believes God, is set right by God — and that’s the real life.”  MSG

Col 2:11 Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It’s not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you’re already in — insiders — not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin. MSG

Psalms 62:6 For he alone is my safe place. His wraparound presence always protects me as my champion defender. There’s no risk of failure with God! So why would I let worry paralyze me, even when troubles multiply around me?

⁷God’s glory is all around me! His wraparound presence is all I need, for the Lord is my Savior, my hero, and my life-giving strength.

⁸Trust only in God every moment! Tell him all your troubles and pour out your heart-longings to him. Believe me when I tell you—he will help you! Pause in his presence  TPT

Rom 8:1 With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. MSG

Eph 1:4 Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love.

5 Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!)

6 He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son. MSG

Ps 92:12  “Good people will prosper like palm trees, Grow tall like Lebanon cedars;

13 transplanted to God’s courtyard, They’ll grow tall in the presence of God,  MSG

Ps 116:9 I’m striding in the presence of God, alive in the land of the living! MSG

Heb 7:19 the law brought nothing to maturity. Another way — Jesus! — a way that does work, that brings us right into the presence of God, is put in its place. MSG

Ps 91:1  You who sit down in the High God’s presence, spend the night in Shaddai’s shadow, MSG

Ex 33:14  God said, “My presence will go with you. I’ll see the journey to the end.”  MSG

Matthew 18:19 Again, I give you an eternal truth: If two of you agree to ask God for something in a symphony of prayer, my heavenly Father will do it for you.

²⁰For wherever two or three come together in honor of my name, I am right there with them!” TPT

Ps 16:11 You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. AMP

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Ps 16:11 Now you’ve got my feet on the life path, all radiant from the shining of your face. Ever since you took my hand, I’m on the right way. MSG

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Psalms 16:11 Because of you, I know the path of life, as I taste the fullness of joy in your presence. At your right side I experience divine pleasures forevermore!  TPT

Ps 23:4 Even when the way goes through Death Valley, I’m not afraid when you walk at my side. Your trusty shepherd’s crook makes me feel secure.

5 You serve me a six-course dinner right in front of my enemies. You revive my drooping head; my cup brims with blessing.  MSG

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Ps 23:4 Yes, though I walk through the [deep, sunless] valley of the shadow of death, I will fear or dread no evil, for You are with me; Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my [brimming] cup runs over.  AMP

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Psalms 23:4 Even when your path takes me through the valley of deepest darkness, fear will never conquer me, for you already have! Your authority is my strength and my peace. The comfort of your love takes away my fear. I’ll never be lonely, for you are near.

⁵You become my delicious feast even when my enemies dare to fight. You anoint me with the fragrance of your Holy Spirit; you give me all I can drink of you until my cup overflows.  TPT

2 Sam 22:7 A hostile world! I called to GOD, to my God I cried out. From his palace he heard me call; my cry brought me right into his presence —

a private audience!  MSG

Ps 73:28 But I’m in the very presence of God — oh, how refreshing it is!

I’ve made Lord GOD my home. God, I’m telling the world what you do! MSG

1 John 5:14 And how bold and free we then become in his presence, freely asking according to his will, sure that he’s listening. MSG   

Ps 105:4 Keep your eyes open for GOD, watch for his works; be alert for signs of his presence.  MSG

1 Chron 16:11 Seek the Lord and His strength; yearn for and seek His face and to be in His presence continually!  AMP

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1 Chron 16:11 Study GOD and his strength, seek his presence day and night;

1 Cor. 14:5 I want all of you to develop intimacies with God in prayer, but please don’t stop with that. Go on and proclaim his clear truth to others.  MSG

Deut 10:12 So now Israel, what do you think GOD expects from you? Just this: Live in his presence in holy reverence, follow the road he sets out for you, love him, serve GOD, your God, with everything you have in you, MSG

 

Rev 7:15 For this reason they are [now] before the [very] throne of God and serve Him day and night in His sanctuary (temple); and He Who is sitting upon the throne will protect and spread His tabernacle over and shelter them with His presence. AMP

ENTER IN 9-23-22  VIDEO a fresh presence 2

God has invited us by the power of the Holy Spirit to enter into His presence. Not just for a moment or a day but for every day of our lives. We’re invited to enter into the presence of the Lord with full confidence. Our prayer in times of trouble allow us to enter into His presence. We enter in through what is already been done by Christ and His blood sacrifice. To enter means to come in to stay to be comforted or to be comfortable. Our youth is renewed in the presence of God. When you gather together in His name, He is in the midst of us right there!

