The Pursuit Of A Promise

A sound mind makes for a robust body, but runaway emotions corrode the bones. —Proverbs 14:30 MSG RestoredMinistries.org

Every word of God heals. There's no Word of God that is devoid of power. He sent His word and healed them, And rescued them from their destruction. ~ Psalm 107:20 RestoredMinistries.org

How do you widen your heart? “Love ridiculously” When it doesn’t feel right or enough or silly or strange — you just keep loving… God, Yourself, and Others Keep stretching yourself to love… ALL - the unlovable and the hard the distant, the discounted, the favored and the few … it doesn’t really matter - All that does… is that you do! …Love One Another…— John 13:34 — XXOO Michelle Bollom Click the...

If we claim that we experience a shared life with him and continue to stumble around in the dark, we’re obviously lying through our teeth—we’re not living what we claim. But if we walk in the light, God himself being the light, we also experience a shared life with one another, as the sacrificed blood of Jesus, God’s Son, purges all our sin. - 1 John 1:7 MSG RestoredMinistries.org

If you want to know what God wants you to do, ask him, and he will gladly tell you, for he is always ready to give a bountiful supply of wisdom to all who ask him; he will not resent it. —James 1:5 TLB RestoredMinistries.org

But to the poor oh Lord you are a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat. —Isaiah 25:4 TLB RestoredMinistries.org

Post this at all the intersections, dear friends: Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. God’s righteousness doesn’t grow from human anger. So throw all spoiled virtue and cancerous evil in the garbage. In simple humility, let our gardener, God, landscape you with the Word, making a salvation-garden of your life. - James 1:21 RestoredMinistries.o...

Psalm 33:20, "We wait in hope for the LORD; He is our help and our shield." (NIV). Hold On Pain Ends! Wait in hope! RestoredMinistries.org

It’s compassion that stands in solidarity with the suffering and isn’t the greatest gift we can give... always the gift of presence? ~ Ann Voskamp … be compassionate, just as your Father is compassionate. —Luke 6:36 RestoredMinistries.org

Jesus answered by quoting Deuteronomy: “It takes more than bread to stay alive. It takes a steady stream of words from God’s mouth.” - Matthew 4:4 RestoredMinistries.org

Never doubt God’s mighty power to work in you and accomplish all this. He will achieve infinitely more than your greatest request, your most unbelievable dream, and exceed your wildest imagination! He will outdo them all, for his miraculous power constantly energizes you. —Ephesians 3:20 TPT RestoredMinistries.org

But the wisdom from above is first pure [morally and spiritually undefiled], then peace-loving [courteous, considerate], gentle, reasonable [and willing to listen], full of compassion and good fruits. It is unwavering, without [self-righteous] hypocrisy [and self-serving guile]. —James 3:17 AMP RestoredMinistries.org

God-devotion makes a country strong; God-avoidance leaves people weak. - Proverbs 14:34 MSG RestoredMinistries.org

For GOD is sheer beauty, all-generous in love, loyal always and ever. - Psalm 100:5 MSG RestoredMinistries.org

Happy Independence Day! Now the Lord is the Spirit, and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty [emancipation from bondage, true freedom].RestoredMinistries.org —2 Corinthians 3:17 AMP

“The heart is hopelessly dark and deceitful, a puzzle that no one can figure out. But I, GOD, search the heart and examine the mind. I get to the heart of the human. I get to the root of things. I treat them as they really are, not as they pretend to be.” * * * - Jeremiah 17:9-10 MSG RestoredMinistries.org

I’m speaking to you out of deep gratitude for all that God has given me, and especially as I have responsibilities in relation to you. Living then, as every one of you does, in pure grace, it’s important that you not misinterpret yourselves as people who are bringing this goodness to God. No, God brings it all to you. The only accurate way to understand ourselves is by what God is and by what he d...

Podcast “You’re familiar with the old written law, ‘Love your friend,’ and its unwritten companion, ‘Hate your enemy.’ I’m challenging that. I’m telling you to love your enemies. Let them bring out the best in you, not the worst. When someone gives you a hard time, respond with the energies of prayer, for then you are working out of your true selves, your God-created selves. This is what God does....

Love has hands to help others. It has feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of others. That’s what love looks like.~Augustine I tell you the truth, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers of mine, you did for me. —Matthew 25:40 RestoredMinistries.org

I overflow with praise when I come before you, for the anointing of your presence satisfies me like nothing else. You are such a rich banquet of pleasure to my soul. —Psalm 63:5 TPT RestoredMinistries.org

Though good advice lies deep within the heart, a person with understanding will draw it out. — Proverbs 20:5 NLT RestoredMinistries.org

May we shout for joy when we hear of your victory and raise a victory banner in the name of our God. May the Lord answer all your prayers. — Psalm 20:5 NLT RestoredMinistries.org

Here’s what will happen. While you’re out among the nations where God has dispersed you and the blessings and curses come in just the way I have set them before you, and you and your children take them seriously and come back to God, your God, and obey him with your whole heart and soul according to everything that I command you today, God , your God, will restore everything you lost; he’ll have c...

Solid food is for those who are mature, who have trained themselves to recognize the difference between right and wrong and then do what is right. — Hebrews 5:14 NLT RestoredMinistries.org

"And I will make you a great nation and I will bless you abundantly and make your name great. And you shall be a blessing and source of great good to others." Genesis 12:2 AMP RestoredMinistries.org