THE COMEBACK 7-30-2020

Come back, to return to your rightful place. The Spirit of God is calling those who once were positioned in their calling but were hurt and cast out by the body of Christ. Some choose sin and didn’t receive the love of God for themselves. They thought they could do this on their own. To live their lives on their own. But God is calling them back. Their comeback will be miraculous. The prodigals will be healed from their broken hearts.

ROM 8:28-39 And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, whohave been called according to his purpose.

²⁹ For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers and sisters.

³⁰ And those he predestined, he also called; those he called, he also justified; those he justified, he also glorified.

³¹ What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

³² He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?

³³ Who will bring any charge against those whom God has chosen? It is God who justifies.

³⁴ Who then is the one who condemns? No one. Christ Jesus who died—more than that, who was raised to life—is at the right hand of God and is also interceding for us.

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword?

³⁶ As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”

³⁷ No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

³⁸ For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers,

³⁹ neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. TPT

Joel 2:13  Change your life, not just your clothes. Come back to God, your God. And here’s why: God is kind and merciful. He takes a deep breath, puts up with a lot, This most patient God, extravagant in love, always ready to cancel catastrophe. MSG

LU 15:20-24 So he got up and went to his father. “But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and was filled with compassion for him; he ran to his son, threw his arms around him and kissed him.

²¹ “The son said to him, ‘Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you. I am no longer worthy to be called your son.’

²² “But the father said to his servants, ‘Quick! Bring the best robe and put it on him. Put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet.

²³ Bring the fattened calf and kill it. Let’s have a feast and celebrate.

²⁴ For this son of mine was dead and is alive again; he was lost and is found.’ So they began to celebrate. TPT

Rom 11:29 For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable. [He never withdraws them when once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call.]

30 Just as you were once disobedient and rebellious toward God but now have obtained [His] mercy, through their disobedience,

31 So they also now are being disobedient [when you are receiving mercy], that they in turn may one day, through the mercy you are enjoying, also receive mercy [that they may share the mercy which has been shown to you — through you as messengers of the Gospel to them].

32 For God has consigned (penned up) all men to disobedience, only that He may have mercy on them all [alike].  AMP

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RO 11:29-32 for God’s gifts and his call are irrevocable.

³⁰ Just as you who were at one time disobedient to God have now received mercy as a result of their disobedience,

³¹ so they too have now become disobedient in order that they too may nowreceive mercy as a result of God’s mercy to you.

³² For God has bound everyone over to disobedience so that he may have mercy on them all. TPT

1 Thess 5:24 Faithful is He Who is calling you [to Himself] and utterly trustworthy, and He will also do it [fulfill His call by hallowing and keeping you].  AMP

2 Thess 1:11 With this in view we constantly pray for you, that our God may deem and count you worthy of [your] calling and [His] every gracious purpose of goodness, and with power may complete in [your] every particular work of faith (faith which is that leaning of the whole human personality on God in absolute trust and confidence in His power, wisdom, and goodness). AMP

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2 THESS 1:11 With this in mind, we constantly pray for you, that our God may make you worthy of his calling, and that by his power he may bring to fruition your every desire for goodness and your every deed prompted by faith. TPT

2 Tim 1:9 [For it is He] Who delivered and saved us and called us with a calling in itself holy and leading to holiness [to a life of consecration, a vocation of holiness]; [He did it] not because of anything of merit that we have done, but because of and to further His own purpose and grace (unmerited favor) which was given us in Christ Jesus before the world began [eternal ages ago].  AMP

2 Peter 1:10 So, friends, confirm God’s invitation to you, his choice of you. Don’t put it off; do it now. Do this, and you’ll have your life on a firm footing, MSG

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2 Peter 1:10 Because of this, brethren, be all the more solicitous and eager to make sure (to ratify, to strengthen, to make steadfast) your calling and election; for if you do this, you will never stumble or fall.  AMP

Isa 44:22 I’ve wiped the slate of all your wrongdoings. There’s nothing left of your sins. Come back to me, come back. I’ve redeemed you.”  MSG

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ISA 44:22 I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.” TPT

Hos 12:6 What are you waiting for? Return to your God! Commit yourself in love, in justice! Wait for your God, and don’t give up on him — ever! MSG

Zech 1:3  So give to the people this Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: ‘Come back to me and I’ll come back to you. MSG

Isa 35:10 And the ransomed of the Lord shall return and come to Zion with singing, and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.  AMP

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Isa 35:10 The people God has ransomed will come back on this road. They’ll sing as they make their way home to Zion, unfading halos of joy encircling their heads, Welcomed home with gifts of joy and gladness as all sorrows and sighs scurry into the night. 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

ISA 61:6-7 And you will be called priests of the Lord, you will be named ministers of our God. You will feed on the wealth of nations, and in their riches you will boast.

⁷ Instead of your shame you will receive a double portion, and instead of disgrace you will rejoice in your inheritance. And so you will inherit a double portion in your land, and everlasting joy will be yours. TPT

Ps 34:18 If your heart is broken, you’ll find God right there; if you’re kicked in the gut, he’ll help you catch your breath.

19 Disciples so often get into trouble; still, God is there every time.

20 He’s your bodyguard, shielding every bone; not even a finger gets broken.

21 The wicked commit slow suicide; they waste their lives hating the good.

22 God pays for each slave’s freedom; no one who runs to him loses out. MSG

Jer 31:16 Thus says the Lord: Restrain your voice from weeping and your eyes from tears, for your work shall be rewarded, says the Lord; and [your children] shall return from the enemy’s land.