Heb 6:19 [Now] we have this [hope] as a sure and steadfast anchor of the soul [it cannot slip and it cannot break down under whoever steps out upon it — a hope] that reaches farther and enters into [the very certainty of the Presence] within the veil,  AMP   ▼▼▼▼▼▼

Heb 6:19 It’s an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God  MSG

Heb 10:19 Therefore, brethren, since we have full freedom and confidence to enter into the [Holy of] Holies [by the power and virtue] in the blood of Jesus,

20 By this fresh (new) and living way which He initiated and dedicated and opened for us through the separating curtain (veil of the Holy of Holies), that is, through His flesh,

21 And since we have [such] a great and wonderful and noble Priest [Who rules] over the house of God,

22 Let us all come forward and draw near with true (honest and sincere) hearts in unqualified assurance and absolute conviction engendered by faith (by that leaning of the entire human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness), having our hearts sprinkled and purified from a guilty (evil) conscience and our bodies cleansed with pure water.

23 So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His word.  AMP

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HEB 10:19 So, fellow family, what the blood of Jesus communicates, seals our immediate access into this ultimate place of sacred encounter, with unashamed confidence.

20 This is the official inauguration of a brand new way of life. The torn flesh of Jesus opened the veil for us. Our own flesh can no longer be a valid excuse to interrupt the expression of the life of our design from within our innermost shrine.   

21 We have a High Priest in the house!

22 We are free to approach God with absolute confidence, fully persuaded in our hearts that nothing can any longer separate us. We are invited to draw near now! We are thoroughly cleansed, inside and out, with no trace of sin’s stains on our conscience or conduct. The sprinkled blood purges our inner thought-patterns; our bodies also are bathed in clean water.

23 Our conversation echoes his persuasion; his faithfulness backs his promises.MIRROR

Ps 100:2 Bring a gift of laughter, sing yourselves into his presence. MSG

Ps 100:4 Enter into His gates with thanksgiving and a thank offering and into His courts with praise! Be thankful and say so to Him, bless and affectionately praise His name!

5 For the Lord is good; His mercy and loving-kindness are everlasting, His faithfulness and truth endure to all generations.  AMP

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Psalms 100:4 You can pass through his open gates with the password of praise. Come right into his presence with thanksgiving. Come bring your thank offering to him and affectionately bless his beautiful name!

⁵For Yahweh is always good and ready to receive you. He’s so loving that it will amaze you—so kind that it will astound you! And he is famous for his faithfulness toward all. Everyone knows our God can be trusted, for he keeps his promises to every generation! TPT

Ps 95:2 Let’s march into his presence singing praises, lifting the rafters with our hymns!  MSG

Ps 95:2 Let us come before His presence with thanksgiving; let us make a joyful noise to Him with songs of praise!  AMP

Ps 88:2 Let my prayer come before You and really enter into Your presence; incline Your ear to my cry!  AMP

HEB 4:16  For this reason we can approach the authoritative throne of grace with bold utterance. We are welcome there in his embrace, and are reinforced with immediate effect in times of trouble. MIRROR

Gal 3:11 The obvious impossibility of carrying out such a moral program should make it plain that no one can sustain a relationship with God that way. The person who lives in right relationship with God does it by embracing what God arranges for him. Doing things for God is the opposite of entering into what God does for you. Habakkuk had it right: “The person who believes God, is set right by God — and that’s the real life.”  MSG

Col 2:11 Entering into this fullness is not something you figure out or achieve. It’s not a matter of being circumcised or keeping a long list of laws. No, you’re already in — insiders — not through some secretive initiation rite but rather through what Christ has already gone through for you, destroying the power of sin. MSG

Psalms 62:6 For he alone is my safe place. His wraparound presence always protects me as my champion defender. There’s no risk of failure with God! So why would I let worry paralyze me, even when troubles multiply around me?

