Fresh Stories (3)

“Taste and see that the Lord is good.”
Psalm 34:8 NLT

Look here, you who say, “Today or tomorrow we are going to a certain town and will stay there a year. We will do business there and make a profit.” How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog—it’s here a little while, then it’s gone. What you ought to say is, “If the Lord wants us to, we will live and do this or that.”
James 4:13-15 NLT

“Enoch lived 365 years, walking in close fellowship with God. Then one day he disappeared, because God took him.”
Genesis 5:23-24 NLT

"Husbands, love your wives, just as Christ loved the church."
Ephesians 5:25 NIV

Then Jesus said, “Come to me, all of you who are weary and carry heavy burdens, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you. Let me teach you, because I am humble and gentle at heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy to bear, and the burden I give you is light.”
Matthew 11:28-30 NLT

"Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have."
1 Peter 3:15 NIV

“For Christ’s love compels us, because we are convinced that one died for all, and therefore all died. And he died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised again.”
2 Corinthians 5:14-15 NIV

“I have become all things to all people so that by all possible means I might save some.”
1 Corinthians 9:23 NIV

The fresh stories we are praying for today that God would allow us to enter into in the days to come...

• A place of healing, hope, and rest.
• A place where Christians live like Christ.
• A place where people are meeting Jesus.

"Celebrate what God is doing rather than be discouraged by what He's not doing."
Kevin Scott

“The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered because they go unasked. Ultimately, the transcript of your prayers becomes the script of your life.”
Mark Batterson – The Circle Maker

“O to grace how great a debtor. Daily I’m constrained to be! Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee. Prone to wander, Lord, I feel it, prone to leave the God I love; here’s my heart, O take and seal it, seal it for Thy courts above.”
Robert Robinson – Come Thou Fount

“If we indeed live a life in imitation of His, our witness would be irresistible. If we dared to live beyond our self-concern, if we refused to shrink from being vulnerable, if we took nothing but a compassionate attitude toward the world, if we were a counterculture to our nation’s lunatic lust for pride of place, power, and possessions, if we preferred to be faithful rather than successful, the walls of indifference to Jesus Christ would crumble. A handful of us could be ignored by society, but hundreds, thousands, millions of such servants would overwhelm the world. The call of Jesus is revolutionary. If we implemented it, we would change the world in a few months.”
Brennan Manning – The Signature of Jesus