Last Updated on March 20, 2026 by LookingUntoJesus

Matt. 5:10, Exodus 15:2, Jer. 10:23, Isaiah 26:4, Psalm 20:7, 1 Chr. 28:10, 1 Kings 17:16, 2 Samuel 22:47, 1 Samuel 14:6 – since we are growing and becoming Christlike, by His Spirit; there are facets about us that need to be configured to His steps, dimensions that hold unbeliefs and self-mentioning of own strengths. That the more the Lord does prune and cleanse out our lives, as we surrender to His Christlike changes in us, He has more unrestrained freedom, to go about spiritually nourishing His people.

Matt. 5:10, Neh. 8:10, 1 Chr. 28:9, 1 Samuel 2:9, Gen. 12:1, Matt. 5:2, Phil. 2:1, Acts 7:55, Matt. 5:4,5, 2 Kings 17:13, 1 Kings 19:12, 1 Samuel 3:10, Josh. 1:8, Num. 6:24 – a) more time spent on God’s Word, to better help us avoid unrighteousness, so we can discern + serve Him better. b) Humbleness is a continual ask that is important because earthly things do otherwise accumulate and cause us to stray inwardly. c) steadfastness + a closer fellowship with the Spirit is worth praying about, a good indication of our relational distance with Christ is viewable, when we are heartless. d) when Jesus teaches us (Heb. 13:8), we need to “keep” in mind that the application in our lives, carries responsibilities for others experiencing His life. e) Christ needs to reveal plenty to us because of the failure of the flesh to succeed in spiritual matters f) the way we “think,” has aspects that can be persecutory and obstructive to eternal matters. g) how much of the time is our own counsel, in place of His available instructions? h) we can grieve ourselves because Christ wasn’t our strength.

1 Chr. 28:9 ASV – “willing”

Isaiah 58:11 ASV – “Jehovah will guide thee continually” “and thou shalt be like a watered garden”

1 Chr. 4:10 ASV – “and that thy hand might be with me”

1 Samuel 2:9 ASV – “He will keep the feet of his holy ones” “the wicked shall be put to silence in darkness; For by strength shall no man prevail”

1 Samuel 2:9 ASV – “He will keep the feet of his holy ones”

Judges 2:18 ASV – “Jehovah was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies”

Deut. 1:31 ASV – “Jehovah thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son”

Gen. 12:1 ASV – “Jehovah said unto Abram” “I will show thee”

Romans 8:26 ASV – “And in like manner the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity”

Matt. 7:6 ASV – “Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you.”

Matt. 5:2 ASV – “he opened his mouth and taught them”

Phil. 2:1 ASV – “If there is” “any exhortation” “if any” “consolation of love” -> “if any fellowship of the Spirit”

Acts 7:55 ASV – “looked up stedfastly”

Matt. 5:5 ASV – “Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth”

Matt. 5:4 ASV – “Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted”

1 Kings 19:12 ASV – “a still small voice”

2 Samuel 22:31 ASV – “As for God, his way is perfect” “The word of Jehovah is tried”

1 Samuel 3:10 ASV – “Speak; for thy servant heareth.”

Josh. 1:8 ASV – “out of thy mouth” “thou shalt meditate thereon day and night”

Deut. 30:20 ASV – “to obey his voice”

Ex. 15:2 ASV – “he is become”

Jer. 10:23 ASV – “O Jehovah, I know that the way of man is not in himself”

Psalm 20:7 ASV – “But we will make mention of the name of Jehovah our God”

1 Samuel 14:6 ASV – “for there is no restraint to Jehovah”

Judges 13:24 ASV – “the child grew, and Jehovah blessed him.”

Josh. 14:12 ASV – “it may be that Jehovah will be with me, and I shall drive them out, as Jehovah spake”

Gen. 24:40 ASV – “prosper thy way”

Luke 10:41 ASV – “Martha, Martha, thou art” “troubled” “about many things”

Matt. 5:7 ASV – “for they shall obtain”

Isaiah 55:7 ASV – “let the wicked forsake his way” “and the unrighteous man his thoughts”

2 Kings 4:6 ASV – “And the oil stayed”

Judges 5:31 ASV – “But let them that love him be as the sun when he goeth forth in his might”

Josh. 23:10 ASV – “One man of you shall chase a thousand; for Jehovah your God, he it is that fighteth for you, as he spake unto you”

Ex. 4:12 ASV – “Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt speak”

Col. 1:13 ASV – “translated”

1 Cor. 4:20 ASV – “the kingdom of God” “in power”

Acts 5:41 ASV – “rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer dishonor for the Name”

Matt. 5:12 ASV – “be exceeding glad”

Psalm 19:14 ASV – “Be acceptable in thy sight”

Jer. 17:7 ASV – “Blessed is the man that trusteth in Jehovah, and whose trust Jehovah is”

2 Kings 19:15 ASV – “O Jehovah, the God of Israel” “thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth”

1 Kings 8:56 ASV – “Blessed be Jehovah” “there hath not failed one word of all his good promise”

2 Samuel 7:28 ASV – “O Lord Jehovah, thou art God, and thy words are truth”

1 Samuel 16:13 ASV – “and the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon David from that day forward”

Josh. 4:24 ASV – “that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Jehovah, that it is mighty”

Deut. 8:3 ASV – “that he might make thee know”

Ex. 14:31 ASV – “the great work which Jehovah did”

Micah 6:8 ASV – “what doth Jehovah require of thee”

Isaiah 30:21 ASV – “This is the way, walk ye in it”

Romans 12:5 ASV – “we, who are many, are one body in Christ”

2 Cor. 4:6 ASV – “the knowledge of the glory”

John 14:21 ASV – “I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him”

2 Cor. 13:5 ASV – “Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves”

Acts 4:31 ASV – “spake the word of God with boldness”

Acts 1:14 ASV – “one accord continued stedfastly”

Luke 6:35 ASV – “lend”

Matt. 6:6 ASV – “prayest” “inner” “having shut thy door” “thy Father who seeth in secret”

Matt. 4:10 ASV – “worship” “serve”

1 Peter 2:21 ASV – “Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, that ye should follow his steps”

Heb. 11:6 ASV – “without faith it is impossible to be well-pleasing unto him”

Col. 1:10 ASV – “to walk worthily of the Lord unto all pleasing, bearing fruit in every good work”

Acts 4:20 ASV – “for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard”

Luke 9:25 ASV – “gain the whole world” “forfeit his own self?”

Luke 9:25 ASV – “gain the whole world, and lose”

Matt. 10:22 ASV – “that endureth” “to the end”

Titus 2:14 ASV – “purify unto himself a people” “zealous of good works”

Ez. 36:27 ASV – “cause you to walk”

John 17:21 ASV – “they may all be one”

Col. 1:28 ASV – “that we may present every man perfect in Christ”

Jer. 2:13 ASV – “For my people have committed two evils”

1 Kings 18:39 ASV – “Jehovah, he is God; Jehovah, he is God.”

2 Samuel 14:14 ASV – “deviseth means, that he that is banished be not an outcast from him”

1 Samuel 3:21 ASV – “And Jehovah appeared again in Shiloh; for Jehovah revealed himself to Samuel in Shiloh by the word of Jehovah”

Josh. 24:14 ASV – “Now therefore fear Jehovah, and serve him in sincerity and in truth”

Numbers 12:8 ASV – “with him will I speak mouth to mouth” “and the form of Jehovah shall he behold”

Gen. 16:13 ASV – “a God that seeth”

1 Peter 5:7 ASV – “he careth”

Acts 20:24 ASV – “I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself” “so that I may accomplish my course”

Matt. 6:33 ASV – “seek ye first his kingdom” “his righteousness” “all these things” “shall be added unto you”

Eph. 6:10-11 – this situation might be tough in your life but we can also experience His manifest might, for the members in the Body of Christ (Eph. 4:12-13). Take pleasure in giving Him rule in your life, there is an inward wholeness + stability + tranquility + more, leading to thankfulness. The Spirit, also desires to find others, being Spirit-led, patterning His Life. Let Him cultivate our lives to better saturate Christlikeness.

Luke 23:46 – Zech 4:6b is what I was dwelling upon

Hab. 2:1 + Mark 13:33 – we are meant to change so much, we need to look attentively to Christ, upon what needs to be strived for + performed, by His Spirit. In 1 John 5:14 + Matt. 5:6, let’s be more open to grant access, toward His direction to the marvellous deeds, He desires us to make known, that does satisfy the true strong desires that people long for. From His leadings, let Christ be the true inward treasure of people’s hearts.

Heb. 2:18 – do you feel like your life is in ruins? God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit is able to constantly help you (Psalm 46:1). There are so many times in the Bible, where these are also conditions for further steadfast loyalty + reliance, for us to live in footsteps to the truth of who He is, and we will find beautiful development in the manner of life, there (2 Cor. 4:16).

Hosea 6:3, 10:12, 11:4 – there are stuff that He desires for us to ask Him to reprove, address. So that we can be earnestly zealous, from the affectionate love of God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit. BUT WAIT A MINUTE? We’ll notice that, out of His Love in helping us, -> simultaneously <-, WE ALSO KNOW HOW TO BECOME CHRISTLIKE -> GREATLY ABOUNDING TO EXCEEDINGLY LOVE OTHERS? MORE AND MORE? BUT WAIT THERE’S MORE? HIS LOVE IS TOWARD EVERYONE? SO YOU ARE COMPELLED TO APPROACH IN THE SAME LIKEWISE MANNER? DO YOU ALSO SENSE THAT OVERFLOW? *talks as though, wearing high-school braces on teeth* OH THE TRAILS OF HIS DIVINE POWER!!!

Job 33:14 NKJV – God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit desires that we notice what is being said but we can at times, overlap His voice, with our “self” words (Job 40:4 NKJV).

John 21:16 + 2 Samuel 7:8-9 – asking the Spirit, we need to willingly choose His sheep, we need to protect them, we need His leadership. From those petitions to Christ, I find that, there is a renewing + refining path that deepens the knowledge of who we really are suppose to be, a further spiritual understanding of a likeness of Christ.

Deut. 30:19 + Psalm 92:13-14 KJV – will His Life flourish, where we are? Is the vitality of Christ, witnessed, by others? Under His authority, let Christ blossom and flower, the wonderful inviting fragrance!

Numbers 9:23 + Gal. 5:25 NIV – imagine God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit speaking to a person, and upon the spoken words, that person’s steps are decided, and sets out their duty with His energy + His goals. We can work on deeply respecting + pleasing what He desires for us to instructionally receive, to serve Him. Departing our seen + unseen + other expressed idols away, and be devoted + sincere in whatever strenuous labour He empowers us, to be an effective force to bring foremost matters into spiritual maturity.

Gal. 5:17 – we have to understand the depths of our desires and the strengths of those that significantly resists, the things of the Spirit. God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit does accurately battle + produce an effect upon our inward attitudes + consciences, to establish us, to stand firm in and through Christ. He does attentively guard us, so that we can be devoted continually, in steadfastness to Jesus.

Gal. 5:13 – By His Spirit, freeing us to also operate increasingly abundantly fittingly, in our callings, to display His glory, for the deserving Church.

1 Cor. 2:10, 4:20 – we all need to dwell upon, the very profound underlying reign of His power with confident expectations because it’ll also lead to Christ further glorified. Delivering us from the darkness that has made us ignore the clean + dependable motivations of God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit.

Romans 12:2 – are we patterned outwardly to inwardly, from the world? God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit desires to mature our perceptions to the changes He makes, in us. It goes wells with us, when we observe + do faithfully, what He desires us to cast off, keep away, abstain, let go, and leave behind because His voice says so, and that’s good enough, to obey, so that Christ can be further exalted. By His Spirit + His will, we need to attest strongly + insist boldly + generate attention to hold the ground of the Bible + the Divine guidance; we cannot be carried away with unsound steps that are incomplete to moving onward (John 12:26, Gal. 5:25 NIV). Let’s examine carefully, where we are, in our lives, what we are seeking; that it must be, what He determines necessary, from His royal rule.

Romans 13:14 CSB “put on the Lord Jesus Christ” – it’s worth to ask ourselves, what is He Christlike providing you toward, in His plans? Let’s ask the Lord, to give us additional appointed times, to reveal more of Christ, everywhere, and to remove what makes people ineffective from, His unveiling.

Isaiah 54:2-3 + 2 Cor. 11:3 – The Adversary and His Hosts, does enjoy benching us with distortions, holding us down, backsliding us, trying to turn us away, missing Jesus’ intended expectations, to twist our steps. By His Spirit, let’s do that hockey term “a breakaway shot,” in our ministries. Let us be people, where others find His refuge + His ways! Let’s be yielded vessels, where ever-flowing streams of His pure Life breaks through, where there is nothing unspiritual left that will bring people to paths that they shouldn’t be on, and instead, everything, abides in Christ.

Proverbs 11:30 NKJV + Eph. 2:5 ASV “made us alive together with Christ,” Gal. 5:25 NIV [very spicy plate, careful] – I was at a church lunch, a very long time ago, and someone smelled the rice, realized that it wasn’t fresh. The person rejected the rice and they took it back, we got newly made rice. The point is, there is a significant blindness, in seeing that we aren’t meant to leave people separated/inaccessible from Christ. The Adversary and His Hosts, does pursue to set with significant determination, paths of lifeless steps, and leaving others unsaved. THERE IS A REASON WHY JESUS BROUGHT PEOPLE NEAR US. Ask Christ to Divinely intercede, into their lives, and also that we totally reject evil.

John 13:14-15 – there is power, when He purifies us, from His majesty and splendour, we felt that. He does set us firmly inwardly, so much so, that we later realize how significantly our intentions and wills, have changed. There needs to be a deep recognition of what is irreverent that isn’t devout to Him, and ask Him to cleanse us thoroughly, for His prepared service. WE YIELD TO HIS KINGSHIP!!!!!!!! MAY ALL HIS ETERNAL PLANS SUCCEED!

Eph. 4:12-13 <- seeing life with that perspective + knowledge, I found that has been beneficial characteristically, there is a Divine goodness there that has a Christlike form of refuge + protection. It also changes inner motivations. That God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit, uses us to actually build others up, so they can continue freshly in His livingness, that their spiritual lives don’t get stale. If from Him, there is this standing in awe, reverence to Christ.

Eph. 3:10-11 ASV – God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit does reveal to us, many times in our lives, that situations, where we observed as just as surface-level, actually contain the riches of Christ, that derives significant wisdom for carrying out His objectives, in bringing about a furtherance in Eph. 4:12-13

1 Cor. 12:27 ASV “ye are the body of Christ, and severally members thereof” – the spiritual reality that what we go through in circumstances, to be vigilant + alert, in His steadfastness + His courageous strength, whether both good or evil (Job 2:10), discerned by His Spirit is able to flawlessly possess a spiritually building up component, belonging to other members in the Body of Christ

Phil. 4:13 – there is a carrying strength with God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit, where our situations in life seem to be the numerator, and the things of the Spirit is the denominator. It is important to have a thoughtful conversation with Him about His guidance, with the mindfulness of recognizing + seeking earnestly of “how” this impacts our callings. You know that verse, what is impossible to man; we need to have the belief that God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit is able to bring about change. That’s to further clarify.

Heb. 12:10 – being open to the idea that God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit does correct us with selective scenarios that is advantageous both individually and corporately, in the Body of Christ. Request in prayer: moving us with compassion + devotional love + commitment for His Church. Let Christ be enthroned, everywhere, forever, by His Spirit.

John 14:20 ASV – “In that day ye shall know that I am in my Father, and ye in me, and I in you”

Heb. 13:21 ASV – “well-pleasing in his sight”

Luke 9:23 ASV – “come after me”

Heb. 12:10 ASV – “for our profit”

Eph. 4:16 ASV – “maketh the increase of the body unto the building up of itself in love”

1 Cor. 2:9 ASV – “Whatsoever things God prepared for them that love him”

Heb. 10:20 ASV – “he dedicated for us, a new and living way”

Eph. 6:12 KJV – for this point that I like to focus upon -> if you imagine wrestling, as a child, it’s a similar idea of combat, our minds does become a battlefield, where the struggle is real, the fight of unseen forces “seems” to have a dominating opposition, in our posture. BUT! The Lord of Hosts is very capable of dealing with that, keep asking Him to address many thoughts, trying to take hold of our thoughts, from dwelling on Him + more. In 2 Cor. 10:4-5, by His Spirit, we must not discount the spiritual warfare weapons like the Bible, prayer, fellowship, and other wonderful instruments to cut off what’s stopping us from delighting in Him. He does reign mightily successfully in seen + unseen + other military campaigns, against heavily fortified demonic structures. A change of mindset to the sacredness of Christ is a required continual ask because that relates to the Church.

