JOY

Why is everyone hungry for more?.... I have more-than-enough, More joy in one ordinary day...At day's end I'm ready for sound sleep, For you, God, have put my life back together.  Psalm 4:6-8

PRAISE

Now to him who can keep you on your feet, standing tall in his bright presence, fresh and celebrating--to our one God, our only  Savior, through Jesus Christ, our Master, be glory, majesty, strength, and rule before all time, and now, and to the end of time.  Jude 1:24-25

CARING

You're blessed when you care.  At the moment of being "care-full", you find yourselves cared for.  You're 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

TRUST

Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking.  Instead, fix your attention on God.  You'll be changed from the inside out.  Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it.  Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. 

TRUST

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.  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

Holy Spirit

It stands to reason, doesn't it, that if the alive-and-present God who raaised Jesus from the dead moves into your life, he'll do the same thing  in you that he did in Jesus, bringing you alive to himself?  When God lives and breaathes in you, you are delivered from that dead life.  With his Spirit living in you, your body will be alive as Christs.     Romans 8:11

TRUST

You've been a safe place for me, a good place to hide.  Strong God, I'm watching you do it, I can always count on you--God, my dependable God.  Psalm 59:16-17

JOY

How exquisite your love, O God!  How eager we are to run under your wings, to eat our fill at the banquet you spread,  as you fill us with Eden spring water.  You're a fountain of cascading light, and you open our eyes to light.                Psalm 36:7-9

HOPE

We have run for our very lives to God have every reason to grab the promised hope with both hands and never let go.  It's an unbreakable spiritual lifeline, reaching past all appearances right to the very presence of God where Jesus, running on ahead of us, has taken up his permanent post as high priest for us.  Hebrews 6:18-20

GRACE

God will make you fit for what he's called you to be...he'll fill your good ideas and acts of faith with his own energy so that it all amounts to something.. If your life honors the name of Jesus, he will honor you.  Grace is behind and through all of this, giving himself freely.  2 Thessalonians 11:12

JOY

No one's ever seen or heard anything like this, Never so much imagined anything quite like it .  What God has arranged for those who love him.  I Corinthians 2:9

JOY

"I slept and dreamed that life was joy.  I awoke and saw that life was service.  I acted and behold, service was joy"
  Rabindranth Ragore.

LOVE

Let's practice real love.  This is the only way we"lll 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!
                    John 3:18-21  THE MESSAGE

JOY

In the Messiah, in Christ, God leads us from place to place in one perpetual victory parade.  Through us, he brings knowledge of Christ.  Everywhere we go, people breathe in the exquisite fragrance.  Because of Christ, we give off a sweet scent rising to God, which is recognized by those on the way of salvation--an aroma redolent with life.  2 Corinthians 2:14,15  THE MESSAGE

I saw God before me for all time.  Nothing can shake me; he's right by my side.  I'm glad from the inside out, ecstatic; I've pitched my tent in the land of hope... You've got my feet on the life-path with sun-joy all around.  Acts:2:25-28

LIGHT

We with our unveiled faces reflecting like mirrors the brightness of the Lord grow brighter and brighter as we are turned into that image that we reflect.  This is the work of the Lord who is spirit.  2 Corinthians 3:18

LOVE

How exquisite your love, O God!  How eager we are to run under your wings, to eat our fill at the banquet you spread as fill us with Eden spring water.  You're a fountain of cascading light, and you open our eyes to light.  Psalm 36:7-9
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TRUST

The Lord your  God is with you.  He is mighty to save.  He will take great delight in you.  He will quiet you with his love.  He will rejoice over you with singing.  Zephaniah 3:17

 

LOVE

For God is sheer beauty. all-generous in love, loyal always and ever.  Psalm 100:5