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March 30, 2025



Looking Around: The Look That Brings Us In


2 Chronicles 16:9 NIV  

The eyes of the LORD search the whole earth in order to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.


Mark 5:25-26 NLT

A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding. She had suffered a great deal from many doctors, and over the years she had spent everything she had to pay them, but she had gotten no better. In fact, she had gotten worse.


Mark 5:27-28 NLT

She had heard about Jesus, so she came up behind him through the crowd and touched his robe. For she thought to herself, “If I can just touch his robe, I will be healed.”


Mark 5:29-30 NLT

Immediately the bleeding stopped, and she could feel in her body that she had been healed of her terrible condition. Jesus realized at once that healing power had gone out from him, so he turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my robe?”


Mark 5:31-32 NLT

His disciples said to him, “Look at this crowd pressing around you. How can you ask, ‘Who touched me?’” But he kept on looking around to see who had done it.


Mark 5:33-34 NLT  

Then the frightened woman, trembling at the realization of what had happened to her, came and fell to her knees in front of him and told him what she had done. And he said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace. Your suffering is over.”


Jesus Doesn't Just Heal What's Broken — He Finds Who's Been Hiding


Mark 5:33 CEV  

The woman knew what had happened to her. She came shaking with fear and knelt down in front of Jesus. Then she told him the whole story.


Psalm 5:5 NIV  

You hate all who do wrong;


Psalm 5:7a NIV  

But I, by your great love, can come into your house...


Isaiah 53:5 NIV  

But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.


Galatians 3:13 NLT  

But Christ has rescued us from the curse pronounced by the law. When he was hung on the cross, he took upon himself the curse for our wrongdoing.


Genesis 3:8b-9 NLT  

So [Adam and Eve] hid from the LORD God among the trees. Then the LORD God called to the man, “Where are you?”


Genesis 16:7 NIV  

The angel of the LORD found Hagar …


Exodus 3:4 NIV  

God called to him from within the bush, “Moses! Moses!”


Ezekiel 34:11 NIV  

For this is what the Sovereign LORD says: I myself will search for my sheep and look after them.


Luke 15:4 NLT  

“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them gets lost, what will he do? Won’t he leave the ninety-nine others in the wilderness and go to search for the one that is lost until he finds it?”


Luke 19:5 NLT  

When Jesus came by, he looked up at Zacchaeus and called him by name. “Zacchaeus!” he said. “Quick, come down! I must be a guest in your home today.”


Revelation 3:20 NIV  

Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.


You Don't Have To Be Perfect To Be Part Of God's Family — You Just Have To Say “Yes”


Mark 3:20-21 NIV  

Then Jesus entered a house, and again a crowd gathered, so that he and his disciples were not even able to eat. When his family heard about this, they went to take charge of him, for they said, “He is out of his mind.”


Mark 3:22-24 NIV  

And the teachers of the law who came down from Jerusalem said, “He is possessed

So Jesus called them over to him and began to speak to them in parables: “How can Satan drive out Satan? If a kingdom is divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.”


Matthew 12:38-39, 41b, 42b NIV  

Then some of the Pharisees and teachers of the law said to him, “Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.” He answered, “A wicked and adulterous generation asks for a sign! But none will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah."

…something greater than Jonah is here. … and now something greater than Solomon is here.


Mark 3:31-35 NIV  

Then Jesus’ mother and brothers arrived. 

Standing outside, they sent someone in to call him. A crowd was sitting around him, and they told him, “Your mother and brothers are outside looking for you.”  

“Who are my mother and my brothers?” he asked.

Then he looked at those seated in a circle around him and said, “Here are my mother and my brothers! Whoever does God’s will is my brother and sister and mother.”


John 1:12 NIV  

Yet to all who did receive him, to those who believed in his name, he gave the right to become children of God


Galatians 4:6-7 NIV  

Because you are his sons, God sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, the Spirit who calls out, “Abba, Father.” So you are no longer a slave, but God’s child; and since you are his child, God has made you also an heir.


Matthew 5:9 NIV  

Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.


Philippians 2:15 TLB  

"You are to live clean, innocent lives as children of God in a dark world full of people who are crooked and stubborn. Shine out among them like beacon lights."


John 15:15 NIV  

I no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know his master’s business. Instead, I have called you friends, for everything that I learned from my Father I have made known to you.


The Eyes Of Jesus Don't Glare And Shame — They Call And Lift


2 Chronicles 16:9 NIV  

For the eyes of the LORD range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him. You have done a foolish thing.…”


Revelation 3:20 NIV  

Here I am! I stand at the door and knock. If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me.