Andy's Inspiration Box

Galatians 2:20 English Standard Version (ESV) 20  I have been  crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives  in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God,  who loved me and  gave himself for me.

Romans 11:11-24 New King James Version (NKJV) 11  I say then, have they stumbled that they should fall? Certainly not! But through their fall, to provoke them to jealousy, salvation  has come  to the Gentiles.  12  Now if their fall  is  riches for the world, and their failure riches for the Gentiles, how much more their fullness! 13  For I speak to you Gentiles; inasmuch as I am an apostle to the Gentiles, I magnify my ministry,  14  if by any means I may provoke to jealousy  those who are  my flesh and save some of them.  15  For if their being cast away  is  the reconciling of the world, what  will  their acceptance be  but life from the dead? 16  For if the firstfruit  is  holy, the lump  is  also  holy;  and if the root is holy, so  are  the branches.  17  And if some of the branches were broken off, and you, being a wild olive tree, ...

He takes what we have and turns it into so much more...  Matthew 14:13-21 New International Version (NIV) Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand 13  When Jesus heard what had happened, he withdrew by boat privately to a solitary place. Hearing of this, the crowds followed him on foot from the towns.   14  When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them  and healed their sick. 15  As evening approached, the disciples came to him and said, “This is a remote place, and it’s already getting late. Send the crowds away, so they can go to the villages and buy themselves some food.” 16  Jesus replied,  “They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.” 17  “We have here only five loaves  of bread and two fish,” they answered. 18  “Bring them here to me,”  he said. 19  And he directed the people to sit down on the grass. Taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he gave thanks and broke...

"A great Must dominated the life of the Son of Man. That Must will dominate ours if we follow in His footsteps. The Son of Man must , and so His followers must ." - Springs in the Valley (August 30)

“What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.” - Hans Urs von Balthasar

"The life of faith is the life that uses the Lord." - Handley Moule

Romans 12:18 New International Version (NIV) 18  If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.

Isaiah 26:3-4 New International Version (NIV) 3  You will keep in perfect peace      those whose minds are steadfast,      because they trust  in you. 4  Trust  in the  Lord  forever,      for the  Lord , the  Lord himself, is the Rock  eternal.

"Every experience God gives us, every person he brings into our lives, is the perfect preparation for the future that only he can see" - Corrie ten Boom

"Blessed is the life that is so thoroughly rooted down into the life of God that it can feel and know that, though time moves slowly in long-drawn-out tests and trials, God's tides move steadily on in accomplishing His glorious purposes."  - Springs in the Valley, August 27

Psalm 27:14 New International Version (NIV) 14  Wait  for the  Lord ;      be strong  and take heart      and wait for the  Lord .

Romans 10:17 New King James Version (NKJV) 17  So then faith  comes  by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

John 15:12-14 English Standard Version (ESV) 12 This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. 13 Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends. 14 You are my friends if you do what I command you

Romans 12:4-6 New King James Version (NKJV) 4  For as we have many members in one body, but all the members do not have the same function,  5  so we,  being  many, are one body in Christ, and individually members of one another.  6  Having then gifts differing according to the grace that is given to us,  let us use them...  in proportion to our faith...

Galatians 6:9 English Standard Version (ESV) 9 And let us not grow weary of doing good, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up

"...Only believe." - Mark 5:36

1 Corinthians 13:3 ESV If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing.

Unto Myself, my dear child, I would bring thee!  Who like Myself thy sure solace can be?  Who can reach down, down so deeply within thee?  Give to thy heart such a full sympathy?  Mournest thou sore that thy loved ones have failed thee?  Failed, sadly failed thy true comfort to be?  "Why did they fail" dost thou ask? Let Me whisper -  "That thou should'st find thy heart's comfort in Me."  Unto Myself, Ah, no not unto others,  Dearest, or sweetest, or fairest, or best;  Only in Me lieth unchanging solace;  Only in Me is thy promise of rest!  Child of My love, to Myself I would bring thee!  Not to some PLACE of most heavenly bliss;  Places, like people, may all disappoint thee,  Till thou hast learned to drink higher than this.  Unto Myself, my dear child, I would bring thee!  None like Myself thy full portion can be!  While, in my heart, there is hunger and longing  That I might find choicest t...

Philippians 4:11-12 English Standard Version (ESV) 11 Not that I am speaking of being in need, for I have learned in whatever situation I am to be content. 12 I know how to be brought low, and I know how to abound. In any and every circumstance, I have learned the secret of facing plenty and hunger, abundance and need

Psalm 21:1-2 New King James Version (NKJV) The king shall have joy in Your strength, O  Lord ; And in Your salvation how greatly shall he rejoice! 2  You have given him his heart’s desire, And have not withheld the request of his lips.  Selah

Psalm 20:1-4 The Message (MSG) A David Psalm 20  1-4  God   answer you on the day you crash, The name God-of-Jacob put you out of harm’s reach, Send reinforcements from Holy Hill, Dispatch from Zion fresh supplies, Exclaim over your offerings, Celebrate your sacrifices, Give you what your heart desires, Accomplish your plans.

