THAT’S NOT ME 8-30-26 VIDEO
This is a message to remind us of the reality of how God sees us. How He has created us to be. The real us. Sometimes we get a wrong image about ourselves and then we act accordingly. But remember you are more than your actions. You are more than your behavior or misbehavior. You are a Spirit being and the real you needs to be made manifest. Things you have done in your past that were not from God that was not you not the real you.
NABUCHADNEZZER
DAN 4:32 You will be driven out of human company and live with the wild animals. You will eat grass like an ox. The sentence is for seven seasons, enough time to learn that the High God rules human kingdoms and puts whomever he wishes in charge.”
33 It happened at once. Nebuchadnezzar was driven out of human company, ate grass like an ox, and was soaked in heaven’s dew. His hair grew like the feathers of an eagle and his nails like the claws of a hawk.
34 “At the end of the seven years, I, Nebuchadnezzar, looked to heaven. I was given my mind back and I blessed the High God, thanking and glorifying God, who lives forever. “His sovereign rule lasts and lasts, his kingdom never declines and falls.
35 Life on this earth doesn’t add up to much, but God’s heavenly army keeps everything going. No one can interrupt his work, no one can call his rule into question.
36 “At the same time that I was given back my mind, I was also given back my majesty and splendor, making my kingdom shine. All the leaders and important people came looking for me. I was reestablished as king in my kingdom and became greater than ever. MSG

PRODIGAL SON
LUKE 15:15 He signed on with a citizen there who assigned him to his fields to slop the pigs.
16 He was so hungry he would have eaten the corncobs in the pig slop, but no one would give him any.
17 “That brought him to his senses. He said, ‘All those farmhands working for my father sit down to three meals a day, and here I am starving to death.
18 I’m going back to my father. I’ll say to him, Father, I’ve sinned against God, I’ve sinned before you;
19 I don’t deserve to be called your son. Take me on as a hired hand.’
20 He got right up and went home to his father. When he was still a long way off, his father saw him. His heart pounding, he ran out, embraced him, and kissed him.
21 The son started his speech: ‘Father, I’ve sinned against God, I’ve sinned before you; I don’t deserve to be called your son ever again.’
22 “But the father wasn’t listening. He was calling to the servants, ‘Quick. Bring a clean set of clothes and dress him. Put the family ring on his finger and sandals on his feet. MSG

PETER LUKE 22:56 And a servant-girl, seeing him as he sat in the firelight and looking intently at him, said, “This man was with Him too.”
57 But Peter denied it, saying, “Woman, I do not know Him!”
58 A little later someone else saw him and said, “You are one of them too.” But Peter said, “Man, I am not!”
59 After about an hour had passed, another man began to insist, “This man was with Him, for he is a Galilean too.”
60 But Peter said, “Man, I do not know what you are talking about.” Immediately, while he was still speaking, a rooster crowed. AMP

ACTS 2:14 But Peter, standing with the eleven, raised his voice and addressed them: “Men of Judea and all you who live in Jerusalem, let this be explained to you; listen closely and pay attention to what I have to say.
15 These people are not drunk, as you assume, since it is [only] the third hour of the day (9:00 a.m.);
16 but this is [the beginning of] what was spoken of through the prophet Joel: AMP

ACTS 4:8 Then Peter, filled with [the power of] the Holy Spirit, said to them, “Rulers and elders of the people [members of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish High Court. AMP

MOSES ACTS 7:27 The one who had started the fight said, ‘Who put you in charge of us?
28 Are you going to kill me like you killed that Egyptian yesterday?’
29 When Moses heard that, realizing that the word was out, he ran for his life and lived in exile over in Midian. During the years of exile, two sons were born to him.
30 “Forty years later, in the wilderness of Mount Sinai, an angel appeared to him in the guise of flames of a burning bush. MSG

EX 14:13 Moses spoke to the people: “Don’t be afraid. Stand firm and watch God do his work of salvation for you today. Take a good look at the Egyptians today for you’re never going to see them again.
14 God will fight the battle for you. And you? You keep your mouths shut!”
15 God said to Moses: “Why cry out to me? Speak to the Israelites. Order them to get moving.
16 Hold your staff high and stretch your hand out over the sea: Split the sea! The Israelites will walk through the sea on dry ground. MSG

DAVID BASHSHEBA
1 SAM 13:14 But now your kingdom shall not endure. The Lord has sought out for Himself a man (David) after His own heart, and the Lord has appointed him as leader and ruler over His people, because you have not kept (obeyed) what the Lord commanded you.” AMP DR EBY GOD CANNOT SEE SIN
SAMAUL IS HISTORY ACCOUNT CHRONICLES IS PRESTLY
DAVID AND BATHSATBA – COUNTING THE PEOPLE CHRONICLES LEAVES IT OUT
1O MAJOR STORIES APPEAR IN SAMAUL BUT OMISSION IS SIGNIFICANT

JUDGES 6:12 The angel of God appeared to him and said, “God is with you, O mighty warrior!”
13 Gideon replied, “With me, my master? If God is with us, why has all this happened to us? Where are all the miracle-wonders our parents and grandparents told us about, telling us, ‘Didn’t God deliver us from Egypt?’ The fact is, God has nothing to do with us – he has turned us over to Midian.”
14 But God faced him directly: “Go in this strength that is yours. Save Israel from Midian. Haven’t I just sent you?”
15 Gideon said to him, “Me, my master? How and with what could I ever save Israel? Look at me. My clan’s the weakest in Manasseh and I’m the runt of the litter.”
16 God said to him, “I’ll be with you. Believe me, you’ll defeat Midian as one man.” MSG

SLATE CLEAN COL 2:14 His body nailed to the cross hung there as the document of mankind’s guilt; in dying our death he cancelled the detailed hand-written record which testified against us. Every stain on our conscience, reminding of the sense of failure and guilt, was thus fully blotted out. MIRROR

HEB 10:17 This is final: I have no record of your sins and misdeeds. I cannot recall them. MIRROR

1 JN 2:12 The reason of my writing is to remind you to live your lives in the innocence of an infant! The name Jesus means that you can rest assured in your salvation from sin’s harassment! MIRROR

1 COR 11:28 To see oneself associated in Christ’s death and declared innocent in his blood is the only worthy manner in which to examine one’s own life in the context of the new covenant meal. MIRROR

1 COR 4:4 even though I know of nothing against my conscience, I am not thereby acquitted. The point is not how self righteous I appear in my own eyes; the Lord’s judgment is the only valid reference to our innocence. MIRROR

1 THESS 3:13 The dominion of the Christ life establishes you in blameless innocence, face to face before our God and Father, in the constant awareness of his presence in our mutual togetherness with all the saints! MIRROR

1 COR 10:31 Live your life overwhelmed by God’s opinion of you! Your eating and drinking is certainly a constant reminder that you are his glory. Every meal proclaims the fact that the life of your design is redeemed again in Christ; salute life! MIRROR

1 JN 1:6 This is the real deal! To live a life of pretense is such a waste of time! The truth has no competition. Truth inspires the poetry of friendship in total contrast to a fake, performance-based relationship! Light is not threatened by darkness! Why say something with darkness as your reference?
7 We are invited to explore the dimensions of the same light that engulfs God; when we see the light in his light, fellowship ignites! In this light, we understand how the blood of Jesus Christ is the removal of every distortion and stain of sin!
8 To claim innocence by our own efforts under the law of personal performance, is to deceive ourselves and to deliberately ignore the truth. The truth about us, does not mean that we now have to go into denial as if we haven’t done anything wrong! The light of the gospel does not reveal sin; it reveals our freedom from it!)
9 Our conversation takes on a brand new dynamic when we take sides with what God believes about us! So, instead of telling God about the detail of your sin, you remind yourself about the detail of your redemption. God doesn’t need the information, you do! God’s faithfulness and righteousness is the basis of our forgiveness and cleansing from every distortion. Jesus removed every bit of condemning evidence against us! MIRROR
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1 JN 1:7 But if we [really] walk in the Light [that is, live each and every day in conformity with the precepts of God], as He Himself is in the Light, we have [true, unbroken] fellowship with one another [He with us, and we with Him], and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin [by erasing the stain of sin, keeping us cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations]. AMP

