Where the Real News is the Good News

Keep this Book of the Law always on your lips; meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.

You are my refuge and my shield;
    I have put my hope in your word.

I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge and my fortress,
    my God, in whom I trust.”

Above all else, guard your heart,
    for everything you do flows from it.

However, I consider my life worth nothing to me; my only aim is to finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me—the task of testifying to the good news of God’s grace.

Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
    but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.

Now I plead with you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you all speak the same thing, and that there be no divisions among you, but that you be perfectly joined together in the same mind and in the same judgment. 

If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.

Righteousness guards the person of integrity, but wickedness overthrows the sinner.

Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that the family of believers throughout the world is undergoing the same kind of sufferings.

Praise be to the Lord, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens.

I will never forget your precepts, for by them you have preserved my life.

 In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us through wordless groans.

Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.

Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

This is how we know that we live in him and he in us: He has given us of his Spirit.  And we have seen and testify that the Father has sent his Son to be the Savior of the world. If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in them and they in God.

Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,

The mind governed by the flesh is death, but the mind governed by the Spirit is life and peace.

Believers in humble circumstances ought to take pride in their high position.