⁷God’s glory is all around me! His wraparound presence is all I need, for the Lord is my Savior, my hero, and my life-giving strength.

⁸Trust only in God every moment! Tell him all your troubles and pour out your heart-longings to him. Believe me when I tell you—he will help you! Pause in his presence  TPT

Rom 8:1 With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. MSG

Eph 1:4 Long before he laid down earth’s foundations, he had us in mind, had settled on us as the focus of his love, to be made whole and holy by his love.

5 Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!)

6 He wanted us to enter into the celebration of his lavish gift-giving by the hand of his beloved Son. MSG

Ps 92:12  “Good people will prosper like palm trees, Grow tall like Lebanon cedars;

13 transplanted to God’s courtyard, They’ll grow tall in the presence of God,  MSG

Ps 116:9 I’m striding in the presence of God, alive in the land of the living! MSG

Heb 7:19 the law brought nothing to maturity. Another way — Jesus! — a way that does work, that brings us right into the presence of God, is put in its place. MSG

Ps 91:1  You who sit down in the High God’s presence, spend the night in Shaddai’s shadow, MSG

Ex 33:14  God said, “My presence will go with you. I’ll see the journey to the end.”  MSG

Matthew 18:19 Again, I give you an eternal truth: If two of you agree to ask God for something in a symphony of prayer, my heavenly Father will do it for you.

²⁰For wherever two or three come together in honor of my name, I am right there with them!” TPT

Ps 16:11 You will show me the path of life; in Your presence is fullness of joy, at Your right hand there are pleasures forevermore. AMP

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Ps 16:11 Now you’ve got my feet on the life path, all radiant from the shining of your face. Ever since you took my hand, I’m on the right way. MSG

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Psalms 16:11 Because of you, I know the path of life, as I taste the fullness of joy in your presence. At your right side I experience divine pleasures forevermore!  TPT

Ps 23:4 Even when the way goes through Death Valley, I’m not afraid when you walk at my side. Your trusty shepherd’s crook makes me feel secure.

5 You serve me a six-course dinner right in front of my enemies. You revive my drooping head; my cup brims with blessing.  MSG

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Ps 23:4 Yes, though I walk through the [deep, sunless] valley of the shadow of death, I will fear or dread no evil, for You are with me; Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort me.

5 You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my [brimming] cup runs over.  AMP

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Psalms 23:4 Even when your path takes me through the valley of deepest darkness, fear will never conquer me, for you already have! Your authority is my strength and my peace. The comfort of your love takes away my fear. I’ll never be lonely, for you are near.

⁵You become my delicious feast even when my enemies dare to fight. You anoint me with the fragrance of your Holy Spirit; you give me all I can drink of you until my cup overflows.  TPT

2 Sam 22:7 A hostile world! I called to GOD, to my God I cried out. From his palace he heard me call; my cry brought me right into his presence —

a private audience!  MSG

Ps 73:28 But I’m in the very presence of God — oh, how refreshing it is!

I’ve made Lord GOD my home. God, I’m telling the world what you do! MSG

1 John 5:14 And how bold and free we then become in his presence, freely asking according to his will, sure that he’s listening. MSG   

Ps 105:4 Keep your eyes open for GOD, watch for his works; be alert for signs of his presence.  MSG

1 Chron 16:11 Seek the Lord and His strength; yearn for and seek His face and to be in His presence continually!  AMP

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1 Chron 16:11 Study GOD and his strength, seek his presence day and night;

1 Cor. 14:5 I want all of you to develop intimacies with God in prayer, but please don’t stop with that. Go on and proclaim his clear truth to others.  MSG

Deut 10:12 So now Israel, what do you think GOD expects from you? Just this: Live in his presence in holy reverence, follow the road he sets out for you, love him, serve GOD, your God, with everything you have in you, MSG

 

BEYOND OUR CIRCUMSTANCES 9-18-22  VIDEO TYLER PERRY NO ANXIETY 2

If our spirituality matters, it matters most when we’re under pressure. Pressure makes us feel alone. When we dwell on circumstances and all of the tiny details, we become introspective and circumstantial. We pray to God hoping to draw Him into our circumstance. Telling Him things He already knows. We don’t have to live in our circumstances or our limitations because we live in Christ. When circumstances press us we go to the secret place.  In our secret place, God separates us from our circumstances. Jesus often went alone to talk with the Father.  When trials or circumstances have us down we use our authority in Jesus name.

