Lessons of the Leash
Shirlee Abbott
“Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths.” Psalm 25:4 (NIV)
“All the days ordained for me were written in Your book before one of them came to be.” Psalm 139:16b (NIV)
“Dear children, let’s not merely say that we love each other, Let us show the truth by our actions.” 1 John 3:18 (NLT)
“For the Kingdom of God is … living a life of goodness and peace and joy in the Holy Spirit.” Romans 14:17 (NLT)
"Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him. ‘You of little faith,’ he said, ‘why did you doubt?’" Matthew 14:31 (NIV)
“Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing!” Isaiah 43:18,19a (NIV)
“No temptation has seized you except what is common to man. And God is faithful, he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But when you are tempted, he will also provide a way out so that you can stand up under it.” 1 Corinthians 10:13 (NIV)
“Answer me when I call to you, O my righteous God. Give me relief from my distress; be merciful to me and hear my prayer.” Psalm 4:1 (NIV)
“Anyone who isn’t with me opposes me, and anyone who isn’t working with me is actually working against me.” Matthew 12:30 (NLT)
“The Son can do nothing by Himself; he can do only what He sees the Father doing, because whatever the Father does the Son does also.” John 5:19 (NIV)
“The king is enthralled by your beauty…” Psalm 45:11 (NIV)
“Show me your ways, LORD, teach me your paths.” Psalm 25:4 (NIV)
“‘Go,’ [Jesus] told him, ‘wash in the Pool of Siloam’ (this word means ‘Sent’). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.” John 9:7 (NIV)
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God …” 2 Corinthians 10:5 (NIV)
Lord, I am safe with You. Your shelter and shadow comfort me in my loneliness. I will proclaim You are my refuge and my fortress; therefore, I will not fear (Psalm 91:2). As a refuge, You are my...