A Long Reach

But now IN Christ Jesus
ye who sometimes were FAR OFF
are made nigh
BY the blood of Christ.
Ephesians 2:13

Don't Misunderstand

The Lord is not slack concerning his promise,

as some men count slackness;

but is LONGSUFFERING to us-ward,

not willing that ANY should perish,

but that ALL should come to repentance.
II. Peter 3:9

One Way. One Gate.

Those who heard Jesus use this illustration

didn't understand what he meant,
so he explained it to them.

“I assure you,

I AM THE GATE for the sheep,” he said.
“ALL OTHERS who came before me

were thieves and robbers.

But the TRUE sheep did not listen to them.

Yes, I am the gate.

Those who come in THROUGH ME

WILL be saved.

Wherever they go,

they will find green pastures.

The thief's purpose is to

steal and kill and destroy.

My purpose is to

GIVE LIFE

in ALL ITS FULLNESS.
St. John 10:6-10 NLT

You Are Always On My Mind

BLESSED is the man that

walketh NOT in the counsel of the ungodly,

nor standeth in the way of sinners,

nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
But his DELIGHT

is in the law of the LORD;

and in this law

doth he MEDITATE DAY AND NIGHT.

And he shall be like

a tree planted by the rivers of water,

that bringeth forth

HIS fruit

in HIS season;

his leaf also shall not wither;

and whatsoever he doeth

SHALL PROSPER.
Psalm 1:1-3

Power Speak

And GOD SAID........AND THERE WAS...
And GOD SAID........AND IT WAS SO.
And GOD SAID........AND IT WAS SO.
And GOD SAID........AND IT WAS SO.
And GOD SAID........AND IT WAS SO.
And GOD SAID........AND GOD SAW

THAT IT WAS GOOD.

And GOD SAID........AND GOD SAW

THAT IT WAS GOOD.
Genesis 1:3-25

Ah Man

From that time
Jesus
began to preach, and to say,

REPENT:

for the kingdom of heaven IS AT HAND.

St. Matthew 4:17

Please Sir, I Want More.

Blessed are they which do

HUNGER and THIRST

after righteousness:

for they shall be FILLED.

St. Matthew 5:6

Do Not Read

STUDY

to shew thyself approved UNTO God,

A WORKMAN

that needeth not to be ashamed,

RIGHTLY

dividing the word of truth.
II. Timothy 2:15

I'll Drink To That!

Let brotherly LOVE continue.
Be not forgetful

to entertain STRANGERS:

for thereby

some have entertained ANGELS

unawares.
Hebrews 13:1

Dig For It

My son,

IF thou wilt RECEIVE my words,

and HIDE my commandments with thee;
So that thou

incline thine EAR unto wisdom,

and apply thine heart to understanding;
Yea,

IF thou CRIEST AFTER knowledge,

and liftest up thy voice for understanding;
IF thou SEEKEST her as silver,

and searchest for her

as for hid TREASURES;
THEN SHALT THOU UNDERSTAND

the fear of the LORD,

and FIND THE KNOWLEDGE of God.
For the LORD GIVETH wisdom:

out of his mouth

cometh knowledge and understanding.
Proverbs 2:1-6

On The Tip Of My Heart

But sanctify

the Lord God

IN your hearts:

and BE READY always

to give an ANSWER

to every man

that asketh you

a REASON of the hope

that is in you

with meekness and fear.

I Peter 3:15

The Big Plan

And we know that

ALL THINGS

WORK TOGETHER

for good

to THEM THAT LOVE God,

to them who are THE CALLED

according to his purpose.
Romans 8:28

A Clean Heart, Please.

Have MERCY upon me, O God,

according to thy LOVINGKINDNESS:

according unto the MULTITUDE of thy tender mercies

BLOT OUT my transgressions.
Wash me THROUGHLY from mine iniquity,

and CLEANSE me from my sin.
For I ACKNOWLEDGE MY TRANSGRESSIONS:

and my sin is ever before me.
Behold, thou desirest TRUTH in the INWARD PARTS:

and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to KNOW WISDOM.
PURGE ME with hyssop, and I shall be clean:

WASH ME, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Make me to hear JOY and GLADNESS;

that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoice.
HIDE THY FACE from my sins,

and BLOT OUT ALL mine iniquities.

CREATE IN ME A CLEAN HEART, O GOD;

AND RENEW A RIGHT SPIRIT WITHIN ME.