Heb 13:5 Let your character or moral disposition be free from love of money [including greed, avarice, lust, and craving for earthly possessions] and be satisfied with your present [circumstances and with what you have]; for He [God] Himself has said, I will not in any way fail you nor give you up nor leave you without support. [I will] not, [I will] not, [I will] not in any degree leave you helpless nor forsake nor let [you] down (relax My hold on you)! [Assuredly not!]  AMP

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Heb 13:5  Don’t be obsessed with getting more material things. Be relaxed with what you have. Since God assured us, “I’ll never let you down, never walk off and leave you,” MSG

Ps 27:5 For in the day of trouble He will hide me in His shelter; in the secret place of His tent will He hide me; He will set me high upon a rock.

6 And now shall my head be lifted up above my enemies round about me; in His tent I will offer sacrifices and shouting of joy; I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to the Lord.  AMP

Isa 41:10 Fear not [there is nothing to fear], for I am with you; do not look around you in terror and be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen and harden you to difficulties, yes, I will help you; yes, I will hold you up and retain you with My [victorious] right hand of rightness and justice.  AMP

ROM 8:28 Meanwhile we know that the love of God causes everything to mutually contribute to our advantage. His Master Plan is announced in our original identity.  

29  He pre-designed and engineered us from the start to be jointly fashioned in the same mold and image of his Son according to the exact blueprint of his thought. We see the original and intended pattern of our lives preserved in his Son. He is the firstborn from the same womb that reveals our genesis. He confirms that we are the invention of God.

30 Jesus reveals that we pre-existed in God; he defined us. He rendered us innocent and also adorned us with splendor and esteem.

31 All these things point to one conclusion, God is for us! Who can prevail against us? MIRROR

1 Thess 5:16 Be happy [in your faith] and rejoice and be glad-hearted continually (always);

17 Be unceasing in prayer [praying perseveringly];

18 Thank [God] in everything [no matter what the circumstances may be, be thankful and give thanks], for this is the will of God for you [who are] in Christ Jesus [the Revealer and Mediator of that will].

19 Do not quench (suppress or subdue) the [Holy] Spirit; AMP   ▼▼▼

1 Thessalonians 5:16  Let joy be your continual feast.

17-18 And in the midst of everything be always giving thanks, for this is God’s perfect plan for you in Christ Jesus.

¹⁹Never restrain or put out the fire of the Holy Spirit.

Col 3:17 And whatever you do [no matter what it is] in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus and in [dependence upon] His Person, giving praise to God the Father through Him.  AMP

Philippians 4:6Don’t be pulled in different directions or worried about a thing. Be saturated in prayer throughout each day, offering your faith-filled requests before God with overflowing gratitude. Tell him every detail of your life,

⁷then God’s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, will guard your heart and mind through Jesus Christ.  TPT

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PHIL 4:6 Let no anxiety about anything distract you! Rather translate moments into prayerful worship, and soak your requests in gratitude before God!

7 And in this place of worship and gratitude you will witness how the peace of God within you echoes the awareness of your oneness in Christ Jesus beyond the reach of any thought that could possibly unsettle you. Just like the sentry guard secures a city, watching out in advance for the first signs of any possible threat, your deepest feelings and the tranquillity of your thoughts are fully guarded there.   MIRROR

JOHN 16:33 I have spoken these things to you that in me you will know the sweet and assured resonance of my peace! In the world you encounter extreme and stressful times, but be of good courage, I have conquered the world-order!”  MIRROR

Col 1:11 [We pray] that you may be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the might of His glory, [to exercise] every kind of endurance and patience (perseverance and forbearance) with joy,  AMP

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COL 1:11 You are empowered in the dynamic of God’s strength; his mind is made up about you! He enables you to be strong in endurance and steadfastness with joy. MIRROR

Matthew 6:6But whenever you pray, go into your innermost chamber and be alone with Father God, praying to him in secret. And your Father, who sees all you do, will reward you openly.

