Hey, Scripture Memory Buddies!
Every single month my anticipation of our January celebration doubles! Just picture all those hugs and high fives! Has this been a great support group, or what? Although I know I would have still memorized Scripture because my poor obsessive mind spins out of control without it, I cannot imagine that I would have memorized the same amount over the course of this year. Accountability and COMMUNITY are beautiful things. Of all the activities we’ve gotten to do on our LPM blog, honestly, this is one of my favorites. I hope you’re getting plenty of opportunities to put your memory verses to practice. Just in case you haven’t found them all that practical, you ought to try mine from our last segment. It was on the tongue. Let me simply say that, for some unknown reason, my verse came to my mind about 25 times a day.
I’m also excited about the selection God has impressed on my heart for this round.
“I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills His purpose for me.” Psalm 57:2 NIV
Here’s what God is using that verse to say to me right now: When I’m in a really hard and hurtful situation, somehow the present difficulty of it overrides my conscious thought that God is going to use it in my life and then through my life. Not one time in my entire tenure on this planet has He ever failed to turn around and use the hardship for good. NOT ONCE. Not when I gave Him enough time and cooperation. Yet, in the midst of it, I often can only hang onto Him for dear life while we ride the wave to shore and then stand there in the aftershock and look like I’ve just been on the spin cycle of a washing machine. Afterward, when He invariably turns it into some kind of maturity, intimacy, insight or ministry, I think, “Why didn’t I just trust Him for that at the time??? Why did I have to take it so personally and injuriously?” I want to learn to CONSISTENTLY claim the victory right there in the worst of the pain or crisis. At the very moment that I’m crying out to God Most High for help, as the psalmist says, I want to proclaim that He’s smack in the middle of fulfilling His purpose for me. Challenging stuff.
But that’s one of the things that keeps us so interested and engaged with Christ. We can never get this thing conquered.
I am so honored to take this journey with you. He is everything, Sweet Thing. He is absolutely EVERYTHING! Savor His Presence today.
OK, let’s hear your first name, city, verse and translation!
I love you,
Beth
2 Corinthians 2:14 (NLV)
But thank God! He has made us his captives and continues to lead us along in Christ's triumphal procession. Now He uses us to spread the knowledge of Christ eveywhere, like a sweet perfume.
Ina
Lancaster, PA
Matthew 7:1-2
Do not judge, or you too will be judged.
For in the same way you judge others; you will be judged. And with the measure you use, it will be measured to you.
Becky
Houston, TX
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, and faithful in prayer.
Rom 12:12
kaci from norman
heather in austin, tx
Psa 16.8 NLT
I know the LORD is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.
Debbie
Marion, IN
NIV Psalm 57:2
I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fufills his purpose for me.
Proverbs 31:10-12 NIV
A wife of noble character who can find? She is worth far more than rubies. Her husband has full cinfidence in her and lacks nothing of value. She brings him good, not harm all the days of her life.
"After I looked things over, I stood up and said to the nobles, the officials, and the rest of the people, "Don't be afraid of them. Remember the Lord who is great and awesome and fight for your brothers, your sons, your daughters and your wives and your homes."
– Nehemiah 4:14 (NIV)
Ivy Morrison
Willis, TX
Cookie Cawthon from Florence, SC
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of Him who called us by his own glory and goodness. 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.
2 Peter 1:3-4 (NIV)
Jan in Katy
I Cor 1:25
For the foolishness of God is wiser than man's wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man's strength. niv
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.â€- John 14:27 (NIV)
Kenzie
Katy, TX
Hebrews 4:16 (NIV)
Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Anita
Austin, TX
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
I have seen you in the sanctuary
and beheld your power and your glory. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
I will praise you as long as I live,
and in your name I will lift up my hands.
Psalm 63:1-4
NIV
Monica
Fort Worth, TX
Salvation belongs to our God, who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb…Amen! Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God for ever and ever. Amen!
Revelation 7:10 & 12
NIV
Monica
Fort Worth, TX
Ephesians 4:21-23 (KJV)
21)If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:
22) That ye put off concerning the former conversation the old man, which is corrupt according to the deceitful lusts;
23) And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Ninette G
Seagoville, TX
Kristi Parks
Eugene OR
“I cry out to God Most High, to God, who fulfills His purpose for me.†Psalm 57:2 NIV
Everything is possible for him who believes. Mark 9:23
NIV
Sara Pipkin
Denver
Like arrows in the hands of a warrior are sons born in one's youth.
