The More I Grow - Inspiring Scriptures
John 8:12: Jesus spoke to the people once more and said, “ I AM the Light of the world. If you follow Me, you won’t have to walk in the darkness, because you will have the Light that leads to life. “
1 John 4: 7-8: Dear Friends, let us continue to love one another, for love comes from God. Anyone who loves is a child of God and knows God. But anyone who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
1 John 4: 9-10: God showed how much He loved us by sending His One and Only Son into the world so that we might have eternal life through Him. This is real love - not that we loved God, but that He loved us and sent His Son as a sacrifice to take away our sins.
Romans 8:5-8 in the Message translation of the Bible says:
Those who think they can do it on their own end up obsessed with measuring their own moral muscle but never get around to exercising it in real life. Those who trust God’s action in them find that God’s Spirit is in them- living and breathing God! Obsession with self in these matters is a dead end; attention to God leads us out into the open, into spacious, free life. Focusing on the self is the opposite of focusing on God. Anyone completely absorbed in self ignores God, ends up thinking more about self than God. That person ignores Who God IS and what He is doing. And God isn’t pleased at being ignored.
James 4:1-3 Where do you think all these appalling wars and quarrels come from? Do you think they just happen? Think again. They come about because you want your own way, and fight for it deep inside yourselves. You lust for what you don’t have and are willing to kill to get it. You want what isn’t yours and will risk violence to get your hands on it. You wouldn’t think of just asking God for it, would you? And why not? Because you know you’d be asking for what you have no right to. You’re spoiled children, each wanting your own way.
Ezekiel 37:1-4: (Amp Bible) The Hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out in the Spirit of the LORD and set me down in the midst of a valley: and it was full of bones. And He caused me to pass round about among them, and behold, there were very many human bones in the open valley or plain, and behold, they were very dry. And he said to me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O LORD God , You know! Again, He said to me, Prophesy to these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, hear the Word of the Lord.
Verses 12- 14 of Ezekiel 37
Therefore prophesy and say to them , Thus says the Lord your God; Behold, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, O My people; and I will bring you(back home) to the land of Israel.
And you shall know that I AM the Lord (your Sovereign Ruler) when I have opened your graves and caused you to come up on out of your graves, O My people.
And I shall put My Spirit in you and you shall live, and I shall place you in your own land. Then you shall know, understand, and realize that I the Lord have spoken it and performed it , says the Lord.
Isaiah 42:16: God’s Word Translation
I will lead the blind on unfamiliar roads. I will lead them on unfamiliar paths. I will turn darkness into light in front of them. I will make rough places smooth. These are the things I will do for them, and I will never abandon them.
Additional Resources:
Steven Furtick: Triggered Taking Back Your Mind in the Age of Anxiety
JimmyEvans: The time is Now to Change Your Attitude
https://endtimes.substack.com/p/the-time-is-now-to-change-your-attitude
Beth Jones: Getting a Grip on the Basics is a great resource to help you get the basics of how vital you are to God and how good He desires to be to you
https://www.thebasicsuniversity.com
Joyce Meyer: The Mind is a Battlefield - https://joycemeyer.org