1 Peter 2:5 ASV – the spiritual reality is there, when the Lord, uses us livingly that is discernible, to build up the Body of Christ, there is a genuineness of His presence that manifests Divine kindness. There is remaining, still yet, people that He desires to bring in, we need His practical insight and a big genuine heart like His, to tend sheep, for the House of the Lord.

Col. 2:19 ASV – “increaseth with the increase of God”

Eph. 1:17-18 ASV – “wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him”

Isaiah 40:31 ASV – “Jehovah shall renew their strength”

Heb. 6:1 ASV – “press on unto perfection”

Col. 1:18 ASV – “preeminence”

Romans 8:2 ASV – “the Spirit of life”

Zeph. 3:17 ASV – “Jehovah thy God is in the midst of thee”

2 Cor. 3:3 ASV – “not with ink, but with the Spirit”

John 17:23 ASV – “perfected into one”

Jer. 24:7 ASV – “give them a heart to know me”

Psalm 119:11 ASV – “in my heart”

Isaiah 26:12 ASV – “for thou hast also wrought all our works for us”

2 Peter 1:4 – a continual recognition that there is a “Divine nature,” working actively, interacting with His people + others

Gal. 4:19 ASV – “Christ be formed in you”

Hosea 14:4 ASV – “heal their backsliding”

Joel 2:13 ASV – More emphasis upon the inward than the outward

Zech. 12:10 ASV – “pour upon the house of David” “the spirit of grace and of supplication”

Luke 8:15 ASV – “bring forth fruit with patience”

John 14:21 ASV – “I will love him, and will manifest myself unto him.”

John 15:9 ASV – “abide ye in my love”

Gal. 2:20 ASV – “Christ liveth in me”

Eph. 5:14 ASV – “Awake, thou that sleepest” “Christ shall shine upon thee”

Eph. 5:9 ASV – “the fruit of the light”

Eph. 3:19 ASV – “be filled unto all the fulness of God”

1 Thess. 5:8 ASV – “faith and love”

Heb. 10:23 ASV – “hold fast the confession of our hope”

Heb. 2:10 ASV – “bringing many sons unto glory”

Heb. 10:24 ASV – “consider” “to provoke unto love and good works”

Romans 15:5 ASV – “same mind one with another according to Christ Jesus”

Romans 15:6 ASV – “one accord”

Col. 3:4 ASV – “Christ” “our life”

Psalm 34:11 ASV – “hearken unto me”

James 4:10 ASV – “Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord”

Heb. 13:5 ASV – “Be ye free from the love of money” “I will in no wise fail thee, neither will I in any wise forsake thee.”

Heb. 12:14 ASV – “the sanctification without which no man shall see the Lord”

Heb. 3:13 ASV – “exhort one another day by day”

2 Tim. 3:15 ASV – “the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise”

Heb. 10:22 ASV – “let us draw near with a true heart” “in fulness of faith”

Psalm 16:11 ASV – “Thou wilt show me the path of life”

Psalm 32:8 ASV – “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go”

Prov. 20:27 ASV – “The spirit of man is the lamp of Jehovah, Searching all his innermost parts.”

Joshua 1:8 ASV – “shall not depart out of thy mouth”

Job 23:10 ASV – “When he hath tried me” “I shall come forth”

Jer. 17:9-10 + Col. 1:10 + Gal. 5:25 NIV – imagine each of your shoes has a unique puzzle piece that steps into something fitting God’s eternal plan, we need to examine with Him, to ensure our hearts aren’t leading us, differently than His orientation of thinking.

Heb. 12:14 KJV – “Follow” “holiness”

1 Cor. 1:30 ASV – “Christ Jesus” “made unto us” “sanctification”

Psalm 73:1 ASV – “Surely God is good to Israel,” “Even to such as are pure in heart.”

Psalm 112:7 ASV – “His heart is fixed,” “trusting in Jehovah”

Psalm 119:112 ASV – “I have inclined my heart” “to perform thy statutes” “For ever, even unto the end.”

2 Cor. 3:18 ASV – “we all” “are transformed into the same image” “from the Lord the Spirit”

Isaiah 58:6 ASV – “Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?”

Prov. 8:10 ASV – “Receive my instruction, and not silver; And knowledge rather than choice gold.”

Psalm 119:18 ASV – we can ask the Lord to further uncover + open our eyes -> reveal (John 15:5)

Psalm 119:59 ASV – “I thought on my ways, And turned my feet unto thy testimonies.”

Acts 20:24 ASV – “that I may accomplish my course”

Psalm 25:5 ASV – “Guide me in thy truth, and teach me; For thou art the God of my salvation; For thee do I wait all the day.”

Romans 8:29 ASV – “be conformed to the image of his Son”

Psalm 119:50 ASV – “This is my comfort in my affliction; For thy word hath quickened me”

Matt. 7:7 + 1 Cor. 2:10 – There is the depths of God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit, we all need to, myself included: earnestly desire + long intensely + search + know intimately, the things of the Spirit deeply + His wisdom and direction. I believe there is more of the surpassing greatness of His might, there.

Acts 20:28 ASV “feed the church” – this is worth praying about, further Christlike exponential powers exists here (John 17:17). Pursue to fill completely, by His Spirit, there is going to be a resultant aliveness + wholeness. We have to keep in mind that the world system + the Adversary and His Hosts, attempts to bring under control the congregation’s way of thinking + obedience to God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit + the Bible. By His Spirit -> this needs watchful care -> to suppress unspiritual perceptions, build upon what has been set apart as holy, so people can be equipped to carry out fruitfulness. There is so much Divine enabling available here. 

Heb. 5:14 – it’s pretty noticeable the spiritual growth of so many people, from a higher intake of the Bible, etc. The spiritual faculties + capabilities that the Lord bestowed upon His people, are discernible, when used by His Spirit. I am delightfully frightened about how good many of you are getting, from His good work. You see how there is power in Spirit-led unity?

Luke 10:20, Romans 6:13 – I do ask the Lord about people, regarding their names being written in Heaven, and my role, in their lives. In Matt. 7:13-14, it is a good examination with Christ, about whether our steps with Him are accurately instrumental to others, shifting their footprints to the Spirit, to His voice, and not the siren songs of this world. I pray that by His Spirit, there can be the bending of unspiritual timelines against people, turning those events, instead to good; with us Spirit-led, applying all Spiritual teachings (Matt. 28:20 + John 15:4-5 + Col. 1:10,27 + 2 Cor. 3:18). I’ll end with Heb. 12:10 + Eph. 4:13

1 Peter 4:7, John 12:35-36 – prayer does further attune us to handling the truths of who Christ is, and what He is about. The overtaking of matters that use to forfeit our lives to other causes (watching soaps), no longer find truth in His will, for us (Luke 6:46)

Jer. 23:23-24 – we can’t fool God, there is the principle reality of the mindset for Heb. 4:12, let’s continually present areas of our lives, as sacrifices for His livingness to be a greater outflow to His people (Romans 12:1, Heb. 6:1). Us committing fully to His will is something that He can help us with because He has appointed times, that we ought to align with.    

Matt. 11:29 – If you are willing to, set aside your own will, for His, He will share with you, many things of the Spirit, that is upon His heart. The continuation of growing into Christlikeness features desires to let Him lead us (Romans 8:14). We need to ask the Holy Spirit to consume continually the old nature that deliberately displaces Him, from us properly stewarding to His good pleasure. Our orientation of thought must desire the considering and drawing near to His concerns because He does deliberate objectives.

John 6:63 – inward reflections with Christ to give insight about our ministries. <- The things of the Spirit desires eagerly to tweak us into further abundant livingness that He can easily use, you can ask Him that (Phil. 1:9,11), and also, about a daily oneness with His mindset, wherein when we proceed from Him, there will be the overwhelmingly conquering of “so many” “setbacks” that “appear,” in the way -> Gal. 2:20 KJV “Not I” “But Christ.” We need to pray further that others discover the spiritual fortunes of Christ + experience the wholeness of His Life. In addition, ask the Lord to eliminate demonic strongholds, so others can continue steadfastly, that there can be more transformative establishing of His steadfast love in people’s callings to build together, by His Spirit. 

1 Kings 18:21 – reordering of priorities, presenting to God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit to appoint, choose and cultivate our schedules upon how we serve Him. If something is from Him, and we are cooperative + grasp that, you’ll notice a fervent Christlike strength, like nothing is impossible, type of Christlike mindset. Our own “reality” of work, needs more prayer to join closer + establish firmly, His prevailing agenda. We -> need <- His God-breathed instructions, you’ll be able to witness too wonderful + powerful patterns of transformations. See, fully follow His guidance, as to what can be brought forth. Reflect deeply what He desires to bring in, seek diligently what He is revealing, turn toward His readiness mindset, know intimately the growing abundance of His power (1 Cor. 3:7), instead of us applying our own strength, in itself (Col. 1:10). You see many of those feats of His strength in the Bible? They can occur in our time, also, depending on what He desires (Zech. 4:6b). More interactions from staff with God’s people + others (Romans 8:4), it honestly shouldn’t ~just be mainly Sundays (same effort into Sunday, everyday). Parents interact with their kids, that type of love, you see Christ interacting with people in the Gospels -> not just mainly on Sundays. Staff can help people know the Lord more relationally, and instruct wisely what to do, with the sheep’s struggles. We need to have a Christlike unifying heart, that their inner disposition of small or great burdens and pains, are matters that ought not to be journeyed alone, in a church. If Spirit-led pursued in earnest, those are elements, if faithfully + persistently addressed, can further work effectively, the going forth, standing firm, and spiritually flourishing in people’s great commission, from the Lord. I’ll end with Eph. 4:22-24, 5:26, John 3:30.

1 Peter 4:10 – let people discover + recognize their inherited spiritual abilities, create outlets for this (2 Cor. 5:15). By His Spirit, they need to lean upon the saturation of the Spirit, to energize + exceed in His overflow. There is a lukewarmness here that must be overpowered + subdued, where, by His Spirit -> remove, what is hindering the usage of these spiritual abilities from further expressing Christ. There is spiritually succeeding strength here. 

Gen. 6:8-9 NASB 1995 – “found” “in the eyes of the Lord”

Gen. 8:20 NASB 1995 – “built” “to the Lord”

Gen. 12:7 NASB 1995 – “I will give”

Gen. 28:16 NASB 1995 – “the Lord is in this”

Ex. 2:25 NASB 1995 – “God took notice of them”

Ex. 4:12 NASB 1995 – “teach you what you are to say”

Numbers 24:17 NASB 1995 – “A scepter shall rise”

Deut. 6:4-5 NASB 1995 – “the Lord is one”

Josh. 6:2 NASB 1995 – “See” “I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and the valiant warriors.”

Judges 2:10 NASB 1995 – “did not know the Lord” “the work which He had done”

2 Sam. 9:7 NASB 1995 – “you shall eat at my table regularly”

1 Kings 11:4 NASB 1995 – “his heart was not wholly devoted to the Lord his God”

1 Chr. 29:12 NASB 1995 – “in Your hand to make great and to strengthen everyone”

2 Chr. 12:14 NASB 1995 – “He did evil because he did not set his heart to seek the Lord”

2 Chr. 15:2 NASB 1995 – “if you seek Him, He will let you find Him”

Ezra 4:4 NASB 1995 – “frightened them from building”

Ezra 6:14 NASB 1995 – “they finished building according to the command of the God”

Ezra 7:10 NASB 1995 – “Ezra had set his heart to study the law of the Lord and to practice it, and to teach His statutes and ordinances”

Ezra 9:8 NASB 1995 – “to give us a peg in His holy place”

Esther 5:2 NASB 1995 – “the king extended to Esther the golden scepter which was in his hand”

Esther 7:3 NASB 1995 – “let my life be given me”

Job 1:22 NASB 1995 – “nor did he blame God”

Job 28:28 NASB 1995 – “to depart from evil is understanding”

Psalm 24:3-4 NASB 1995 – “clean hands and a pure heart”

Psalm 46:1 NASB 1995 – “A very present help in trouble”

Psalm 103:1-2 NASB 1995 – “forget none of His benefits”

Prov. 17:3 NASB 1995 – “the Lord tests hearts”

Ecc. 3:11 NASB 1995 – “He has made everything appropriate in its time”

Ecc. 3:14 NASB 1995 – “I know that everything God does will remain forever”

Ecc. 5:1 NASB 1995 – “go to the house of God and draw near to listen”

Ecc. 7:8 NASB 1995 – “The end of a matter is better than its beginning”

Ecc. 12:13 NASB 1995 – “keep His commandments” “applies to every person”

Jer. 17:10 NASB 1995 – “I test the mind”

Lam. 1:18 NASB 1995 – “For I have rebelled against His command”

Lam. 2:19 NASB 1995 – “Pour out your heart like water before the presence of the Lord”

Eze. 37:5 NASB 1995 – “I will cause breath to enter you that you may come to life.”

Eze. 37:14 NASB 1995 – “I will put My Spirit within you and you will come to life”

Daniel 12:3 NASB 1995 – “Those who have insight will shine brightly like the brightness of the expanse of heaven.”

Hosea 10:12 NASB 1995 – “Break up your fallow ground”

Amos 5:14 NASB 1995 – “Seek good and not evil” “thus may the Lord God of hosts be with you”

Obadiah 1:21 NASB 1995 – “And the kingdom will be the Lord’s”

Jonah 2:6 NASB 1995 – “You have brought up my life”

Micah 4:2 NASB 1995 – “His ways” “His paths”

Hab. 2:1 NASB 1995 – “I will stand” “my guard post” “see what He will speak”

Hab. 3:2 NASB 1995 – “revive Your work in the midst of the years”

Zeph. 3:9 NASB 1995 – “call on the name of the Lord” “To serve Him shoulder to shoulder”

Zeph. 3:15 NASB 1995 – “You will fear disaster no more”

Mal. 3:1 NASB 1995 – “the Lord, whom you seek, will suddenly come to His temple”

Mal. 3:2-3 NASB 1995 – “He is like” “a refiner’s fire” “like fullers’ soap”

Matt. 7:24 NASB 1995 – “acts on them”

Mark 14:36 NASB 1995 – “what” “You” “will”

Mark 16:6 NASB 1995 – “He is not here”

Luke 24:32 NASB 1995 – “He was explaining the Scriptures”

John 10:10 NASB 1995 – “have it abundantly”

John 20:31 NASB 1995 – “have life” “in His name”

Acts 1:8 NASB 1995 – “be My witnesses”

Acts 3:19 NASB 1995 – “repent and return”

Romans 5:8 NASB 1995 – “God demonstrates His own love toward us”

Romans 7:18 NASB 1995 – “nothing good dwells in me, that is, in my flesh”

Romans 8:6 NASB 1995 – “the mind set on the Spirit”

1 Cor. 1:30 NASB 1995 – “by His doing”

2 Cor. 3:16-18 NASB 1995 – “whenever a person turns to the Lord, the veil is taken away” “from glory to glory”

Eph. 4:13 NASB 1995 – “until” “we all” “attain”

Eph. 4:22-24 NASB 1995 – “you lay aside the old self”

Col. 1:28 NASB 1995 – “We proclaim Him”

Col. 3:1-3 NASB 1995 – “keep seeking the things above, where Christ is”

1 Thess. 2:13 NASB 1995 – “it really is, the word of God”

2 Thess. 1:3 NASB 1995 – “the love of each one of you toward one another grows ever greater”

2 Thess. 3:3 NASB 1995 – “He will strengthen and protect you”

2 Thess. 3:5 NASB 1995 – “into the steadfastness of Christ”

1 Tim. 3:15 NASB 1995 – “support” “the truth”

1 Tim. 6:15-16 NASB 1995 – “possesses immortality”

2 Tim. 1:6-7 NASB 1995 – “kindle afresh the gift of God”

Titus 3:8 NASB 1995 – “will be careful to engage in good deeds”

Philemon 1:6 NASB 1995 – “the fellowship of your faith” “become effective”

Philemon 1:9 NASB 1995 – “for love’s sake I rather appeal to you”

Philemon 1:20 NASB 1995 – “refresh my heart in Christ”

James 1:22 NASB 1995 – “prove yourselves doers of the word”

1 Peter 1:15-16 NASB 1995 – “be holy yourselves also in all your behavior”

2 Peter 1:5-7 NASB 1995 – “applying all diligence”

1 John 3:14 NASB 1995 – “because we love”

2 John 1:4 NASB 1995 – “in truth”

2 John 1:8 NASB 1995 – “do not lose what we have accomplished”

3 John 1:5-6 NASB 1995 – “you are acting faithfully in whatever you accomplish”

3 John 1:11 NASB 1995 – “do not imitate what is evil, but what is good”

Jude 1:3 NASB 1995 – “once for all handed down to the saints”

Rev. 19:13 NASB 1995 – “His name is called The Word of God”

Exodus 15:13 NKJV – “You in Your mercy have led forth”

Exodus 19:4 NKJV – “brought you to Myself”

Exodus 19:6 NKJV – “you shall be to Me a kingdom of priests”

Exodus 24:7 NKJV – “All that the Lord has said we will do, and be obedient.”

