Hey, my dear Scripture memory partners! It is very early in the morning and I am so happy to be all the way up in Fargo, North Dakota at a Living Proof Live. God brought us over 4300 people to this small city last night. Listen to this: over 300 of them were walk ups! More than we’ve ever had before. A few hundred of them just decided yesterday to come to the Fargodome and simply walked right up to the door and bought a ticket. We were astounded. We feel absolutely sure that a number of these darling women have never been to an event of this kind before. We are tremendously blessed. Last night toward the latter part of the session we were hit by one of the craziest storms I can remember at a Living Proof Live and had to ask them to stay for 30 more minutes, SO to tell you that we had some praise and worship last night is an understatement. I am so happy that Scripture records several places in which God’s voice sounded like thunder. We think there was a war in the heavenlies last night.
I need to have my face in my lesson for today so I don’t get to tarry here. I just wanted to make sure you were taken care of and that your Scripture memory post was up for the 15th. My thoughts most recently have been on the many people – children and young adults most disturbingly – who are chronically ill. If God does not intervene, terminally ill. I have wept a number of times recently for people I’ve never met and also bawled in my pillow for several I love. Life can be so incredibly brutal. I am focusing this time in my memory work on God’s great compassion and His care for all He has made.
Psalms 145:8-12 (NIV)
The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. The Lord is good to all; He has compassion on all He has made. All You have made will praise You, O Lord; Your saints will extol You. They will tell of the glory of Your kingdom and speak of Your might,so that all men may know of Your mighty acts and the glorious splendor of Your kingdom.
If you have Travis’s CD called “Found,” you have a musical version of the psalm this portion is taken from. The song straight out of Psalm 145 is called “Forevermore” and if it doesn’t lead you to the Throne, I need to come take your pulse.
I love you so much, Siestas. Let’s hear your Scriptures! Because I’m in conference today then on two flights home, it make take a while to get in all your comments but , rest assured, they will finally make it on here! Amanda’s going to try to get to a place with Internet and help out. (Amanda reminded me that this is the first time one of our memory days has fallen on a Saturday while I was in conference. God is an excellent event planner!)
Verse, cities, and first names, Sweet Things!
Romans 12:12 NIV
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Julie G
Jackson, MS
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looks at his face in a mirror and, after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets wha the looks like.
James 1:22-24 NIV
Brooke
Atlanta, Ga
"Thou art my hiding place and my shield; I hope in thy word."
PSALMS 119:114 KJV
Ann
Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Verse 15 & 16
Ephesians 4:23-24 (NASB)
And that you be renewed in the spirit of your mind, and put on the new self, which in the likeness of God has been created in righteousness and holiness of the truth.
Diane
Jenison, MI
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints.
Epehsians 1:18 NASB
Susan, Atlanta, GA
2 Peter 1:5-7 ESV
For this very reason, make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue, and virtue with knowledge, and knowledge with self-control, and self-control with steadfastness, and steadfastness with godliness,and godliness with brotherly affection, and brotherly affection with love.
Corrie
Englewood,CO
Psalm 139:16
"You saw me before I was born.
Every day of my life was recorded in your book.
Every moment was laid out
before a single day had passed."
Sherry
Meeker, OK
"Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you."
Jeremiah 29:12 (NIV)
Leslie, Allen, TX
So here's what I want you to do, God helping you. Take you everyday, ordinary life–your sleeping, eating, going to work, and walking-around life–and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.
Romans 12:1 (MSG)
Nancy D.
Moberly, MO
I wait for the Lord, my soul waits, and in his word I put my hope. Psalm 30:5 (NIV)
Megan-Knoxville, TN
For even the Son of Man did not come to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.
Mark 10:45 NIV
Jeanne Byers
Easley, SC
Romans 8:6 (NLT)
So letting your sinful nature control your mind leads to death. But letting the Spirit control your mind leads to life and peace.
Carrie
Cary, NC
"I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in Me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from Me you can do nothing." NIV
Kathy
Austin
Be strong and let your heart take courage, all you who hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24 NRSV
Kristin
Tulare, CA
Psalm 119:75-77
I know, O LORD, that your rules are righteous, and that in faithfulness you have afflicted me. Let your steadfast love comfort me according to your promise to your servant. Let your mercy come to me, that I may live; for your law is my delight.
(half way memorized 🙂
ashley
huntsville, AL
1 Timothy 1:7 (NIV)
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and love and of a sound mind
Barbara,
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Jeremiah 15:16 (KJV)
"Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O LORD God of hosts."
Amy G
Addison, TX
Psalms 91:14-16
"If you'll hold on to me for dear life," says God, "I'll get you out of any trouble. I'll give you the best of care if you'll only get to know and trust me. Call me and I'll answer, I'll be at your side in bad times, I'll rescue you then throw you a party. I'll give you a long life, a long drink of salvation!"