2 COR 5: 17 Now, in the light of your co-inclusion in his death and resurrection, whoever you thought you were before, in Christ you are a brand new person! The old ways of seeing yourself and everyone else are over. Acquaint yourself with the new!
18 The idea of mankind’s co-inclusion in the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ is entirely God’s doing! To now realize that God has indeed brought final closure to the old and for us to see everything and everyone in this new light is to simply see what God has always known to be true about us in Christ; we are not debating human experience, opinion, or their contribution; this is exactly what God believes. In Jesus Christ, God exchanged equivalent value to redeem us to himself. He went to the highest extreme in this act of reconciliation to persuade us of our original worth! This, God has given us as the mandate of our ministry. MIRROR

2 TIM 1:3 I love the constant thought of you; I am aware of our union in Christ 24/7. Prayer is such a permanent thing when we discover God’s grace-echo in our worship! Our conscience celebrates our pre-creation innocence before God! MIRROR
ROM 8:20 Every creature became subject to a frustrating life of vanity and futility, because of a lost identity. Creation involuntarily fell prey to a mindset imposed upon everyone. Yet within this stark setting, hope prevails.
21 With eager expectation, every creature yearns to be released from its slavery to this wearisome, perishable existence; trapped within a fragile time frame of fading glory, into the glorious freedom of discovering their true sonship. They are indeed children, and not mere ‘creatures’ of God. MIRROR

1 COR 15:49 Just as we have borne the image of the earthly [the man of dust], we will also bear the image of the heavenly [the Man of heaven]. AMP
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1 COR 15:49 Just as we were once defined by the flesh [our earthly image] we are now defined by our spirit [our heavenly] image. MIRROR

GET READY FOR THE JOY OF THE LORD PT 2 8-23-25 VIDEO
From the very beginning of creation till now, it was always God‘s intention that we would be Spirit like He is. To be in the Spirit means you are more conscious of God and the things of God and His presence rather than the things of this world. Just like our creator, we are Spirit and where the Spirit is there is freedom. John was able to receive by the Holy Spirit Divine revelation beyond ordinary perception. John received revelation light. Living light in the Spirit. He was no longer on Patmos, but translated into heaven. Through the Spirit we do not sin. It was the Holy Spirit, who came up upon Mary to make her pregnant with the very life of Jesus. Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit.
Neh 8:10 Then [Ezra] told them, Go your way, eat the fat, drink the sweet drink, and send portions to him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy to our Lord. And be not grieved and depressed, for the joy of the Lord is your strength and stronghold. AMP
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NEH 8:10 He continued, “Go home and prepare a feast, holiday food and drink; and share it with those who don’t have anything: This day is holy to God. Don’t feel bad. The joy of God is your strength!” MSG JOY-rejoicing: – gladness,
STRENGTH-a fortified place; a defence: – force, fortress, rock, strong (hold).

ESTHER 9:22 as the occasion when Jews got relief from their enemies, the month in which their sorrow turned to joy, mourning somersaulted into a holiday for parties and fun and laughter, the sending and receiving of presents and of giving gifts to the poor. MSG

JOB 8:21 God will let you laugh again; you’ll raise the roof with shouts of joy, MSG

PS 4:7 More joy in one ordinary day Than they get in all their shopping sprees.
8 At day’s end I’m ready for sound sleep, For you, God, have put my life back together.
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PS 9:2 I’m whistling, laughing, and jumping for joy; I’m singing your song, High God.
3 The day my enemies turned tail and ran, they stumbled on you and fell on their faces.
4 You took over and set everything right; when I needed you, you were there, taking charge. MSG

PS 19:8 The life-maps of God are right, showing the way to joy. The directions of God are plain and easy on the eyes. MSG

PS 46:4 God has a constantly flowing river whose sparkling streams bring joy and delight to his people. His river flows right through the city of God Most High, into his holy dwelling places. TPT

PS 68:3 When the righteous see God in action they’ll laugh, they’ll sing, they’ll laugh and sing for joy. MSG

PROV 15:13 A cheerful heart brings a smile to your face; a sad heart makes it hard to get through the day. MSG

ISA 55:12 For you will leave your exile with joy and be led home wrapped in peace. The mountains and hills in front of you will burst into singing and the trees of the field will applaud! TPT

LUKE 6:21 You’re blessed when you’re ravenously hungry. Then you’re ready for the Messianic meal. You’re blessed when the tears flow freely. Joy comes with the morning. MSG

JN 8:29 The One who sent me stays with me. He doesn’t abandon me. He sees how much joy I take in pleasing him.” MSG

LUKE 2:10 The celestial messenger immediately calmed them and said, “You have no reason to fear! Listen! I have the most wonderful announcement to make – this will lead to the great encounter of the most joyful bliss for every single person on the planet! MIRROR

ROM 8:25 But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy. MSG

Ps 47:1 O CLAP your hands, all you peoples! Shout to God with the voice of triumph and songs of joy! AMP CLAP-To become bondsman by handclasping: To “strike” one’s hands in praise or triumph or “shake hands” on an agreement To “strike” the hands in an agreement was a surety or guarantor of the agreement.

Ps 97:11 Light is sown for the [uncompromisingly] righteous and strewn along their pathway, and joy for the upright in heart [the irrepressible joy which comes from consciousness of His favor and protection]. AMP

Ps 107:22 And let them sacrifice the sacrifices of thanksgiving and rehearse His deeds with shouts of joy and singing! AMP

Ps 111:2 God’s works are so great, worth A lifetime of study — endless enjoyment!
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John 15:11 “I’ve told you these things for a purpose: that my joy might be your joy, and your joy wholly mature. MSG

JN 15:11 I have spoken these things unto you so that my joy will continuously infuse you – you don’t have to invent your own if you can tap into mine! This is the ultimate bliss! MIRROR

HEB 12:2 Keep your eyes on Jesus, who both began and finished this race we’re in. Study how he did it. Because he never lost sight of where he was headed – that exhilarating finish in and with God – he could put up with anything along the way: cross, shame, whatever. And now he’s there, in the place of honor, right alongside God. MSG

GETTING READY FOR THE JOY OF THE LORD 8-21-26  VIDEO

From the very beginning of creation till now, it was always God‘s intention that we would be Spirit like He is. To be in the Spirit means you are more conscious of God and the things of God and His presence rather than the things of this world. Just like our creator, we are Spirit and where the Spirit is there is freedom. John was able to receive by the Holy Spirit Divine revelation beyond ordinary perception. John received revelation light. Living light in the Spirit. He was no longer on Patmos, but translated into heaven. Through the Spirit we do not sin. It was the Holy Spirit, who came up upon Mary to make her pregnant with the very life of Jesus. Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit.

1 COR 15:51 But let me tell you something wonderful, a mystery I’ll probably never fully understand. We’re not all going to die – but we are all going to be changed.

52 You hear a blast to end all blasts from a trumpet, and in the time that you look up and blink your eyes – it’s over. On signal from that trumpet from heaven, the dead will be up and out of their graves, beyond the reach of death, never to die again. At the same moment and in the same way, we’ll all be changed.

53 In the resurrection scheme of things, this has to happen: everything perishable taken off the shelves and replaced by the imperishable, this mortal replaced by the immortal.

54 Then the saying will come true: Death swallowed by triumphant Life!

55 Who got the last word, oh, Death? Oh, Death, who’s afraid of you now?

56 It was sin that made death so frightening and law-code guilt that gave sin its leverage, its destructive power.

57 But now in a single victorious stroke of Life, all three – sin, guilt, death – are gone, the gift of our Master, Jesus Christ. Thank God!

58 With all this going for us, my dear, dear friends, stand your ground. And don’t hold back. Throw yourselves into the work of the Master, confident that nothing you do for him is a waste of time or effort. MSG

1 THESS 4:13 And regarding the question, friends, that has come up about what happens to those already dead and buried, we don’t want you in the dark any longer. First off, you must not carry on over them like people who have nothing to look forward to, as if the grave were the last word.

