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

JOY

After the Sabbath, as the first light of the new week dawned, Mary Magdalene and the other Mary came to keep vigil at the tomb. Suddenly the earth reeled and rocked under their feet as God's angel came down from heaven, came right up to where they were standing. He rolled back the stone and then sat on it. Shafts of light blazed from him. His garments shimmered snow-white. The angel spoke to the women: "There is nothing to fear here. I know you're looking for Jesus, the one they nailed to the cross. He is not here. He was raised just as he said." Matthew 28:1-3, 5-6

GIVING

The world of the generous gets larger and larger...The one who blesses others is abundantly blessed; those who help others are helped. Proverbs 11:24-25

Purpose

What a beautiful thing, God to give thanks,

to sing an anthem to you, the High God!

To announce your love each daybreak,

sing your faithful presence all through

the night. Psalm 92:1-2

BLESSING

The world of the generous gets larger and larger...
The one who blesses others is abundantly blessed;
Those who help others are helped. Proverbs 11:24-25

LOVE

Live out your God-created identity. Live generously and graciously toward others, the way God lives toward you. Matthew 5:48

BLESSING

You're blessed when you care. At the moment of being "careful," you find yourselves cared for. Your blessed when you get your inside world--your mind and heart- put right. Then you can see God in the outside world. Matthew 5: 7-8

PROMISES

God promises to love me all day, sing songs all through the night! My life is God's prayer. Psalm 42:8

PROMISE

COMFORT

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

LOVE

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...Forgive as quickly and completely as the Master forgave you. And regardless of what else you put on, wear love. It's your basic, all-purpose garment. Never be without it. Colossians 3:12-14

PROTECTION

I call to God because I'm sure of an answer. Hide me under your cool wing feathers. Psalm 17:6,8