⁷When you pray, there is no need to repeat empty phrases, praying like the Gentiles do, for they expect God to hear them because of their many words.

⁸There is no need to imitate them, since your Father already knows what you need before you ask him.   TPT

2 Timothy 1:12  The confidence of my calling enables me to overcome every difficulty without shame, for I have an intimate revelation of this God. And my faith in him convinces me that he is more than able to keep all that I’ve placed in his hands safe and secure until the fullness of his appearing. TPT

Matt 16:19 “And that’s not all. You will have complete and free access to God’s kingdom, keys to open any and every door: no more barriers between heaven and earth, earth and heaven. A yes on earth is yes in heaven. A no on earth is no in heaven.”  MSG

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Matthew 16:19I will give you the keys of heaven’s kingdom realm to forbid on earth that which is forbidden in heaven, and to release on earth that which is released in heaven.”  TPT

1 Cor 14:18 I’m grateful to God for the gift of praying in tongues that he gives us for praising him, which leads to wonderful intimacies we enjoy with him. I enter into this as much or more than any of you. MSG

1 Cor 13:7 Love bears up under anything and everything that comes, is ever ready to believe the best of every person, its hopes are fadeless under all circumstances, and it endures everything [without weakening].  AMP

Phil 4:12 I know how to be abased and live humbly in straitened circumstances, and I know also how to enjoy plenty and live in abundance. I have learned in any and all circumstances the secret of facing every situation, whether well-fed or going hungry, having a sufficiency and enough to spare or going without and being in want.

13 I have strength for all things in Christ Who empowers me [I am ready for anything and equal to anything through Him Who infuses inner strength into me; I am self-sufficient in Christ’s sufficiency].  AMP

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Phil 4:12 I’m just as happy with little as with much, with much as with little. I’ve found the recipe for being happy whether full or hungry, hands full or hands empty.

13 Whatever I have, wherever I am, I can make it through anything in the One who makes me who I am.  MSG

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Phil 4:12  I know what it means to lack, and I know what it means to experience overwhelming abundance. For I’m trained in the secret of overcoming all things, whether in fullness or in hunger. And I find that the strength of Christ’s explosive power infuses me to conquer every difficulty. TPT

Jonah 2:7 When my soul fainted within me I remembered the Lord: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.

8 They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

9 But I will sacrifice unto thee with the voice of thanksgiving; I will pay that that I have vowed. Salvation is of the Lord.

10 And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.  KJV

2 Cor 9:8 And God is able to make all grace (every favor and earthly blessing) come to you in abundance, so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient [possessing enough to require no aid or support and furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation].  AMP

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2 Corinthians 9:8  Yes, God is more than ready to overwhelm you with every form of grace, so that you will have more than enough of everything— every moment and in every way. He will make you overflow with abundance in every good thing you do. TPT

Prov 15:15 All the days of the desponding and afflicted are made evil [by anxious thoughts and forebodings], but he who has a glad heart has a continual feast [regardless of circumstances].  AMP

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Proverbs 15:15Everything seems to go wrong when you feel weak and depressed.

But when you choose to be cheerful, every day will bring you more and more joy and fullness.  TPT

Prov 28:14 Blessed (happy, fortunate, and to be envied) is the man who reverently and worshipfully fears [the Lord] at all times [regardless of circumstances], but he who hardens his heart will fall into calamity. AMP

Romans 8:17And since we are his true children, we qualify to share all his treasures, for indeed, we are heirs of God himself. And since we are joined to Christ, we also inherit all that he is and all that he has. We will experience being co-glorified with him provided that we accept his sufferings as our own.

¹⁸ I am convinced that any suffering we endure is less than nothing compared to the magnitude of glory that is about to be unveiled within us.  TPT

 2 Thess 3:16 Now may the Lord of peace Himself grant you His peace (the peace of His kingdom) at all times and in all ways [under all circumstances and conditions, whatever comes]. The Lord [be] with you all.  AMP

Isa 60:1 ARISE [from the depression and prostration in which circumstances have kept you — rise to a new life]! Shine (be radiant with the glory of the Lord), for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord has risen upon you!  AMP

CONFESSION BRINGS POSSESSION  9-16-2022 VIDEO big but

When you confess any of the promises of God you keep confessing them until you possess in fully.