Lev. 10:3 NKJV – “I must be regarded as holy”

Lev. 23:3 NKJV – “a holy convocation”

Josh. 6:20 NKJV – “the wall fell down flat”

Joshua 24:14 NKJV – “serve Him in sincerity and in truth”

1 Samuel 2:30 NKJV – “those who honor Me I will honor”

1 Samuel 10:6 NKJV – “and be turned into another man”

2 Samuel 7:9 NKJV – “I have been with you wherever you have gone”

2 Samuel 23:5 NKJV – “Ordered in all things and secure”

1 Kings 6:13 NKJV – “will not forsake My people”

1 Kings 8:61 NKJV – “Let your heart therefore be loyal to the Lord our God”

1 Kings 9:3 NKJV – “I have heard your prayer” “I have consecrated this house” “My eyes and My heart will be there perpetually”

1 Kings 18:39 NKJV – “the Lord, He is God! The Lord, He is God!”

2 Kings 23:3 NKJV – “the king stood by a pillar and made a covenant before the Lord, to follow the Lord and to keep His commandments and His testimonies and His statutes, with all his heart and all his soul, to perform the words of this covenant that were written in this book. And all the people took a stand for the covenant”

1 Chr. 13:3 NKJV – “let us bring” “God back to us”

1 Chr. 28:9 NKJV – “understands all the intent of the thoughts”

1 Chr. 29:18 NKJV – “fix their heart toward You”

2 Chr 20:12 NKJV – “For we have no power against this great multitude that is coming against us; nor do we know what to do, but our eyes are upon You”

Ezra 1:5 NKJV – “with all whose spirits God had moved, arose”

Ezra 3:12 NKJV – “many shouted aloud for joy”

Ezra 5:5 NKJV – “But the eye of their God was upon”

Ezra 7:10 NKJV – “Ezra had prepared his heart to seek”

Ezra 8:21 NKJV – “that we might” “humble ourselves before our God”

Ezra 9:8 NKJV – “that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a measure of revival in our bondage”

Ezra 9:9 NKJV – “our God did not forsake us in our bondage”

Ezra 10:4 NKJV – “Arise, for this matter is your responsibility”

Job 2:10 NKJV – “shall we not accept adversity?”

Job 40:4 NKJV – “What shall I answer You?”

Psalm 8:4 NKJV – “You are mindful of him”

Psalm 32:8 NKJV – “I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go”

Psalm 51:10 NKJV – “renew a steadfast spirit within me”

Psalm 86:11 NKJV – “Unite my heart to fear Your name”

Ecc. 3:1 NKJV – “A time for every purpose under heaven”

Ecc. 7:14 NKJV – “in the day of adversity consider”

Song of Solomon 8:6 NKJV – “love is as strong as death”

Isaiah 45:22 NKJV – “Look to Me”

Isaiah 55:8 NKJV – “Nor are your ways My ways”

Jer. 17:7-8 NKJV – “its leaf will be green”

Jer. 18:6 NKJV – “so are you in My hand”

Jer. 29:11 NKJV – “the thoughts” “thoughts”

Jer. 31:3 NKJV – “I have drawn you”

Lam. 1:12 NKJV – “Is it nothing to you”

Lam. 5:19 NKJV – “Your throne from generation to generation”

Eze. 2:2 NKJV – “set me on my feet”

Eze. 18:31 NKJV – “get yourselves a new heart and a new spirit”

Eze. 37:5 NKJV – “I will cause breath to enter into you”

Daniel 1:9 NKJV – “God had brought Daniel into”

Daniel 9:24 NKJV – “To make an end of sins”

Hosea 6:3 NKJV – “Let us pursue the knowledge of the Lord”

Hosea 11:4 NKJV – “I drew them” “With bands of love”

Hosea 14:4 NKJV – “freely”

Joel 2:18 NKJV – “the Lord will be zealous for His land”

Joel 3:16 NKJV – “the Lord will be a shelter”

Amos 3:3 NKJV – “Can two walk together, unless they are agreed?”

Micah 3:8 NKJV – “I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord”

Micah 4:2 NKJV – “He will teach us His ways”

Hab. 1:5 NKJV – “I will work a work in your days” “Which you would not believe”

Zeph. 3:9 NKJV – “To serve Him with one accord”

Hag. 2:19 NKJV – “from this day I will bless you”

Zech. 4:10 NKJV – “the eyes of the Lord”

Matt. 6:21 NKJV – “your treasure is”?

Mark 4:24 NKJV – “Take heed what you hear”

Mark 6:31 NKJV – “Come aside”

John 1:1 NKJV – “the Word was God”

John 3:30 NKJV – “I must decrease”

John 15:5 NKJV – “without Me you can do nothing”

John 15:13 NKJV – “Greater love has no one than this, than to lay down one’s life for his friends”

John 20:29 NKJV – “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed”

Acts 2:17 NKJV – “My Spirit”

Acts 9:3 NKJV – “suddenly a light shone” “from heaven”

Romans 8:18 NKJV – “this present time”

1 Cor. 9:24 NKJV – “Run” “in such a way”

Gal. 1:4 NKJV – “this present evil age”

Eph. 2:22 NKJV – “being” “built together”

Phil. 3:3 NKJV – “have no confidence in the flesh”

Phil. 3:8 NKJV – “gain Christ”

Phil. 3:21 NKJV – “conformed to His”

1 Thess. 1:9 NKJV – “you turned to God from idols”

2 Thess. 1:3 NKJV – “faith grows exceedingly”

1 Tim. 4:12 NKJV – “be an example to the believers”

1 Tim. 5:21 NKJV – “that you observe these things without prejudice, doing nothing with partiality”

2 Tim. 1:6 NKJV – “stir up the gift of God which is in you”

Titus 1:1 NKJV – “the acknowledgment of the truth” “accords with godliness”

Titus 1:9 NKJV – “able, by sound doctrine”

Titus 2:12 NKJV – “denying ungodliness”

Titus 2:14 NKJV – “purify for Himself His own special people, zealous for good works”

Philemon 1:7 NKJV – “hearts of the saints have been refreshed by you”

James 5:16 NKJV – “The effective, fervent prayer of a righteous man avails much”

2 Peter 1:8 NKJV – “you will be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord”

1 John 1:1 NKJV – “That which was from the beginning”

2 John 1:12 NKJV – “that our joy may be full”

Jude 1:3 NKJV – “contend earnestly for the faith”

Rev. 2:26 NKJV – “keeps My works until the end”

1 Tim. 6:6 CSB + Matthew 6:24 – “as a light that shines in a dark place” – 2 Peter 1:19 CSB. I’ll end with 2 Peter 3:18 CSB and 1 John 3:8 CSB

Romans 6:14, 8:6 CSB – the outworking of those verses is real and something that we can see (John 3:30).

Acts 6:4 NKJV – an important verse, the choices of words; Gal. 2:20 -> “not I” “but Christ.”

Micah 7:8 + Phil. 3:10 – God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit helps us bounce back (Romans 8:26)

Eph 1:17 + Daniel 9:18 CSB – remember that our spiritual eyes, may not “see” that God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit -> abundantly compassionate toward us, all along.

Job 2:10, 13:15 CSB – an important reminder -> 2 Cor. 4:16 KJV

Eph. 6:12, Romans 8:13, John 3:30, Gal. 5:22-23 – there are matters that when we ask the Lord to help us change, that in turn, brings about a more Christlike complexion that includes the Fruit of the Spirit.

Col. 1:28-29 – this is good for the spiritual health of congregations

2 Cor. 3:5 + John 6:63 – these are repeated warnings (Zech. 4:6b)

Phil 1:21 – ‘oh wow, THERE IS actually His LIFE here!’

1 Cor. 12:27 – we need to keep His people in mind, as well as, others.

Phil. 3:20 KJV – I was doing reflections yesterday + today with the Lord about something. I want you to close your eyes, picture touching each word, for 3+ seconds each -> “the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.” -John 6:63b. The Bible talks about how God’s Word can be a form of food, and I just demonstrated to you, that we need to slowly process, His Words. I know that the world system has taught us to read fast but that can be an area that hinders us. We are all learning to read the Bible in unique ways, that is something that He taught me. It’s a better way of making food with Him, for others. Dwelling on the verses with Him like that. I’ll end with, “He that believeth shall not make haste.” -Isaiah 28:16 (KJV)

Proverbs 14:27 ESV – our lives are so much better off with more of His Life, it’s like using a correct fitted pair of shoes. Let’s keep asking God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit to change us, into the beautiful Christ.

Exodus 4:31 – it really is kind of the Lord to help us in our afflictions. Exceedingly loving of God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit

Exodus 16:4 – Us practicing God’s Word can be His way of testing us

Rev. 20:12 CSB – “and books were opened”

3 John 1:8 CSB – “we ought to support such people so that we can be coworkers with the truth”

3 John 1:5 CSB – “you are acting faithfully in whatever you do for the brothers and sisters, especially when they are strangers”

3 John 1:2 CSB – “in good health”

1 John 2:15 CSB – “Do not love the world”

2 Peter 1:16 CSB – “we were eyewitnesses of his majesty”

2 Peter 1:8 CSB – “if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being useless or unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ”

2 Peter 1:4 CSB – “he has given us very great and precious promises, so that through them you may share in the divine nature, escaping the corruption that is in the world because of evil desire”

Heb. 13:20-21 CSB – “the great Shepherd of the sheep”

Heb. 12:10 CSB – “he does it for our benefit”

Heb. 1:3 CSB – “by his powerful word”

2 Tim. 1:13-14 CSB – “Hold on to the pattern of sound teaching” “through the Holy Spirit who lives in us”

2 Tim. 1:8 CSB – “relying on the power of God”

1 Tim. 4:16 CSB – “Pay close attention to your life and your teaching; persevere in these things, for in doing this you will save both yourself and your hearers.”

1 Tim. 4:12 CSB – “set an example”

1 Tim. 4:7-8 CSB – “godliness is beneficial in every way”

1 Tim. 1:16 CSB – “Christ Jesus might demonstrate”

2 Thess. 1:3 CSB – “your faith is flourishing and the love each one of you has for one another is increasing”

1 Thess. 5:19 CSB – “Don’t stifle the Spirit.”

1 Thess. 4:7 CSB – “God has not called us to impurity but to live in holiness”

1 Thess. 2:8 CSB – “we were pleased to share with you not only the gospel of God but also our own lives, because you had become dear to us”

1 Thess. 2:4 CSB – “so we speak, not to please people, but rather God,” “who examines our hearts”

Col. 2:12 CSB – “in the working of God”

Phil. 1:20 CSB – “Christ will be highly honored in my body”

Eph. 6:10 CSB – “by his vast strength”

Eph. 2:14 CSB – “he is our peace”

1 Cor. 14:1 CSB – “Pursue love”

1 Cor. 2:10 CSB – “God has revealed these things to us by the Spirit”

Acts 4:13 CSB – “they were amazed and recognized that they had been with Jesus.”

Acts 1:11 CSB – “This same Jesus” “will come in the same way”

John 6:63 CSB – “The Spirit is the one who gives life.”

Gen. 17:1 CSB – “I am God Almighty. Live in my presence and be blameless.”

Gen. 50:20 CSB – “God planned it for good”

Ex. 13:21 CSB – “The Lord went ahead of them”

Ex. 16:4 CSB – “I am going to”

Lev. 3:16 CSB – “belongs to the Lord”

Lev. 9:24 CSB – “Fire came from the Lord”

Lev. 10:3 CSB – “I will demonstrate”

Lev. 26:11-12 CSB – “I will place my residence among you”

Num. 16:28 CSB – “the Lord sent me to do all these things and that it was not of my own will”

Num. 32:23 CSB – “But if you don’t do this, you will certainly sin against the Lord; be sure your sin will catch up with you.”

Num. 35:34 CSB – “I, the Lord, reside among”

Deut. 5:29 CSB – “If only they had such a heart”

Joshua 7:13 CSB – “You will not be able to stand against your enemies until you remove what is set apart.”

Joshua 14:8 CSB – “but I followed the Lord my God completely”

Joshua 22:5 CSB – “Only carefully obey”

1 Kings 3:9 CSB – “give your servant a receptive heart”

1 Kings 22:14 CSB – “I will say whatever the Lord says to me”

2 Kings 6:16 CSB – “those who are with us outnumber those”

2 Chr. 12:14 CSB – “he did not determine in his heart to seek the Lord.”

2 Chr. 17:6 CSB – “He took great pride in the Lord’s ways”

2 Chr. 31:21 CSB – “He was diligent in every deed that he began in the service of God’s temple, in the instruction and the commands, in order to seek his God”

Ezra 6:14 CSB – “according to the command of the God”

Ezra 6:22 CSB – “the Lord had made them joyful”

Ezra 9:5 CSB – “spread out my hands to the Lord my God”

Neh. 1:11 CSB – “Give your servant success today”

Neh. 4:6 CSB – “for the people had the will to keep working”

Esther 9:1 CSB – “just the opposite happened”

Job 9:4 CSB – “God is wise and all-powerful”

Job 16:19 CSB – “Even now my witness is in heaven, and my advocate is in the heights!”

Job 23:10 CSB – “I will emerge as pure”

Job 32:8 CSB – “the breath from the Almighty— that gives anyone understanding”

Job 38:4 CSB – “Where were you”

Psalm 16:8 CSB – “I always let the Lord guide me”

Psalm 19:7 CSB – “The instruction of the Lord is perfect, renewing one’s life”

Psalm 46:10 CSB – “Stop fighting, and know that I am God”

Psalm 86:11 CSB – “Give me an undivided mind”

Psalm 133:1 CSB – “How delightfully good”

Prov. 21:2 CSB – “the Lord weighs hearts”

Isaiah 26:3 CSB – “You will keep the mind that is dependent on you”

Jer. 1:9 CSB – “I have now filled your mouth with my words”

Jer. 10:23 CSB – “I know, Lord, that a person’s way of life is not his own; no one who walks determines his own steps.”

Jer. 17:7-8 CSB – “whose confidence indeed is the Lord, is blessed”

Jer. 17:10 CSB – “I, the Lord, examine the mind”

Eze. 18:4 CSB – “every life belongs to me”

Eze. 22:30 CSB – “I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it”

Eze. 48:35 CSB – “The Lord Is There.”

Jonah 3:10 CSB – “God saw their actions”

Micah 2:13 CSB – “the Lord as their leader”

Micah 5:4 CSB – “in the strength of the Lord”

Hag. 1:7 CSB – “The Lord of Armies says this: “Think carefully about your ways.””

Numbers 16:9, Deut. 30:20, Gal. 1:15-16, Heb. 9:14, Eph. 3:21, Gen. 50:20, Psalm 40:8 – my mother told me stories about how my desire for food had produced a large excrescence upon my stomach, causing her to give me larger clothes, beyond my months, as an infant. One day, she thought it was fitting to buy meretricious clothes with a tiger on it, to reflect the lunar year that I was born, it was a dirigible task but to my dad, the sequela of road rage, made the situation a bit more difficult. She finally bought the clothes, untrammelled; her enamoured bailiwick of seeing me in infant clothes was a requisite to that good day. In our life with the Lord, it is good to examine what He is working toward, ingredients of Christlike changes in your life to make larger provisions for His Church, all the people we will most likely never realize generations down. With 2 Cor. 6:1 + Psalm 33:11 NIV, did majority of the characters in the Bible, see the eternal impacts of God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit working, in their times, to our time? What God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit separates in our lives, and can be legitimized for the otherwise long-term divisional powers that those fleshly habits can have upon members in the Body of Christ, if they weren’t addressed. As some of you have experienced, the more cooperative we are with spiritual growth, we want to please + serve Him, more with a growingly holier mindset (Psalm 19:14 + Eph. 3:16). I’ll end with 2 Cor. 6:1.

Isaiah 6:8 + Jer. 20:9 + Eph. 4:3-4 – for ministry, you have to be willing to take matters for the team, for the sake of Christ, for the sake of His people, with present + future generations in mind. I’ll end with Heb. 13:13

Psalm 84:10 – tell me that recognizing Christ isn’t better than what people like nowadays, going on the ferry?

