Andy's Inspiration Box

" As we walk through our days with confident expectation in the Lord, knowing He will meet us in our need, we will feel His blessing in our hearts. Our circumstances may remain unchanged yet His strength will steady us, His comfort will touch us, His peace will wash over us, His presence will encase us, His wisdom will guide us and His love will surround us." - Gail Rodgers

Isaiah 64:4 Living Bible (TLB) 4  For since the world began no one has seen or heard of such a God as ours, who works for those who wait for him!

John 14:1-3 New Living Translation (NLT) Jesus, the Way to the Father 14  “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me.   2  There is more than enough room in my Father’s home. If this were not so, would I have told you that I am going to prepare a place for you? 3  When everything is ready, I will come and get you, so that you will always be with me where I am.

"As you bring your hopes and desires to Him, together you will be able to achieve the most amazing things for the Kingdom of God. God has confidence in you and committed Himself to you, so today you can have confidence in Him." - Selwyn Hughes

"You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind." -  Joyce Meyer

The reward of being 'faithful over a few things' is just the same as being 'faithful over many things' ; for the emphasis falls upon the same word; it is the 'faithful' who will enter 'into the joy of their Lord.' - Charles S. Robinson

[  Psalm 103  ] [  A psalm of David.  ] Let all that I am praise the  Lord ; with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name. Let all that I am praise the  Lord ; may I never forget the good things he does for me. Psalm 103:1-2   NLT

"All joy emphasizes our pilgrim status; always reminds, beckons, awakens desire. Our best havings are wantings." - C. S. Lewis

Job 19:27 New Living Translation (NLT) 27  I will see him for myself.      Yes, I will see him with my own eyes.      I am overwhelmed at the thought!

Deuteronomy 26:11 English Standard Version (ESV) 11 And you shall rejoice in all the good that the Lord your God has given to you and to your house, you, and the Levite, and the sojourner who is among you.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values. -  Thomas S.  Monson

Isaiah 53:1-12 Living Bible (TLB) 53  But, oh, how few believe it! Who will listen? To whom will God reveal his saving power?  2  In God’s eyes [ a ]  he was like a tender green shoot, sprouting from a root in dry and sterile ground. But in our eyes there was no attractiveness at all, nothing to make us want him.  3  We despised him and rejected him—a man of sorrows, acquainted with bitterest grief. We turned our backs on him and looked the other way when he went by. He was despised, and we didn’t care. 4  Yet it was  our  grief he bore,  our  sorrows that weighed him down. And we thought his troubles were a punishment from God, for his  own  sins!  5  But he was wounded and bruised for  our  sins. He was beaten that we might have peace; he was lashed—and we were healed!  6  We— every one of us—have strayed away like sheep!  We,  who left God’s paths to follow our own. Yet God l...

Matthew 24:35 English Standard Version (ESV) 35  Heaven and earth will pass away, but  my words will not pass away.

"Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you." -  Steve Maraboli

Psalm 95:6-7 Living Bible (TLB) 6  Come, kneel before the Lord our Maker,   7  for he is our God. We are his sheep, and he is our Shepherd. Oh, that you would hear him calling you today and come to him!

Psalm 20:5 New Living Translation (NLT) 5  May we shout for joy when we hear of your victory      and raise a victory banner in the name of our God. May the  Lord  answer all your prayers.

"He became the Son of Man that we might become the Sons of God." - Springs in the Valley (December 22)

1 Peter 4:8-10 ESV Above all, keep loving one another earnestly, since love covers a multitude of sins. Show hospitality to one another without grumbling. As each has received a gift, use it to serve one another, as good stewards of God’s varied grace:

Proverbs 16:1 New Living Translation (NLT) 16  We can make our own plans,      but the  Lord  gives the right answer.

1 Peter 1:8-9 ESV Though you have not seen him, you love him. Though you do not now see him, you believe in him and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory, obtaining the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls.

2 Corinthians 9:15 English Standard Version (ESV) 15  Thanks be to God for his inexpressible gift!

John 1:4   The Word gave  life  to everything that was created, and his  life b rought light to everyone.

Psalm 33:20-22 English Standard Version (ESV) 20  Our soul   waits for the   Lord ;      he is our   help and   our shield. 21  For our heart is   glad in him,      because we   trust in his holy name. 22  Let your steadfast love, O   Lord , be upon us,      even as we hope in you.

2 Corinthians 4:6 English Standard Version (ESV) 6  For God, who said,   “Let light shine out of darkness,”   has shone in our hearts to give   the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Look up to the light. 

"Have we come to the fountain of life? Are we drinking of it's fullness? Are we living in Hos love? This is the life of our spirit; the health of our body; the secret of our joy!" - Springs in the Valley (December 16)

Ecclesiastes 4:9 New Living Translation (NLT) 9  Two people are better off than one, for they can help each other succeed.