Only Joshua and Caleb believe the promise of the Lord spoken over them by Moses. Joshua and Caleb had a confession. The result of wrong confession was the children of Israel took 40 years to enter the entire promised land. Our words are the spirit of our faith. We give actions that go long with our confession. Things that we say we will eventually believe. And the things we believe will be the things that we receive. Take Hold of your answers not the problem. Angels are sent to listen to the words that we confess and help us by our confession. They will position you for your words to come to pass.

Num 13:27 They told Moses, We came to the land to which you sent us; surely it flows with milk and honey. This is its fruit. 

28 But the people who dwell there are strong, and the cities are fortified and very large; moreover, there we saw the sons of Anak [of great stature and courage]. 

29 Amalek dwells in the land of the South (the Negeb); the Hittite, the Jebusite, and the Amorite dwell in the hill country; and the Canaanite dwells by the sea and along by the side of the Jordan [River]. 

30 Caleb quieted the people before Moses, and said, Let us go up at once and possess it; we are well able to conquer it. 

31 But his fellow scouts said, We are not able to go up against the people [of Canaan], for they are stronger than we are. 

32 So they brought the Israelites an evil report of the land which they had scouted out, saying, The land through which we went to spy it out is a land that devours its inhabitants. And all the people that we saw in it are men of great stature. 

33 There we saw the Nephilim [or giants], the sons of Anak, who come from the giants; and we were in our own sight as grasshoppers, and so we were in their sight.  AMP

Num 14:6 And Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among the scouts who had searched the land, rent their clothes, 

7 And they said to all the company of Israelites, The land through which we passed as scouts is an exceedingly good land. 

8 If the Lord delights in us, then He will bring us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey. 

9 Only do not rebel against the Lord, neither fear the people of the land, for they are bread for us. Their defense and the shadow [of protection] is removed from over them, but the Lord is with us. Fear them not.   AMP

Heb 4:1 THEREFORE, WHILE the promise of entering His rest still holds and is offered [today], let us be afraid [to distrust it], lest any of you should think he has come too late and has come short of [reaching] it.

2 For indeed we have had the glad tidings [Gospel of God] proclaimed to us just as truly as they [the Israelites of old did when the good news of deliverance from bondage came to them]; but the message they heard did not benefit them, because it was not mixed with faith (with the leaning of the entire personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness) by those who heard it; neither were they united in faith with the ones [Joshua and Caleb] who heard (did believe). AMP

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HEB 4:1 What a foolish thing it would be if we should now fail in a similar fashion to enter into his rest, where we get to celebrate the full consequences of our redemption.  

2 What God has now spoken to us in Jesus confirms that we were equally included in the prophetic message which was proclaimed to our ancestors; their unbelief disqualified them from possessing the promise; they could not make the vital connection with the promise while they remained enslaved to their dwarfed opinions of themselves! Because the word did not mingle with faith, there was no catalyst to ignite its effect in their hearts, and so the promise did not profit them at all.  MIRROR

Gen 21:6  Sarah said, God has blessed me with laughter and all who get the news will laugh with me!

7 She also said, Whoever would have suggested to Abraham that Sarah would one day nurse a baby! Yet here I am! I’ve given the old man a son!  MSG

Mark 11:23 and nothing will be too much for you. This mountain, for instance: Just say, ‘Go jump in the lake’ — no shuffling or shilly-shallying — and it’s as good as done.

24 That’s why I urge you to pray for absolutely everything, ranging from small to large. Include everything as you embrace this God-life, and you’ll get God’s everything.  MSG

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Mark 11:23 Listen to the truth I speak to you: Whoever says to this mountain with great faith and does not doubt, ‘Mountain, be lifted up and thrown into the midst of the sea,’ and believes that what he says will happen, it will be done.