Psalm 31:19-20 New International Version - UK (NIVUK) 19  How abundant are the good things      that you have stored up for those who fear you, that you bestow in the sight of all,      on those who take refuge in you. 20  In the shelter of your presence you hide them      from all human intrigues; you keep them safe in your dwelling      from accusing tongues.

Romans 12:1-2 New King James Version (NKJV) Living Sacrifices to God 12  I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercies of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God,   which is   your reasonable service.   2  And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what   is   that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

Psalm 37:7-9 New International Version - UK (NIVUK) 7  Be still before the  Lord      and wait patiently for him; do not fret when people succeed in their ways,      when they carry out their wicked schemes. 8  Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;      do not fret – it leads only to evil. 9  For those who are evil will be destroyed,      but those who hope in the  Lord  will inherit the land.

Jeremiah 29:10-11 New Living Translation (NLT) 10  This is what the Lord says: “You will be in Babylon for seventy years. But then I will come and do for you all the good things I have promised, and I will bring you home again. 11  For I know the plans I have for you,” says the Lord . “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.   The really encouraging message in this text is that God is intending good for his people: that means us not just the Israelites back then. God is not in the hopelessness business. God doesn’t just wipe his hands of people and leave them without a future. So far so good. However, none of us can dictate the precise nature of that future and that hope. God will indeed plan good for us. But the shape and the timing of that good is another matter. And we know from the history of Israel as well as our own and others’ histories that good is that which sometimes comes out of bad. It is not always pl...

Colossians 1:9-12 New King James Version (NKJV) Preeminence of Christ 9  ... ask that you may be filled with the knowledge of His will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;  10  that you may walk worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing Him,  being fruitful in every good work and increasing in the knowledge of God;  11  strengthened with all might, according to His glorious power, for all patience and longsuffering with joy;  12  giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in the light.

Philippians 3:17-21 GNT Keep on imitating me, my friends. Pay attention to those who follow the right example that we have set for you. I have told you this many times before, and now I repeat it with tears: there are many whose lives make them enemies of Christ's death on the cross. They are going to end up in hell, because their god is their bodily desires. They are proud of what they should be ashamed of, and they think only of things that belong to this world. We, however, are citizens of heaven, and we eagerly wait for our Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, to come from heaven. He will change our weak mortal bodies and make them like his own glorious body, using that power by which he is able to bring all things under his rule.

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as if you could not hold on for a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and the time that the tide will turn." - Harriet Beecher Stowe

Revelation 3:11 English Standard Version (ESV) 11 I am coming soon. Hold fast what you have, so that no one may seize your crown.

"Find your purpose and fling your life out into it; and the loftier your purpose is, the more sure you will be to make the world richer with every enrichment of yourself." - Phillips Brooks

Mark 6:31 New International Version Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, ‘Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.’

Deuteronomy 8:2-3 English Standard Version (ESV) 2  And you shall remember the whole way that the   Lord   your God has led you   these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble you,   testing you   to know what was in your heart,   whether you would keep his commandments or not.   3  And he humbled you and   let you hunger and   fed you with manna, which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that he might make you know that   man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by every word [ a ] that comes from the mouth of the   Lord .

John 13:7 New King James Version (NKJV) Jesus answered and said to him, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this.”

John 12:24 New King James Version (NKJV) 24  Most assuredly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it produces much grain.

Ephesians 2:10 New Century Version (NCV) God has made us what we are. In Christ Jesus, God made us to do good works, which God planned in advance for us to live our lives doing.

"It costs to have a vision, but it costs too much to remember only the price." - Springs in the Valley (August 13)

Hebrews 7:25 New Century Version (NCV) So he is able always to save those who come to God through him because he always lives, asking God to help them.

"When you are disappointed or vexed or hedged in or thwarted; when you are seemingly abandoned, remember, Son of God, heir of heaven, that you are being prepared for the higher life ." - Springs in the Valley (August 11)

Psalm 55:17 New King James Version (NKJV) 17 Evening and morning and at noon I will pray, and cry aloud, And He shall hear my voice.

2 Peter 1:5-7 English Standard Version (ESV 5 For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue,[a] and virtue with knowledge, 6 and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness, 7 and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.

"You need faith, and you will never have it unless you are brought to circumstances in which you are compelled to act by the invisible rather than the visible." - C.E.Cowman

Philippians 4:4-7 New Century Version (NCV) 4 Be full of joy in the Lord always. I will say again, be full of joy. 5 Let everyone see that you are gentle and kind. The Lord is coming soon. 6 Do not worry about anything, but pray and ask God for everything you need, always giving thanks. 7 And God’s peace, which is so great we cannot understand it, will keep your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.

Job 5:8-9 NKJV “But as for me, I would seek God, And to God I would commit my cause— Who does great things, and unsearchable, Marvelous things without number.