17 And there is hope for your future, says the Lord; your children shall come back to their own country.  AMP

Jer 15:19  Therefore thus says the Lord [to Jeremiah]: If you return [and give up this mistaken tone of distrust and despair], then I will give you again a settled place of quiet and safety, and you will be My minister; and if you separate the precious from the vile [cleansing your own heart from unworthy and unwarranted suspicions concerning God’s faithfulness], you shall be My mouthpiece. [But do not yield to them.] Let them return to you — not you to [the people].  AMP

Acts 3:19  “Now it’s time to change your ways! Turn to face God so he can wipe away your sins, pour out showers of blessing to refresh you,

20 and send you the Messiah he prepared for you, namely, Jesus.

21 For the time being he must remain out of sight in heaven until everything is restored to order again just the way God, through the preaching of his holy prophets of old, said it would be. MSG

Deut 4:30  When troubles come and all these awful things happen to you, in future days you will come back to God, your God, and listen obediently to what he says.

31 God, your God, is above all a compassionate God. In the end he will not abandon you, he won’t bring you to ruin, he won’t forget the covenant with your ancestors which he swore to them. MSG

Deut 30:2  and come back to God, your God, and obey him with your whole heart and soul according to everything that I command you today,

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

EPH 3:14-21 For this reason I kneel before the Father,

¹⁵ from whom every familyin heaven and on earth derives its name.

¹⁶ I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being,

¹⁷ so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love,

¹⁸ may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,

¹⁹ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

²⁰ Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us,

²¹ to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.   TPT

ENDUED WITH LIGHT  7-12-2020 The ‪‎holy fire is a miracle that happens every year in the church or resurrection the bright Saturday day in Jerusalem. The patriarch enters to Christ’s tomb holding candles and pray, then goes out with the candles lighten by the holy fire that never hurts when people touch it. VIDEO

Endued means to be gifted with some unique quality or ability. Without light there would be no form of life. We’re not talking about the sun the moon the stars etc. we’re talking about The Light of the world Jesus. The Hebrew word for light means illumination lighting, happiness, bright, clear, day, morning to be, to set on fire, to shine. Darkness in the Hebrew means misery, destruction, death, sorrow, wickedness, impaired vision, curse. Albert Einstein‘s theory of relativity: light is constant, light is the only constant, light is the only unchangeable thing.

GEN 1:1-4  When God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was completely formless and empty with nothing but darkness over the deep. God‘s Spirit hovered over the face of the waters  and then God announced Let there be light, and light burst forth. And God saw their light as pleasing and beautiful.  He used the light to dispel the darkness.”.  TPT

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Gen 1:1 First this: God created the Heavens and Earth — all you see, all you don’t see.

2 Earth was a soup of nothingness, a bottomless emptiness, an inky blackness. God’s Spirit brooded like a bird above the watery abyss.

3 God spoke: “Light!” And light appeared.

4 God saw that light was good and separated light from dark.  MSG

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Luke 1:34 Then Mary spoke to the angel, “How can this be,” she said, “I am not married!”

35-37 But the angel made this reply to her – “The Holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the most high will overshadow you. Your child will therefore be called holy – the Son of God. PHILLIPS

Ps 104:2 [You are the one] Who covers Yourself with light as with a garment, Who stretches out the heavens like a curtain or a tent, AMP

James 1:17 Every desirable and beneficial gift comes out of heaven. The gifts are rivers of light cascading down from the Father of Light. There is nothing deceitful in God, nothing two-faced, nothing fickle.

18 He brought us to life using the true Word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures. MSG

JESUS John 1:1 The Word was first, the Word present to God, God present to the Word. The Word was God,

2 in readiness for God from day one.

3 Everything was created through him; nothing — not one thing! —

came into being without him.

4 What came into existence was Life, and the Life was Light to live by.

5 The Life-Light blazed out of the darkness; the darkness couldn’t put it out.  MSG

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JN 1:6   Then suddenly a man appeared who was sent from God, a messenger named John.
⁷ For he came to be a witness, to point the way to the Light of Life, and to help everyone believe.
⁸ John was not that Light but he came to show who is. For he was merely a messenger to speak the truth about the Light.
⁹ For the Light of Truthwas about to come into the world and shine upon everyone. TPT

MATT 4:16 You who spend your days shrouded in darkness can now say, “We have seen a brilliant Light.” And those who live in the dark shadow land of death can now say, “The Dawning Light arises on us.” TPT

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Matt 4:16 People sitting out their lives in the dark saw a huge light; Sitting in that dark, dark country of death, they watched the sun come up.  MSG

JN 8:12 Then Jesus said, “I am light to the world and those who embrace me will experience life-giving light, and they will never walk in darkness.” TPT

John 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the world’s Light.  AMP

MATT 17:5-6 But while Peter was still speaking, a radiant cloud composed of light spread over them, enveloping them all. And God’s voice suddenly spoke from the cloud, saying, “This is my dearly loved Son, the constant focus of my delight. Listen to him!”  TPT

JN 3:19  And here is the basis for their judgment: The Light of God has now come into the world, but the hearts of people love their darkness more than the Light, because they want the darkness to conceal their evil. TPT

2 Cor 4:4 All they have eyes for is the fashionable god of darkness. They think he can give them what they want, and that they won’t have to bother believing a Truth they can’t see. They’re stone-blind to the dayspring brightness of the Message that shines with Christ, who gives us the best picture of God we’ll ever get.

5 Remember, our Message is not about ourselves; we’re proclaiming Jesus Christ, the Master. All we are is messengers, errand runners from Jesus for you.

