FAITH

Pursue a righteous life--a life of wonder, faith, and love, steadiness, courtesy. Run hard and fast in the faith. Seize the eternal life, the life you were called to, the life you so fervently embraced. I Timothy 6:11-12

BELIEVE

Your eye is a lamp, lighting up your whole body. If you live wide-eyed in wonder and belief, your body fills up with light...Keep your eyes open, your lamp burning, so you don't get musty and murky. Keep your life as well-lighted as your best lighted room. Luke 11:34-36

FREEDOM

I can't tell you how much I long for you to enter this wide-open, spacious life...Your lives aren't small, but you're living them in a small way. I'm speaking as plainly as I can and with great affection. Open up your lives. Live openly and expansively! 2Corinthians 6:11-13 THE MESSAGE kaysjoytoyou.com

FREEDOM

Jesus said, "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 test. 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. Keep company with me and you'll learn to live freely and lightly. " Matthew 11:28-30 THE MESSAGE kaysjoytoyou.com

SERVICE

All praise to the God and Father of our Master, Jesus the Messia! He comes alongside us when we go through hard times, and before you know it, he brings us alongside someone else who is going through hard times so that we can be there for that person just as God was there for us. 2 Corinthians 1:3-4
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THE REAL LIFE

But you, dear friends, carefully build yourselves up in this most holy faith by praying in the Holy Spirit, staying right at the center of God's love, keeping your arms open and outstretched, ready for the mercy of the Master, Jesus Christ. This is the unending life, the real life! Jude 1:20-21
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FRESH START

God made my life complete when I placed all the pieces before him. When I got my act together, he gave me a fresh start...God rewrote the text of my life when I opened the book of my heart to his eyes.
Psalm 18:20,24 THE MESSAGE kaysjoytoyou.com

LOVE

Let's practice real love. This is the only way we'll know we're living truly, living in God's reality. It's also the way to shut down debilitating self-criticism... For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves. And friends, once that's taken care of and we're no longer accusing or condemning ourselves, we're bold and free before God. I John 3:18-21 THE MESSAGE kaysjoytoyou.com

I look behind me and you're there, then up ahead and you're there, too--your reassuring presence, coming and going. This is too much, too wonderful--I can't take it all in! Psalm 139:5,6

ASSURANCE

Yes, Because God's your refuge, the High God , your very own home, evil can't get close to you, harm can't get through the door. He ordered his angels to guard you wherever you go. Psalm 91: 9-11

HOPE

Oh! may the God of hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope! Romans 15:13

PRAYER

Open up before God, keep nothing back; he'll do whatever needs to be done: He'll validate your life in the clear light of day and stamp you with approval at high noon. Quiet down before God, be prayerful before him. Psalm 37:5-7 kaysjoytoyou.com

TRUST

Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not onto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him and he will direct your paths. Proverbs 3:5,6 KJV

SERVICE

Make sure you don't take things for granted and go slack in working for the common good; share what you have with others. God takes particular pleasure in acts of worship--a different kind of "sacrifice"--that takes place in kitchen and workplace and on the streets. Hebrews 13:16

GOD'S PRESENCE

Draw me O Lord into vital communion with thyself. What a difference the sun makes in the natural world: and what a difference it makes when Thou dost dawn upon us! Press through until we are filled with thy presence.
Oswald Chambers

LIVING

I'll run the course you lay out for me if You'll just show me how. God, teach me lessons for living so I can stay the course. Give me insight so I can do what you tell me--my whole life one long obedient response. Psalm 119: 32-34

SERVING

So, here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life--your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking around life--and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for you. Romans 12:1

PROMISE

My choice is you, God , first and only. And now I find I'm your choice!... You made me your heir!!! Psalm 16: 5-6

PRAYER

God's Spirit is right along side helping us along. If we don't know how or what to pray, it doesn't matter. He does our praying in and for us, making prayer out of our wordless sighs, our aching groans. He knows us far better than we know ourselves...and keeps us present before God. That's why we can be so sure that every detail in our lives of love for God is worked into something good. Romans 8:26-28

PRAISE

Your thoughts--how rare, how beautiful, God, I'll never comprehend them! I couldn't even begin to count them any more than I could count the sand of the sea. Oh, let me rise in the morning and live always with you! Psalm 139:17-18

HOPE

You don't have to wait for the End. I am, right now,
Resurrection and Life.The one who believes in me,
even though he or she dies, will live. And everyone
who lives believing in me does not ultimately die at all.
John 11:25-26