Psalm 127: 4 NIV
Tonya, Searcy, AR
So do not fear for I am with you, do not be dismayed for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you. I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10 NIV
Donna K
Tx
I can't attend the event, but I still want to post the verses I've been working on…
I cry out to God most high, to God, who fulfills His purpose for me.
Casey
Bumpass, VA
"I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For He has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousnes, as a bridegroom adorns his head like a priest and as a bride adorns herself with her jewels. For as a soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign Lord will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations." Isaiah 61:10-11 NIV
Sandy P
Eugene, OR
"There are six things the Lord hates, seven that are detestable to Him;"
Proverbs 6:16
Michelle
Richmond VA
"Those who cling to worthless idols
forfeit the grace
that could be theirs."
Jonah 2:8
NIV
Christine K
Eugene, OR
Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
1st John 2:15 (kjv)
Mulls
Chuckey TN
Joshua 1:7
Be strong and very courageous. Be careful to obey all the law my servant Moses gave you; do not turn from it to the right or to the left, that you may be successful wherever you go.
Aimie Markham
Murfreesboro, TN
Concentren su atención
en las cosas de arriba,
no en las de la tierra.
Colosenses 3:2 (NVI)
Maureen
Cambridge, MA
Cortni B.
Watauga, TX
Psalm 139:14 NIV
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Heather F
Beaumont, TX
But God demonstrates his love for us in this: while we were still sinners, Christ died for us. Romans 5:8 NIV
Take away the disgrace I dread,for your laws are good.
Psalm 119:39
RaeLeen
Greenwood
"Whoever trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like a green leaf."
Proverbs 11:28 NIV
CathyB
Houston, TX
May those who delignt in my vindication shout for joy and gladness, May they always say 'The LORD be exalted, who delights in the well-being of his servant.
Psalms 35:27 NIV
C Chamablee
Philadelphia, MS
"They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness." Lam 3:23
The Lord is my light and my salvation; Whom shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 27:1
Kristie
Queen City, TX
Therefore there is no comdenation to those who are in Christ Jesus. For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.
Rms 8:1&2
Rebecca H.
Malvern, PA
psalms 23:4
Even thougH i walk through the valley of the shadow of death , i will fear no evil for you are with me, your rod and staff they comfort me.
Beth R
Liberty Lake WA
NIV
amanda in katy
John 17:15 NIV
My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them form the evil one.
NLT
Psalm 34:19
"People who do what is right may have problems, but the Lord will solve them all."
Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4
Mary V
Brighton CO
O lOrd my God, I cried out ot you and you healed me. O Lord you brought my soul up fromthe grave. You have kept me alive that I should not go down in the pit.
Psalm 30:2-3
Paula
Atlanta, Tx
John 3:16 (NIV)
"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Robin
Katy, TX
1 Peter 5:7
Serve each other in humility, for God opposes the proud but favors the humble.
Kara- Marietta, PA
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
Phillipians 4:4 (NIV)
Stacy
Amherst, NE
Belinda Kendall
Olathe KS
Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Psalm 37:4
NLT
Neh. 1:5 O Lord, God of Heaven, the great and awesome God, who keeps Hs covenant of love with those who love and obey his commandments.
Kimberly
Houston, TX
"Set a guard over my mouth, O Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips." Ps. 141:3 NIV
Lauren, New Braunfels, TX
Direct my footsteps according to Your Word; let no sin rule over me.
Ps 119:133 NIV
Tammi G
Florence,SC
O – O give that unto the Lord; for He is good. Ps 118:1
Dynae Pofahl
Kearney, NE
Psalm 145:8-9
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.
Lisa
Edinburg, TX
Isaiah 43:18
NIV
Forget the former things
Do not dwell on the past
Michelle
OKC, OK
John 6:56 NIV
Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood remains in me, and I in him.
"In your relationships with one another, have the same attitude of mind as Christ Jesus had…"
Phillipians 2:5