 6 It started when God said, “Light up the darkness!” and our lives filled up with light as we saw and understood God in the face of Christ, all bright and beautiful.  MSG

GODS WORD PS 19:8 His teachings make us joyful and radiate his light; his precepts are so pure! His commands, how they challenge us to keep close to his heart! The revelation-light of his word makes my spirit shine radiant. TPT

Ps 119:130 The entrance and unfolding of Your words give light; their unfolding gives understanding (discernment and comprehension) to the simple. AMP

OUR LIGHT Ex 10:21 God said to Moses: “Stretch your hand to the skies. Let darkness descend on the land of Egypt — a darkness so dark you can touch it.”

22 Moses stretched out his hand to the skies. Thick darkness descended on the land of Egypt for three days.

23 Nobody could see anybody. For three days no one could so much as move. Except for the Israelites: they had light where they were living. MSG

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

MATT 5:14-16  “Your lives light up the world. Let others see your light from a distance, for how can you hide a city that stands on a hilltop?

¹⁵ And who would light a lamp and then hide it in an obscure place? Instead, it’s placed where everyone in the house can benefit from its light.

¹⁶ So don’t hide your light  Let it shine brightly before others, so that the commendable things you do will shine as light upon them, and then they will give their praise to your Father in heaven.” TPT 

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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.

16 Now that I’ve put you there on a hilltop, on a light stand — shine! Keep open house; be generous with your lives. By opening up to others, you’ll prompt people to open up with God, this generous Father in heaven. MSG

John 12:36 As you have the light, believe in the light. Then the light will be within you, and shining through your lives. You’ll be children of light.” Their Eyes Are Blinded Jesus said all this, and then went into hiding.  MSG

PS 112:4 Even if darkness overtakes them, sunrise-brilliance will come bursting through because they are gracious to others, so tender and true. TPT

Prov 13:9 The lives of good people are brightly lit streets; the lives of the wicked are dark alleys. MSG

2 Cor 3:17 They suddenly recognize that God is a living, personal presence, not a piece of chiseled stone. And when God is personally present, a living Spirit, that old, constricting legislation is recognized as obsolete. We’re free of it!

18 All of us! Nothing between us and God, our faces shining with the brightness of his face. And so we are transfigured much like the Messiah, our lives gradually becoming brighter and more beautiful as God enters our lives and we become like him.  MSG

Eph 5:8 For once you were darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of Light [lead the lives of those native-born to the Light].

9 For the fruit (the effect, the product) of the Light or the Spirit [consists] in every form of kindly goodness, uprightness of heart, and trueness of life.  AMP

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EPH 5:8-9 Once your life was full of sin’s darkness, but now you have the very light of our Lord shining through you because of your union with him. Your mission is to live as children flooded with his revelation-light!

⁹ And the supernatural fruits of his lightwill be seen in you—goodness, righteousness, and truth.  TPT

1 Thess 5:5 For you are all sons of light and sons of the day; we do not belong either to the night or to darkness.  AMP

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1 THESS 5:5 For you are all children of the light and children of the day. We don’t belong to the night nor to darkness.  TPT

1 PET 2:9 But you are God’s chosen treasure—priests who are kings, a spiritual “nation” set apart as God’s devoted ones. He called you out of darkness to experience his marvelous light, and now he claims you as his very own. He did this so that you would broadcast his glorious wonders throughout the world. TPT

1 JN 1:5-7 This is the life-giving messagewe heard him share and it’s still ringing in our ears. We now repeat his words to you: God is pure light. You will never find even a trace of darkness in him.

⁶ If we claim that we share life with him, but keep walking in the realm of darkness, we’re fooling ourselves and not living the truth.

⁷ But if we keep living in the pure light that surrounds him, we share unbroken fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, continually cleanses us from all sin.  TPT

PS 27:1 The Lord is my revelation-light to guide me along the way, he’s the source of my salvation to defend me every day. I fear no one! I’ll never turn back and run from you, Lord; surround and protect me. TPT

Ps 4:6 Many say, Oh, that we might see some good! Lift up the light of Your countenance upon us, O Lord.  AMP

PS 36:9 To know you is to experience a flowing fountain, drinking in your life, springing up to satisfy. In your light we receive the light of revelation. TPT

PS 56:13 For you have saved my soul from death and my feet from stumbling
so that I can walk before the Lord bathed in his life-giving light. TPT

Col 1:13 [The Father] has delivered and drawn us to Himself out of the control and the dominion of darkness and has transferred us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,  AMP

ROM 13:12-13 Night’s darkness is dissolving away as a new day of destiny dawns. So we must once and for all strip away what is done in the shadows of darkness, removing it like filthy clothes. And once and for all we clothe ourselves with the radiance of light as our weapon.

¹³ We must live honorably, surrounded by the light of this new day, not in the darkness of drunkennessand debauchery, not in promiscuity and sensuality, not being argumentative or jealous of others. TPT

EPH 5:13 Whatever the revelation-light exposes, it will also correct, and everything that reveals truth is light to the soul. TPT

1 JN 2:9 Anyone who says, “I am in the light,” while holding hatred in his heart toward a fellow believer is still in the darkness.

¹⁰ But the one who truly loves a fellow believer lives in the light, and there is nothing in him that will cause someone else to stumble.

¹¹ But whoever hates a fellow believer lives in the darkness—stumbling around in the dark with no clue where he is going, for he is blinded by the darkness. TPT

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!  

2 For behold, darkness shall cover the earth, and dense darkness [all] peoples, but the Lord shall arise upon you [O Jerusalem], and His glory shall be seen on you.  

