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We recognize that none of this is possible without the blessings given to us by God.  It is a very humbling responsibility to use what God has given wisely.  We want to honor him in the GarageDominium build.  While looking at home building resources online, we found many that had written scriptures on the walls prior to covering them with insulation and sheetrock.  We thought this was a great idea and solicited input from our family to decide what specific scriptures to use.  We settled on the scriptures below.  I’ve included a few pictures showing the writing on the framing. 

It was kind of interesting that when hunting down the writing so that we could take pictures, one of the scriptures had moved.  Evidently a plumber needed to move a piece of blocking that has a scripture on it.  He removed that section of lumber and relocated it, albeit to an obscure location.  But the writing is intact and Ezekiel 36:25 now appropriately supports the water pipe to the toilet in bathroom 2.

Garage

• Psalms 121:7-8 (ESV) The LORD will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The LORD will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore.
• Ruth 1:16 (ESV) For where you go I will go, and where you lodge I will lodge.
• Proverbs 3:5-6 (ESV) Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.  In all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make straight your paths.

Garage Entry/Mud Room

• 1 Samuel 25:6 (ESV) And thus you shall greet him: Peace be to you, and peace be to your house, and peace be to all that you have.
• Deuteronomy 28:6 (ESV) Blessed shall you be when you come in, and blessed shall you be when you go out.

Workshop

• Colossians 3:23-24 (ESV) Whatever you do, work heartily, as for the Lord and not for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the inheritance as your reward. You are serving the Lord Christ.
• Hebrews 3:4 (ESV) For every house is built by someone, but the builder of all things is God.
• Proverbs 22:29 (ESV) Do you see a man skillful in his work? He will stand before kings; he will not stand before obscure men.
• Proverbs 14:23 (ESV) In all toil there is profit, but mere talk tends only to poverty.
• John 6:27 (NET 2nd Ed.) Do not work for the food that disappears, but for the food that remains to eternal life—the food which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has put his seal of approval on him.

Kitchen 

• Psalms 23:5 (ESV) You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
• John 6:35 (ESV) Jesus said to them, “I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst.
• Matthew 6:11 (ESV) Give us this day our daily bread,

Pantry

• Genesis 6:21 (ESV) Also take with you every sort of food that is eaten, and store it up. It shall serve as food for you and for them.
• Isaiah 1:19 (ESV) If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land
• 1 Timothy 6:8 (ESV) But if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content.

Breakfast area

• Acts 2:46 (ESV) breaking bread in their homes, they received their food with glad and generous hearts,

Great Room

• 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 (ESV) Be watchful, stand firm in the faith, act like men, be strong. Let all that you do be done in love.
• Matthew 11:28 (ESV) Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

Foyer

• Deuteronomy 6:4-5 (ESV) The LORD our God, the LORD is one. You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.
• Joshua 24:15 (ESV) But as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.”
• Luke 10:5 (ESV) Whatever house you enter, first say, Peace be to this house!’
• Mark 12:31 (ESV) You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’
• Philippians 4:4 (ESV) Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice.

Powder room (1/2 bath)

• Psalms 24:4-5 (ESV) He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. He will receive blessing from the LORD
• Lamentations 3:22-23 (ESV) The steadfast love of the LORD never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.

Laundry

• Psalms 51:10 (ESV) Create in me a clean heart, O God
• Psalms 51:7 (ESV) Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean; wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
• Ecclesiastes 9:8 (ESV) Let your garments be always white.

Master bedroom

• 1 John 4:19 (ESV) We love because he first loved us.
• Psalm 46:10 (ESV) Be still, and know that I am God.
• Song of Solomon 2:16 (ESV) My beloved is mine, and I am his;
• Song of Solomon 3:4 (ESV) I found him whom my soul loves.
• I Corinthians 13:4 (ESV) Love is patient and kind
• Ephesians 4:2 (ESV) with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love
• Ephesians 5:25 (ESV) Husbands, love your wives, as Christ loved the church and gave himself up for her,

Master Bedroom closet

• Ephesians 6:13-17 (ESV) Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm. Stand therefore, having fastened on the belt of truth, and having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and, as shoes for your feet, having put on the readiness given by the gospel of peace.  In all circumstances take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one; and take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God,
• Isaiah 61:10 (ESV) for he has clothed me with the garments of salvation; he has covered me with the robe of righteousness,

Master bathroom

• Psalms 51:2 (ESV) Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin!
• Psalms 24:4-5 (ESV) He who has clean hands and a pure heart, who does not lift up his soul to what is false and does not swear deceitfully. He will receive blessing from the LORD and righteousness from the God of his salvation.

Dining

• Acts 16:34 (ESV) Then he brought them up into his house and set food before them. And he rejoiced along with his entire household that he had believed in God.
• Psalms 23:5 (ESV) You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies;

Study

• 2 Timothy 2:15 (ESV) Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.
• Matthew 7:24 (ESV) Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
• Acts 17:11 (ESV) they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

Sun/Sewing room

• Acts 9:36 (ESV) She was full of good works and acts of charity.
• Psalms 31:21 (ESV) Blessed be the LORD, for he has wondrously shown his steadfast love to me

Bedroom Hallway

• 1 Corinthians 13:13 (ESV) So now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; but the greatest of these is love

Bedroom 2 (front of house)

• Matthew 25:35 (ESV) For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me drink, I was a stranger and you welcomed me,
• Psalms 143:8 (ESV) Let me hear in the morning of your steadfast love, for in you I trust
• Proverbs 22:6 (ESV) Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.

Bedroom 3 (where bunk beds will be)

• Philippians 3:10-11 (ESV) that I may know him and the power of his resurrection, and may share his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, that by any means possible I may attain the resurrection from the dead.
• Jeremiah 29:11 (ESV) For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.
• Proverbs 24:3-4 (ESV) By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches
• John 13:34 (ESV) A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.

Bath 2 (between bedrooms 2 and 3)

• John 13:14-15 (ESV) If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another’s feet.  For I have given you an example, that you also should do just as I have done to you.
• Ezekiel 36:25 (ESV) I will sprinkle clean water on you, and you shall be clean from all your uncleannesses, and from all your idols I will cleanse you.

Storage

• Psalms 27:1 (ESV) The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The LORD is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
• Jeremiah 33:3 (ESV) Call to me and I will answer you, and will tell you great and hidden things that you have not known.

Bedroom 2 closet

• Colossians 3:12 (ESV) Put on then, as God’s chosen ones, holy and beloved compassionate hearts, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience,

Bedroom 3 closet

• James 4:10 (ESV) Humble yourselves before the Lord, and he will exalt you.
• Proverbs 31:25-26 (ESV) Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come.

Lots of writing, that will eventually be covered up only to be revealed when the house is remodeled or torn down.  But we will know it’s there.  We will have pictures to remind us what was scrawled inside the walls.  We spent some time on May 13 writing on the walls and finished up on May 16.  The builder reminded us not to write on woodwork or floors that will be exposed.  He has several stories about clients that inadvertently wrote on places that were supposed to be finished with stain.   You probably don’t want writing on your nice cedar columns.