Cast me NOT AWAY from thy presence;

and TAKE NOT thy holy spirit from me.
RESTORE unto me the joy of thy salvation;

and uphold me with thy free spirit.
Then will I teach transgressors thy ways;

and sinners shall be CONVERTED UNTO THEE.
O Lord, OPEN THOU MY LIPS;

and my mouth shall shew forth thy PRAISE.
For thou desirest NOT sacrifice; else would I give it:

thou delightest NOT in burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are A BROKEN SPIRIT:

A BROKEN AND CONTRITE HEART, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Psalm 51:1-3,6-13,15-17

Imagine That

But as it is written,

EYE hath not seen,

nor EAR heard,

neither have entered

INTO THE HEART of man,

THE THINGS

WHICH GOD HATH PREPARED

for them that

LOVE him.
I. Corinthians 2:9

Doctor, Anyone?

...many publicans and sinners

came and sat down

with him and his disciples.
And when the Pharisees saw it,

they said unto his disciples,

Why eateth your Master

with publicans and sinners?
But when Jesus heard that,

he said unto them,

They that be whole

need not a physician,

but they that are sick.
But go ye

and learn what that meaneth,

I will have MERCY,

and NOT sacrifice:

for I am NOT COME

TO CALL THE RIGHTEOUS,

BUT SINNERS to repentance.
St. Matthew 9:10-13

Pure. Absolute.

Herein IS love,

NOT that we loved God,

but that HE LOVED US,

and SENT his Son

to be the propitiation for our sins.

Beloved,

if God so loved us,

we OUGHT ALSO to love one another.
I. John 4:10-11

(Let Him) Just Do It

I CAN DO ALL things

THROUGH Christ

which STRENGTHENETH me.
Philippians 4:13

...If God be for us,

WHO CAN be against us?
Romans 8:31

Easy Does It

Thou hast ENLARGED my steps under me,

that my FEET DID NOT SLIP.
Psalm 18:36

Time...Anyone?

...And the EVENING and the MORNING were the first day.

...And the EVENING and the MORNING were the second day.

And the EVENING and the MORNING were

the third day.

And the EVENING and the MORNING were

the fourth day.

And the EVENING and the MORNING were

the fifth day.

And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold it was VERY GOOD.

And the EVENING and the MORNING were

the sixth day.

And God blessed the SEVENTH day,

and SANCTIFIED it:

because that in it he had RESTED

from all his work which

GOD CREATED AND MADE.
Genesis 1, ch2:3

How EXCELLENT!

O LORD our Lord,

how EXCELLENT is thy name

in all the earth!...
When I consider THY heavens,

the work of thy fingers,

the moon and the stars,

which thou hast ordained;
WHAT IS man,

that thou art mindful of him?

and the son of man,

that thou visitest him?
For thou hast made him

a little lower than the angels,

and hast CROWNED him

with glory and honour.
Thou madest him to have dominion over the works of thy hands;

thou hast put all things under his feet:
O LORD our Lord,

how EXCELLENT is thy name

in ALL the earth!
Psalm 8:1,3-6,9

Don't Waver

If any of you lack wisdom let him ASK of God,

that giveth to all men LIBERALLY,

and upbraideth not;

and IT SHALL BE GIVEN him.
But let him ASK IN FAITH NOTHING WAVERING.

For he that wavereth

is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.
For let not that man think that he shall receive any thing of the Lord.
A DOUBLE MINDED man is unstable in all his ways.
James 1:5-8

Did You Hear That?

...let every man be
SWIFT to hear,
SLOW to speak,
SLOW to wrath:
For the wrath of man worketh NOT

the righteousness of God.
James 1:19-20

Believe

For God SO LOVED the world,

that he gave his ONLY begotten Son,

that WHOSOEVER BELIEVETH IN HIM

should not perish,

but have everlasting life.
St. John 3:16

Scarlet Not Your Colour?

...Though your sins be

AS SCARLET,

they SHALL BE

as white as snow;

though they be

RED LIKE CRIMSON,

they SHALL BE

as wool.
Isaiah 1:18

Going Somewhere?

TRUST in the LORD with ALL thine heart;

and lean not unto thine own understanding.
In ALL THY WAYS acknowledge him,

and he SHALL DIRECT

thy paths.
Proverbs 3:5-6

OK, So You're Angry

BE YE ANGRY, and sin not:

let not the sun go down upon your wrath:
NEITHER GIVE PLACE to the devil.
Ephesians 4:26-27

Agree with thine adversary QUICKLY, whiles thou art in the way with him;
St. Matthew 5:25

Be Who?

But BE YE DOERS of the word,

and not hearers only,

DECEIVING your own selves.