Luke 1:46-47,54-55 English Standard Version (ESV) 46  And Mary said, “My   soul   magnifies the Lord, 47       and my   spirit rejoices in   God my Savior... 54  He has   helped   his servant Israel,      in remembrance of his mercy, 55  as he spoke to our fathers,      to Abraham and to his offspring forever.”

Romans 5:1-5 NIV Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.

" When you don't have anything, then you have everything." - Mother Teresa

"The signed check is given us. How foolish if we fear to present it! Never yet has one single check been dishonored! He is faithful that promised." - Springs in the Valley (December 12)

"Faith is the assurance of things hoped for, perceiving as real fact what is not revealed to the senses." - Jesus Calling (December 11)

Psalm 32:8 New Living Translation (NLT) 8  The  Lord  says, “I will guide you along the best pathway for your life.      I will advise you and watch over you.

"It is a wonderful thing - that sailing or steaming without sight. Spiritually it is a blessed thing to leave altogether the shores of sight and feeling to say "Good-by" to inward feelings, cheering providences, signs, tokens and so forth. It is glorious to be far out on the ocean of Divine love, believing in God, and steering for Heaven straightaway, by the direction of the Word of God." - Charles H. Spurgeon

"In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence." - Mother Teresa

1 Corinthians 13:7 New Living Translation (NLT) 7  Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.

"You are just the one God is looking for - just the one who is ripe for deliverance - just the special individual to who His promise is made. The human incompleteness meets the Divine completeness and the want is filled. The deepest yearning in every soul finds in Him the longed-for-satisfaction." - Springs in the Valley (December 6)

Psalm 33:4 New Living Translation (NLT) 4  For the word of the  Lord  holds  true,      and we can trust everything he does.

"Love to be real, it must cost—it must hurt—it must empty us of self." - Mother Teresa

Colossians 1:16 ESV For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities—all things were created through him and for him.

Jeremiah 1:5 ESV “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I consecrated you; I appointed you a prophet to the nations.”

Psalm 28:7 New Living Translation (NLT) 7  The  Lord  is my strength and shield.      I trust him with all my heart. He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy.      I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.

It is God's will that I should cast On Him my care each day; He also bids me not to cast My confidence away. But, Oh! I am so stupid, that When taken unawares, I cast away my confidence, And carry all my cares. - Springs in the Valley (December 5)

John 16:33 English Standard Version (ESV) 33  I have said these things to you, that   in me you may have peace.   In the world you will have   tribulation. But   take heart;   I have overcome the world.

Galatians 6:9 New Living Translation (NLT) 9  So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.

Psalm 51:15-17 New International Version (NIV) 15  Open my lips, Lord,      and my mouth will declare your praise. 16  You do not delight in sacrifice,   or I would bring it;      you do not take pleasure in burnt offerings. 17  My sacrifice,   O God, is [ a ]   a broken spirit;      a broken and contrite heart      you, God, will not despise.

1 Chronicles 29:11 New Living Translation (NLT) 11  Yours, O  Lord , is the greatness, the power, the glory, the victory, and the majesty. Everything in the heavens and on earth is yours, O Lord, and this is your kingdom. We adore you as the one who is over all things.

"There was One who loved all mankind, and who loved them more than Himself, and who gave Himself to die that they might live; there was One who went to the gates of death, that the gates of death might never hold us is; there was One who lay in the grave, with it's dampness, its coldness, its chill, and its horror, and taught humanity how it might ascend above the grave; there was One who, though He walked on earth, had His conversation in heaven, who took away the curtain that hid immortality from view, and presented to us the Father God in all His glory and in all His love." - Springs in the Valley (December 2)

Psalm 29:11 New Living Translation (NLT) 11  The  Lord  gives his people strength.      The  Lord  blesses them with peace.

Psalm 41:3 New Living Translation (NLT) 3  The  Lord  nurses them when they are sick      and restores them to health.

Psalm 68:35 New International Version (NIV) 35  You, God, are awesome  in your sanctuary;      the God of Israel gives power and strength  to his people. Praise be to God!

Psalm 136:1 New Living Translation (NLT) 1  Give thanks to the  Lord , for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.

1 Timothy 4:4-5 NLT Since everything God created is good, we should not reject any of it but receive it with thanks. For we know it is made acceptable by the word of God and prayer.

Isaiah 54:10 MSG “This exile is just like the days of Noah for me: I promised then that the waters of Noah would never again flood the earth. I’m promising now no more anger, no more dressing you down. For even if the mountains walk away and the hills fall to pieces, My love won’t walk away from you, my covenant commitment of peace won’t fall apart.” The God who has compassion on you says so.