Numbers 17:8 – it’s really incomprehensible, the science behind God’s science. I had to do a group project, where we had to identify trees and plants + other vegetations, using books, during a field trip. Knowing that the brilliance of God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit is there, and the massive residual impacts of His Life in any anointed ministry, from Him, is actually a really nice thought. Places you may not expect His Life to happen, can. I’ll end with Joshua 1:9

Lev 6:13 – 1 Thess. 5:19 seems to fit. ARE YOU ALL GETTING HOT FOR GOD/JESUS/THE HOLY SPIRIT, BY HIS SPIRIT, LETS GET OTHERS HOT TOO, CARRYING OUT HIS WILL.

Gen. 17:1 – when you least expect, you still ought to be vigilant, for a revelation.

Col. 1:28 NKJV + 2 Cor. 3:6, Phil. 1:6, Jude 1:20-21 – the Bible has a lot of warnings, it’s a good practice, to tell people that stuff is bad for them, example: unspiritual, unholy, evil, darkness and other things that are identified in scriptures. People just don’t realize how intoxicated they are with sin(s), that when you try and take that away from them, they can at times, go crazier (Eph. 5:18).

Deut. 10:16b – there is a danger of being set in our own ways, and so focused in our own endeavours, that our own intuitions become a form of consuming deception, to the way we perceive how things ought to be, with just our own lens. I’ll end with Eph. 4:22-24

2 Thess. 2:14 – this might come as a surprise to you but people for my jobs, use to give me compliments, regarding my work, I gave thanks to God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit, inquired about it, with Him. I remember asking my Christian friend, once, what I should do with that, I don’t know how to respond. I just didn’t feel right about that, is it really me? You know?

1 Peter 1:15 – ask the Lord everyday, to decrease as many evil practices in all of our daily lives, even ones that could potentially occur in the future. Also, pray for present + future generations, with the same premise.

Col. 4:12 – there are many of our brothers and sisters using this website, even places you are familiar with from stickers on fruits and vegetables. I ask that you labour fervently in prayer for them, I am so excited how the Lord is using them for present + future generations.

Eph. 1:17 – What has God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit shown you? I encourage using that notepad feature in your smart device, if something pops up randomly, jot it down, ask Him about it, what He can do with that, to help or change you, to Christ-glorified. I understand that using your spiritual sight, can be both fascinating to see Him, yet they feel very vigilant, so-so, or sleepy. What I find interesting, it is like an unending optimistic phase, calling it an enlightenment period but anyways, I could be someplace, saying “Jesus peace” + dwell on the thought of Christ, and be completely satisfied with Him. These are strengthening features of His, for Eph. 1:18, and more. I’ll end with Psalm 17:15

Eph. 3:19, Phil. 2:5, Eph. 4:15, Phil. 3:20, Gen. 15:1, Exodus 25:8, Numbers 14:21, Deut. 4:29 – being mindful of His Love, which does help others grow, when we speak is a conversation worth holding. If Christ can even speak a few words to them, from using you, that does leave profound effects in the circumstance (John 6:63 + Heb. 13:8). People can be indirectly seeking God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit, by talking to us believers, will you let Christ direct your tongue?

Eph. 1:22, John 15:4, Psalm 24:3-4, Isaiah 33:6, Jer. 32:39 – continually yielding in union with Him, letting Him Head any church is a stabilizing fruitful outcome, it’s “for the good of them.” I’ll end with Hag. 2:9, in a Christ-lenser.

Gen. 22:14 + Samuel 16:7 + Isaiah 26:12 + Jer. 9:23-24 + Ezekiel 36:27 + Phil. 1:21 + Gal. 2:20 “but Christ” + Eph. 1:10 + Heb. 3:14 + Col. 1:27 – there is something about growing in steadfastness and holding on to Christ, when outward situations seem to be at high-tide, where we experience His riches, from events that were almost too “perfect” + conducive that we discover more of who He is. A mystery of knowledge that God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit appointed to be obtained, by a provision from a Divine nature. I’ll end with “perfecter of faith” -Heb. 12:2 KJV.

Deut. 32:10b KJV – God has a fruitful perspective, what was the outcome of your wilderness experience with Him (John 15:1-2)?

Exodus 25:9 – my cousin spent a long time building a lego spacecraft, and it looked beautiful; that day, I unfortunately chose not to properly place his baseball bat back and dropped the wooden implement beside it, instead. On another occasion, I saved a document on his dad’s computer with a file word that was irregular to them and my cousin got grounded. I didn’t think it was that bad enough to discipline him but to their accustomed culture, they didn’t like it. The point of this story: it is possible to be spiritually childish, and so God has to weaken out many of our self-assertive strengths because it isn’t the fullness of His mind for us to stay that way, God didn’t make the earth half-way then decide to leave that undeveloped. In Numbers 23:23 NIV, look at the last sentence, as a reflection of your spiritual history with the Lord. Let’s “see,” what God has done to the way He answers your prayers through specific-appointed situations. What you will find is that the Holy Spirit does prompt us to pray for things of the Spirit also, the teaching of how we ought to pray that aligns with His objectives, at times, when we were unaware. We pray for things that we think it came up by ourselves, to later find that there’s a lot of fluidity and “coincidences” to how well those events animated more of who He is in our ministries (Eph. 3:20).

Heb. 1:3, John 5:19, Gal. 2:20 “not I” “but Christ,” John 6:63 – I want to travel to Sweden one day, it’s very bright there, a nice rustic autumn atmosphere, holding the tassels of shopping bags, exploring castles, just falling in love with the way God ignites the horizon with beautiful dreamy colours. Spiritual warfare in our Christian life can be tough but I want us to see the resolution of God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit. God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit knows how to battle, knows how to win, understands matters so well -> can even use Satan’s own purposes, as provisions somehow for something good. The ministries that we engage in, if we continue to let the Holy Spirit do the work in our lives so that Christ can be more and more steadfastly expressed, will be similar to the liveliness of my dreamlike vacation to Sweden, that’s how I can describe it. I’m doing my best to let Christ express Himself in my life to you, and you are hopefully having a good time with Him (Col. 1:27)! Many times in our lives, we don’t pursue hearing Christ rudder the speaking instructions upon our ministries, and we can be unaware that we are the ones inhibiting what He wants. I’ll give you an example, so a pretty good role-model church located closer to Sweden than to Canada, they postponed moving forward with an agenda for around several months because they didn’t have the Lord’s leading on the matter. The point of that is to illustrate the quotes in Gal. 2:20, we have to be willing to undo this idea of “I” with the Holy Spirit and apply Heb. 4:16. The way the offering money is used, requires significant further time-spent with the Lord, I understand that some initiatives sound good and all but we have to make sure that these matters are directives from the Lord (Acts 13:22).

Heb. 12:2 ESV – the more we select the things of the Spirit, in step with His leadings, we realize how much of His life there is to give. A reminder in Acts 20:28 that an incredibly MAJOR price was paid and ministries to build-up His Church ought to be taken with equal gravity + more (Eph. 3:21).

Psalm 90:1, Luke 24:45, 1 Cor. 1:23, Romans 8:6, Zech. 4:6b – one of many things to look at is the furtherance of the enlightening illumination upon our eyes (Eph. 1:17-18). The life-giving spiritual factor that has this freshness, newness, livingness and more to that, upon generations, with us yielding down for His use to carry out His plans for us. I understand that eating spiritual food can be fun, I have seen how it can be a movement of going to conferences, feeling refreshed, and it is a quality of life that can be misframed in the lens of us individually, rather than generationally-corporate. So what I mean by that -> there is an emphasis that needs to be placed upon the ratio of spiritual food consumed to ministry application (John 6:26). *Kindly pats God’s sheep and perms their wooly floof* We have to make sure that it isn’t for self-satisfaction, in itself. I’ll end with Col. 1:28.

2 Cor. 4:16, Heb. 2:10, Eph. 2:21 – the Lord does make decisions that fit very well with the long-term perspective of the changes in our lives and for His Church, despite the painful adjustments made, there corresponds a truly renewing inward vitality of Christ, that gushes with a nature that is all-together Divine.

Heb. 3:6, Luke 2:49 KJV, Daniel 4:26b, – the beautiful mindfulness of our God that helps us enjoy a life with His Son to an increasingly larger intensity in fellowship is a hallmark of a Heavenly operation that is in pursuit that “Christ is all, and is in all” -Col. 3:11b NIV.

John 15:1-2, 3:30 – I asked if one of the neighbourhood friend of mine could come out and play, when I was a child. His mother answered the door, they had a power out, the way she laughed hilariously, without any triggers to my interaction with her is still incredibly eerie. Like if I am told why, okay but just randomly for a long period, I don’t know. Anyways, my mother use to tell me that, when I was a baby, I would smile at her, a lot. In our life with the Lord, this out-of-nowhere blissfulness of His life happens. In Gal. 5:22-23, we will be surprised regarding the Christlike patience, joy, peace and more that has this living spontaneity to it. A True Life that is genuinely real.

1 Cor. 1:9 – I use to have a neighbour that would setup a table in front of his garage with like popcorn packets and other items to hand out. In elementary school, we toured a classroom that looked very spooky. A classmate of mine was known for having the best lunches because his father did really well in his career, he would show me the snacks that he got, by opening them up because he had a lot of new stuff, that we weren’t familiar with. We are hopefully seeing, in our time with the Lord, how much of our lives He wants to spend with us, the goodness that He provides, an inward growing objective familiarity of Himself, that He does care about you and I. That Satan’s wrong about God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit.

Eph. 1:17 – I spoke to someone a very long time ago that liked to cutesy tilt her head, almost every sentence, and then it burnt out my attention span so badly, that I couldn’t focus properly, for a while. I personally have been to a medicinal spring area before, I got the impression that some people felt that it could heal them of something. Later on, we passed by a tangly leafy tea field, which seems to have these local anecdotes about healing properties, seeing packages of Monet landscapes upon tea products. The spiritual counterpart: we are seeing the healing effects of asking the Lord to help us with unspiritual areas and how really liberating our Christian life is becoming, there is more of a shining countenance upon some of our faces.

Heb. 6:11-12, Luke 18:1, Matt. 4:10 – A friend of mine in high school had a lessened punishment for expressing his thoughts because he told the vice-principal that the school policy operates under the Charter of Rights and Freedom. In our fellowship with the Lord’s people, there is a lot of value, when we can identify our situations with scriptures; Demonic Forces do imply a lot of dark influences upon our mindsets but the true Words of God can be very illuminating, when done by His Spirit.

Eph. 4:20, Phil. 1:27 – with prayer, we need to keep forfeiting out unyielded areas to furthering yielding to His Lordship; otherwise, our flesh will keep trying to increase our selfhood and decrease what Christ is trying to accomplish for us individually -> corporate, for His Church. I’ll end with Eph. 3:17 + Col. 3:2.

Isaiah 9:16 + Col. 1:10 – if you know something is wrong, if you are aware of decisions that aren’t healthy, if you are noticing that misguidance will lead others astray; we all cannot sit idly by in our ministries. God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit + the Bible takes precedence.

Eph. 1:11 – the Lord has a zeal to accomplish what He is after (Phil. 4:19; 2 Cor. 2:14, Col. 2:15)

Isaiah 8:18 + Eph. 2:10 – I like the concept of how we can represent His Life that symbolizes God’s work in our Christlike lives

Matt. 3:8 + Phil. 3:3 – praying with the Holy Spirit for help in changing us, more inward shattering of what doesn’t belong in our Christian lives that isn’t healthy for our Testimony of Christ, transitioning out of the confidence in the flesh (John 3:30)

Romans 12:2, Eph. 4:12-13 – certain God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit appointed events in our lives hurts but are necessary for refining a better Christlike ministry, realizations that can lead toward a holier construct (Col. 3:11).

Isaiah 5:20 – a caution. Spirit-led speaking of how things are + leading to Christlikeness, according to the Word is important (2 Tim. 3:16).

Matt. 6:33a + John 3:30 – God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit using us as we increasingly yield to His will to secure more outward/inward grounds for His Kingdom, from appropriating the proper stewardship of the resources that He has provided (time, using the spiritual abilities, etc)

Job 38:12-13 KJV – there are so many hidden commands of God, if we were aware of them, and if God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit showed us the behind the scenes like at the beginning of Job. What would become of our faith?

Isaiah 3:9 NIV – the duration of a parade attached with sin is just a very costly time. I’ve seen much from my friends -> when they lower the priority, from asking the Lord to change that unspiritual route that they were on was incredibly detrimental to their relationship with the Lord (this is an important + necessary forward cautionary guidance that can avert a lot of time-wasted, 2 Tim. 3:16). I spent time praying with someone, over the course of sometime, to change areas in her life, and her relationship with the Lord is stronger because Christ responded to her requests (Matt 3:8).

Isaiah 2:6-11 + Heb. 4:12 + John 8:12 – when I was part of a Christian club in university, we were talking about Judas, and a lady indicated that it was sad for someone to have followed the Lord for so long, then end with that type of betrayal. These types of Judas expressions can be unseen idols, there is something about meeting Christ that exposed to Judas, what he actually did. So it is with us.

Isaiah 1:25 + John 3:30 – as we have been experiencing, having a willing obedience to God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit is good, it’s the proper + right ecosystem for us. We have tried living apart from Him with the way we think + spend our time, and it turned out to be ineffective. He does have a syllabus to decrease our selfhood to an ongoing more of Christ, as the proper centrepiece in our lives. God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit can accomplish more that way, it’s more Christlike pleasing in the compatibility of His will, the fellowship people have with Christ becomes less shallow. The transformative powers of Him does show, that there is something “of God, and not of us.” – 2 Cor. 4:7b KJV

Luke 1:46-47 ESV – “My soul magnifies the Lord” “my spirit rejoices in God my Savior” <- look at the way those words are arranged, the attachments, the causes, the outworking, the pattern, the beauty of it all.

Mark 16:15 ESV – “Go into all the world”

Mark 15:39 ESV “Truly this man was the Son of God!” – a good use of an exclamation mark. Critical compelling scenes in our lives that summarizes that conclusion. Can you unsee some things in your life, from Christ? I can’t.

Mark 5:19 ESV – I found that talking to a lot of people about Christ, one of many things that they are interested in, and seem to have an ear to, are events that you saw how real Christ was/is/is to come. I talked to a bunch of atheists also, like their usual debate posture changes, and they go quiet + listen.

Matt. 13:46 ESV – “on finding” “one pearl” “of great value”

Matt. 3:16-17 ESV “the Spirit of God descending” – the endless script of an amazing main character in our lives

Mal. 4:6 ESV – “he will turn the hearts“

Mal 2:10 – I wanted to ask my housemate, one day, how much her dad (the landlord), charged her for rent per month, when I was in university. When you read verses, if a story comes up, jot that down. I have so many stories, I jot down.

Mal. 3:6 – familiar Biblical narratives + ideas, encounters us, don’t they (Heb. 13:8)?

Zech. 10:12 ESV – “I will make them strong in the Lord“

Zeph. 3:9 ESV – “I will change the speech of the peoples“

Zeph. 3:8 ESV – “wait for me” “declares the Lord”

Micah 7:9 ESV – “He will bring me out” “to the light”

Micah 2:7 ESV – “Do not my words do good to him who walks uprightly”

Micah 1:3 ESV – “behold,” “the Lord is coming out of his place”

Jonah 3:5 ESV – “the people of Nineveh believed God“

Jonah 4:6 ESV “the Lord God appointed a plant” – He likes plants (John 15:1)

Jonah 2:7 ESV – when we pray for things, keep in mind that, those things might or might not show up in ways, that we didn’t imagine at all, the variance of powers, used by His Spirit can be seen throughout the Bible. Each display of His might, compounded, continually mirrors the elasticity of how awesome is the Lord of Hosts. The Feeding of the 5000 story is an amazing miracle that, the longer you dwell upon, the more unthinkable and possible the kaleidoscope of His exceeding greatness is almost trying to hide (Habakkuk 3:4 NIV). I can’t imagine what the maximal full-throttle brilliance of His unhidden power looks like (1 Corinthians 1:25).

Jonah 2:4 ESV – there is something stunning about this, how there is a renewed sense of seeing, from that experience (Phil. 1:6 + Eph. 1:17-18). In our lives, exacting situations, measured properly by Christ, reach specifics on what He is trying to work toward, inwardly.

Jonah 2:2 ESV “I called out to the Lord, out of my distress, and he answered me” – oh those spiritual story arcs of our lives with the Lord (Heb. 13:8).

