Bible Verses for Power Msg

"I'm absolutely convinced that nothing—nothing living or dead, angelic or demonic, today or tomorrow,"

"God doesn't want us to be shy with his gifts, but bold and loving and sensible."

"Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope!"

"He gets the last word; yes, he does."

"fires, and sword thrusts, turned disadvantage to advantage, won battles, routed alien armies."

"Look at him! God, the Master, comes in power, ready to go into action. He is going to pay back his enemies and reward those who have loved him."

"He energizes those who get tired, gives fresh strength to dropouts."

"Never walk away from someone who deserves help; your hand is God's hand for that person."

"This is no afternoon athletic contest that we'll walk away from and forget about in a couple of hours. This is for keeps, a life-or-death fight to the finish against the Devil and all his angels."

"Look at the night skies: Who do you think made all this? Who marches this army of stars out each night, counts them off, calls each by name —so magnificent! so powerful!— and never overlooks a single one?"

"God went for the jugular when he sent his own Son. He didn't deal with the problem as something remote and unimportant. In his Son, Jesus, he personally took on the human condition, entered the disordered mess of struggling humanity in order to set it right once and for all. The law code, weakened as it always was by fractured human nature, could never have done that. The law always ended up being used as a Band-Aid on sin instead of a deep healing of it."

"God didn't send me out to collect a following for myself, but to preach the Message of what he has done, collecting a following for him. And he didn't send me to do it with a lot of fancy rhetoric of my own, lest the powerful action at the center—Christ on the Cross—be trivialized into mere words."

"The Message that points to Christ on the Cross seems like sheer silliness to those hellbent on destruction, but for those on the way of salvation it makes perfect sense. This is the way God works, and most powerfully as it turns out."

"But to us who are personally called by God himself—both Jews and Greeks—Christ is God's ultimate miracle and wisdom all wrapped up in one."

"and so nothing I said could have impressed you or anyone else. But the Message came through anyway. God's Spirit and God's power did it,"