Psalm 135 New King James Version (NKJV) Praise to God in Creation and Redemption 135  Praise the   Lord ! Praise the name of the   Lord ; Praise   Him,   O you servants of the   Lord ! 2  You who stand in the house of the   Lord , In the courts of the house of our God, 3  Praise the   Lord , for the   Lord   is   good; Sing praises to His name, for   it is   pleasant. 4  For the   Lord   has chosen Jacob for Himself, Israel for His special treasure. 5  For I know that the   Lord   is   great, And our Lord   is   above all gods. 6  Whatever the   Lord   pleases He does, In heaven and in earth, In the seas and in all deep places. 7  He causes the vapors to ascend from the ends of the earth; He makes lightning for the rain; He brings the wind out of His treasuries. 8  He destroyed the firstborn of Egypt, Both ...

Psalm 34:17-22 New Century Version (NCV) 17 The Lord hears good people when they cry out to him, and he saves them from all their troubles. 18 The Lord is close to the brokenhearted, and he saves those whose spirits have been crushed. 19 People who do what is right may have many problems, but the Lord will solve them all. 20 He will protect their very bones; not one of them will be broken. 21 Evil will kill the wicked; those who hate good people will be judged guilty. 22 But the Lord saves his servants’ lives; no one who trusts him will be judged guilty.

"God is His own equivalent, and God needs nothing but Himself to achieve the great purposes on which He has set His heart." - Springs in the Valley (August 7)

Psalm 72:18-19 New Century Version (NCV) 18 Praise the Lord God, the God of Israel, who alone does such miracles. 19 Praise his glorious name forever. Let his glory fill the whole world. Amen and amen.

"Whenever you come to live upon God's plan as Moses from that moment did, you may absolutely trust God." - A. B. Simpson

Joshua 23:14 NKJV “Behold, this day I am going the way of all the earth. And you know in all your hearts and in all your souls that not one thing has failed of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke concerning you. All have come to pass for you; not one word of them has failed.

James 5:16 New Century Version (NCV) Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so God can heal you. When a believing person prays, great things happen.

Job 42:2 New King James Version (NKJV) 2  “I know that You can do everything, And that no purpose   of Yours   can be withheld from You.

Psalm 17:6-7 English Standard Version (ESV) 6 I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;     incline your ear to me; hear my words. 7 Wondrously show[a] your steadfast love,     O Savior of those who seek refuge     from their adversaries at your right hand Psalm 17:15 English Standard Version (ESV) 15 As for me, I shall behold your face in righteousness;     when I awake, I shall be satisfied with your likeness.

Psalm 59:10 Lexham English Bible (LEB) My God of loyal love will meet me; God will cause me to look in triumph on my enemies.

Romans 5:2-5 ESV Through him we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand, and we rejoice in hope of the glory of God. Not only that, but we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us.

Lamentations 3:25-26 King James Version (KJV) 25 The Lord is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

Hebrews 9:14 NIV How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!

Ephesians 3:7-11 New International Version (NIV) 7 I became a servant of this gospel by the gift of God’s grace given me through the working of his power. 8 Although I am less than the least of all the Lord’s people, this grace was given me: to preach to the Gentiles the boundless riches of Christ, 9 and to make plain to everyone the administration of this mystery, which for ages past was kept hidden in God, who created all things. 10 His intent was that now, through the church, the manifold wisdom of God should be made known to the rulers and authorities in the heavenly realms, 11 according to his eternal purpose that he accomplished in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Genesis 50:15-21 New International Version (NIV) Joseph Reassures His Brothers 15  When Joseph’s brothers saw that their father was dead, they said, “What if Joseph holds a grudge against us and pays us back for all the wrongs we did to him?” 16  So they sent word to Joseph, saying, “Your father left these instructions before he died: 17  ‘This is what you are to say to Joseph: I ask you to forgive your brothers the sins and the wrongs they committed in treating you so badly.’ Now please forgive the sins of the servants of the God of your father.” When their message came to him, Joseph wept. 18  His brothers then came and threw themselves down before him. “We are your slaves,” they said. 19  But Joseph said to them, “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? 20  You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives. 21  So then, don’t be afraid. I will provide for you and y...

Isaiah 58:8-11 New King James Version (NKJV) 8 Then your light shall break forth like the morning, Your healing shall spring forth speedily, And your righteousness shall go before you; The glory of the Lord shall be your rear guard. 9 Then you shall call, and the Lord will answer; You shall cry, and He will say, ‘Here I am.’ “If you take away the yoke from your midst, The pointing of the finger, and speaking wickedness, 10 If you extend your soul to the hungry And satisfy the afflicted soul, Then your light shall dawn in the darkness, And your darkness shall be as the noonday. 11 The Lord will guide you continually, And satisfy your soul in drought, And strengthen your bones; You shall be like a watered garden, And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.

"Where lives the soul lives God; His day, His world, No phantom mists need mar; His starry nights are tents of peace unfurled: Rest where you are." - Springs in the Valley (August 1)

Psalm 46:10 New King James Version (NKJV) Be still, and know that I am God...