Jonah 1:17 ESV “the Lord appointed a great fish” – He likes fish (Luke 24:42)

1 Peter 5:10 – a long time ago, my aunt was trying to explain why, she shouldn’t pay for a traffic ticket. The way she told the story made her sound like she should’ve. I want you to consider, the significance of God’s story for your life, and what He is indicating, why does “this” mean so much to Christ? The thing about Demonic Forces, they love to falsely insinuate that God is conspiring expeditions against you. It is important to know that in all situations, if we are cooperative, the Lord can give further definition, to what He has that is at stake for us individually and in larger settings for His Church (John 17:21-23). A deeper relationship with Christ and letting Him form your spiritual life like His + help His people -> actually a very completing life (Col. 2:9-10 KJV). DWELL UPON THE THOUGHT OF HIS LIFE AND LOVE, RIGHT NOW! IT’S SO AWESOME! WHAT ICE CREAM FLAVOUR CAN COMPETE WITH THAT?

1 Cor. 2:2 ESV – As a child, I use to like to look at the beach upside down, my sister use to draw with a type of charcoal. One day, our need to compete against each other’s compulsion for analyzing the world became apparent, when we fought over who could be the owner of a microscope that my parents bought for us. We were like flickering wicks and with words we gusted at each other. Spiritual point: it’s good to find out, in any situation, how this understanding can specifically lead to Christ being further glorified; rather than fight over something that doesn’t bring about holy value.

John 16:14 – My sister’s barnet had funny colours, my parents would take us to explore baroque towns, and bring homemade food, on the journey. We went to some bazaars. A part of me wanted some adventure of a hidden staircase that went somewhere, as I watched my sister eating food without appreciating the taste, like a stork with a fish. An interesting aspect about Christ that is so endless is this feature of how the Holy Spirit, continues to glorify Christ in expansive ways (Hebrews 13:8).

Heb. 3:14 – I use to arm wrestle a lot, during break times at church, those were good times. I remember, testing out the strength of the person first, and then pretending to almost lose, then come back and win. To watch the revision of the person’s perception. There are also endings and beginnings with the Lord, where matters that no longer exist in our lives, sprout more of His necessary and needed spiritual visual continuity that will take apparent “regular items.” Then find Christ explaining to us, what the Holy Spirit is asserting in the overall matter, it use to be a back and forth debate but now we are yielding (Zech. 4:6b)

Col. 1:18-19,27, 2:9-10 – When I was in school, for a very long time, it was popular to make these handheld origamis that had notes inside of each quadrant. My sister use to play that with me. The spiritual life is one that can and does grow, sometimes, in beanstalks, God has an amazing unfolding design, let’s all together, stay on track of that. The world has quite the unspiritual strength to tether us, from continuing with the illuminating power of Christ expressing Himself in our lives. I’ll end with Gal. 2:20 + Eph. 4:13

Heb. 4:12 – When I was really young, my mom’s friend took the family to her farm. She showed up in a stretch limo, and I remember some of the neighbours looked at us with wonder. I tried feeding a horse, a carrot but there was a metal piece in its mouth. She explained more, so I walked around the horse, and her friend told me that the horse uses its tail to swat mosquitoes sometimes. When people have a continual healthy practicing + intake of the Bible, by His Spirit, processes take care of themselves in and through Christ: His people become spiritually stronger, they are able to defend themselves better, they have more of His “strength” to keep the Adversary and His Hosts, far away. Jesus quoted the Bible in situations, and applied them so beyond perfectly, the eternal legacy of such practices continues for us, by His Spirit (2 Cor. 3:5-6, Matt. 4:4, John 6:60-63).

Hebrews 12:4-11 NIV “discipline” “and live” “share in his holiness” “it produces a harvest of righteousness” – What is the structuring desire of the Holy Spirit? Arrangements made and the ongoing dissolution of what divides us from what He desires for us is worth the observation. Yeah that situation hurt? Was it a crucifying-like pain? If the Lord left you in that unspiritual state that you were in, would that threaten a loss for His Kingdom, generationally? Sure does! What is very unique about Christ is how He touches a person’s life, just look at your growing inward life, there is a livingness to that, a Life of its very own mastery that aggressively deals with the unspiritual separating aspects of our life with Christ. The creative skill of the Holy Spirit with circumstances is like that, we think its something by chance sometimes but if the Bible shows us something, it’ll definitely be how spontaneous God moves and the real art is how that connects with His people, further unified (Col. 1:24-25). I’ll end with Eph. 2:21-22.

Eph. 3:19 – Have you come across a spiritual sequence in your life, where you had to go through something that was so precise that it somehow articulated more spiritual life in someone else’s life? Something from Christ has innumerable ways like water that can reach the inward with so much malleability, and in such ways, be a continuity of His life, to something that would’ve stagnated in lifelessness (John 15:9). How He loves us!

Col. 1:12-14 – would Saul of Tarsus have known that he was going to meet Christ? Would he have decided that it wouldn’t be worth the pain and having known, chose not to go forward with that event, somehow? How would that story have changed our spiritual history? Conflicts and difficulties in life draw long-term eternal conclusions that require a Christlike interpretation, we will be very confused, if we leave out 2 Cor. 3:17.

Heb. 1:3-4 – there is enough unrevealed knowledge of the world that in many ways reveals connections not because they don’t exist but because our impression toward understanding everything is too finite. Such are the unlimited dimensions of God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit, and the decisions they make (2 Cor. 3:18).

John 14:10 + Eph. 1:23 – It was one of those aleatory days with my sister, my parents would play antwacky forms of music, regardless how apodictic I was about the matter. This Christian journey, I continue to realize how the Holy Spirit appertains to the eternal hopefulness of Col. 1:10 KJV

2 Cor. 3:4 – if you can see matters in life, as a spiritual resource + Eph. 1:17, that is a good perspective, the Holy Spirit does teach us, and correspondingly, we ought to be learners. A good model for that is through circumstances. I can go so far with just showing you text but going through the spiritual reality of scriptures through situations, identifying with what characters had to experience, can draw a lot of value to what was written. The Lord has passion and a pulse behind what He does in our lives, there is a beautiful Divine weaving of Christ-glorified.

Eph. 3:16 + Romans 8:37 – some matters in life are left to the imagination, what would’ve germinated, should alternate endings occur? When I graduated from university, I applied for jobs in the Maritime, a life of seafood, could be healthy. Coincidentally, it can also be high in cholesterol. If I were to ask you plainly, “what is your resolve?” What would you tell me? The language of the Bible can alter the course of timelines, you might envisage something that doesn’t require abdicating how you wanted life to be but the Holy Spirit’s acrolectal persuasions in our inward being does invite a conquering narrative, in one way or another toward Eph. 4:12-13.

Zech. 4:6b – another best friend of mine, he is a computer programmer of sorts, which identifies continual learning gaps, and requires a forward need to adapt to new languages. He has to separate various connections and reconnect those ideas, it isn’t so much a puzzle of what he does, to him, finding the right layers and possibilities are important. There are many ways for us to approach life, the combinations are countless, I have seen a person who attempted his best to let the Lord be his Alpha and Omega, and what an amazing ministry that became.

Hebrews 10:35-36 – when I was in high school, one of my best friends got to read a play, and the way he modulated his voice in different speeds, awarded him bonus marks, for his final grade. To me, it sounded suspenseful, there was an addition to the meaning, that otherwise, would be plain font. There is a mystery to the confiding power of our faith in Christ, that existence of His Life and how real He is, an energizing Life that loves to re-animate Himself further in others (Romans 12:11).

Jonah 2:10 ESV – “the Lord spoke to the fish”

Amos 5:14 ESV – “Seek good, and not evil“

Amos 9:4 ESV – “I will fix my eyes upon them”

Joel 2:12 ESV – John 4:24 seems to fit

Dan. 10:12 ESV – “your words have been heard”

Dan. 5:21 ESV – “the Most High God rules”

Dan. 3:27 ESV – “the fire had not had any power“

Ezekiel 48:35 ESV – “The Lord Is There”

Lam. 3:22-23 ESV “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases” – Can you discern His Love? Very boundless

Lam. 1:18 ESV – “The Lord is in the right”

Jer. 3:15 ESV – “shepherds after my own heart”

Jer. 1:9 ESV – “I have put my words in your mouth”

Isaiah 50:5 ESV – “I was not rebellious”

Isaiah 40:11 ESV – “He will tend his flock like a shepherd” (Heb. 13:8)

Isaiah 26:8 ESV – “your name” “the desire of our soul”

Song of Solomon 6:10 – “awesome as an army with banners?”

Song of Solomon 4:12 ESV – “A garden locked”

Song of Solomon 4:9 ESV – “You have captivated my heart”

Song of Solomon 1:7 ESV – “Tell me” “where you pasture your flock”

Ecc. 5:1 ESV – “draw near to listen”

Proverbs 2:1-5 ESV – another value system

Psalm 139:7-10 ESV – “Where shall I go from your Spirit?”

Psalm 119:11 ESV – “I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.”

Psalm 51:6 ESV – “you delight in truth in the inward being”

Psalm 16:2 ESV – “I have no good apart from you”

Psalm 8:3-4 ESV – “mindful”

Job 1:21 ESV – “The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.”

Esther 9:1 ESV – “the reverse occurred”

Neh. 9:20 ESV – “You gave your good Spirit to instruct them”

Neh. 2:12 ESV – “what my God had put into my heart to do”

Ezra 8:22 ESV – “The hand of our God is for good”

Ezra 6:21-22 ESV – “the Lord had made them joyful”

2 Chr. 34:27 ESV – “because your heart was tender”

2 Chr. 29:36 ESV – “God had provided for the people”

2 Chronicles 27:6 ESV – “he ordered his ways before the Lord his God”

2 Chr. 25:2 ESV – “not with a whole heart”

2 Chr. 12:7 ESV – “they humbled themselves”

1 Chr. 29:18 ESV – “direct their hearts toward you”

1 Chr. 22:19 ESV – “set your mind and heart to seek the Lord your God”

1 Chr. 10:13-14 ESV – “He did not seek guidance from the Lord”

2 Kings 22:2 ESV – “he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord”

2 Kings 5:10 ESV – “wash in the Jordan seven times”

2 Kings 4:6 ESV – “When the vessels were full”

1 Kings 22:14 ESV – “what the Lord says to me, that I will speak”

1 Kings 17:4 ESV – “I have commanded the ravens”

1 Kings 12:24 ESV – “for this thing is from me”

1 Kings 8:39 ESV – “you, you only, know the hearts of all”

2 Samuel 11:27 ESV – “the thing that David had done displeased the Lord”

1 Samuel 22:2 ESV – “everyone who was in distress”

1 Samuel 12:22 ESV – “the Lord will not forsake his people”

1 Samuel 3:10 ESV – “Speak”

1 Samuel 2:26 ESV – “continued to grow”

Ruth 4:15 ESV – “He shall be to you a restorer of life and a nourisher”

1 Samuel 7:3 ESV – “returning to the Lord with all your heart”

Ruth 2:17 ESV – “she gleaned in the field until evening”

Judges 14:6 ESV – “the Spirit of the Lord rushed upon him”

Judges 4:14 ESV – “Up! For this is the day”

Joshua 7:10 ESV – “Get up!”

Lev. 24:2 ESV – “that a light may be kept burning regularly”

Ex. 4:12 ESV – “I will be with your mouth”

Ex. 1:12 ESV – “the more they were oppressed, the more they multiplied”

Gen. 45:8 ESV – “it was not you who sent me here, but God”

Gen. 4:7 ESV – “sin is crouching at the door”

Gen. 28:16 ESV – “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it” (Eph. 1:17)

Gen. 13:14-15 ESV – “Lift up your eyes”

Psalm 16:11 ESV – “the path of life”

Num. 12:7 ESV – “He is faithful in all my house”

Lev. 26:3 ESV – “my statutes”

Ex. 16:4 ESV – “bread from heaven“

Gen. 50:24 ESV – “God will visit you”

Gen. 48:16 ESV – “the angel who has redeemed me from all evil”

Gen. 47:13 ESV – “the famine was very severe”

Gen. 50:20 ESV – “God meant it for good”

Gen. 41:52 ESV – “God has made me fruitful”

Gen. 17:6 ESV – “I will make you exceedingly fruitful”

Gen. 4:4 ESV – “the Lord had regard”

Gen. 2:7 ESV – “the breath of life“

Rev. 2:7 NLT – “must listen to the Spirit”

Rev. 1:17-18 NLT – “look—I am alive forever and ever” (Eph. 1:17 + Heb. 13:8)

2 John 1:6 NLT – “Love means doing what God has commanded us”

2 John 1:4 NLT – “living according to the truth”

2 Pet. 1:21 NLT – “moved by the Holy Spirit”

2 Peter 1:19 NLT – “a lamp shining in a dark place”

2 Pet. 1:16 NLT – “We saw his majestic splendor with our own eyes” (Eph. 1:17)

2 Pet. 1:10 NLT – “work hard to prove that you really are among those God has called”

2 Pet. 1:3 NLT – “By his divine power”

1 Peter 1:15-16 NLT – “you must be holy” “in everything you do”

1 Peter 1:13 NLT – “prepare” “your minds for action”

James 1:4 NLT – “let it grow”

James 1:2-3 NLT – “when troubles of any kind come your way” “a chance to grow”

Heb. 13:20-21 NLT – “doing his will” “through the power of Jesus Christ”

Heb. 9:14 NLT – “purify our consciences”

Hebrews 3:12 NLT – “Be careful” “Make sure that your own hearts are not evil and unbelieving, turning you away from the living God”

Heb. 4:12 NLT – “the word of God is alive”

Heb. 6:1 NLT – “become mature”

Hebrews 2:11 NLT – “he makes holy”

Titus 2:14 NLT – “totally committed to doing good deeds”

Titus 2:12 NLT – “we are instructed to turn from godless living and sinful pleasures”

Titus 2:10 NLT – “make the teaching about God our Savior attractive in every way”

2 Tim. 1:9 NLT – “called us to live a holy life”

2 Tim. 3:16-17 NLT – “All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives“

2 Tim. 4:5 NLT – “fully carry out the ministry God has given you”

1 Tim. 5:22 NLT – “Keep yourself pure”

1 Tim. 3:15-16 NLT – “vindicated by the Spirit”

1 Tim. 1:5 NLT – “purpose of my instruction” “love that comes from a pure heart”

Judges 17:6 KJV – “every man did that which was right in his own eyes”

Psalm 1:1-2 KJV – “Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly”

2 Chr. 36:21 KJV – “To fulfil the word of the Lord”

James 1:22 KJV “ye doers of the word” – don’t be afraid to exhort + admonish + correct, according to the Word, by His Spirit (James 4:4). This is going to be a really big problem, unfortunately, if unaddressed (short and/or long-term). We ALL need to ask the Lord daily to intercede and help here. Prioritizing friendships, over God’s Word is a real danger, I can’t stress this enough. I would ask myself and then with the Lord, “would Jesus say, amen to this situation?”

James 1:17 KJV – “perfect gift is from above”

1 Kings 11:4 KJV – “his heart was not perfect with the Lord his God”

1 Pet. 5:2-3 KJV – “Feed the flock of God”

2 Pet. 1:2 KJV – “Grace and peace be multiplied unto you”

2 Pet. 1:3 KJV – “pertain unto life and godliness”

Lev. 6:13 NLT – “kept burning on the altar at all times.” “It must never go out.”

Lev. 1:9 NLT – “a pleasing aroma to the Lord”

Gen. 8:21 NLT “even though everything they think or imagine is bent toward evil from childhood” – as a reflection: we don’t realize how much of our upbringing has entrenched the influence of our fellowship with Christ. For example: my friend use to have a verbally abusive father growing up, so she viewed her Heavenly Father, differently. We all have an assortment of deeply embedded viewpoints of the world that clash with what Christ can do (Mark 6:37). We all need to continually ask the Lord to address those matters because they can impact how we spiritually feed others in our ministries.

Gen. 5:24 NLT – “in close fellowship with God”

Gen. 18:19 NLT – “I have singled him out so that he will direct”

Ex. 2:23-25 NLT – “knew it was time to act“

Ex. 6:6-7 NLT – “great acts of judgment”

Lev. 10:3 NLT – “I will display my holiness through those who come near me”

Num. 9:23 NLT – “they camped or traveled at the Lord’s command”

Num. 2:2 NLT – “family banners”

Num. 14:9 NLT – “Do not rebel against the Lord”

Num. 12:8 NLT – but I like riddles

Num. 20:12 NLT – “you did not trust me enough to demonstrate my holiness”

Deut. 7:6 NLT – “to be his own special treasure”

Joshua 3:5 NLT – “Purify yourselves”

Joshua 1:8 NLT – “Study this Book of Instruction continually”

Joshua 1:7 NLT – “very courageous”

Joshua 1:3 NLT – “I promise you what I promised Moses”

John 3:30 NLT – “He must become greater and greater, and I must become less and less”

Joshua 22:5 NLT – “hold firmly to him”

Joshua 23:8 NLT – “cling tightly to the Lord”

Judges 10:16 NLT – “he was grieved by their misery.”