14 Since Jesus died and broke loose from the grave, God will most certainly bring back to life those who died in Jesus.

15 And then this: We can tell you with complete confidence – we have the Master’s word on it – that when the Master comes again to get us, those of us who are still alive will not get a jump on the dead and leave them behind. In actual fact, they’ll be ahead of us.

16 The Master himself will give the command. Archangel thunder! God’s trumpet blast! He’ll come down from heaven and the dead in Christ will rise – they’ll go first.

17 Then the rest of us who are still alive at the time will be caught up with them into the clouds to meet the Master.

18 Oh, we’ll be walking on air! And then there will be one huge family reunion with the Master. So reassure one another with these words. MSG

1 THESS 5:9 God didn’t set us up for an angry rejection but for salvation by our Master, Jesus Christ.

10 He died for us, a death that triggered life. Whether we’re awake with the living or asleep with the dead, we’re alive with him!

11 So speak encouraging words to one another. Build up hope so you’ll all be together in this, no one left out, no one left behind. I know you’re already doing this; just keep on doing it.  MSG

ROM 5:6 Christ arrives right on time to make this happen. He didn’t, and doesn’t, wait for us to get ready. He presented himself for this sacrificial death when we were far too weak and rebellious to do anything to get ourselves ready. And even if we hadn’t been so weak, we wouldn’t have known what to do anyway.

7 We can understand someone dying for a person worth dying for, and we can understand how someone good and noble could inspire us to selfless sacrifice.

8 But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him.

9 Now that we are set right with God by means of this sacrificial death, the consummate blood sacrifice, there is no longer a question of being at odds with God in any way.

10 If, when we were at our worst, we were put on friendly terms with God by the sacrificial death of his Son, now that we’re at our best, just think of how our lives will expand and deepen by means of his resurrection life!  MSG

ACTS 3:28 You have acquainted me with the paths of life; there is nowhere on this road, where you are absent! I am in such ‘a happy frame of mind –  am satisfied with joy in this face to face place! MIRROR

COL 3:2 Don’t shuffle along, eyes to the ground, absorbed with the things right in front of you. Look up, and be alert to what is going on around Christ – that’s where the action is. See things from his perspective. MSG

Ps 5:11 But you’ll welcome us with open arms when we run for cover to you. Let the party last all night! Stand guard over our celebration. MSG

Zeph 3:17 The Lord your God is in the midst of you, a Mighty One, a Savior [Who saves]! He will rejoice over you with joy; He will rest [in silent satisfaction] and in His love He will be silent and make no mention [of past sins, or even recall them]; He will exult over you with singing. AMP

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Zeph 3:17 Your God is present among you, a strong Warrior there to save you. Happy to have you back, he’ll calm you with his love and delight you with his songs.  MSG   

HAB 3:18 I’m singing joyful praise to God. I’m turning cartwheels of joy to my Savior God.

19 Counting on God’s Rule to prevail, I take heart and gain strength. I run like a deer. I feel like I’m king of the mountain! (For congregational use, with a full orchestra.)

I’m singing joyful praise to God. I’m turning cartwheels of joy to my Savior God. MSG

MK 6:12 Then they were on the road. They preached with joyful urgency that life can be radically different;

THE ABIDANCE OF GRACE 8-16-26 VIDEO
God is quite prepared to go beyond anything we could imagine or hope for. Grace is the much more or the abundance of God. The abundance of grace is not just a small measure of unearned favor, but it is the abundance of it. God has given the abundance of grace and the gift of righteousness.
ROM 5:17 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.
20 The presence of the law made no difference, instead it merely highlighted the offence; but where sin increased, grace superseded it.
21 Death provided sin its platform and power to reign from; now grace has taken over sovereignty through righteousness to introduce unthreatened life under the Lordship of Jesus Christ over us. A simple equation: We were not made sinners by our own disobedience; neither were we made righteous by our own obedience. The same humanity represented in the one man Adam, is triumphantly represented in the one man Jesus Christ! Adam’s transgression no longer holds the human race hostage. MIRROR ↓↓↓
ROM 5:18 Here it is in a nutshell: Just as one person did it wrong and got us in all this trouble with sin and death, another person did it right and got us out of it. But more than just getting us out of trouble, he got us into life! MSG

EPH 1:5 Long, long ago he decided to adopt us into his family through Jesus Christ. (What pleasure he took in planning this!) MSG

Luke 4:22 And all spoke well of Him and marveled at the words of grace that came forth from His mouth; and they said, Is not this Joseph’s Son? AMP

LUKE 11:13 So, if you, even within the confines of an earth-bound, performance-based religious society, know to give your children excellent gifts that will only advantage them, how much more certainly will your Father give the Holy Spirit out of his limitless, heavenly resources to everyone who asks him! MIRROR

LUKE 12:24 Ponder rather, how carefree the crows are! They do not sow or reap; neither do they have secret store chambers or granaries – God indulges them. Now, compared to birds, to what greater lengths do you think, would God be prepared to go for you, in order to nurture you? MIRROR

LUKE 12:27 Walk into the fields and look at the wildflowers. They don’t fuss with their appearance – but have you ever seen color and design quite like it? The ten best-dressed men and women in the country look shabby alongside them.
28 If God gives such attention to the wildflowers, most of them never even seen, don’t you think he’ll attend to you, take pride in you, do his best for you? MSG

2 COR 3:9 If the Government of Condemnation was impressive, how about this Government of Affirmation?
10 Bright as that old government was, it would look downright dull alongside this new one. MSG

HEB 9:14-15 think how much more the blood of Christ cleans up our whole lives, inside and out.
15 Through the Spirit, Christ offered himself as an unblemished sacrifice, freeing us from all those dead-end efforts to make ourselves respectable, so that we can live all out for God. MSG

PS 67:1 God, mark us with grace and blessing! Smile! MSG

PS 145:9 God is good to one and all; everything he does is suffused with grace.

ISA 30:19 Oh yes, people of Zion, citizens of Jerusalem, your time of tears is over. Cry for help and you’ll find it’s grace and more grace. The moment he hears, he’ll answer. MSG

ISA 61:2 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. TPT

MAL 3:12 “You’ll be voted ‘Happiest Nation.’ You’ll experience what it’s like to be a country of grace.” God-of-the-Angel-Armies says so. The Difference Between Serving God and Not Serving Him. MSG

MATT 11:29 Walk with me and work with me – watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.
30 Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” MSG

ACTS 4:33 The apostles gave powerful witness to the resurrection of the Master Jesus, and grace was on all of them. MSG

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 5:20 The presence of the law made no difference, instead it merely highlighted the offence; but where sin increased, grace superseded it.
21 Death provided sin its platform and power to reign from; now grace has taken over sovereignty through righteousness to introduce unthreatened life under the Lordship of Jesus Christ over us. MIRROR

2 COR 4:15 Every detail works to your advantage and to God’s glory: more and more grace, more and more people, more and more praise!
16 So we’re not giving up. How could we! Even though on the outside it often looks like things are falling apart on us, on the inside, where God is making new life, not a day goes by without his unfolding grace.
17 These hard times are small potatoes compared to the coming good times, the lavish celebration prepared for us.
18 There’s far more here than meets the eye. The things we see now are here today, gone tomorrow. But the things we can’t see now will last forever. MSG

2 COR 12:9 Finally it dawned on me that grace is God’s language; he doesn’t speak “thorn-langauge”! He said to me, “My grace elevates you, to be fully content.” And now, instead of being overwhelmed with a sense of my own weakness, he overwhelms me with an awareness of his strength! Oh what bliss to rejoice in the fact that in the midst of my frailties I encounter the dynamic of the grace of God to be my habitation. MIRROR

JAMES 4:6 And what he gives in love is far better than anything else you’ll find. It’s common knowledge that “God goes against the willful proud; God gives grace to the willing humble.” MSG

1 PET 3:7 The same goes for you husbands: Be good husbands to your wives. Honor them, delight in them. As women they lack some of your advantages. But in the new life of God’s grace, you’re equals. Treat your wives, then, as equals so your prayers don’t run aground. Suffering for Doing Good MSG

2 PET 1:2 God’s desire is that we may now increasingly be overwhelmed with grace as his divine influence within us and become fully acquainted with the awareness of our oneness. The way he has always known us is realized in Jesus our Master. MIRROR

HEB 12:24 You’ve come to Jesus, who presents us with a new covenant, a fresh charter from God. He is the Mediator of this covenant. The murder of Jesus, unlike Abel’s – a homicide that cried out for vengeance – became a proclamation of grace. MSG

REV 22:21 The grace of the Master Jesus be with all of you. Oh, Yes! MSG

LET HOPE REFRESH YOU 8-14-26  VIDEO

Let Hope refresh you in this season that you are walking through. Hoping God will help you to heighten your expectations for a good outcome. Job coped with discouragement through Hope. Hope allows us to expect the best and not the worst.