3 And nations shall come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.

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ISA 60:1-3 Rise up in splendor and be radiant, for your light has dawned, and Yahweh’s glorynow streams from you!
² Look carefully! Darkness blankets the earth, and thick gloomcovers the nations, but Yahweh arisesupon you and the brightness of his glory appears over you.
³ Nations will be attracted to your radiant lightand kings to the sunrise-glory of your new day. TPT

CAST YOUR CARES ON ME 7-10-2020  

Cares is a state of mind in which one is troubled, worried, or anxious, or has grief, or has sorrow. Each persons cares vary as to what troubles one person may not trouble another. Worry-distress, anxiety it is a form of torment.

The word cast or casting means to move away from you by using force. To take off you. Do not let it cling. Like a fisherman throwing the net out into deep waters.

1 Peter 5:7 Casting the whole of your care [all your anxieties, all your worries, all your concerns, once and for all] on Him, for He cares for you affectionately and cares about you watchfully.  AMP

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1 Peter 5:7 Live carefree before God; he is most careful with you. MSG

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1 PET 5:7 Pour out all your worries and stress upon him and leave them there, for he always tenderly cares for you. TPT

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1 Peter 5:7 You can throw the whole weight of your anxieties upon him, for you are his personal concern. PHILLIPS

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. TPT

Phil 4:6 Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns.

7 Before you know it, a sense of God’s wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It’s wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

8 Summing it all up, friends, I’d say you’ll do best by filling your minds and meditating on things true, noble, reputable, authentic, compelling, gracious — the best, not the worst; the beautiful, not the ugly; things to praise, not things to curse.

9 Put into practice what you learned from me, what you heard and saw and realized. Do that, and God, who makes everything work together, will work you into his most excellent harmonies. MSG

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PHIL 4:6-8 Don’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,

⁷ then God’s wonderful peace that transcends human understanding, will make the answers known to you through Jesus Christ.

⁸ So keep your thoughts continually fixed on all that is authentic and real, honorable and admirable, beautiful and respectful, pure and holy, merciful and kind. And fasten your thoughts on every glorious work of God, praising him always.  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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PROV 15:15 Everything 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

Ps 94:19 In the multitude of my [anxious] thoughts within me, Your comforts cheer and delight my soul! AMP

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PS 94:19 Whenever my busy thoughts were out of control, the soothing comfort of your presence calmed me down and overwhelmed me with delight. TPT

PRO 12:25 Anxious fear brings depression, but a life-giving word of encouragement can do wonders to restore joy to the heart. TPT

This insightful proverb can also be translated “Stop worrying! Think instead of what brings you gladness.” Our focus must never be on what we can’t change but on the everlasting joy we have in Christ. Sometimes we have to find the life-giving word of encouragement rising up in our own hearts. This is the secret of finding perpetual encouragement by the Word that lives in us.

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Prov 12:25 Worry weighs us down; a cheerful word picks us up. MSG

Luke 12:22 And [Jesus] said to His disciples, Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious and troubled [with cares] about your life, as to what you will [have to] eat; or about your body, as to what you will [have to] wear. AMP

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LU 12:22 Jesus taught his disciples, saying, “Listen to me. Never let anxiety enter your hearts. Never worry about any of your needs, such as food or clothing. TPT

Luke 12:24 Look at the ravens, free and unfettered, not tied down to a job description, carefree in the care of God. And you count far more.  MSG

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LU 12:24 Take the carefree birds as your example. Do you ever see them worry? They don’t grow their own food or put it in a storehouse for later. Yet God takes care of every one of them, feeding each of them from his love and goodness. Isn’t your life more precious to God than a bird? Be carefree in the care of God! TPT

Luke 12:28 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

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LU 12:28 If God can clothe the fields and meadows with grass and flowers, can’t he clothe you as well, O struggling one with so many doubts? TPT

Matt 6:31 What I’m trying to do here is to get you to relax, to not be so preoccupied with getting, so you can respond to God’s giving.

32 People who don’t know God and the way he works fuss over these things, but you know both God and how he works.

33 Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don’t worry about missing out. You’ll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

34 “Give your entire attention to what God is doing right now, and don’t get worked up about what may or may not happen tomorrow. God will help you deal with whatever hard things come up when the time comes. MSG

Ps 127:2 It’s useless to rise early and go to bed late, and work your worried fingers to the bone. Don’t you know he enjoys giving rest to those he loves? MSG  ▼▼▼

PS 127:2 It really is senseless to work so hard from early morning till late at night, toiling to make a living for fear of not having enough. God can provide for his lovers even while they sleep! TPT

Ps 13:2 Long enough I’ve carried this ton of trouble, lived with a stomach full of pain. Long enough my arrogant enemies have looked down their noses at me.

3 Take a good look at me, God, my God; I want to look life in the eye,

4 So no enemy can get the best of me or laugh when I fall on my face.

5 I’ve thrown myself headlong into your arms —  I’m celebrating your rescue.

6 I’m singing at the top of my lungs, I’m so full of answered prayers. MSG

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PS 13:2-6 How much longer must I cling to this constant grief? I’ve endured this shaking of my soul. So how much longer will my enemy have the upper hand? It’s been long enough!³ Take a good look at me, God, and answer me! Breathe your life into my spirit. Bring light to my eyes in this pitch-black darkness or I will sleep the sleep of death.
⁴ Don’t let my enemy proclaim, “I’ve prevailed over him.” For all my adversaries will celebrate when I fall.
⁵ Lord, I have always trusted in your kindness, so answer me. I will yet celebrate with passion and joy when your salvationlifts me up.
⁶ I will sing my song of joy to you, the Most High, for in all of this you have strengthened my soul. My enemies say that I have no Savior, but I know that I have one in you! TPT

Job 5:11 He raises up the down-and-out, gives firm footing to those sinking in grief.