1 Samuel 3:1 NLT – “messages from the Lord were very rare”

1 Samuel 12:20-21 NLT – “Don’t go back to worshiping worthless idols that cannot help or rescue you—they are totally useless”

1 Chr. 16:29 NLT – “Give to the Lord the glory he deserves!”

Ezra 1:1 NLT – “He stirred the heart of Cyrus”

Esther 10:3 NLT – “he continued to work for the good of his people and to speak up for the welfare of all their descendants”

Esther 8:5 NLT – “If it please the king”

Psalm 17:15 NLT “When I awake” “I will see you face to face and be satisfied” – there is a satisfying inward element, when we recognize the value of the Lord beginning a situation and how that resulted in a more wonderful + Christlike + Fruit of the Spirit + deeper living relationship with Him (Eph. 1:17).

Lam. 3:25 NLT – “The Lord is good” “to those who depend on him” “to those who search for him”

Lam. 2:19 NLT – “Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord”

Psalm 33:11 + Isaiah 55:8-9 + John 3:30 + Eph. 4:12-13 – For God appointed-sufferings, it does feel that way, with the Lord, as if He has us in His spotlight, and no one else is uniquely in this very specific path that we are on. We need to look forward to how this corresponds to God’s mindset and perspective for us individually and corporately, in the Body of Christ. Those events are equipping, look at the cumulative spiritual weight of the matter, and the life-producing effectiveness of His design. Just like how God outwardly designed the world, He can inwardly design our spiritual walk with Him (Gal. 5:25 NIV)

Hosea 14:9 NLT – “The paths of the Lord are true and right”

Amos 5:14 NLT – “Do what is good and run from evil“

Obadiah 1:21 NLT – “the Lord himself will be king!”

Jonah 3:1-2 NLT “Then the Lord spoke to Jonah a second time” “Get up and go” – the Lord does teach us, and we can mistaken situational learning matters, as just the normal occurrence of life (Eph. 1:17). So God reiterates to us, what’s on His mind, some specifics that we weren’t aware of (Jonah 4:10-11 NLT). We need to keep in mind of the gap with His eternal vision and our temporal perspectives on earth. You know those 3D movies that look blurry unless you use special glasses, like that.

Jonah 1:3 NLT “in the opposite direction” “to get away from the Lord” – from an inward perspective, we don’t realize how much we have actually retreated from His plans for us; until He shows us.

Jonah 2:7 NLT – sometimes, that’s how we turn to the Lord, how God increasingly inwardly disenchants us from our worldliness, and teaches us to pray not only for our own concerns but for Him + His people, also.

Micah 4:2 NLT – “the Lord’s teaching will go out from Zion”

Micah 2:7 NLT – “Will the Lord’s Spirit have patience with such behavior?”

Eph. 1:10 – as a child, I use to have a recurring dream from time to time, about a metal garage door opening in a mall, and the sounds + bright colours of arcade machines. I would look forward to those dreams, though the years have passed in a rapid speed, I still sometimes think that it might happen again. One of the strangest nights was when I woke up to use the bathroom, and each time, I went back to bed, my dream of something specific, continued, like a sequel. In Phil. 2:5, it’s good to ask the Lord, “what’s on your mind?” We can be fulfillers of His dream, also (John 6:38 + Eph. 4:12-13)!

John 3:30 – I turned my head and saw a shooting star, as though someone opened a vial, under the vogue of the dinner-time moonlight. I opted to eat cereal that looked like pearls, with an amber glass of apple juice. My sister was crying over the trivialities of something dangerous, if the attic door was opened. We began to play a duet on the piano, “Passacaglia.” Spiritual point: I do believe that this resolute joy of His Spirit can be found, as we grow spiritually in Christlikeness (Matt. 3:8 + Gal. 5:22-23), there isn’t a coincidence, when we repent out our old nature ways, and find more of His life, instead!

John 3:30, 6:57, 11:25-26, 14:20; 2 Cor. 12:9 – her breath was running away from the mouth, the snow looked slick from the orange street lamps, the boulevard perfuming with a green apple she bit into, she pointed, “my dog’s pee is melting the snow.” As kids, we had just finished our Taek Won Do lesson, I motioned my hand, as if lifting a goblet, my mitten covering my fingers were undone. It began to rain like sapphires, so I went home. The chords: an opened bag of potato chips refocused my attention, from the thundering skies. The spiritual point: there are many times in our lives, where the actions of Christ, displays so much of the beyond, far above our human wisdom and reasonings. Throughout the Bible back then, many events that defy human logic and understandings. As we continue in the faith, it’s going to be increasingly like that, also but I want you to see that the people who introduced you to the faith, may never realize the full extent, as to how much you changed the world with His Spirit, from the life-giving decision-makings of God (Phil. 1:6, 4:19 + 1 Corinthians 1:25).

Col. 1:18 + Jonah 4:6 “God provided a leafy plant and made it grow up over Jonah to give shade for his head to ease his discomfort, and Jonah was very happy about the plant” – my friend was jostling his water spraying device with exclamations, as though embarking upon a poetic gallantry of an alabaster dream off the shores of Brazil. The silent song of the sun-scorched morning was full of the madness of heat, he was reposed with command, the damp basement carpet felt like moss. I could smell the vanilla coffee from the breeze through the kitchen windows. We found undeterred purpose that day, refusing to let the heat ablaze our thoughts, he juggled oranges with a slice in his mouth, overlapping his teeth. We strutted with pompous delight in a water fight with the other kids in the neighbourhood. The spiritual point: God does appoint matters in our lives to also increase His teachings through us upon others, the difficulties that we individually face in our lives, cooperatively with His Spirit, can be success stories for His overall Church. We also need to keep in mind: Matt. 6:33a, 11:6, John 7:37-39 + Ezekiel 47:9a

2 Samuel 15:25 NLT – “If the Lord sees fit,” “he will bring me back”

2 Samuel 14:14 NLT – “He devises ways to bring us back when we have been separated from him”

2 Kings 5:14 NLT – “became” “healthy” “and he was healed!”

Lam. 3:40 – “Thank you Jesus, got a quick question for now: what is your perspective of what’s going on, Lord?”

Josh. 5:13-15 + Hebrews 13:8 – readjustments are necessary, these types of small and life-changing situations can make us bow down.

Ecc. 1:2 – it makes a bit more sense for us when we use 2 Kings 6:17, Eph. 1:17, Matt. 6:33a, John 3:30 and Psalm 23:1.

Neh. 1:5-6,8-9 – “I beseech thee,” I like to talk to God in renaissance English, sometimes. It makes me feel like a knight, “it is incumbent upon……”

Ezra 1:1 “might be fulfilled” – we need to spiritually discern, what the Holy Spirit is fulfilling from the Bible, in our lives. How God goes about that throughout the Bible situationally back then, and in our present + future lives; He will add a spiritual trail of Himself in us (Ephesians 3:16). There are many circumstances in my life, that were 100% required and absolutely necessary, to further help His people in emergency situations. We need to be more cooperative because these types of Christlike interventions, can sometimes spell a loss for His Kingdom, if disregarded inwardly and just viewed outwardly (Mark 8:18). Just like how God used certain people back then and in many events, humbled them, to help His people; it’s the same ruling idea with us (Psalm 145:13 + Matt. 6:33a). If God keeps His people in mind through what scenarios many had to go through in the Bible, He does the SAME with us and His Church, eternally in mind. I’ll end with Deuteronomy 8:2!

Philemon 1:8-9 “for love’s sake I rather beseech thee” – spiritual love is a persuading component

Titus 3:8 – “might be careful to maintain good works”

Titus 2:1 – “speak thou the things which become sound doctrine”

Titus 1:5 “set in order” – the Bible needs to have an increasingly functional place into people’s lives + priorities + practices, myself included.

1 Tim. 4:8 – “godliness is profitable unto all things”

1 Tim. 3:2-3 – “vigilant”

1 Tim. 1:5 – “out of a pure heart”

Luke 1:78-79 “the dayspring from on high hath visited us” -elegantly beautiful words

Gal. 4:6-7 “God hath sent forth the Spirit” – there’s more than one layer than what meets the natural eyes (Eph. 1:17).

John 15:11 – “my joy might remain in you, and that your joy might be full”

Proverbs 22:29 – Luke 2:49 fits well

Mark 8:17-18 – how are you looking? Inwardly or outwardly? (2 Corinthians 5:7)

Mark 1:41, 6:34 – are you “moved with compassion?” If not, ask Him to help.

Ruth 1:1 – spiritual famines have a silent accelerating speed to them. When people are hungry, one thing that becomes apparent: disorientation. The spiritual counterpart is too dangerous. We need more spiritual exchange routes of the Bible with our brothers and sisters. My sister use to make me Bible verse bookmarks, with this paper cut-out thumb presser that she had, to hand out to people at my church. Just a lot of stuff like that, keep centering God’s Word in our interactions. I use to printout Bible verses to hand out to people in some of my ministries, I’ll text or email my high school ministry kids Bible verses, I’ll talk Bible verses, etc. It’s very inexpensive to do that, an on-sale family package of bread loafs at Costco is like ~15 cents for a slice of bread. Sharing God’s Word is affordable (Matt. 4:4).

Ruth 1:6 “the Lord had visited his people in giving them bread” – reflection: experiencing more of Christ Himself is a very kind thing of the Lord (John 6:35). I can be on my couch, and satisfied with nothing of this world, yet wholly satisfied with Jesus.

Lam. 1:1 “the city sit” “full of people!” – Matthew 9:37 compels me

Exodus 32:8 – if expressed in modern language, seems unfortunately familiar?

Jer. 1:12 – “I will” “hasten my word”

Jer. 1:5 – “I formed thee”

Deut. 10:16 NLT – “change”

Deut. 13:4 NLT – there’s a hidden life experience with this verse

2 Peter 3:18 – “grow” “in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord”

Jude 1:21 – “Keep yourselves in the love of God“

Deut. 11:12 – “thy God careth for”

Exodus 2:24-25 – “God looked upon“

Heb. 1:3 – “express” “his person”

Lev. 1:1 – “spake unto him” “out of the tabernacle”

Eze. 34:11-12 – “search my sheep, and seek them out”

Dan. 7:9-10 – “I beheld” “till the thrones were cast down,” “and the Ancient of days did sit”

Zech. 13:1 – “a fountain opened” “for sin and for uncleanness”

Isaiah 42:1 – “Behold my servant, whom I uphold”

Isaiah 1:3 – “knoweth his owner” “master’s crib” “my people doth not consider“

Job 6:24 – “cause me to understand wherein I have erred”

Psalm 31:19-20 – “Thou shalt hide them in the secret of thy presence”

Acts 28:31 “no man forbidding him” – coughs very loudly

Luke 1:35 – “the power of the Highest”

Gen. 2:7 – “God formed”

Rev. 14:4 – “These are they which follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth.”

Romans 1:16-17 – “For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ”

2 Cor. 4:6-7 – “For God, who commanded” “the light” “to shine“

1 Cor. 10:16-17 – “The cup of blessing which we bless”

2 Cor. 3:6 – “made us able ministers of the new testament”

1 Cor. 3:9-11 – “labourers together with God“

1 Cor. 2:14 – “the things of the Spirit of God”

Col. 3:15 – “let” “God rule”

John 8:31 – “If” “ye continue in my word”

John 16:14 – “He shall glorify me” “and shall shew it unto you”

John 13:35 – “all men” “know” “that ye are my disciples”?

1 Tim. 6:15 – “Which in his times he shall shew”

Deut. 30:20 – “for he is thy life”

Hosea 6:3 – “Then shall we know, if we follow on to know the Lord”

Psalm 19:14 = [Mark 2:8-9 + Mark 9:21] <- Isaiah 64:8

Mark 9:8 – many times, in my life, it was Christ behind the scenes, when all is said and done (Eph. 1:17-18). I’m like, “you are good,” or “that’s a good one,” when I see some tokens that the Lord was behind matters, like the beginning of Job.

Mark 8:38 – this is a very serious caution: the tone. More thought + action is required here for all of us, by His Spirit.

Mark 8:29 – there is a uniqueness about the unfathomable and endless riches of who Christ is. Yours to discover!

Mark 8:6-9 – what Christ gives us to distribute to His people can go farther than just us giving what we interpret as spiritual food to people.

Mark 7:24-30 – Jesus’ presence is pretty noticeable, at times, when dealing with impure spirits.

Mark 7:13 – let’s be very careful regarding our acculturation of this world.

Mark 7:8 NIV – a very comprehensive outworking that He invites us to for Christlikeness, from that kind of state.

Gen. 6:5 NIV – “Dear Lord, reverse the wickedness of this human race, so that every inclination of their thoughts and their hearts will be only Holy, at all times, in Jesus Name, I ask! Thank you!”

Psalm 119:37 NLT – “give me life through your word.”

Gen. 22:14 NIV – think of the provisions provided, by the Lord, for your yielded ministry from Him, like with Elijah, Moses, Daniel, etc. I’ll end with Exodus 14:15 ESV

Mark 10:34 – He can see the future, so these delays that we go through in life while we seek His will and the Spirit’s leadership, has a logic for our good.

Mark 10:51-52 – ask Jesus to help you see more of Himself + His perspective

Romans 15:4 NLT + Psalm 119:45 NLT = 2 Cor. 3:17

Deut. 2:7 ESV – “this great wilderness”

Exodus 15:2 ESV – discovering the strength of Christ, more, that we don’t have to go through this life in our own strength, can gradually change our worship of Him, positively (Philippians 1:21, 4:13).

1 Thess. 5:18 NLT – what you interpret as a bad circumstance, might turn out to be His goodwill for you + your ministry to His people, let’s give Him thanks (Genesis 50:20)!

Mark 6:56 – the presence of Christ has healing properties, are you enjoying them?

Mark 6:50-53 NIV – it is important to spiritually understand the value and effort that Jesus takes to teach us. Previous lessons can also be important anchoring points toward understanding future situations (Eph. 4:14). These are vital building blocks for Christlikeness in our ministries.

Gen. 19:29 NIV – “brought Lot out of the catastrophe”

Judges 6:24 NKJV – I’ve noticed that there is more Christlike peace; the Adversary and His Hosts, aren’t as unspiritually noisy.

Judges 5:31 NKJV – imagine what the “full strength” of Christ would appear as, for our ministerial calling from Him (Ephesians 1:19). How much of His power is available to accomplish His objectives?

Psalm 119:18 NLT + Psalm 1:1-3, 19:14 KJV – it was one of those amber afternoons, you could smell the sunlight in the curtains, a moment that could be rewound in your mind, even the midair dusts seemed as points of balance to the room. I was on my way to return a bunch of picture books that I had borrowed, I was practicing for a children’s drawing contest, which I ended up winning 4th place and $30. I spent that money on a game called Guess Who? It showed people’s faces and you had to guess their facial features, as I vaguely remember, it was a 2 player game. My parents wanted me to spend the money in a way that wouldn’t make my sister feel left out because she was up against people who could draw Japanese comic characters really well and she was heartbroken that she didn’t win. I remember telling the Lord, that I wanted my sister to win more than me because I know how much that meant to her. An important focus for all of us, under the Spirit’s leadership is getting each individual under our ministerial care, in a desiring mode for their Christ-prized calling, according to His purpose (Phil. 3:14 KJV, Eph. 1:17-18, 4:12-13).

Eph. 4:12-13 and Isaiah 45:5 ESV – we don’t realize how much Divine actions were taken, using various situations, to bring us into a steadfast remembrance of the Lord, to further on His objectives, hearing more sounds of praise for His Name, as His Spirit continuously liberates the lives of many.

Eph. 1:17-19 ESV – there are great feats of strength and astounding displays of God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit’s powers, illustrating that we never know how infinite and the level of greatness of His power, that He will use, for the sake of Christ + His people. You have a calling in Christ, according to His purpose. 

Deut. 31:12 ESV “hear and learn”- we need to do more reflections, there are so much spiritual blessings that can help us and people, there are specific matters that the Lord speaks into existence that are valuable for learning, deriving more of who He is into us, like more peace for people (Jer. 24:7 NIV + Psalm 85:8 ESV). In my reflection, I’m thinking very differently and made this overall thought about Jesus -> in Matt. 21:32 ESV, the “afterward” is important, the degree of change taking place is vital, how that influences our faith and the spiritual lives of the people we come across in our individual ministry: whether there is a measure of Christ increased, is crucial. If not, what can we work on with the Lord, so that His life through us, is pouring out further in our lives + unto others?