JOB 11:18 Full of hope, you’ll relax, confident again; you’ll look around, sit back, and take it easy.

19 Expansive, without a care in the world, you’ll be hunted out by many for your blessing.    MSG

PS 62:5 I am standing in absolute stillness, silent before the one I love, waiting as long as it takes for him to rescue me. Only God is my Savior, and he will not fail me.

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?  TPT

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PS 62:5 God, the one and only – I’ll wait as long as he says. Everything I hope for comes from him, so why not?

6 He’s solid rock under my feet, breathing room for my soul, An impregnable castle: I’m set for life.  MSG

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

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

JER 51:46 Don’t lose hope. Don’t ever give up when the rumors pour in hot and heavy. One year it’s this, the next year it’s that – rumors of violence, rumors of war. 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). He’s all I’ve got left.

25 God proves to be good to the man who passionately waits, to the woman who diligently seeks.  MSG

ISA 33:2 God, treat us kindly. You’re our only hope. First thing in the morning, be there for us! When things go bad, help us out! MSG

LAM 3:26 It’s a good thing to quietly hope, quietly hope for help from God.

27 It’s a good thing when you’re young to stick it out through the hard times.

28 When life is heavy and hard to take, go off by yourself. Enter the silence.

29 Bow in prayer. Don’t ask questions: Wait for hope to appear.

30 Don’t run from trouble. Take it full-face. The “worst” is never the worst.  MSG

MATT 12:18 Look well at my handpicked servant; I love him so much, take such delight in him. I’ve placed my Spirit on him; he’ll decree justice to the nations.

19 But he won’t yell, won’t raise his voice; there’ll be no commotion in the streets.

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.  MSG

ROM 15:13 God who is the engineer of expectation fills you to the brim with tranquil delight. The dynamic of the Holy Spirit causes faith to exceed any possible hesitation in hope.  MIRROR

2 COR 3:11 If that makeshift arrangement impressed us, how much more this brightly shining government installed for eternity?

12 With that kind of hope to excite us, nothing holds us back. 

13 Unlike Moses, we have nothing to hide. Everything is out in the open with us. He wore a veil so the children of Israel wouldn’t notice that the glory was fading away – MSG

1 THESS 5:8 But not us! Since we’re creatures of Day, let’s act like it. Walk out into the daylight sober, dressed up in faith, love, and the hope of salvation.  MSG

1 THESS 5:11 So speak encouraging words to one another. Build up hope so you’ll all be together in this, no one left out, no one left behind. I know you’re already doing this; just keep on doing it.  MSG

HEB 6:11 And now I want each of you to extend that same intensity toward a full-bodied hope, and keep at it till the finish.  MSG

COL 1:5  because of the [confident] hope [of experiencing that] which is reserved and waiting for you in heaven. You previously heard of this hope in the message of truth, the gospel [regarding salvation]

6 which has come to you. Indeed, just as in the whole world the gospel is constantly bearing fruit and spreading [by God’s power], just as it has been doing among you ever since the day you first heard of it and understood the grace of God in truth [becoming thoroughly and deeply acquainted with it]. AMP

HEB 10:22-23 The “curtain” into God’s presence is his body.

22 So let’s do it – full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out.

23 Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word.  MSG

HEB 6:18  God can’t break his word. And because his word cannot change, the promise is likewise unchangeable.

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

HEB 10:22-23 The “curtain” into God’s presence is his body.

22 So let’s do it – full of belief, confident that we’re presentable inside and out.

23 Let’s keep a firm grip on the promises that keep us going. He always keeps his word.  MSG

2 COR 5:6 That’s why we live with such good cheer. You won’t see us drooping our heads or dragging our feet! Cramped conditions here don’t get us down. They only remind us of the spacious living conditions ahead.

7 It’s what we trust in but don’t yet see that keeps us going.

8 Do you suppose a few ruts in the road or rocks in the path are going to stop us? When the time comes, we’ll be plenty ready to exchange exile for homecoming.

9 But neither exile nor homecoming is the main thing. Cheerfully pleasing God is the main thing, and that’s what we aim to do, regardless of our conditions.  MSG

PS 27:14 Stay with God! Take heart. Don’t quit. I’ll say it again: Stay with God. MSG

ISA 40:26 Look at the night skies: Who do you think made all this? Who marches this army of stars out each night, counts them off, calls each by name – so magnificent! so powerful! – and never overlooks a single one?

27 Why would you ever complain, O Jacob, or, whine, Israel, saying, “God has lost track of me. He doesn’t care what happens to me”?

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.  MSG

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

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

LET THE GIFT OF FAITH REINTERPRET YOUR FUTURE 8-9-26
Surrender to where to see yourself as God sees us. The gift of faith is a special spiritual power from God. It is different from normal, saving faith. It is provided by the Holy Spirit to give Christian’s extraordinary confidence. Like the extraordinary faith of Daniel in the Lions den, Jesus on the boat, commanding the storm to cease. Peter, who steps out by faith to walk on the water. Moses parts the Red Sea. The gift of faith is mountain moving. The gift of faith is seen when a person is in right standing with God and trusts him, that person is really living. Abraham lived by the gift of faith, supernatural faith was given to him by the Holy Spirit.
DAN 6:19 At daybreak the king got up and hurried to the lions’ den.
20 As he approached the den, he called out anxiously, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve so loyally, saved you from the lions?”
21 “O king, live forever!” said Daniel.
22 “My God sent his angel, who closed the mouths of the lions so that they would not hurt me. I’ve been found innocent before God and also before you, O king. I’ve done nothing to harm you.”
23 When the king heard these words, he was happy. He ordered Daniel taken up out of the den. When he was hauled up, there wasn’t a scratch on him. He had trusted his God. MSG

MK 4:35 Late that day he said to them, “Let’s go across to the other side.”
36 They took him in the boat as he was. Other boats came along.
37 A huge storm came up. Waves poured into the boat, threatening to sink it.
38 And Jesus was in the stern, head on a pillow, sleeping! They roused him, saying, “Teacher, is it nothing to you that we’re going down?”
39 Awake now, he told the wind to pipe down and said to the sea, “Quiet! Settle down!” The wind ran out of breath; the sea became smooth as glass. MSG

MATT 14:22 As soon as the meal was finished, he insisted that the disciples get in the boat and go on ahead to the other side while he dismissed the people.
23 With the crowd dispersed, he climbed the mountain so he could be by himself and pray. He stayed there alone, late into the night.
24 Meanwhile, the boat was far out to sea when the wind came up against them and they were battered by the waves.
25 At about four o’clock in the morning, Jesus came toward them walking on the water.
26 They were scared out of their wits. “A ghost!” they said, crying out in terror.
27 But Jesus was quick to comfort them. “Courage, it’s me. Don’t be afraid.” MSG

EX 14:15 God said to Moses: “Why cry out to me? Speak to the Israelites. Order them to get moving.
16 Hold your staff high and stretch your hand out over the sea: Split the sea! The Israelites will walk through the sea on dry ground. MSG