MK 4:18-20 And the seed sown among thorns represents those who hear the Word,

¹⁹ but they allow the cares of this life and the seduction of wealth and the desires for other things to crowd out and choke the Word so that it produces nothing.

²⁰ “But the seed sown on good soil represents those who open their hearts to receive the Word and their lives bear good fruit—some yield a harvest of thirty, sixty, even one hundred times more than was sown!”  TPT

James 5:11 What a gift life is to those who stay the course! You’ve heard, of course, of Job’s staying power, and you know how God brought it all together for him at the end. That’s because God cares, cares right down to the last detail.

12 And since you know that he cares, let your language show it. Don’t add words like “I swear to God” to your own words. Don’t show your impatience by concocting oaths to hurry up God. Just say yes or no. Just say what is true. That way, your language can’t be used against you.  MSG

1 Sam 2:8 He puts poor people on their feet again; he rekindles burned-out lives with fresh hope, Restoring dignity and respect to their lives —  a place in the sun!

For the very structures of earth are God’s; he has laid out his operations on a firm foundation.

9 He protectively cares for his faithful friends, step by step, but leaves the wicked to stumble in the dark. No one makes it in this life by sheer muscle! MSG

Luke 21:32 Truly I tell you, this generation (those living at that definite period of time) will not perish and pass away until all has taken place.

33 The sky and the earth (the universe, the world) will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

34 But take heed to yourselves and be on your guard, lest your hearts be overburdened and depressed (weighed down) with the giddiness and headache and nausea of self-indulgence, drunkenness, and worldly worries and cares pertaining to [the business of] this life, and [lest] that day come upon you suddenly like a trap or a noose;

35 For it will come upon all who live upon the face of the entire earth.

36 Keep awake then and watch at all times [be discreet, attentive, and ready], praying that you may have the full strength and ability and be accounted worthy to escape all these things [taken together] that will take place, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man. AMP

Matt 6:34 So do not worry or be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will have worries and anxieties of its own. Sufficient for each day is its own trouble. AMP  ▼▼▼

MATT 6:34 Refuse to worry about tomorrow, but deal with each challenge that comes your way, one day at a time.Tomorrow will take care of itself.” TPT

Heb 2:6 It has been solemnly and earnestly said in a certain place, What is man that You are mindful of him, or the son of man that You graciously and helpfully care for and visit and look after him?

7 For some little time You have ranked him lower than and inferior to the angels; You have crowned him with glory and honor and set him over the works of Your hands, 

8 For You have put everything in subjection under his feet. Now in putting everything in subjection to man, He left nothing outside [of man’s] control. But at present we do not yet see all things subjected to him [man].

9 But we are able to see Jesus, Who was ranked lower than the angels for a little while, crowned with glory and honor because of His having suffered death, in order that by the grace (unmerited favor) of God [to us sinners] He might experience death for every individual person.  AMP 

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HEB 2:6-9 But the Scriptures affirm: What is man that you would even think about him, or care about Adam’s race.
⁷ You made him lower than the angels for a little while. You placed your glory and honor upon his head as a crown. And you have given him dominion over the works of your hands,
⁸ For you have placed everything under his authority. This means that God has left nothing outside the control of his Son, even if presently we have yet to see this accomplished.

⁹ But we see Jesus, who as a man, lived for a short time lower than the angels and has now been crowned with glorious honor because of what he suffered in his death. For it was by God’s gracethat he experienced death’s bitterness on behalf of everyone! TPT

Ps 41:2 God looks after us all, makes us robust with life — Lucky to be in the land, we’re free from enemy worries. MSG

Isa 8:12 “Don’t be like this people, always afraid somebody is plotting against them. Don’t fear what they fear. Don’t take on their worries.  MSG

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ISA 8:12 “Don’t believe their every conspiracy rumor. And don’t fear what they fear—don’t be moved or terrified.  TPT

Proverbs 15:15 Everything 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

Dan 12:13 “And you? Go about your business without fretting or worrying. Relax. When it’s all over, you will be on your feet to receive your reward.”   MSG

Romans 12:12 Let this hope burst forth within you, releasing a continual joy. Don’t give up in a time of trouble, but commune with God at all times. TPT

VIDEO DON’T WORRY

WORSHIP 4-5-2020

Worship provides a rest in the middle of a battle. All we have been hearing every day, all the fear has tried bombarding us. We need to set aside a time to just worship God. Reminding us of his love and eternal presence. Seen him in his power and glory. We recall who God is when we worship him. We put him the forefront of our mind. Worship is not just singing praise songs, it’s not the first 45 minutes of a church service. It literally means to bow down and acknowledge God‘s greatness in his nature. He is a omnipotent. God is love, he is immutable he is omnipresent.

PS 22:25-28 You’re the reason for my praise; it comes from you and goes to you. I will keep my promise to praise you before all who fear you among the congregation of your people.
²⁶ I will invite the poor and broken, and they will come and eat until satisfied. Bring Yahweh praise and you will find him. Your hearts will overflow with life forever!
²⁷ From the four corners of the earth, the peoples of the world will remember and return to the Lord. Every nation will come and worship him.
²⁸ For the Lord is King of all, who takes charge of all the nations.  TPT

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Ps 22:25 Here in this great gathering for worship I have discovered this praise-life. And I’ll do what I promised right here in front of the God-worshipers.

26 Down-and-outers sit at God’s table and eat their fill. Everyone on the hunt for God is here, praising him. “Live it up, from head to toe. Don’t ever quit!”

