Quotes

It seems the upside-down world of Grace is that the worst off you are the more He seems to love you. -Philip Cameron

It isn't what you have done that is a problem. It is that you lie down and give up that is a problem. -Philip Cameron

When you have failed in every area, God's grace is sufficient for you. -Philip Cameron

God set up the world to work a certain way.  So, if we make decisions that disrupt the created order and the way God made things, there is a disruption.  -Cindy Jacobs

We just don't sow anywhere.  We sow into the good soil.  -Mike Jacobs

Scriptures

Isaiah 48:10 NIV  See, I have refined you, though not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

Job 23:10 NIV  But he knows the way that I take; when he has tested me, I will come forth as gold.

II Chronicles 32:8 NIV  With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the Lord our God to help us and to fight our battles." And the people gained confidence from what Hezekiah the king of Judah said.

Song of Songs 2:11 NIV  See! The winter is past; the rains are over and gone.

Matthew 18:12-14  -Parable of the Lost Sheep

Matthew 18:12 KJV  How think ye? if a man have an hundred sheep, and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine, and goeth into the mountains, and seeketh that which is gone astray?

Matthew 9:13 KJV  But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Romans 5:20 NKJV  Moreover the law entered that the offense might abound. But where sin abounded, grace abounded much more,

II Chronicles 32:8 KJV  With him is an arm of flesh; but with us is the Lord our God to help us, and to fight our battles. And the people rested themselves upon the words of Hezekiah king of Judah.

Proverbs 8:12 KJV  I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions.

Jeremiah 17:9 KJV  The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

Isaiah 60:1-3 NKJV Arise, shine; For your light has come! And the glory of the Lord is risen upon you. For behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, And deep darkness the people; But the Lord will arise over you, And His glory will be seen upon you. The Gentiles shall come to your light, And kings to the brightness of your rising.

Hosea 4:1-3 NKJV Hear the word of the Lord, You children of Israel, For the Lord brings a charge against the inhabitants of the land: "There is no truth or mercy Or knowledge of God in the land.  By swearing and lying,

Killing and stealing and committing adultery, They break all restraint, With bloodshed upon bloodshed. Therefore the land will mourn; And everyone who dwells there will waste away With the beasts of the field And the birds of the air; Even the fish of the sea will be taken away.

II Chronicles 7:13-14 NKJV  When I shut up heaven and there is no rain, or command the locusts to devour the land, or send pestilence among My people, if My people who are called by My name will humble themselves, and pray and seek My face, and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin and heal their land.

Deuteronomy 28:2 NKJV And all these blessings shall come upon you and overtake you, because you obey the voice of the Lord your God:

Deuteronomy 28:11 NKJV  And the Lord will grant you plenty of goods, in the fruit of your body, in the increase of your livestock, and in the produce of your ground, in the land of which the Lord swore to your fathers to give you.

Psalm 33:12 KJV  Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord; and the people whom he hath chosen for his own inheritance.

Amos 9:13 KJV  Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

Ecclesiastes 11:1 KJV  Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

Matthew 13:1-23  -Parable of the Sower

Acts 4:37 KJV Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles' feet.

Haggai 2:9 NIV ‘The glory of this present house will be greater than the glory of the former house,’ says the Lord Almighty. ‘And in this place I will grant peace,’ declares the Lord Almighty."