MATT 17:20 “Because you’re not yet taking God seriously,” said Jesus. “The simple truth is that if you had a mere kernel of faith, a poppy seed, say, you would tell this mountain, ‘Move!’ and it would move. There is nothing you wouldn’t be able to tackle.” MSG

ACT 20:7 We met on Sunday to worship and celebrate the Master’s Supper. Paul addressed the congregation. Our plan was to leave first thing in the morning, but Paul talked on, way past midnight.
8 We were meeting in a well-lighted upper room.
9 A young man named Eutychus was sitting in an open window. As Paul went on and on, Eutychus fell sound asleep and toppled out the third-story window. When they picked him up, he was dead.
10 Paul went down, stretched himself on him, and hugged him hard. “No more crying,” he said. “There’s life in him yet.”
11 Then Paul got up and served the Master’s Supper. And went on telling stories of the faith until dawn! On that note, they left – Paul going one way,
12 the congregation another, leading the boy off alive, and full of life themselves. MSG

ROM 1:8 My greatest joy is to realize that your faith is announced throughout the entire world. The total cosmos is our audience. MIRROR

ROM 1:17 God’s way of putting people right shows up in the acts of faith, confirming what Scripture has said all along: “The person in right standing before God by trusting him really lives.” Ignoring God Leads to a Downward Spiral MSG

1 COR 2:5 which made it clear that your life of faith is a response to God’s power, not to some fancy mental or emotional footwork by me or anyone else. MSG

2 COR 13:5 I implore you to 1examine faith for yourselves in order to test what it is that you really believe. Faith is so much more than the mere veneer of a superstitious belief in a historic Christ; faith is about realizing Jesus Christ in you, in the midst of contradiction! Just as ore is placed into a crucible, where the dross is separated from the gold in a furnace, come to the conclusion for yourselves of his indwelling! Should it appear to you that he is absent in your life, look again, you have obviously done the test wrong! MIRROR

GAL 2:20 My old identity has been co-crucified with Christ and no longer lives. And now the essence of this new life is no longer mine, for the Anointed One lives his life through me—we live in union as one! My new life is empowered by the faith of the Son of God who loves me so much that he gave himself for me, dispensing his life into mine! TPT
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GAL 2:20 So here I am dead and alive at the same time! I’m dead to the old me I was trying to be and alive to the real me which is Christ in me! Co-crucified, now co-alive! What a glorious entanglement! I was in him in his death; now I discover that he is infused in me, in my life! For the first time, I’m free to be me in my skin, immersed in his faith in our joint-sonship! He loves me and believes in me! He is God’s gift to me! MIRROR

GAL 3:9 So those now who live by faith are blessed along with Abraham, who lived by faith – this is no new doctrine! 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

GAL 3:27 Faith immersed you into Christ, and now you are covered and clothed with his life. TPT

HEB 11:6 There is no substitute reward for faith. Faith’s return exceeds any other sense of achievement. Faith knows that God is; those who desire to respond to his invitation to draw near, realize by faith that he is life’s most perfect gift.
7 Noah received Divine instruction to save his household from judgment; faith prompted him to construct the Ark immediately, long before the rains were evident. His faith demonstrated the difference between judgment and
justification. MIRROR

HEB 11:10 His faith saw a city with permanent foundations, designed and constructed by God. MIRROR

HEB 11:11 Sarah’s testimony of faith is just as amazing: she conceived and bore a child when it was humanly impossible. She believed that God would be faithful to his promise, and gave that belief authority over her life.
12 Faith brought into reality an offspring beyond calculation; from one as good as dead children would be born more numerous than the stars and as impossible to count as the grains of sand on every distant sea shore. MIRROR

HEB 11:17 Faith became a more tangible evidence of the promise than even Isaac could ever be to Abraham. Isaac neither fulfilled nor replaced the promise. Inspired by what faith saw, Abraham was ready to do the ridiculous; to sacrifice his only son, convinced that not even Isaac’s death could nullify the promise that God had made to him. MIRROR

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
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HEB 11:1 The fundamental fact of existence is that this trust in God, this faith, is the firm foundation under everything that makes life worth living. It’s our handle on what we can’t see.
2 The act of faith is what distinguished our ancestors, set them above the crowd.
3 By faith, we see the world called into existence by God’s word, what we see created by what we don’t see.
4 By an act of faith, Abel brought a better sacrifice to God than Cain. It was what he believed, not what he brought, that made the difference. That’s what God noticed and approved as righteous. After all these centuries, that belief continues to catch our notice.
5 By an act of faith, Enoch skipped death completely. “They looked all over and couldn’t find him because God had taken him.” We know on the basis of reliable testimony that before he was taken “he pleased God.” MSG

HEB 11:32 I could go on and on, but I’ve run out of time. There are so many more – Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel, the prophets. . . .
33 Through acts of faith, they toppled kingdoms, made justice work, took the promises for themselves. They were protected from lions, MSG

HEB 11:39 Not one of these people, even though their lives of faith were exemplary, got their hands on what was promised.
40 God had a better plan for us: that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours. MSG

YOU HAVE BEEN TRANSFORMED INTO HIS LIKENESS 7-31-26 VIDEO

To be transformed means that you’re already like him. The Holy Spirit will teach you to move in that likeness. God is performing in you a metamorphic transformation just like a butterfly. You are now created in God‘s image. Recreated in Christ to do those good works. Be imitators of God we are transformed into God‘s likeness by reflecting Christ character.

2 COR 3:18 Now, we all, with new understanding, see ourselves in him as in a mirror. The days of window-shopping are over! In him every face is unveiled. In gazing with wonder at the blueprint of God displayed in human form, we suddenly realize that we are looking into a mirror, where every feature of his image, articulated in Christ, is reflected within us! The Spirit of the Lord engineers this radical transformation; we are led from an inferior mind-set to the revealed endorsement of our authentic identity.  MIRROR

MATT 17:1 Six days later, three of them saw that glory. Jesus took Peter and the brothers, James and John, and led them up a high mountain.

2 His appearance changed from the inside out, right before their eyes. Sunlight poured from his face. His clothes were filled with light.

3 Then they realized that Moses and Elijah were also there in deep conversation with him.

4 Peter broke in, “Master, this is a great moment! What would you think if I built three memorials here on the mountain – one for you, one for Moses, one for Elijah?”

5 While he was going on like this, babbling, a light-radiant cloud enveloped them, and sounding from deep in the cloud a voice: “This is my Son, marked by my love, focus of my delight. Listen to him.”   MSG

ROM 12:2 Stop imitating the ideals and opinions of the culture around you, but be inwardly transformed by the Holy Spirit through a total reformation of how you think. This will empower you to discern God’s will as you live a beautiful life, satisfying and perfect in his eyes. TPT

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ROM 12:2 And do not be conformed to this world [any longer with its superficial values and customs], but be transformed and progressively changed [as you mature spiritually] by the renewing of your mind [focusing on godly values and ethical attitudes], so that you may prove [for yourselves] what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect [in His plan and purpose for you].  AMP

LUKE 9:27 The Kingdom of God is not a future event beyond your reach! You don’t have to wait till you’re dead to see it; some of you standing here are about to dramatically witnesses what I am talking about!  

28 The following week, this conversation was endorsed when Jesus took Peter, John and Jacob [James] with him and ascended the mountain to pray.  

29 And while he was praying his appearance was spectacularly changed by the radiance of God’s splendor bursting through his skin; his face and even his clothes became dazzling white like light.