27 From the four corners of the earth people are coming to their senses,

are running back to God. Long-lost families are falling on their faces before him.

28 God has taken charge; from now on he has the last word.  MSG

PS 29:2 Be in awe before his majesty. Be in awe before such power and might!
Come worship wonderful Yahweh, arrayed in all his splendor, bowing in worship as he appears in the beauty of holiness. Give him the honor due his name.Worship him wearing the glory-garments of your holy, priestly calling!  TPT

REV 1:8 “I am the Aleph and the Tav,” says the Lord God, “who is, who was, and who is to come, the Almighty.” TPT

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REV 22:13 I am the Aleph and the Tav, the First and the Last,the Beginning and the Completion.”TPT

FUTURE ISA 43:12-13 I am the only one who revealed this to you.  I saved you, foretoldthe future, and brought it to pass. It was not some foreign god who did this! You are my witnesses that I am God,” declares Yahweh.
¹³ “From the very beginning, I am the only God! No one can be snatched from my hand. When I choose to act, who can reverse it?” TPT ▼▼▼

Isa 43:12 I spoke, I saved, I told you what existed long before these upstart gods appeared on the scene. And you know it, you’re my witnesses, you’re the evidence.” God’s Decree. “Yes, I am God.

13 I’ve always been God and I always will be God. No one can take anything from me. I make; who can unmake it?”   MSG

PS 23:6 So why would I fear the future? For your goodness and love pursue me all the days of my life. Then afterward, when my life is through, I’ll return to your glorious presence to be forever with you! TPT

1 Peter 1:4 including a future in heaven — and the future starts now!

5 God is keeping careful watch over us and the future. The Day is coming when you’ll have it all — life healed and whole. MSG

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1 PET 1:4-5 We are reborn into a perfect inheritancethat can never perish, never be defiled, and never diminish. It is promised and preserved forever in the heavenly realm for you!

⁵ Through our faith, the mighty power of God constantly guardsus until our full salvationis ready to be revealedin the last time.  TPT

HEAVEN REV 4:8 Each of the four living creatures had six wings, full of eyes all around and under their wings. They worshiped without ceasing, day and night, singing, “Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God, the Almighty!  The Was, the Is, and the Coming!”  TPT

Ascribe attributes Num 14:17 And now, I pray You, let the power of my Lord be great, as You have promised, saying, 

18 The Lord is long-suffering and slow to anger, and abundant in mercy and loving-kindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; but He will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and fourth generation.  AMP

Job 5:20 “In famine, he’ll keep you from starving, in war, from being gutted by the sword.

21 You’ll be protected from vicious gossip and live fearless through any catastrophe.

22 You’ll shrug off disaster and famine, and stroll fearlessly among wild animals.

23 You’ll be on good terms with rocks and mountains; wild animals will become your good friends.

24 You’ll know that your place on earth is safe, you’ll look over your goods and find nothing amiss.

25 You’ll see your children grow up, your family lovely and lissome as orchard grass.

26 You’ll arrive at your grave ripe with many good years, like sheaves of golden grain at harvest.  MSG

Ps 67:2 That Your way may be known upon earth, Your saving power (Your deliverances and Your salvation) among all nations.  AMP

Ps 68:11 The Lord gives the word [of power]; the women who bear and publish [the news] are a great host.  AMP

Ps 147:5 Great is our Lord and of great power; His understanding is inexhaustible and boundless. AMP

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PS 147:5 How great is our God! There’s absolutely nothing his power cannot accomplish, and he has infinite understanding of everything. TPT

healing Luke 6:19  And all the multitude were seeking to touch Him, for healing power was all the while going forth from Him and curing them all [saving them from severe illnesses or calamities].  AMP

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Luke 6:19  Everyone was trying to touch him — so much energy surging from him, so many people healed!  MSG

Luke 8:46 But Jesus said, Someone did touch Me; for I perceived that [healing] power has gone forth from Me.  AMP

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Luke 8:46 Jesus insisted, “Someone touched me. I felt power discharging from me.”   MSG

Deut 7:13 He will love you, he will bless you, he will increase you. He will bless the babies from your womb and the harvest of grain, new wine, and oil from your fields; he’ll bless the calves from your herds and lambs from your flocks in the country he promised your ancestors that he’d give you.

14 You’ll be blessed beyond all other peoples: no sterility or barrenness in you or your animals.

15 God will get rid of all sickness. And all the evil afflictions you experienced in Egypt he’ll put not on you but on those who hate you. MSG

EPH 4:10 The same one who descended is also the one who ascended above the heights of heaven, in order to begin the restoration and fulfillmentof all things. TPT

rescues us Ps 54:1 SAVE ME, O God, by Your name; judge and vindicate me by Your mighty strength and power.  AMP

MATT 6:13 Rescue us every time we face tribulationand set us free from evil. For you are the King who rules with power and glory forever. Amen. TPT

1 John 3:19 This is the only way we’ll know we’re living truly, living in God’s reality.

20 It’s also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism, even when there is something to it. For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves.  MSG

Job 23:13 But He is unchangeable, and who can turn Him? And what He wants to do, that He does.

14 For He performs [that which He has] planned for me, and of many such matters He is mindful.  AMP 

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Job 23:13 “But he is singular and sovereign. Who can argue with him? He does what he wants, when he wants to.