Holly B
Twin Falls, ID
The Message
Matthew 6:24 NIV
No one can serve two masters. Either he will hate the one and love the other or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.
Polly
The Woodlands, Tx
Sorry I'm late… moving kids and then went to the mountains with limited internet access.
Psalm 139:23-24 (NLT)
Search me, O God, and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
Janet Scarth
Amarillo, TX
Ps. 148: 8-12 The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. The Lord is good to all; He has compassion on all He has made. All you have made will praise you, O Lord; Your saints will extol You. They will tell of the glory of Your kingdom and speak of your might, so that all men may know of Your mighty acts and the glorious splendor of Your kingdom.
Linda
East Chain, MN
John 14:5-6 (NIV)
Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are going, so how can we know the way?" Jesus answered, "I AM THE WAY and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me."
Seeking God's will by seeking Him,
Melissa in Fresno, CA
Philippians 2:14-16a (NIV)
Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation in which you shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the Word of life…
Rita Brown
Midland,TX
Judge not, that you be not judged.
Matthew 7:1 (RSV)
Mary Edna
Raleigh*NC
Psalm 141:3
Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord;
keep watch over the door of my lips.
~Stacy
Bellingham, WA
Psalms 145:8-9 (NIV)
The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. The Lord is good to all; He has compassion on all He has made.
Shannon
Katy, TX
(So sorry for my tardiness.)
anna
kearney, ne
psalm 145:8-9 niv
the LORD is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love. the LORD is good to all; he has compassion on all he has made.
Philippians 2:14-15 (NIV)
Do everything without complaining or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, children of God without fault in a crooked and depraved generation, in which you shine like starts in the universe.
Jessica Hawkins
West Palm Beach, FL
"Yet I am always with you; you hold me by my right hand. You guide me with your counsel and afterward you will take me into glory. Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever."
Psalm 73:23-26 NIV
Sarah N, Minneapolis, MN
I have resolved that my mouth will not sin.
Psalm 17:3b NIV
Margo
Burlington ON
Your Word is a Lamp to my feet and a Light to my path.
Ps. 119:105 NAS
Kim S
Crawford, TX
Psalm 57:2 NIV
I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills His purpose for me.
Gail Jones
Decatur, TX
Taking the child by the hand, He said to her, "Talitha kum!" (which translated means, "Little girl, (A)I say to you, get up!").
mark 5:41
nasb
caitlin
Zachariah 3:10 NIV
In that day each of you will invite his neighbor to sit under his vine and fig tree, declares the LORD Almighty.
Lisa in
Kirkland, WA
P.s.Incidentally, my house has a gazebo where we, and our friends have prayed so much, it is now laden with grape vines, and fig trees. I did not plant them, I moved here two years ago and they were already there. God is so good, is He not?
Just wanted you to know I am not picking a new verse…I am making sure I can recount all the past ones!
Paula
Tulsa, OK
It just dawned on me that I forgot to enter my verse!
Psalm 139:16
All the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
Liz
Cottage Grove, MN
Erika Chapman
Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your Word.
Psalm 119:37
NIV
Florence, SC
Romans 8:27 (NIV)
And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, becusae the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God's will.
Jennifer Engstrom
Round Rock, Texas
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in You.
Isaiah 26:3 – NIV
Diane – Dallas
Sorry I'm so late……
Psalm 33:4
"For the word of the LORD is right,
And all His work is done in truth."
DJ Hartman
West Lafayette, IN
"I can do everything through Him who gives me strength."
Phil. 4:13 (NIV)
Sue
Troy, MI
Hebrews 12:1-2 (NIV)
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.
Carrie
Prior Lake, MN
Proverbs 3:5-6 NASB
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 your paths straight.
Sharon
Lititz, PA
Psalms 31:16
Let your face shine on your servant. Save me in your unfailing love.
Eleanor
Memphis, TN
Psalms 31 :16
Let your face shine on your servant. Save me in your unfailing love.
Eleanor
Memphis, TN
2 Peter 1:4 NIV
Through these he has given us his very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.
Debbie
Portland, OR
So humble yourselves under the mighty power of God, and at the right time he will lift you up in honor. Give all your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
1 Peter 5:6-7 NLT
Reneé
Missouri City/Houston, TX
okay…WAY late and only attempting the first part of your verse….but, here it is! 🙂
The Lord is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and rich in love.
Psalm 145:8 (NIV)
Kelly
Marina, CA
Lori
Bangor, Maine
Psalm 122:7-8 (HCSB)
The Lord will protect you from all harm; He will protect your life. The Lord will protect your coming and going both now and forever.
Blessed is the man that endures temptation, for when he is tried he shall receive the crown of life which the Lord has promised to those that love Him.
James 1:12 KJV
Linda
Greeley, CO