Joan
Joan's Highlights
Joan
highlighted Psalms 122:9 NLT
For the sake of the house of the LORD our God, I will seek what is best for you, O Jerusalem.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Psalms 122:7 NLT
O Jerusalem, may there be peace within your walls and prosperity in your palaces.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Psalms 86:15 NLT
But you, O Lord, are a God of compassion and mercy, slow to get angry and filled with unfailing love and faithfulness.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Psalms 86:1-4 NLT
Bend down, O LORD, and hear my prayer; answer me, for I need your help. Protect me, for I am devoted to you. Save me, for I serve you and trust you. You are my God. Be merciful to me, O Lord, for I am calling on you constantly. Give me happiness, O Lord, for I give myself to you.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Psalms 51:17 NLT
The sacrifice you desire is a broken spirit. You will not reject a broken and repentant heart, O God.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Psalms 51:11 NLT
Do not banish me from your presence, and don’t take your Holy Spirit from me.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Psalms 51:5 NLT
For I was born a sinner— yes, from the moment my mother conceived me.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Psalms 51:2-3 NLT
Wash me clean from my guilt. Purify me from my sin. For I recognize my rebellion; it haunts me day and night.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Psalms 32:1-2 NLT
Oh, what joy for those whose disobedience is forgiven, whose sin is put out of sight! Yes, what joy for those whose record the LORD has cleared of guilt, whose lives are lived in complete honesty!
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Isaiah 44:3 NLT
For I will pour out water to quench your thirst and to irrigate your parched fields. And I will pour out my Spirit on your descendants, and my blessing on your children.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Isaiah 54:17 NLT
But in that coming day no weapon turned against you will succeed. You will silence every voice raised up to accuse you. These benefits are enjoyed by the servants of the LORD; their vindication will come from me. I, the LORD, have spoken!
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Psalms 73:27 NLT
Those who desert him will perish, for you destroy those who abandon you.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Psalms 73:25 NLT
Whom have I in heaven but you? I desire you more than anything on earth.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Psalms 73:26 NLT
My health may fail, and my spirit may grow weak, but God remains the strength of my heart; he is mine forever.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Colossians 1:27 NLT
For God wanted them to know that the riches and glory of Christ are for you Gentiles, too. And this is the secret: Christ lives in you. This gives you assurance of sharing his glory.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Colossians 1:23 NLT
But you must continue to believe this truth and stand firmly in it. Don’t drift away from the assurance you received when you heard the Good News. The Good News has been preached all over the world, and I, Paul, have been appointed as God’s servant to proclaim it.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Colossians 1:21-22 NLT
This includes you who were once far away from God. You were his enemies, separated from him by your evil thoughts and actions. Yet now he has reconciled you to himself through the death of Christ in his physical body. As a result, he has brought you into his own presence, and you are holy and blameless as you stand before him without a single fault.
Jan 11
Joan
highlighted Acts 9:18-21 NLT
Instantly something like scales fell from Saul’s eyes, and he regained his sight. Then he got up and was baptized. Afterward he ate some food and regained his strength. Saul in Damascus and Jerusalem Saul stayed with the believers in Damascus for a few days. And immediately he began preaching about Jesus in the synagogues, saying, “He is indeed the Son of God!” All who heard him were amazed. “Isn’t this the same man who caused such devastation among Jesus’ followers in Jerusalem?” they asked. “And didn’t he come here to arrest them and take them in chains to the leading priests?”
Jan 9
Joan
highlighted Acts 9:17 NLT
So Ananias went and found Saul. He laid his hands on him and said, “Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, who appeared to you on the road, has sent me so that you might regain your sight and be filled with the Holy Spirit.”
Jan 9
Joan
highlighted Acts 9:11 NLT
The Lord said, “Go over to Straight Street, to the house of Judas. When you get there, ask for a man from Tarsus named Saul. He is praying to me right now.
Jan 9