Hello, John and Doves,
Take My Life (Holiness) Uplifting Version by Passionate Praise
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It is written,
I am overwhelmed with joy in the LORD my God! For he has dressed me
with the clothing of salvation and draped me in a robe of righteousness.
I am like a bridegroom in his wedding suit or a bride with her jewels.
Isaiah 61:10 NLT
Again, it is written,
23This is what the Lord
of Heaven’s Armies, the God of Israel, says: “When I bring them back
from captivity, the people of Judah and its towns will again say, ‘The Lord bless you, O righteous home, O holy mountain!’ 24Townspeople and farmers and shepherds alike will live together in peace and happiness. 25For I have given rest to the weary and joy to the sorrowing.”
26At this, I woke up and looked around. My sleep had been very sweet.
27“The day is coming,” says the Lord, “when I will greatly increase the human population and the number of animals here in Israel and Judah. 28In
the past I deliberately uprooted and tore down this nation. I overthrew
it, destroyed it, and brought disaster upon it. But in the future I
will just as deliberately plant it and build it up. I, the Lord, have spoken!
Jeremiah 31:23-28 NLT
And yet again,
Therefore, you son of man, say to the children of your people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turns from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sins.
Ezekiel 33:12 American King James Version
Thus it is written,
23Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the Kingdom of God!”24This amazed them. But Jesus said again, “Dear children, it is very hard to enter the Kingdom of God. 25In fact, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich person to enter the Kingdom of God!”
26The disciples were astounded. “Then who in the world can be saved?” they asked.
27Jesus looked at them intently and said, “Humanly speaking, it is impossible. But not with God. Everything is possible with God.”
28Then Peter began to speak up. “We’ve given up everything to follow you,” he said.
29“Yes,” Jesus replied, “and
I assure you that everyone who has given up house or brothers or
sisters or mother or father or children or property, for my sake and for
the Good News,30will
receive now in return a hundred times as many houses, brothers,
sisters, mothers, children, and property—along with persecution. And in
the world to come that person will have eternal life.31But
many who are the greatest now will be least important then, and those
who seem least important now will be the greatest then.”
Mark 10:23-31 NLT
And so we read,
18And
all of this is a gift from God, who brought us back to himself through
Christ. And God has given us this task of reconciling people to him. 19For
God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, no longer counting
people’s sins against them. And he gave us this wonderful message of
reconciliation. 20So we are Christ’s ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” 21For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
2 Corinthians 5:18-21 NLT
~Blessings,
Mike