²⁴This is the reason I urge you to boldly believe for whatever you ask for in prayer—be convinced that you have received it and it will be yours. TPT

2 Cor 4:13 We’re not keeping this quiet, not on your life. Just like the psalmist who wrote, “I believed it, so I said it,” we say what we believe. MSG

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2 COR 4:13 We echo the exact same spirit of faith David had when he wrote: “I believe and so I speak!” We too believe and so we speak! Our persuasion is our conversation.  MIRROR

James 2:26 For as the human body apart from the spirit is lifeless, so faith apart from [its] works of obedience is also dead.  AMP

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James 2:26 For just as a human body without the spirit is a dead corpse, so faith without the expression of good works is dead!  TPT

Heb 4:14 Inasmuch then as we have a great High Priest Who has [already] ascended and passed through the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our confession [of faith in Him].

15 For we do not have a High Priest Who is unable to understand and sympathize and have a shared feeling with our weaknesses and infirmities and liability to the assaults of temptation, but One Who has been tempted in every respect as we are, yet without sinning.

16 Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].  AMP

2 Cor 1:20  For as many as are the promises of God, they all find their Yes [answer] in Him [Christ]. For this reason we also utter the Amen (so be it) to God through Him [in His Person and by His agency] to the glory of God. AMP

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2 COR 1:20 In him the detail of every single promise of God is fulfilled; Jesus is God’s yes to your entire well being! In our union with him the Amen that echoes in us gives evidence to his glorious intent through us.  MIRROR

John 6:47 “I speak to you living truth: Unite your heart to me and believe—and you will experience eternal life!

48 I am the true Bread of Life. TPT

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John 6:47 I assure you, most solemnly I tell you, he who believes in Me [who adheres to, trusts in, relies on, and has faith in Me] has (now possesses) eternal life.

48 I am the Bread of Life [that gives life — the Living Bread].  AMP

Heb 1:14 Are not the angels all ministering spirits (servants) sent out in the service [of God for the assistance] of those who are to inherit salvation?  AMP

Deut 30:19 I call heaven and earth to witness this day against you that I have set before you life and death, the blessings and the curses; therefore choose life, that you and your descendants may live  AMP

Rom 4:21 Fully satisfied and assured that God was able and mighty to keep His word and to do what He had promised.

22 That is why his faith was credited to him as righteousness (right standing with God).

23 But [the words], It was credited to him, were written not for his sake alone,

24 But [they were written] for our sakes too. [Righteousness, standing acceptable to God] will be granted and credited to us also who believe in (trust in, adhere to, and rely on) God, Who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,  AMP

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RO 4:21 Abraham’s confidence was his dress-code; he knew beyond doubt that the power of God to perform was equal to his promise.

22 The persuasion of God rubbed off on Abraham and became his personal conviction. This was the basis of his righteousness.

23 Here is the Good News: the recorded words, “It was reckoned to him” were not written for his sake alone.

24 Scripture was written with us in mind! The same conclusion is now equally relevant in our realizing the significance of Jesus’ resurrection from the dead. MIRROR

Heb 10:23 So let us seize and hold fast and retain without wavering the hope we cherish and confess and our acknowledgement of it, for He Who promised is reliable (sure) and faithful to His word.

24 And let us consider and give attentive, continuous care to watching over one another, studying how we may stir up (stimulate and incite) to love and helpful deeds and noble activities,  AMP

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HEB 10:23 Our conversation echoes his persuasion; his faithfulness backs his promises.  

24 Let us also think of creative ways by which we can influence one another to find inspired expression in doing things that benefit others. Good actions give voice and volume to the love of God.  MIRROR

Job 22:28 You shall also decide and decree a thing, and it shall be established for you; and the light [of God’s favor] shall shine upon your ways.

29 When they make [you] low, you will say, [There is] a lifting up; and the humble person He lifts up and saves. AMP

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Job 22:28 You’ll decide what you want and it will happen; your life will be bathed in light.

29 To those who feel low you’ll say, ‘Chin up! Be brave!’ and God will save them. MSG

ROM 10:9 Now your salvation is realized! Your own words echo God’s voice. The unveiling of the masterful act of Jesus forms the words in your mouth, inspired by the conviction in your heart that God indeed raised him from the dead.  

10:10 This is where believing happens spontaneously, in the heart! The revelation of mankind’s redeemed righteousness ignites a new conversation, announcing salvation.  MIRROR