14 He’ll complete in detail what he’s decided about me, and whatever else he determines to do.  MSG

Rom 11:29 For God’s gifts and His call are irrevocable. [He never withdraws them when once they are given, and He does not change His mind about those to whom He gives His grace or to whom He sends His call.]  AMP

love   Deut 7:9 Know, recognize, and understand therefore that the Lord your God, He is God, the faithful God, Who keeps covenant and steadfast love and mercy with those who love Him and keep His commandments, to a thousand generations, AMP

Ps 31:7 I’m leaping and singing in the circle of your love; you saw my pain, you disarmed my tormentors,

8 You didn’t leave me in their clutches but gave me room to breathe. MSG

RO 8:35-39 Who could ever separate us from the endless love of God’s Anointed One? Absolutely no one! For nothing in the universe has the power to diminish his love toward us. Troubles, pressures, and problems are unable to come between us and heaven’s love. What about persecutions, deprivations, dangers, and death threats? No, for they are all impotent to hinder omnipotent love,

³⁶ even though it is written: All day long we face death threats for your sake, God.
We are considered to be nothing morethan sheep to be slaughtered!

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!

³⁸ So 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.

³⁹ There 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

EPH 1:4-5 And he chose us to be his very own, joining us to himself even before he laid the foundation of the universe! Because of his great love, he ordainedus, so that we would be seen as holy in his eyes with an unstained innocence.

^5–6 For it was always in his perfect planto adoptus as his delightful children, through our union with Jesus, the Anointed One, so that his tremendous love that cascades over us would glorify his grace—for the same love he has for his Beloved One, Jesus, he has for us. And this unfolding plan brings him great pleasure!TPT

1 JN 3:1 Look with wonder at the depth of the Father’s marvelous love that he has lavished on us! He has called us and made us his very own beloved children. The reason the world doesn’t recognize who we are is that they didn’t recognize him. TPT

1 JN 4:8-10 The one who doesn’t love has yet to know God, for God is love. ⁹ The light of God’s love shined within uswhen he sent his matchlessSon into the world so that we might live through him.

¹⁰ This is love: He loved us long before we loved him. It was his love, not ours. He proved it by sending his Son to be the pleasing sacrificial offering to take away our sins. TPT

SUPERNATURAL POWER  4-3-2020

Supernatural power is the power that goes beyond the natural forces. It goes beyond natural laws and scientific understanding. The world is seeking power. Power to rule and control man’s actions and thoughts. But there is a power that lives in every believer who has the Holy Spirit. Supernatural force that raises the dead, cast out demons. and heals the sick. It is the church and we must stop being unimpressed with the power of the Holy Spirit that lives inside us and is upon us. Supernatural power proves to us that we have a new life.

ACTS 1:7-8 He answered, “The Father is the one who sets the fixed dates and the times of their fulfillment. You are not permitted to know the timing of all that he has prepared by his own authority.

⁸ But I promise you this—the Holy Spirit will come upon you and you will be filled with power. And you will be my messengersto Jerusalem, throughout Judea, the distant provinces—even to the remotest places on earth!” TPT

John 18:36 Jesus answered, My kingdom (kingship, royal power) belongs not to this world. If My kingdom were of this world, My followers would have been fighting to keep Me from being handed over to the Jews. But as it is, My kingdom is not from here (this world); [it has no such origin or source]. AMP

John 16:33 I have told you these things, so that in Me you may have [perfect] peace and confidence. In the world you have tribulation and trials and distress and frustration; but be of good cheer [take courage; be confident, certain, undaunted]! For I have overcome the world. [I have deprived it of power to harm you and have conquered it for you.]  AMP

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JN 16:33 And everything I’ve taught you is so that the peace which is in me will be in you and will give you great confidence as you rest in me. For in this unbelieving world you will experience trouble and sorrows, but you must be courageous, for I have conquered the world!”TPT

JN 17:2 You have already given me authorityover all people so that I may give
 the gift of eternal life to all those that you have given to me. TPT

ACTS 2:1-6  On the day Pentecost was being fulfilled, all the disciples were gathered in one place.

² Suddenly they heard the sound of a violent blast of windrushing into the housefrom out of the heavenly realm. The roar of the wind was so overpowering it was all anyone could bear!

³ Then all at once a pillar of fire appeared before their eyes. It separated into tongues of fire that engulfedeach one of them.

⁴ They were all filled and equippedwith the Holy Spirit and were inspiredto speak in tongues—empowered by the Spirit to speak in languages they had never learned!

⁵ Now, at that time there were Jewish worshiperswho had emigrated from many different lands to live in Jerusalem.

⁶ When the peopleof the city heard the roaring sound, crowds came running to where it was coming from, stunned over what was happening, because each one could hear the disciples speaking in his or her own language. TPT

ACTS 4:7-11 They made Peter and John stand in front of the council as they questioned them, saying, “Tell us, by what power and authority have you done these things?”

⁸ Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, answered, “Respected elders and leaders of the people, listen.

⁹ Are we being put on trial today for doing an act of kindness by healing a frail, crippled man? Well then,

¹⁰ you and everyone else in Israel should know that it is by the power of the name of Jesus that the crippled man stands here today completely healed! You crucified Jesus Christ of Nazareth, but God raised him from the dead.

¹¹ This Jesus is ‘the stone that you, the builders, have rejected, and now he has become the cornerstone!’

12 There is no one elsewho has the power to save us, for there is only one name to whom God has given authority by which we must experience salvation: the name of Jesus. TPT

ACTS 4:13-14 The council members were astonished as they witnessed the bold courageof Peter and John, especially when they discovered that they were just ordinary men who had never had religious training. Then they began to understand the effect Jesus had on them simply by spending time with him.