Psalm 40:8 NLT – praying to have a heart-desire for God, and carrying out His will, is a good prayer.  

Isaiah 55:12 NIV – could be a very interesting way of singing worship songs, clapping our hands rhythmically, during singing! Pretty cool verse!

Psalm 84:10 NIV + John 10:10 – His abundant life is meant not just for an individual scenario but for the continual generational good of the Body of Christ, all by His Spirit. Let that further empower your calling from Him! 

Exodus 6:7 ESV + Matt. 11:28 – you struggle with something? What burdens exist? Growingly involve Christ. You see how much Christlike knowledge Paul shared about his own decision-makings with the Spirit (Gal. 5:25 NIV)?

Mark 1:23-28,32-34 – you see how effectively Jesus can erase the captivity of unclean powers, in our present tense lives, also? That demonstration of Holy power. Let’s continue to ask the Lord to decrease our selfhood thoughts + ways, and let Christ take more + more supremacy in our lives (John 3:30 + Isaiah 55:8-9 + 1 Cor. 1:9).

Mark 5:42-43 – astonishing how good people are in their ministries from His reviving life but they do need continual spiritual food from Him <- very important.

Mark 4:34 – asking the Lord for a spiritual understanding is important, rather than leaning unto our own understanding. The Holy Spirit wants to give us more of His Christlike life in our yielded lives to produce from Him the planned eternal lasting fruitfulness throughout generations.

Mark 4:17 NIV – “because of the Word,” God can create situations to remove our relational-lukewarmness and into a significantly deeper spiritual desire for Him (John 3:30). People can fall away, misinterpreting what’s going on, like believing that God is against them, when really it is Phil. 1:12 + 1 Cor. 1:9 + Romans 8:28-29.

Mark 4:26-29 – Zech. 4:6b is a fitting verse, here

Mark 4:15b – administrations + everyone needs to be vigilantly countervailing here with the strength of Christ

Mark 2:12 – Christ Himself is absolutely amazing and wonderful. The unexplainable mysteries of His limitless powers

Mark 2:24-26 – Christ does unveil to us experientially more of what scriptures are about (1 John 1:1-3)

Mark 2:1-4 – it’s worth asking for more creativity from the Lord, when it comes to bringing people closer to Christ, in our ministries. For example: this website removes an aspect that prevents people from accessing more of Christ for this spiritual catering ministry, whereas before it was inaccessible (this website reaches soooo many countries). 

Matt. 5:14-16 + Psalm 119:105 + John 1:14 – there is something about the sight of pumpkins and the autumn air that lingers reluctance, when breezing into the next season. During family time, as the lightbulbs dimmed, we got to open a bag of chips and we watched something that we could all enjoy. Sometimes, the moonlight would be moulded by the rectangular basement window, the ethereal glow beside me, where I place my bowl of snacks, so I could see what I was eating. At school, it was common for us to talk about what we watched on tv. Imagine if we were like, “oh man! I was reading the Book of Job, yesterday, and you won’t believe, how amazing this verse was and what happened, in the ending!” Let’s ask the Holy Spirit to dial up the Christ with our tongues! John 3:30 it!

1 Kings 19:9–10 + John 14:31 – I was thinking about these two verses. In our lives, God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit will find us where we are, and there is this strengthening imprint of His encouragement in our inward being, that spiritually translates to suggest to some degree to ‘press on,’ ‘rise, let us go from here,’ that there is something more to the picture, that is unseen. I’ll end with Phil. 3:12-14 ESV and 2 Cor. 5:7 ESV

John 7:46 – even a small sentence that is from Him, and the Holy Spirit bears witness that it’s from Him, touches inwardly like a land of faraway distances, it’s beautiful, mesmerizing (Isaiah 33:17 KJV). Can you understand what Paul felt, when he said in Phil. 1:21a “for me to live is Christ?” There is so much fullness of His life that is inexhaustible, you think that it has reached its top, then the next week, it’s like multiplied and so infinite is this Life of His. It’s very good when the Holy Spirit, reminds us, of what a close fellowship with Christ is really like, what inspired the disciples + people around the world, how fulfilling life can be with Jesus. There is so much more that is meant to be found + formed within us of His Nature. Some of us, we got to see a glimmer of His majesty, Matt. 7:7 is such an underrated verse, when you hear Jesus speak, it’s incredibly elevating.

1 Samuel 12:22 NLT – My sister wore a regalia for her grade 8 graduation dance, I remember my dad promised her that, when she gets married one day, he would rent a limousine for her but not for these kind of occasions. Rather than dancing, she spent time eating a lot of chips, I still remember the crumbs. The past can feel dreamlike, appearing as the night sky and vanishing into the invisible. 1 Thess. 5:23-24 + 1 Cor. 1:9, there is something about the faithfulness of God that desires so much of Christ in our lives, if you look at your entire lifespan, who could actually do that? “Except our God?” -2 Samuel 22:32b ESV. End with John 6:63

Col. 3:17 ESV – the sound of a faraway loon, I was hiking through the forest rain, during a church retreat, glimmers of sunlight through the tall deciduous leaves, you could smell the packed lunches and the metallic thermos containers. I brought my Gameboy (portable console) and a lot of gum, I spent so much time playing, while my mother laughed and suggested that I was missing out on all the trees changing colours that were rinsed with autumn leaves. As the sun descended, the campfire arose, the waters looked like the inspirations to many paintings. I want you to imagine Jesus, walking throughout the Gospels, with the mindset of what His Church would look like. Through His Spirit, drawing this and other generations near to God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit, so God/Jesus/The Holy Spirit can draw near to them. When I was in university, I listened to this song “Someday – Starfield.” I want to end with 1 Samuel 3:10b NKJV and Gen. 24:56 ESV, as an entry point for a reflection.

Proverbs 22:6 – the steam from my mug of hot chocolate appeared as a pirouetting ghost. Afterward, I was ready. I walked into a basement dungeon with paint peeling off, there, people were playing card games. After a while, people were saying, “beginners luck,” I had just beat players 2x+ my age, as a child new to the game, I felt like a million bucks. I’ve cross-paths with some of the people that I use to Bible teach and seeing how they moved from areas of can’t to can in the strength of Christ (Phil. 4:13 ESV), has been very endearing (Romans 8:28-29). We can be yielded outlets for the Lord to instruct others (Psalm 32:8 NIV, Isaiah 46:4 ESV). I’ll end with Num. 11:17 NLT and 2 Thess. 3:3 ESV.

Deut. 33:3 ESV + Gal. 5:25 NIV + Psalm 33:11 NIV + Hebrews 13:8 “forever” – The weather was undecided that day, I heard rumbles from the clouds above but barely any wind or rain below. That particular day felt like walking into something that I wouldn’t return to again. I left that city, a part of me knew that the chapter was over there. I want you to imagine that you are some type of plant in a garden but you can’t see the other plants from a distance, then something was altered about you, that was able to help the other plants that weren’t visible to you. Throughout the Bible, there is so much coordination from above. God is also preparing you to help people, with the present + future tense in mind. I want you to be okay with the idea, that what you go through in life and the mysteries of situations, cooperatively with His Spirit, can accomplish great things for the interests of His Kingdom. That through His weakening in our lives, His grace will be able to further abound in the lives of so many more (2 Cor. 12:9 ESV + Psalm 145:13 NLT).

Gen. 11:6 NIV, Matt. 9:37 NIV, Exodus 16:15 ESV, Gen. 50:20 NIV, 1 Thess. 5:11 ESV, John 5:39 NLT, Exodus 24:7 ESV, Deut. 11:18 ESV, John 3:21 NLT –  What could God accomplish, if all of us, made the Bible our official language? a) how much would we find with His Spirit? b) how many lives could He find through Christ in us? c) what impossibilities would become possibilities? d) what if explanations were needed to help them get going? e) what further ordinances could Christ accomplish? + How much could we build with the Holy Spirit using our Spirit-guided hands? f) how further would we move, as the Body of Christ, if His Words dwelled in us, richly? g) how much more could we see, unified? h) would we be further swayed to the obedience to His Word? i) what would present + future generations look like? j) imagine how many more idols that would be removed, from our lives? k) that would stir more courage and joy in our lives

[Proverbs 27:23], Psalm 90:12, Proverbs 14:27 ESV, Lam. 3:40 NKJV – my high school history teacher taught the class about an army leader that would place the military in attack formation without attacking, on multiple occasions, in different areas of the landscape. The enemy army would also correspond with their tactical arrangement. After a while, the enemy team was confused. The army leader did that, to further develop an offensive strategy, knowing how the enemy team positions themselves for warfare. There is value in being vigilant with understanding the configurations of sins in your congregation with Christ (1 Peter 5:8), so people don’t continue marching into defeat. All by His Spirit, I need administrations to see the untapped potential of their office hours, how that can help so many lives in the congregation, get to know them, help them, pray with them. Schedule people in like a medical clinic, call, email, and reach out to people. By His Spirit, there also needs to be a strong focus upon changing individually and corporately, the decision-makings toward sins; it is important that staff develop a plan for a congregational strategy against sin. The whiplash of sin, then dealing with the aftermath is too time consuming, we need to stop that before it even happens with Christ, so people aren’t spiritually impeded. For Bible study groups, give space for people to pray about their struggles and sins that they are facing (James 4:8 + Psalm 145:18 NKJV), there is a lot of growth available here that can allow Christ to further shape them. It’ll be more fruitful for their ministries. Keep intensifying all of our interactions with the Lord more on matters that He can and does in fact, very successfully address, when it comes to battling the Adversary and His Hosts; in the context of this specific narrative, spiritual warfare. I’ll end with 2 Cor. 3:17 NLT.   

John 6:63, 8:12, Matt. 6:22 ESV, 1 Samuel 16:7 ESV, Exodus 32:1 NLT, 1 Kings 11:4 NIV – A bunch of us were really good friends from elementary school till high school, until one of us left for good. After the warm glows of sunlight, upon the wintry eggshell horizon. My friends thought it would be a good idea, to bring their shovels to my other friend’s house, to quietly re-shovel the incredibly heavy wet-snow back on to his driveway, after my other friend and his dad spent a long time clearing. I decided not to participate because at a certain point, that’s not how the world works, that’s not even how life works. Spiritual point: in the Gospels, if you look very closely, if you could imagine glow in the dark paint under normal light, and Jesus represents the special light, where you could see the hidden prints. By His Spirit, it’s going to be continual steps and inward changes toward a Christ-lenser of approaching matters “full of light.” I use to tell my Christian friends that “I’m cross-eyed.” There is a caution from John 8:37b NIV “you have no room for my word,” see this as an opportunity for improvement that we can work on with the Holy Spirit, I’ll explain a small facet of this verse. As you can see, reading more of the Bible in step with His Spirit + prayer, can change how we think and move toward His goals, for us. Some people feel different on Sundays, for this point: let us just focus on the component of Christlike sharing. What if, Sunday was everyday, where each of us could have our own sermon, we share what we read in the Bible, to one another? How much more would that a) “melt” and soften people’s hearts for the Lord? b) further redirect the hearts and minds of God’s people to Christ c) the pure smell of Christ more fragrant rather than being bottled-up, by opening up what we read and sharing that to others? d) wouldn’t more people “remember” to do His commandments? e) wouldn’t more of His fame be spread around the world? f) Christ would be more glorified! g) oh! His people would be further supported! I’ll end with Psalm 145:13 NLT! Praise the Lord!

Ecc. 8:1 ESV – I felt this calmness, as a child, when my sister and I use to bike along the roadside, despite cars flying past us. My bike didn’t have crescent deflectors above the tires, so when I would go over puddles, I would return home all dirty. My sister threw something at someone one day because that person did something to her at school. I could hear the neighbourhood dogs barking, from all the pandemonium. The spiritual counterpart of this: we need to ask the Holy Spirit for interpretations of matters, more often. It’s like me biking, we can cover the treasures of what ought to be spiritually learned individually and for others, by continuing to move forward, and treating matters as natural. If you look throughout the Bible, the appearance of situations, how many verses can you show me, where people did Proverbs 3:5b? People leaning on their own understanding? Even exemplary characters. You see how Satan did that with Adam & Eve? By creating all these detours to a lesser thought of what God intended them + us to be, by trying to get us to act, apart from God? I believe that is something we inherited from Adam & Eve, ask God to address our independent thinkings. If I could provide an illustration, it would be Satan trying to pull a bunch of train track levers to sidetrack us, to move us and others further away from a fellowship with Christ, if you see that happening with your thought-process, ask the Holy Spirit to address that and for Jesus to pray for you. I’ll end with John 8:12

John 17:17 NLT, Ecc. 10:10 ESV, Numbers 6:23 NLT – if you look at your life, in undivided segments, one long string, now add other strings into the timeline of that one long string, whereby through His wisdom, He did use us in a very special way, and it could only have been Him, where we became a conveyance for God to rescue + strengthen others. What sounds characteristic of your life, is also a very similar narrative of the Bible. The point is: you see how some of those “external situations” were more of an inward situation? You see how important that was to Him? Where God had to superintend situations in our lives, to secure something of His that He is actively looking for His lost sheep? I want us to understand, deep within our hearts, daily what He is initiating in teaching us and equipping us right now, that must be learnt, for others to succeed in their walk with Him, let’s inwardly determine with the Lord, which is the pathway to help His people (Judges 6:40 NKJV).

Ruth 3:18 NKJV – a very long time ago, my sister ate supper barely looking at me, I had “accidentally” kicked over her plastic translucent sewing container kit but she didn’t tell on me. When the church had a raffle for prizes, my sister really wanted an X-Files keychain. My mother and I went shopping for one, she suggested that despite the cost ~$15, she encouraged me that thoughtfulness was worth spending upon. When I gave my sister that keychain, she had a mysterious quietness to her. She was so sure that was gone: she spent so many nights with her door open with streaks from the street lamp entering into the hallway, and her room felt like a sad cathedral. She began needlessly bringing her ring of keys out, without any doors present. The spiritual counterpart: in Job 42:12a ESV, we need to understand that it is good for the Lord to bless everything about Christ to others through our lives, as we decrease in our selfhood, as we age, let our lives growingly be about Him, for “surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.” -Psalm 23:6 ESV + (Phil. 1:21 ESV + Eph. 4:12-13). I’ll end with John 3:30!

2 Kings 7:9 NKJV, 2 Chronicles 31:21 NKJV, Proverbs 8:17 NKJV – My sister use to have her room arranged in a way, that could elevate the notes of her clarinet, her music sounded differently upon hardwood, rather than carpet. It wasn’t something I thought of, as a child. Something recently of a similar novelty was a painting called “The Shadow,” by Edmund Blair Leighton. Let’s diligently seek God in re-arranging our inward lives and allow more + more of Christ to freely express Himself throughout generations (Judges 5:2 NKJV). We can be people who have joy in the Lord for knowing that Christ is strengthening and imparting to others spiritual wealth for the Lord (Ecc. 5:19 and Matt. 6:19-20).

Neh. 6:9 NKJV, Exodus 20:24 NKJV, – I remember the blueness of the evening, the shoreline with ribbons of light from stores faraway. My friend had invited me to a badminton game, so I wandered around the school to amuse myself. I came across a drawing where a child wrote, “I like bupkin pie.” I reflected upon the time that I was in middle school. I handed in an assignment for a story. I couldn’t think of an ending, so I wrote about how the villain got blasted into space. My teacher suggested that it has nothing to do with the plot. When I read Daniel 6:10, I see it as: knowing the way the world can be, yet believing that Christ-centering miracles do still happen with our God (Amos 5:14 NKJV). In our present tense, what we can learn from Mark 6:5-6 NIV: “our lack of faith” in Christ can play a role. Psalm 116:6 NLT: that child that braved to attempt to write that dessert out, can provide us with that belief and courage, a childlike type of faith that God can answer in any day of distress (Gen. 35:3 NKJV); regardless of the pathway toward a human conclusion. May we ask the Lord daily, to further strengthen a continuous frequent communication with Him in our lives, so that others can come to know Him, in a greater way!

John 6:28-29 NIV – constant doubting decelerates our Testimony of Christ, that’s a reason why Satan keeps suggesting distrust, in various ways. Let’s keep asking the Lord daily, for a growing steadfastness and trust in Christ -> Psalm 112:7 ESV. 

(Ecc. 3:11 NIV + Psalm 16:2 ESV) + John 6:24 NIV “in search of Jesus” – if you look at the word “boats” as a vehicle, some unbelievers use their cars, travelling, to speak to us, Christians (Col. 1:27 NKJV). Is their search, over? I’ll end with Matt. 5:15.  