James 1:22

Wake Up

And that, knowing the time, that NOW it is high time

to AWAKE out of sleep:

for NOW is our salvation NEARER than when we believed.
Romans 13:11

Look At You? Look At Me!

JUDGE NOT, that ye be not judged.
For with what judgment ye judge,

YE SHALL BE JUDGED:

and with what measure ye mete,

it shall be MEASURED TO YOU AGAIN.
And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye,

but considerest not THE BEAM that is in thine own eye?...
Thou HYPOCRITE,

first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly

to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
St. Matthew 7:1-3,5

As We...

And FORGIVE us our debts,

AS WE forgive our debtors.
St. Matthew 6:12

For IF ye forgive men their trespasses,

your heavenly Father WILL also forgive you:
But if ye forgive NOT men their trespasses,

NEITHER WILL your Father forgive your trespasses.
St. Matthew 6:14-15

The Greatest

Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and HAVE NOT charity,

I am become as sounding brass,

or a tinkling cymbal.
And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries,

and all knowledge; and though I have

ALL FAITH, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity,

I AM NOTHING.
And though I bestow ALL my goods to feed the POOR, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity,

it PROFITETH ME NOTHING.
Charity SUFFERETH LONG, and is KIND; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,
Doth not behave itself UNSEEMLY,

seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, THINKETH no evil;
Rejoiceth not in iniquity,

but rejoiceth in the TRUTH;
BEARETH all things, BELIEVETH all things, HOPETH all things, ENDURETH all things.
Charity NEVER faileth:

but whether there be prophecies,

they shall fail;

whether there be tongues,

they shall cease;

whether there be knowledge,

it shall vanish away.
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the GREATEST of these is CHARITY.
I. Corinthians 13:1-8,13

Second

...Thou shalt

LOVE THY NEIGHBOUR

as thyself.

St. Matthew 22:39

Freedom

Jesus answered them,

Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin

is the servant of sin.
IF THE SON therefore shall make you free,

YOU SHALL BE free indeed.

St. John 8:34,36

Better For It

There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is FAITHFUL, who will not suffer you to be tempted ABOVE that ye are able ; but will with the temptation ALSO make a way to ESCAPE, that ye may BE ABLE to bear it.

I. Corinthians 10:13

...count it all JOY when you fall into divers temptations;
Knowing this, that the trying of your faith WORKETH PATIENCE.
But let patience have her PERFECT work,

that you may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.
James 1:2-4

Signed, Sealed...

And GRIEVE NOT the holy Spirit of God, WHEREBY YE ARE SEALED UNTO the day of redemption.
Let ALL bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and CLAMOUR, and EVIL SPEAKING, be PUT AWAY from you, with ALL malice:
And be ye KIND one to another, tenderhearted, FORGIVING one another,

EVEN as God FOR CHRIST'S SAKE hath forgiven you.
Ephesians 4:30-32

"Help!"

Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmities: for WE KNOW NOT what we should pray for as we ought:

but the Spirit itself maketh INTERCESSION for us with GROANINGS

which cannot be uttered.

Romans 8:26

Inseparable

But wilt thou know,

O vain man, that

FAITH WITHOUT WORKS IS DEAD?
For as the

BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT

is dead,

so

FAITH WITHOUT WORKS

IS DEAD ALSO.
James 2:20,26

Stand Here

That your faith should

NOT STAND

IN THE WISDOM of men,

but

IN THE POWER of God.
I. Corinthians 2:5

Come

DRAW NIGH to God, and HE WILL

draw nigh to you.
James 4:8

And ye are Christ's;

and Christ is God's.
I. Corinthians 3:23

Be Fervent

...The effectual FERVENT prayer of a righteous man AVAILETH MUCH.
James 5:16

Be careful for nothing;

but IN EVERY THING by prayer and supplication

WITH THANKSGIVING

let your REQUESTS

be made known unto God.
Philippians 4:6

FIRST

Jesus said unto him,

Thou shalt

LOVE THE LORD THY GOD

with

all thy HEART,

and with

all thy SOUL,

and with

all thy MIND.

This is the

FIRST and GREAT

commandment.
St. Matthew 22:37-38

Under Grace

For sin shall NOT have dominion over you;

for ye are NOT under the law,

BUT UNDER GRACE.
Romans 6:14

The Gift

For BY GRACE are ye saved THROUGH FAITH:

and that not of yourselves:

it is the GIFT of God:
Not of works,

lest any man should BOAST.

Ephesians 2:8-9