Andy's Inspiration Box

Matthew 6:31-33 New International Version (NIV) 31  So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’   32  For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them.   33  But seek first his kingdom   and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. "If we seek happiness as a goal, then we will be frustrated. We will never quite get all we need to make us happy all the time. And we will also become very selfish: my pursuit of happiness becomes more important than my concern for your welfare. Happiness is a wonderful quality and it is natural to seek it. But more as a desire than a goal." - David Reay  

Joel 2:12-13 New Living Translation (NLT) A Call to Repentance 12  That is why the  Lord  says,      “Turn to me now, while there is time. Give me your hearts.      Come with fasting, weeping, and mourning. 13  Don’t tear your clothing in your grief,      but tear your hearts instead.” Return to the  Lord  your God,      for he is merciful and compassionate, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love.      He is eager to relent and not punish.

"We can be encouraged and humbled by the fact that when we need mess up God's original purposes for our lived by our own stubbornness, He nevertheless pursues His purposes with us still. He completely remodels us. His skill and power make something of us beyond what we dare to imagine or even deserve. If by your actions or failure you have frustrated God's original purpose but have repented and come back to God, take heart. Through your frail humanity, He is able to achieve His original purpose and He will make something beautiful of you still. " - Selwyn Hughes

"When the thought of His proprietorship becomes uppermost, then we will simultaneously recognise the fact that being His, we are temples of the Holy Spirit. Conscious of God's ownership, and thoughtful of our Divine Guest - the Holy Spirit - its is only natural that we should glorify God in our bodies and in our spirits, which are His. To glorify Him thus, is simply to exhibit the power and character of God in that which is His." - Springs in the Valley (July 29)

Psalm 42:11 New Living Translation (NLT) 11  Why am I discouraged?      Why is my heart so sad? I will put my hope in God!      I will praise him again—      my Savior and my God!

Philippians 2:1-30 English Standard Version (ESV) Christ's Example of Humility 2 So if there is any encouragement in Christ, any comfort from love, any participation in the Spirit, any affection and sympathy, 2 complete my joy by being of the same mind, having the same love, being in full accord and of one mind. 3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves. 4 Let each of you look not only to his own interests, but also to the interests of others. 5 Have this mind among yourselves, which is yours in Christ Jesus,[a] 6 who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, 7 but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant,[b] being born in the likeness of men. 8 And being found in human form, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to the point of death, even death on a cross. 9 Therefore God has highly exalted him and bestowed on him the name that is above every name, 10 so...