30 Look! Both Moses and Elijah were there with him and talking to him.

31 Their appearance was equally glorious, and their conversation focussed on his departing and the fulfilling of everything the law and the prophets pointed to, which was about to take place in Jerusalem. MIRROR

GEN 1:27 So God created man in His own image, in the image and likeness of God He created him; male and female He created them.  AMP

EPH 2:10 For we are God’s [own] handiwork (His workmanship), recreated in Christ Jesus, [born anew] that we may do those good works which God predestined (planned beforehand) for us [taking paths which He prepared ahead of time], that we should walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us to live].  AMP

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EPH 2:10 For we are His workmanship [His own master work, a work of art], created in Christ Jesus [reborn from above—spiritually transformed, renewed, ready to be used] for good works, which God prepared [for us] beforehand [taking paths which He set], so that we would walk in them [living the good life which He prearranged and made ready for us].  TPT

2 Cor 5:17 Now we look inside, and what we see is that anyone united with the Messiah gets a fresh start, is created new. The old life is gone; a new life burgeons! Look at it!  MSG

Rom 7:6 But now that we have been fully released from the power of the law, we are dead to what once controlled us. And our lives are no longer motivated by the obsolete way of following the written code, so that now we may serve God by living in the freshness of a new life in the power of the Holy Spirit.TPT

COL 3:9 Don’t lie to one another. You’re done with that old life. It’s like a filthy set of ill-fitting clothes you’ve stripped off and put in the fire.

10 Now you’re dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete.

11 Words like Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and irreligious, insider and outsider, uncivilized and uncouth, slave and free, mean nothing. From now on everyone is defined by Christ, everyone is included in Christ.  MSG

EPH 4:22 For in the truth of your union in him [in his death and resurrection], you have stripped off that old identity like a filthy worn-out garment. Ignorance and lust corrupted you and cheated you into wearing it in the first place.   

23 Thus you are habitually renewed in your innermost mind. This will cause you to be completely re-programmed in the way you think about yourself! MIRROR

PS 139:14 I will give thanks and praise to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; Wonderful are Your works, And my soul knows it very well.

15 My frame was not hidden from You, When I was being formed in secret, And intricately and skillfully formed [as if embroidered with many colors] in the depths of the earth.

16 Your eyes have seen my unformed substance; And in Your book were all written

The days that were appointed for me, When as yet there was not one of them [even taking shape]. TPT

ROM 8:29 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.  

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

PHIL 3:20 But there’s far more to life for us. We’re citizens of high heaven! We’re waiting the arrival of the Savior, the Master, Jesus Christ,

21 who will transform our earthy bodies into glorious bodies like his own. He’ll make us beautiful and whole with the same powerful skill by which he is putting everything as it should be, under and around him.  MSG

1 JN 3:2 But friends, that’s exactly who we are: children of God. And that’s only the beginning. Who knows how we’ll end up! What we know is that when Christ is openly revealed, we’ll see him – and in seeing him, become like him. MSG

1 COR 15:49 Just as we were once defined by the flesh [our earthly image] we are now defined by our spirit [our heavenly] image.  MIRROR

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 desire of the nations and completes their every expectation! MIRROR

JN 17:22 And I, [the Incarnate word]  have endued them with the same glorious esteem that you have given me so that their oneness may mirror ours.

23 I am in them as you are in me, and on this basis their seamless oneness may be entirely concluded. Thus the world will acknowledge your commission upon my life and know that my love for them mirrors your love for me.  MIRROR

EPH 5:1 Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents.

2 Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.  MSG

THE POWER OF UNITY 7-26-26 VIDEO
When you stand united with your brothers and your sisters, nothing can tear you apart. We have a perfect union with Christ. Nothing can separate us from the love of God.
JN 17:23 I am in them as you are in me, and on this basis their seamless oneness may be entirely concluded. Thus the world will acknowledge your commission upon my life and know that my love for them mirrors your love for me. MIRROR
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JN 17:23 I in them and you in me. Then they’ll be mature in this oneness, And give the godless world evidence That you’ve sent me and loved them In the same way you’ve loved me. MSG

JN 17:26 And I have made the essence of your being known to them so that they may know you by name; and I will also give them understanding to know that the same love wherewith you have loved me is in them even as I am in them! MIRROR

ROM 8:37 On the contrary, in the thick of these things our triumph remains beyond dispute. His love has placed us above the reach of any onslaught.
38 This is my conviction; no threat whether it be in death or life; be it celestial messengers, demon powers or political principalities, nothing known to us at this time, or even in the unknown future;
39 no dimension of any calculation in time or space, nor any device yet to be invented, has what it takes to separate us from the love of God unveiled in our Lord, Jesus Christ. MIRROR

ROM 12:5 In Christ, the many individuals are all part of the same body and members of one another. MIRROR

PHIL 2:2 Your Christ mindedness completes my delight! You co-echo the same agape; we are soul mates, resonating the same thoughts.
3 No hidden agenda with a compromised mixture of leaven or empty philosophical flattery can match a mind that genuinely values others above oneself. MIRROR

PS 133:1 How wonderful, how beautiful, when brothers and sisters get along!
2 It’s like costly anointing oil flowing down head and beard, Flowing down Aaron’s beard, flowing down the collar of his priestly robes.
3 It’s like the dew on Mount Hermon flowing down the slopes of Zion. Yes, that’s where God commands the blessing, ordains eternal life. MSG
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PS 133:1 How truly wonderful and delightful it is to see brothers and sisters living together in sweet unity!
2 It’s as precious as the sacred scented oil flowing from the head of the high priest Aaron, dripping down upon his beard and running all the way down to the hem of his priestly robes.
3 This harmony can be compared to the dew dripping from Mount Hermon, which flows down upon the hills of Zion. Indeed, that is where Yahweh has decreed his blessings
will be found, the promise of life forevermore! TPT

EPH 4:3 alert at noticing differences and quick at mending fences.
4 You were all called to travel on the same road and in the same direction, so stay together, both outwardly and inwardly.
5 You have one Master, one faith, one baptism,
6 one God and Father of all, who rules over all, works through all, and is present in all. Everything you are and think and do is permeated with Oneness.
7 But that doesn’t mean you should all look and speak and act the same. Out of the generosity of Christ, each of us is given his own gift. MSG

COL 3:12 So, chosen by God for this new life of love, dress in the wardrobe God picked out for you: compassion, kindness, humility, quiet strength, discipline.
13 Be even-tempered, content with second place, quick to forgive an offense. Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you.
14 And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It’s your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it.
15 Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in step with each other. None of this going off and doing your own thing. And cultivate thankfulness. MSG

1 COR 1:10 I have a serious concern to bring up with you, my friends, using the authority of Jesus, our Master. I’ll put it as urgently as I can: You must get along with each other. You must learn to be considerate of one another, cultivating a life in common. MSG

1 COR 12:12 You can easily enough see how this kind of thing works by looking no further than your own body. Your body has many parts – limbs, organs, cells – but no matter how many parts you can name, you’re still one body. It’s exactly the same with Christ.
13 By means of his one Spirit, we all said good-bye to our partial and piecemeal lives. We each used to independently call our own shots, but then we entered into a large and integrated life in which he has the final say in everything. (This is what we proclaimed in word and action when we were baptized.) Each of us is now a part of his resurrection body, refreshed and sustained at one fountain – his Spirit – where we all come to drink. The old labels we once used to identify ourselves – labels like Jew or Greek, slave or free – are no longer useful. We need something larger, more comprehensive.
14 I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn’t just a single part blown up into something huge. It’s all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together.
15 If Foot said, “I’m not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don’t belong to this body,” would that make it so?
16 If Ear said, “I’m not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don’t deserve a place on the head,” would you want to remove it from the body?
17 If the body was all eye, how could it hear? If all ear, how could it smell?
18 As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it.
19 But I also want you to think about how this keeps your significance from getting blown up into self-importance. For no matter how significant you are, it is only because of what you are a part of. An enormous eye or a gigantic hand wouldn’t be a body, but a monster.
20 What we have is one body with many parts, each its proper size and in its proper place. No part is important on its own.
21 Can you imagine Eye telling Hand, “Get lost; I don’t need you”? Or, Head telling Foot, “You’re fired; your job has been phased out”?
22 As a matter of fact, in practice it works the other way – the “lower” the part, the more basic, and therefore necessary. You can live without an eye, for instance, but not without a stomach.
23 When it’s a part of your own body you are concerned with, it makes no difference whether the part is visible or clothed, higher or lower. You give it dignity and honor just as it is, without comparisons.
24 If anything, you have more concern for the lower parts than the higher. If you had to choose, wouldn’t you prefer good digestion to full-bodied hair?
25 The way God designed our bodies is a model for understanding our lives together as a church: every part dependent on every other part, the parts we mention and the parts we don’t,
26 the parts we see and the parts we don’t. If one part hurts, every other part is involved in the hurt, and in the healing. If one part flourishes, every other part enters into the exuberance.
27 You are Christ’s body – that’s who you are! You must never forget this. Only as you accept your part of that body does your “part” mean anything. MSG

