Transformed by Faith

1 Corinthians 16:14 Let all that you do be done in love.

Now it is required that those who have been given a trust must prove faithful. 1 Corinthians 4:2   Instead of living self-concerned, make mature, sacrificial, Christ-like choices in our relationships.    For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will save it.  Luke 9:24  Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit.  Rather, in humility value others a...

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.  Matthew 6:34 So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.  Isaiah 41:10  I sought the Lord and He answered me, and delivered me from all my fears.  Psalm 34:4

Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me bless his holy name.  Psalm 103:2  Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.  Psalm 62:5

 “What Satan meant for evil, God means for good.”   Genesis 50:20

And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deed.  Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another. Hebrews 10:24-25

Submit therefore to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.  James 4:7

No temptation has seized you except what is common to man.  And God faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear.  But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.   1 Corinthians 10:13

Forgive as the Lord forgave you.  Colossians 3:13;  Therefore, I tell you, her many sins have been forgiven—as her great love has shown. But whoever has been forgiven little loves little.” Luke 7:47 

For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart. Hebrews  4:12 

Philippians 3:12b – 15 Not that I have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but I press on to take hold of that for which Christ Jesus took hold of me. 13 Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God...

 “I am the true vine, and my Father is the gardener. 2 He cuts off every branch in me that bears no fruit, while every branch that does bear fruit he prunes[ a ] so that it will be even more fruitful. 3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you. 4 Remain in me, as I also remain in you. No branch can bear fruit by itself; it must remain in the vine. Neither can you bear fruit u...

1 Corinthians 13:11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

Psalm 38:8-9 I am feeble and utterly crushed;    I groan in anguish of heart. 9 All my longings lie open before you, Lord;    my sighing is not hidden from you.

Luke 8:17 For there is nothing hidden that will not be disclosed, and nothing concealed that will not be known or brought out into the open.

My prayer is not that you take them out of the world, but that you protect them from the evil one…Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.  John 17:15, 17 

We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ. 2 Corinthians 10:5 

Therefore, we do not lose heart.  Though outwardly, we are wasting away, yet inwardly, we are being renewed day by day.  For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.  So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen.  For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians 4:18

For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12

For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to  do. Ephesians 2:10

For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, nether height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Romans 8:38-39

How great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! 1 John 3:1

12 We do not dare to classify or compare ourselves with some who commend themselves. When they measure themselves by themselves and compare themselves with themselves, they are not wise. 2 Corinthians 10:12 Do not judge, or you too will be judged. Matthew 7:1

SOUL LONGING or SOUL SEARCHING Surely you desire truth in the inner parts; you teach me wisdom in the inmost place. Psalm 51:6 All my longings lie open before you, O Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you. Psalm 38:9

Therefore if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone and the new has come. 2 Corinthians 5:17