Job 11:7 NKJV, John 2:5, Psalm 46:10 ESV, Matt. 7:7 = we need to spend more time searching out what He tells us and listen better. Let Him finish talking/instructing so we can exalt His Name properly and better, by His Spirit (Gal. 5:25 NIV); rather than hearing very few decibels and going about “building” (Luke 9:33 NKJV). I’ll end with Matt. 4:19 NIV. 

John 2:11 NIV – I remember once, at work, I was talking to a coworker, and I didn’t tell her much about myself, and she said suggested that I must be Christian. The way she said it with confidence like she couldn’t be wrong at all. There was something that “Jesus did here” that made her believe that (Psalm 66:5 NIV). 

John 1:48-50 NIV – Jesus knows us very well; by His Spirit, He wants us to be all-season in fruitfulness in Christ, not just segmentally (Mark 11:12-14, Psalm 1:3, 2 Tim. 4:2). What has captured your senses? -> “see” “greater things” “than that” -> Eph. 1:17-19 -> Proverbs 16:9 NKJV -> Zech. 4:6b “By my Spirit” -> Gal. 5:25 NIV.

John 2:7 – I have been thinking about Isaiah 44:3 NIV lately, just how inwardly dried out we can be spiritually, and how much we need to let the Lord reach us + others, through us with the outpouring of Himself (Luke 1:37 ESV). I’ll end with Isaiah 40:31

John 2:10 – a living experience with Jesus is priceless.

John 2:3-11 – Psalm 37:5 ESV

John 2:4 NIV – we can work on aligning ourselves with His timing. Look at part of this John 15:5 NIV in reverse “apart from me you can do nothing”, Jesus’ mother involved Him and ta da.

John 2:3 – sometimes the Lord has to allow distracting worldly things to be gone, to enable us to soberly see more of who He is. 

John 3:6 NIV – I can spend so much time, dwelling on how beautiful this verse is. Spiritual Michelin grade with infinity stars. The Holy Spirit reproducing more of Christ, into others, corresponding to how genuinely real, living and the aliveness of Christ, that it must be something from the Spirit because the flesh would have a different impact. 

Lev. 26:3-4 – if you think about Bible verses, while showering, see if the Lord yields any additions to those scriptures. 

John 20:29 NLT – we have to trust that God is going somewhere with His plan for us (Hosea 12:6 NKJV).

Revelation 22:1 NKJV + John 8:12 – Jesus continually makes it crystal clear to us, and very transparently, what cannot unspiritually continue that blockades His life in abundance from flowing forth in your life and to others (James 1:23-24 NLT) -> Eph. 4:12-13 NKJV. You need a light source to properly see yourself in a reflection.

Psalm 14:5 NIV – mmmhmmmm

Romans 8:37 NLT – we are learning this year, the victorious nature of Christ and Zech. 4:6b.

Jer. 33:9 NIV – sounds interesting, doesn’t it, get what I mean?

Isaiah 55:10-11 NLT + Matt. 3:8 NIV – the fruitfulness of repentance has way too much power, use this in all aspects for ministries. We are suppose to change with the Holy Spirit.

John 8:12 -> John 5:40 -> Psalm 18:28 NLT -> John 10:10 – what has Christ shown you, and what are you refusing that He has identified, which could otherwise make your life + your ministry more abundant; by His Spirit? I’ll end with Psalm 17:7 NLT, individually and corporately applied.

Hebrews 11:1 NLT – God will show us tiny things that He sees and because of the limitations of time on earth, we aren’t able to “see” the “behind the scenes” like in the beginning of Job. Sometimes, it isn’t reckless faith but based on what you have experienced with the Lord, and even the miracles that you have seen (John 14:11); by His Spirit, you have to grow your steadfastness in Christ again, and again, like you did those previous times, with much courage, and not be of “little faith” (Matt. 6:30 NIV). I’ll end with Eph. 4:13 NIV “whole measure of the fullness of Christ”

Hebrews 10:22 NLT – the phrasing

1 John 2:8 NLT – sooooooooooo present tense in BC; also, shining very strongly in an Abbotsford church I went to.

1 John 1:3 – if you like to talk about yourself, start rephrasing your discussions into your relationship with Christ (Titus 2:1 NKJV).

Job 2:6 – Job didn’t realize that he had “become an example to all believers” (1 Thess 1:7 NLT). Actuality -> 2 Cor. 4:17. Let us say that in Heaven one day, God shows us why certain painful decisions were made in our lives, and He points to the people that came to know Christ, what do we say to Him? -> Job 2:10

Habakkuk 3:19 + Judges 6:14 – there is something very notable about realizing the strength we have in Christ by His Spirit, that “continues” in “strengthening” others, and you can tell that there is a reproducing unending livingness from His Spirit attached to that (Eph. 4:12-13).

Hebrews 12:11 NKJV – very necessary for our spiritual growth. Embrace this.

Col. 1:29 – when you see the Body of Christ become more and more alive + functional, as we yield and clock-down our selfhood with the Holy Spirit (John 3:30). Eph. 1:19 – that is a powerful energetic force to be reckoned with, an experienced present tense outworking reality of His power for His Church.

Acts 17:27 NASB – I like that last sentence.

Zech. 4:6 – personalize this into prayer, daily; it’s quite life-changing.

Judges 10:16 + 2 Cor. 3:5 – God will inwardly tell us what He has had enough of. He will get His point across, as to what He was getting at, regarding His ordering of circumstances into our lives (tangibly seen in our ~experiences, if we are cooperative with the Holy Spirit -> John 3:30 and 2 Cor. 4:10 = more Christlike than before [1 John 1:1-3]).

2 Cor. 6:9-10 – sounds like the synopsis for the Book of Psalms

Josh. 1:2 – spiritual continuation

Joshua 1:6 – life can be tough but Christ is there (Mark 1:35).

Mark 6:6 + Joshua 1:7 – “successful” -> Matthew 16:24

Joshua 1:8 – good reminder -> Matt. 7:24

Joshua 1:18 – use repentance with the Holy Spirit to end sinful practices

Joshua 2:9-11, 24 NIV – interesting, these verses come to mind -> Mark 10:27 and Matthew 11:12

Joshua 3:3-5 + Matthew 13:16 NIV- we have a very personalized journey with the Lord, like the characters in the Bible, it seems very unique and different, yet, a beautiful story, depending on how we apply our faith.

Joshua 3:9 + Matthew 11:15 – refreshers are important, I use to read the Bible, while waiting in line for stuff.

Joshua 3:15-17 + John 1:43 and Luke 10:23 NIV – we all have experienced miracles, from following Him.

Joshua 4:1-9 – eternal lineage of spiritual life, continues, to present day, into the future, unto eternity. God will get us to engage in matters that “seem” very unorganized but then we begin to see a scriptural organized unfolding of His love to us and through us, unto others, in continuation (John 13:35).

Joshua 4:24 – God does remind us, how real Christ is, doesn’t He? His power? We experienced plenty of that this year! I like this verse Matthew 16:17.

Mark 2:27 – be willing to understand, that the way we rationalize, may be completely different, when Christ is left out for illuminating what that segment of the Bible means. 

Mark 6:34 – we need to keep praying about this, we can turn up the dial, in caring about people. There isn’t a point in turning down the dial and removing attempts to care about God’s people. 

Luke 4:36 – you see how real Jesus is? Are you still amazed about what Jesus did and is doing + future tense (all with eternal tense)? Then you see, people opposing that, goodness, that’s scary. 

Matthew 5:39 – there is also room, to let the Holy Spirit, correct that person

Matthew 7:14 – we as Christians, must not prevent people from finding this narrow road. It’s both believers and unbelievers that are also involved for hindering people’s inward growth and relational discovery with Christ; not just the actions of unbelievers + the Adversary and His Hosts, factoring those realities, the aftermath is that “only a few find it.” 

Luke 19:41 – I get very emotional, when God’s people are mistreated. 

Matthew 3:3 – can you hear God better, as a result of your wilderness experience?

Matthew 5:2 – there are times, where the Lord indicates to me that He will get through to people

Mark 3:5 – we shouldn’t grieve the Lord and add more grief than what He already has to deal with, seeing unbelievers behave. We ought to improve. 

John 6:28-29 – unbelief, doubt and a situational steadfastness of faith in Christ are so paralyzing for ministries. 

Matthew 3:10 – that’s pretty serious. When God’s had enough. I have seen, a long time ago, when God had enough with people. We ought not to provoke God to that point. There’s no need to anger God to that level (1 John 5:3). If you love God, why? 

John 3:30 – we can ask the Lord for this

Mark 8:22-25 – “and he saw everything clearly” – one of my favourite short stories from Grade 12 is about a lady who wasn’t popular because of her weight. One day, someone asks her for directions and this someone ends up having a crush on her. So he began following her around campus, trying to strike up a conversation, that would make her skip eating and jet to classes, usually when she saw him. At first she saw him as an extreme problem but he ended up being the solution to her character deficiencies. Overtime, she lost weight from attempting escapes, guys began wondering what about her that made him unable to stop pursuing her, so then she became popular. I’m trying to discern the spiritual value of this. Let’s say that the entire time, some of the problems that we have encountered in our lives, were actually God’s ways -including turning even the bad ones to good (Gen. 50:20), in making us into the best spiritual versions of ourselves -> Christlikeness and for the best interests of His Church (Romans 8:28-29). The spiritual clarity -> cooperating with what God operates us toward.

Ruth 1:8 ESV – cheque please

2 Chr. 26:5 NKJV – and the reverse?

Ecc. 8:5 – pray for this

1 Cor. 10:12 NIV – “if you think” -> “be careful that you don’t fall!” That exclamation mark stood out, also 

1 Cor. 3:1 NIV – it’s good to ask for the Holy Spirit’s perspective about what you find questionable in conduct

Isaiah 28:29 NKJV – let’s turn to God, instead of relying on natural impulses

Daniel 2:22 – God is aware of what sinful behaviours that He is trying to rid you of, even without your perception. The journey He takes you on to achieve that will make sense later on, when you look back.

1 Samuel 12:24 NLT – you can be the Moses and the staff he used to turn the tides and lead the way with Christ for His people.

1 Cor. 4:2 – ask God for a performance review on being faithful toward His sheep, and what to work on

James 3:17 NIV – see how it says impartial and sincere?

Hebrews 13:1 – I think about this a lot, you notice how the Bible keeps telling us to love each other? If it needs to be repeated that many times, and we ignore it, what does that actually say about our inward listening to God?

Isaiah 33:15 NIV – read that first sentence, the word “and” connects those two ideas together. That is very important for why certain things were misconfigured in people’s spiritual lives. So we have to actively and regularly admonish + exhort each other. 

Eph. 3:20 NLT – “infinitely more” – because the character of God is infinite, so that’s a reflection of His trait 

John 8:12 NLT – very interesting version, it makes me think about Matt. 7:13-14 ESV

Ezra 8:22 – I like this

Judges 13:18 – a very slick verse 

Eph. 3:16 – it’s good to pray this prayer for other people 

1 Samuel 17:45 – getting to a point in our relationship with the Lord, where we understand, from many scenarios that, behind the scenes, He pens out the ultimate ending; as we do everything we can in those situations and apply His vital spiritual principle Words “learn from me” (Matt. 11:29a).

Psalm 43:3 NIV – the entire verse is beautiful and elegant, especially the order. Knowing that there is a spiritual illumination that is caring, that wants to lead us to something holier; rather than seeing us misguided. “Your faithful care”

Psalm 112:7 – worth asking from the Lord

Psalm 19:7 NIV – a spiritual refresh is like a home sweet home in heaven, after being in the world for a bit long, kind of inward ambience 

Deut. 23:14 – this is a specific remedy to unblind (existing blindspots) church administrations, pray about this

1 Samuel 12:23 – I can understand why this verse exists -> 1 Thess. 5:17

Isaiah 26:16 ESV – the Lord does discipline -> He has something spiritual in mind

Luke 22:31-32 – “strengthen your brothers”. The verse in Luke recognizes that when we are being tested, it can be severe enough to not only challenge our very faith but also that Jesus prays for us. Where that monumental testing in itself, was a cross-like painful experience, and we tend to contemplate that God has forsaken us. The fact that Romans 8:26-27 occurs, and we survive that extreme trial, shows how much Jesus really did pray for us. In our utter weaknesses, we see this happening -> 2 Cor. 12:9, where somehow, that testing we experienced, ends up serving the building-up and the sanctification of the Body of Christ. So Jesus permitted specific testings to come about with an eternal perspective of the church, in mind. As it says in the Romans verse, “the Spirit intercedes for God’s people in accordance to the will of God.” 

2 Chr. 6:6 – the tone of a desire and want

2 Chr. 6:4 – what stands out?

2 Chr. 5:13 – “unison”

2 Chr. 5:9 – is Christ visible, in your life?

2 Chr. 5:1 – your motivation is “for” “the house of the Lord” or for something else?

Exodus 33:18 – using the word “please” in prayer, could make God move

Prov. 29:18 – the more Christ is unveiled in our lives and within our circles, our old ways becomes increasingly crucified (Gal. 2:20)

Neh. 2:12 – there are things that God has shared with me for my info only, that are untold for a reason: it’s way too disheartening. 

Jonah 1:2-3 – majority of the time, we go our own path, rather than do ministry His Way.

Gen. 8:10-11 – we can give people hope, in this life. For unbelievers, if you listen to them talk, it sounds pretty hopeless. 

Num. 9:18 – follow His commands, it’s not difficult to treat people with love, we can pray and pray for that to happen

Isaiah 30:18 NKJV – worth more thought

John 11:6 – Jesus likes to make the situation beyond remedy, to display that only He can be the resolve.

Col. 3:1-2 – an often ignored reminder, ‘remember, Jesus? Remember, His concerns?’ -> (Phil. 3:20)

John 14:2-3 – are we preparing a place for His people? 

Psalm 17:15 NKJV – this translation, wow, so congruent to the New Testament

John 17:24 – a need for His people, to substantiate this desire of His into prayer and into our very desires

Psalm 27:8 – a prayer that the congregation needs to be reminded to pray

Romans 12:1 – “holy” stands out to me; what’s the point, if we behave unholy toward Him and people?

Rev. 1:16-17 – where we go, let our spiritual impact be just of that, that His life reaches through us as His vessels, to places that the sun shines

Lam. 3:31-33 and Psalm 34:19 – I look like I’ve been in a blender, on the inside

Zech. 13:9 – I also wouldn’t mind something that characterizes a trip to Disneyland but alright. 

Matt. 5:10-12 – the last part of verse 12, the joy and gladness, I believe is the inward satisfaction that the Lord animates, regarding how happy He is that His concerns are prioritized and carried out to their fullest (2 Cor. 1:5).

Judges 7:4 – God enjoys challenges

John 6:6 – Jesus knows what to do

1 Samuel 30:6 NKJV – good translation

Jer. 7:23 – do we really obey the Bible?  

Deut. 5:33 – a very good reminder

Luke 5:5-6 – imagine, if we all did what the Bible said and followed His leadings, the entire spiritual landscape would change.

Psalm 104:4 NKJV – we are meant to shape people’s spiritual lives, for good

Acts 3:19-20 NKJV – “refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord.” These types of ministries, are close to impossible to find, they are like more difficult than winning some lottery jackpot. Reflect in your lifetime, have you come across, less than a handful? Where you felt “on earth as it is in Heaven” (Matt. 6:10b) through a vessel of the Lord’s?

2 Cor. 1:8-9 – a lot more confidence in the Lord, there needs to be more prayer for that 

Ezekiel 48:35 NKJV – “the Lord is there”

Luke 22:30 NKJV – wow

Mark 8:34-35 – sometimes, God makes us lose worldly things, to make us realize things of the Spirit.

Matthew 10:38-39 NKJV – a caution

Mark 16:20 NKJV – “the Lord working with them.”

Psalm 51:17 NKJV – this translation, the first sentence, broadens the meaning of sacrifice 

Isaiah 53:7 – silence is also a form of spiritual behaviour 

Gen. 22:9 – coming to the place, where God appoints for us, not where we decide how ministries ought to be.

1 Thess. 1:8 (NKJV) – everything about this verse sounds awesome

Phil. 2:1-2 – sounds like a personal ask from the Holy Spirit?

Luke 9:23, 1 Cor. 15:31 and 2 Cor. 4:11 – interesting

John 8:12 – a self-check reflection, during communion + everyday

Proverbs 24:10 – how much of His strength is the Lord showing you that you aren’t using?

Luke 9:23 – everyday actively, denying myself any opportunities for sinning with the Holy Spirit and choose the Lord’s way.