ROM 15:5 Now may God, the source of great endurance and comfort, grace you with unity among yourselves, which flows from your relationship with Jesus, the Anointed One.
6 Then, with a unanimous rush of passion, you will with one voice glorify God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
7 You will bring God glory when you accept and welcome one another as partners, just as the Anointed One has fully accepted you and received you as his partner. TPT

JN 13:35 This is how everyone will recognize that you are my disciples – when they see the love you have for each other.” MSG

JN 17:21 that they all may be one; just as You, Father, are in Me and I in You, that they also may be one in Us, so that the world may believe [without any doubt] that You sent Me. AMP
MATT 18:19 When two of you get together on anything at all on earth and make a prayer of it, my Father in heaven goes into action.
20 And when two or three of you are together because of me, you can be sure that I’ll be there.” MSG

GAL 3:26 By faith in Christ you are in direct relationship with God.
27 Your baptism in Christ was not just washing you up for a fresh start. It also involved dressing you in an adult faith wardrobe – Christ’s life, the fulfillment of God’s original promise.
28 In Christ’s family there can be no division into Jew and non-Jew, slave and free, male and female. Among us you are all equal. That is, we are all in a common relationship with Jesus Christ. MSG

ROM 6:5 We were like seeds planted together in the same soil, to be co-quickened to life. If we were included in his death we are equally included in his resurrection. MIRROR

MALACHI 2:10 Don’t we all come from one Father? Aren’t we all created by the same God? So why can’t we get along? Why do we desecrate the covenant of our ancestors that binds us together? MSG

ROM 12:16 Esteem everyone with the same respect; no one is more important than the other. Associate yourself rather with the lowly than with the lofty. Do not distance yourself from others in your own mind. MIRROR

1 JN 4:12 No one has ever gazed upon the fullness of God’s splendor. But if we love one another, God makes his permanent home in us, and we make our permanent home in him, and his love is brought to its full expression in us. TPT

2 COR 13:11 And that’s about it, friends. Be cheerful. Keep things in good repair. Keep your spirits up. Think in harmony. Be agreeable. Do all that, and the God of love and peace will be with you for sure. MSG
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2 COR 3:11 And now, dear friends, we wish you joy; to be fully established, living your lives within the immediate proximity of your true identity; with your minds made up about the fact that we are one, fitly joined together in perfect harmony; and knowing that God is your constant companion and that he himself is the source of love and peace. MIRROR

1 PET 3:8 Summing up: Be agreeable, be sympathetic, be loving, be compassionate, be humble.
9 That goes for all of you, no exceptions. No retaliation. No sharp-tongued sarcasm. Instead, bless – that’s your job, to bless. You’ll be a blessing and also get a blessing. MSG

YOU ARE TOTALLY ACCEPTED 7-24-26 VIDEO ADOPTED CHRISTIAN CAIN
You are highly favored. See yourself through God‘s eyes. God sees you as an absolute treasure. You are safe secure free from condemnation. You are God‘s temple. You are redeemed and forgiven. You are members of the body of Christ. You have access to God through the Holy Spirit. God created you with the purpose. Before the foundation of the world, God plan for you. You are not an accident. There was no one else like you. You are God‘s treasure. The object of his love. You are created in God‘s image. It’s in His DNA that you’ve been recreated in Christ. God chose you to be alive for such a time as this. We are blessed from the realm of heaven. God has planned for your life on this earth. You are God’s wonderful treasure, and no one can snatch you out of His hand.
MATT 13:44 “God’s kingdom is like a treasure hidden in a field for years and then accidently found by a trespasser. The finder is ecstatic – what a find! – and proceeds to sell everything he owns to raise money and buy that field.
45 “Or, God’s kingdom is like a jewel merchant on the hunt for excellent pearls.
46 Finding one that is flawless, he immediately sells everything and buys it. MSG

1 PET 1:18 It cost God plenty to get you out of that dead-end, empty-headed life you grew up in.
19 He paid with Christ’s sacred blood, you know. He died like an unblemished, sacrificial lamb.
20 And this was no afterthought. Even though it has only lately – at the end of the ages – become public knowledge, God always knew he was going to do this for you.
21 It’s because of this sacrificed Messiah, whom God then raised from the dead and glorified, that you trust God, that you know you have a future in God. MSG

JN 1:12 Everyone who realizes their association in him, convinced that he is their original life and that his name defines them, God gives the assurance that they are indeed his offspring, begotten of him; he sanctions the legitimacy of their sonship. MIRROR

1 COR 6:19 Do you not realize that your body is the sacred shrine of the Spirit of God, echoing within you. You do not own your life!
20 You are bought and paid for. All of you are his. Live your life conscious of how irreplacable priceless you are. You host God in your skin. MIRROR

ROM 8:1 So now the case is closed. There remains no accusing voice of condemnation against those who are joined in life-union with Jesus, the Anointed One.
2 For the “law” of the Spirit of life flowing through the anointing of Jesus has liberated us from the “law” of sin and death. TPT

MATT 5:14 “Here’s another way to put it: You’re here to be light, bringing out the God-colors in the world. God is not a secret to be kept. We’re going public with this, as public as a city on a hill.
15 If I – make you light bearers, you don’t think I’m going to hide you under a bucket, do you? I’m putting you on a light stand. MSG

1 COR 3:16 You realize, don’t you, that you are the temple of God, and God himself is present in you?
17 No one will get by with vandalizing God’s temple, you can be sure of that. God’s temple is sacred – and you, remember, are the temple. MSG

COL 1:14 In God’s mind mankind is associated in Christ; in his blood sacrifice we were ransomed; our redemption was secured; our sins were completely done away with.
15 In him the image and likeness of God is made visible in human form in order that everyone may recognize their true origin in him. He is the firstborn of every creature. MIRROR

1 COR 12:22 The members are not rated in importance with how visible and prominent they seem to be. The less visible parts are indispensable; it is impossible for the body to function without them.
23 Those members that seem to be of lesser visible value deserve the greater and more personal care. There is so much more to a person than a pretty face!
24 God so structured the body that every single part is equally valued; the less visible parts are often treated with even greater honor and more specific care.
25 Because of the delicate interdependence of the various parts of the body it is natural that no schism can be tolerated; instead every member considers the other with affectionate care.
26 It is impossible for one part of the body to suffer injury without the rest of the body being immediately alerted to it; the pain of the one is the pain of all. In the same way the complete person is honored, not just the fingers that skillfully play the harp. Everyone is equally included in the same joy.
27 You are the body of Christ; individually as much as you are his body corporately. Everyone of you mirrors him. He defines your form. The individual member does not give context to the body; the body gives context to the member. MIRROR

EPH 2:18 And now, because we are united to Christ, we both have equal and direct access in the realm of the Holy Spirit to come before the Father! TPT

PHIL 1:6 I possess an inward certainty about you, confident that he who is the initiator of the good work within you is also the one who executes its completeness as mirrored in Jesus Christ, who is the light of day. He is the fullness of time.
7 I am not being presumptuous to be this persuaded about you. In the context of our redeemed innocence I cannot think of you any differently; I have you in my heart! Your committed friendship in my imprisonment is of great encouragement to me in our combined defense and confirmation of the gospel. We are in this together! We are joint participants in the same grace. My grace is your grace. MIRROR

PS 139:13 You formed my innermost being, shaping my delicate inside and my intricate outside, and wove them all together in my mother’s womb.
14 I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously complex! Everything you do is marvelously breathtaking. It simply amazes me to think about it! How thoroughly you know me, Lord!
15 You even formed every bone in my body when you created me in the secret place;
carefully, skillfully you shaped me from nothing to something.
16 You saw who you created me to be before I became me! TPT

EPH 2:10 We are engineered by his design; he molded and manufactured us in Christ. We are his workmanship, his poetry. We are fully fit to do good, equipped to give attractive evidence of his likeness in us in everything we do. MIRROR

JN 3:16 The entire cosmos is the object of God’s affection! And he is not about to abandon his creation – the gift of his Son is for mankind to realize their origin in him who mirrors their authentic birth – begotten not of flesh but of the Father! MIRROR

GEN 1:27 God created human beings; he created them godlike, Reflecting God’s nature. He created them male and female.
28 God blessed them: “Prosper! Reproduce! Fill Earth! Take charge! Be responsible for fish in the sea and birds in the air, for every living thing that moves on the face of Earth.”