¹⁴ Standing there with them was the healed man, and there was nothing further they could say. TPT

Acts 11:21 And the presence of the Lord was with them with power, so that a great number [learned] to believe (to adhere to and trust in and rely on the Lord) and turned and surrendered themselves to Him.  AMP

Acts 8:10 He had them all, from little children to old men, eating out of his hand. They all thought he had supernatural powers, and called him “the Great Wizard.”

11 He had been around a long time and everyone was more or less in awe of him.

12 But when Philip came to town announcing the news of God’s kingdom and proclaiming the name of Jesus Christ, they forgot Simon and were baptized, becoming believers right and left!

13 Even Simon himself believed and was baptized. From that moment he was like Philip’s shadow, so fascinated with all the God-signs and miracles that he wouldn’t leave Philip’s side.  MSG

Acts 10:38 How God anointed and consecrated Jesus of Nazareth with the [Holy] Spirit and with strength and ability and power; how He went about doing good and, in particular, curing all who were harassed and oppressed by [the power of] the devil, for God was with Him. AMP

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ACTS 10:38 “Jesus of Nazareth was anointed by God with the Holy Spirit and with great power. He did wonderful things for others and divinely healed all who were under the tyranny of the devil, for God had anointed him.  TPT

Rom 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the Gospel (good news) of Christ, for it is God’s power working unto salvation [for deliverance from eternal death] to everyone who believes with a personal trust and a confident surrender and firm reliance, to the Jew first and also to the Greek,  AMP

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ROM 1:16 I refuse to be ashamed of sharing the wonderful message of God’s liberating power unleashed in us through Christ! For I am thrilled to preach that everyone who believes is saved—the Jew first, and then people everywhere!  TPT

ROM 6:4-5 Sharing in his death by our baptism means that we were co-buried and entombed with him, so that when the Father’s glory raised Christ from the dead, we were also raised with him. We have been co-resurrected with him so that we could be empowered to walk in the freshness of new life.

⁵ For since we are permanently grafted into him to experience a death like his, then we are permanently grafted into him to experience a resurrection like his and the new life that it imparts. TPT

2 COR 13:4 For although he was crucified as a “weakling,” now he lives robed with God’s power. And we also are “weak ones” in our co-crucifixion with him, but now we live in God’s triumphant power together with him, which is demonstrated on your behalf. TPT

Rom 15:19 [Even as my preaching has been accompanied] with the power of signs and wonders, [and all of it] by the power of the Holy Spirit. [The result is] that starting from Jerusalem and as far round as Illyricum, I have fully preached the Gospel [faithfully executing, accomplishing, carrying out to the full the good news] of Christ (the Messiah) in its entirety.  AMP 

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ROM 15:19 And I will not be presumptuous to speak of anything except what Christ has accomplished through me. For many non-Jewish people are coming into faith’s obedience by the power of the Spirit of God, which is displayed through mighty signs and amazing wonders, both in word and deed. Starting from Jerusalem I went from place to place as far as the distant Roman province of Illyricum, fully preaching the wonderful message of Christ TPT

1 Cor 1:5 [So] that in Him in every respect you were enriched, in full power and readiness of speech [to speak of your faith] and complete knowledge and illumination [to give you full insight into its meaning].  AMP

1 COR 1:18 To preach the messageof the cross seems like sheer nonsense to those who are on their way to destruction, but to us who are on our way to salvation, it is the mighty power of God released within us. TPT

1 Cor 2:4  and so nothing I said could have impressed you or anyone else. But the Message came through anyway. God’s Spirit and God’s power did it,

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

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1 COR 2:4-5 The message I preached and how I preached it was not an attempt to sway you with persuasive arguments but to prove to you the almighty power of God’s Holy Spirit.

⁵ For God intended that your faith not be established on man’s wisdom but by trusting in his almighty power. TPT

1 Cor 4:20 God’s Way is not a matter of mere talk; it’s an empowered life. MSG

2 Cor 3:5 Not that we are fit (qualified and sufficient in ability) of ourselves to form personal judgments or to claim or count anything as coming from us, but our power and ability and sufficiency are from God.  AMP

2 Cor 4:7 However, we possess this precious treasure [the divine Light of the Gospel] in [frail, human] vessels of earth, that the grandeur and exceeding greatness of the power may be shown to be from God and not from ourselves.  AMP

Eph 3:18  That you may have the power and be strong to apprehend and grasp with all the saints [God’s devoted people, the experience of that love] what is the breadth and length and height and depth [of it];

19 [That you may really come] to know [practically, through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being] unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]!

20 Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do superabundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes, or dreams] —  AMP

2 Tim 1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity (of cowardice, of craven and cringing and fawning fear), but [He has given us a spirit] of power and of love and of calm and well-balanced mind and discipline and self-control.

8 Do not blush or be ashamed then, to testify to and for our Lord, nor of me, a prisoner for His sake, but [with me] take your share of the suffering [to which the preaching] of the Gospel [may expose you, and do it] in the power of God.  AMP

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2 Tim 1:7 God doesn’t want us to be shy with his gifts, but bold and loving and sensible.

8 So don’t be embarrassed to speak up for our Master or for me, his prisoner. Take your share of suffering for the Message along with the rest of us. We can only keep on going, after all, by the power of God,

9 who first saved us and then called us to this holy work. We had nothing to do with it. It was all his idea, a gift prepared for us in Jesus long before we knew anything about it. MSG

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2 TIM 1:7-8  For God will never give you the spirit of fear but the Holy Spirit who gives you mighty power, love, and self-control.

⁸ So never be ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor be embarrassed over my imprisonment, but overcome every evil by the revelation of the power of God! TPT

John 17:18 Just as You sent Me into the world, I also have sent them into the world.  AMP