For not by their own sword
           did they win the land,
nor did their own arm
            give them victory,
but Your right hand,
and Your arm,
and the light of Your countenance,
for You delighted in them.

                           Psalm 44.3

(Acknowledge the LORD
     in all you do.
His presence changes everything.)

Why are you cast down, O my soul,
and why are you disquieted within me?
Hope in God,
for I shall again praise Him,
          my help and my God.

                             Psalm 42.5

(Stake your life on His faithfulness)

He who heeds instruction is on the path to life,

but he who rejects reproof goes astray.

  

                                  Proverbs 10.17

(A teachable heart will never let you down.)

Hatred stirs up strife,
but love covers all offenses.

                 Proverbs 10.12

(Approach that situation
         with a different heart)

But may all who seek You
rejoice and be glad in You,
may those who love Your salvation
say continually,
           "Great is the LORD!"
As for me,
I am poor and needy,
but the LORD takes thought for me.
You are my help and my deliverer;
do not tarry, O my God!

                            Psalm 40. 16-17

(Keep my heart calibrated
on the reality of God's presence)

Take heart,
          it is I;
have no fear.

                 Mark 6.50

(He is in this thing,
           no reason to panic)

The sower sows the Word.

                        Mark 4.14

(In word and deed,

no matter where or to whom,

God will bear fruit

even where you may least expect)

Mark the blameless man,
       and behold the upright.

                      Psalm 37.37

(Watch carefully how the faithful walk,
       how to live God's grace and truth)

...the anointing oil of the LORD

             is upon you.

                    Leviticus 10.7

(We bear His name before all the world)

And Moses said,

"This is the thing

 which the LORD

      commanded you to do,

and the glory of the LORD

      will appear to you."

                    Leviticus 9.6

(What has God placed before me today?

         I have only to be faithful.)

Fret not yourself;

it tends only to evil.

                       Psalm 37.8

(Nothing good has ever been 

accomplished by worry.

It only takes my eyes off God.)

...in Your light

          do we see light.

                        Psalm 36.9

(God gives us hope when all is bleak

and eyes to see things in a different light,

     that which is beyond ourselves)

And in the morning,

a great while before day,

He rose and went out

             to a lonely place,

and there He prayed.

                     Mark 1.35

(Time with God 

will change everything

in your day and in your world

because He changes you.)

...and lo,

    I am with you always...

                     Matthew 28.20

(What part of that do we not understand?)

We love,
because He first loved us.

                      1 John 4.19

(God did not just create love,
         He IS love.)

Happy Valentines Day, my friend.

...as he came down from the mountain,
Moses did not know
that the skin on his face shone
because he had been talking to God.

                           Exodus 34.29

(Time in God's Word transforms us
       from the inside out)

O LORD, You are my God;
I will exalt You,
I will praise Your name;
for You have done wonderful things,
plans formed of old,
               faithful and sure.

                            Isaiah 25. 1-2

(God is great
       and very, very good)

...in the wilderness
       where he was encamped...

                        Exodus 18.5

(The center of God's will
      is the safest place on earth)

Behold, I send an angel before you,
        to guard you on the way
and to bring you to the place
which I have prepared.

                        Exodus 23.20

(God goes before you)

But I trust in You, O LORD,
I say, 
        "You are my God."
My times are in your hand.

                      Psalm 31. 14-15

(Even when I don't understand,
God is still sovereign)

...angels came and ministered to Him.

                           Matthew 4.11

(blessing follows obedience)

Blessed are all who take refuge in Him.

                              Psalm 2.12

(His shield is not designed to hide behind,
  but provides His strength and protection
                  to go forth.)

Keep My commandments and live,
keep My teachings as the apple of your eye,
bind them on your fingers,
write them on the tablet of your heart.

                            Proverbs 7. 2-3

(God's Word changes you
  and thereby impacts everything
you see, do and treasure)

...the LORD sits enthroned
         as king
                for ever.

                        Psalm 29.10

(no matter what,
    on that you can depend)

Now I know
     that the LORD will help His anointed;
He will answer him from His holy heaven
    with mighty victories by His right hand.
Some boast of chariots,
                 and some of horses,
but we boast
       in the name of the LORD our God.

                              Psalm 20.6-7

(God never meant us to go it alone)

But Moses said,
   "Oh, my Lord,
           send, I pray,
some other person."

                Exodus 4.12

(and look at what God
          did through him)

...but with God
              all things are possible.

                        Matthew 19.26

( resolving "impossible" situations
     is His specialty)

    

But the people of Israel
    walked on dry ground through the sea,
the waters being a wall to them on their right hand
and on their left.

                        Exodus 14.29

(whatever my "sea" may be,
trusting Him through it)