AUGUST 2018 "BLAST" MESSAGES

8/6  ~  "Not all of us can do great things. But we can all do small things with great love."     (Mother Teresa)

"Let all that you do be done with love."     (1 Corinthians 16:14 NKJV)

8/7 ~  "It's not the absence of storms that sets us apart. It's whom we discover in the storm:  An Unstirred Christ."    (Max Lucado)

"For I, the LORD your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, "Fear not, I am the one who helps you."       (Isaiah 41:13 ESV)

8/8  ~  "There are two ways to live your life. One as if nothing is a miracle, the other is as if everything is."    (Albert Einstein)

"You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples."     (Psalm 77:14 NIV)

8/9  ~  "Sometimes God lets you hit rock bottom so that you will discover that He is the Rock at the bottom."    (Tony Evans)

"Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him."     (Psalm 62:5)

8/10  ~  "Hating people because of their color is wrong. And it doesn't matter which color does the hating. It's just plain wrong."    (Muhammad Ali)

"And this commandment we have from Him, that the one who loves God should love his brother also."    (1 John 4:21 NASB)

8/11  ~  "Ultimately, tragedy on earth can only be understood rightly from the perspective of heaven."    (David Platt)

"I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace.  In this world you will have trouble.  But take heart!  I have overcome the world."   

(John 16:33 NIV)

8/12  ~  "We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."    (Maya Angelou)

"So we do not lose heart.  Though our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day."     (2 Corinthians 4:16 ESV)

JULY 2018 "BLAST" MESSAGES

7/2  ~  "Begin each day with a grateful heart."    (Unknown)

"I will praise You, O LORD, with my whole heart; I will tell of all Your marvelous works."     (Psalm 9:1 NKJV)

7/3  ~  "Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while one ascends, the other descends."     (Arthur Hopkins)

"Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God's will for you in Christ Jesus."      (1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV)

7/4  ~  "If you hold onto your history you do it at the expense of your destiny."    (T. D. Jakes)

"...forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus."      (Philippians 3:13-14 NASB)

7/5  ~  "God loves each of us as if there is only one of us to love."   (St. Augustine)

"We know how much God loves us, and we have put our trust in his love.  God is love, and all who live in love live in God, and God lives in them."    

 (1 John 4:16 NLT)

7/6  ~  "I do not at all understand the mystery of grace-only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us."   (Anne Lamott)

"Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need."   (Hebrews 4:16)

7/7  ~  "It is such comfort to drop the trials of life into God's hands and know he is going to take care of them."    (Unknown)

"But I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble."   (Psalm 59:16 NIV)

7/8  ~  "Through scripture we find that if we are faithful to Him and confess our sins, we will be forgiven and cleansed."    (Unknown)

"If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness."    (1 John 1:9 NKJV)

JUNE 2018 "BLAST" MESSAGES

6/4  ~  "Grace wins every time."     (Unknown)

"....and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus..."         (Romans 3:24 ESV)

6/5  ~  "God will not look you over for medals, degrees or diplomas but for scars."    (Unknown)

"Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts."   (Psalm 139:23 NIV)

6/6  ~  "Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars.  You have to let go at some point in order to move forward."  (C. S. Lewis) 

"Cast your burden on the LORD, and He shall sustain you; He shall never permit the righteous to be moved."    (Psalm 55:22 NKJV)

6/7  ~  "The only one that won't fail you is the one I put my trust in.  That'd be Jesus the Son of God."     (Si Robertson)

"Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you."     (Psalm 9:10 NIV)

6/8  ~  "The man or woman who is content is not the one who has the most but he who needs the least."      (John Courson)

"Make sure that your character is free from the love of money, being content with what you have; for He Himself has said, "I WILL NEVER DESERT YOU, NOR WILL I EVER FORSAKE YOU...."    (Hebrews 13:5 NASB)

6/9  ~  "God has a reason for allowing things to happen.  We may never understand His wisdom, but we simply have to trust His will."   (Unknown)

"The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him."     (Nahum 1:7 KJV)

6/10  ~  "Peace doesn't mean you won't have problems.  It means problems won't have you."    (LaCrae)

"Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.  Not as the world gives do I give to you.  Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid."    (John 14:27 ESV)