EST 4:14 If you persist in staying silent at a time like this, help and deliverance will arrive for the Jews from someplace else; but you and your family will be wiped out. Who knows? Maybe you were made queen for just such a time as this.” MSG

EPH 1:3 Let’s celebrate God! He lavished every blessing heaven has upon us in Christ!
4 He associated us in Christ before the 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

GAL 2:20 Christ’s life showed me how, and enabled me to do it. I identified myself completely with him. Indeed, I have been crucified with Christ. My ego is no longer central. It is no longer important that I appear righteous before you or have your good opinion, and I am no longer driven to impress God. Christ lives in me. The life you see me living is not “mine,” but it is lived by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
21 I am not going to go back on that. Is it not clear to you that to go back to that old rule-keeping, peer-pleasing religion would be an abandonment of everything personal and free in my relationship with God? I refuse to do that, to repudiate God’s grace. If a living relationship with God could come by rule-keeping, then Christ died unnecessarily. MSG

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.
12 “When you call on me, when you come and pray to me, I’ll listen.
13 “When you come looking for me, you’ll find me. MSG

DO NOT GROW WEARY 7-19-26 VIDEO
Let the Father renew your strength. You can and should expect more. He’s the God of more. The word of God is a source of unshakable hope. He offers encouragement for every season of life.
Ps 46:1 God is a safe place to hide, ready to help when we need him.
2 We stand fearless at the cliff-edge of doom, courageous in seastorm and earthquake,

ISA 41:10 Do not yield to fear, for I am always near. Never turn your gaze from me, for I am your faithful God. I will infuse you with my strength and help you in every situation. I will hold you firmly with my victorious right hand.’ TPT

JN 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

ROM 15:3 For Christ was not in it for himself, but for us. It is written about him, that he took the full blow of the reproach and insults directed at us.
4 Whatever was written about him includes and represents us. We take instruction and encouragement from his patience, while Scripture is our close companion to remind us of our true spiritual identity. We anticipate the future with delight.
5 God’s patience and reflection of who we really are transmits in us like-mindedness toward one another according to the pattern of Christ Jesus. MIRROR
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ROM 15:3 That’s exactly what Jesus did. He didn’t make it easy for himself by avoiding people’s troubles, but waded right in and helped out. “I took on the troubles of the troubled,” is the way Scripture puts it.
4 Even if it was written in Scripture long ago, you can be sure it’s written for us. God wants the combination of his steady, constant calling and warm, personal counsel in Scripture to come to characterize us, keeping us alert for whatever he will do next.
5 May our dependably steady and warmly personal God develop maturity in you so that you get along with each other as well as Jesus gets along with us all. MSG

JOSH 1:9 Haven’t I commanded you? Strength! Courage! Don’t be timid; don’t get discouraged. God, your God, is with you every step you take.” The Taking of the Land MSG

ISA 40:29 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. MSG

PS 119:114 You’re my place of quiet retreat; I wait for your Word to renew me. MSG

PS 73:26 When my skin sags and my bones get brittle, God is rock-firm and faithful.
27 Look! Those who left you are falling apart! Deserters, they’ll never be heard from again.
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

DEUT 31:6 “Be strong. Take courage. Don’t be intimidated. Don’t give them a second thought because God, your God, is striding ahead of you. He’s right there with you. He won’t let you down; he won’t leave you.” MSG

PS 55:22 So here’s what I’ve learned through it all: Leave all your cares and anxieties at the feet of the Lord, and measureless grace will strengthen you. AMP

PS 9:9 God’s a safe-house for the battered, a sanctuary during bad times. MSG

NAHUM 1:7 God is good, a hiding place in tough times. He recognizes and welcomes anyone looking for help, MSG

HAB 3:19 Counting on God’s Rule to prevail, I take heart and gain strength. I run like a deer. I feel like I’m king of the mountain! (For congregational use, with a full orchestra.) MSG

1 CHRON 16:10 Revel in his holy Name, God-seekers, be jubilant!
11 Study God and his strength, seek his presence day and night;
12 Remember all the wonders he performed, the miracles and judgments that came out of his mouth. MSG

EPH 6:10 In conclusion and with reference to the theme and context of this writing, I encourage you to realize your strength in the Master; your union with him is your limitless resource. MIRROR

NEHEMIAH 8:10 He continued, “Go home and prepare a feast, holiday food and drink; and share it with those who don’t have anything: This day is holy to God. Don’t feel bad. The joy of God is your strength!” MSG

ROM 8:28 That’s why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good.
29 God knew what he was doing from the very beginning. He decided from the outset to shape the lives of those who love him along the same lines as the life of his Son. The Son stands first in the line of humanity he restored. We see the original and intended shape of our lives there in him.
30 After God made that decision of what his children should be like, he followed it up by calling people by name. After he called them by name, he set them on a solid basis with himself. And then, after getting them established, he stayed with them to the end, gloriously completing what he had begun.
31 So, what do you think? With God on our side like this, how can we lose? MSG

PRO 23:17 Don’t for a minute envy careless rebels; soak yourself in the Fear-of-God – That’s where your future lies. Then you won’t be left with an armload of nothing. MSG

EPH 3:20 God can do anything, you know – far more than you could ever imagine or guess or request in your wildest dreams! He does it not by pushing us around but by working within us, his Spirit deeply and gently within us.MSG

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

ROM 12:11 Don’t burn out; keep yourselves fueled and aflame. Be alert servants of the Master,
12 cheerfully expectant. Don’t quit in hard times; pray all the harder. MSG

TITUS 3:7 God’s gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there’s more life to come – an eternity of life!
8 You can count on this. MSG

MATT 11:28 “Are you tired? Worn out? Burned out on religion? Come to me. Get away with me and you’ll recover your life. I’ll show you how to take a real rest.
29 Walk with me and work with me – watch how I do it. Learn the unforced rhythms of grace. I won’t lay anything heavy or ill-fitting on you.
30 Keep company with me and you’ll learn to live freely and lightly.” MSG

ISA 26:3 Perfect, absolute peace surrounds those whose imaginations are consumed with you; they confidently trust in you.
4 Yes, trust in the Lord Yahweh forever and ever! For Yah, the Lord God, is your Rock of Ages! TPT

COL 3:15 Let the peace of Christ keep you in tune with each other, in step with each other. None of this going off and doing your own thing. And cultivate thankfulness.
16 Let the Word of Christ – the Message – have the run of the house. Give it plenty of room in your lives. Instruct and direct one another using good common sense. And sing, sing your hearts out to God!
17 Let every detail in your lives – words, actions, whatever – be done in the name of the Master, Jesus, thanking God the Father every step of the way. MSG

PS 94:19 When I was upset and beside myself, you calmed me down and cheered me up. MSG

PS 112:7-8 Unfazed by rumor and gossip, Heart ready, trusting in God, Spirit firm, unperturbed, Ever blessed, relaxed among enemies, MSG

2 THES 3:16 May the Master of Peace himself give you the gift of getting along with each other at all times, in all ways. May the Master be truly among you! MSG