READY? AIM! FIRE!
Happy New Year, my dear sisters in Jesus! Last night I wrote a letter to the Lord Jesus right before I went to sleep and recalled His faithfulness through a tumultuous year. Right before I turned out the light, I opened up Daily Light for the last Scripture reading for the year and it offered this verse:
The Lord your God carried you, as a man carries his son, in all the way you went until you came to this place. Deut. 1:31
I could have cried. Yes, He surely did. And He carried you, too. Tightly in His faithful arms.
Only God knows what this particular year has in store for us. He alone sees how the path will wind, and climb, and fall, and rise again. We do not have control over the future as we glance ahead to 2011 but make no mistake. He does and we, His lavishly loved daughters, can indeed prepare to live what He thoughtfully brings our way victoriously. On this first day of the new year, we are not victims. We are called to live as victors, holding up the Shield of Faith in one hand and the Sword of the Spirit in the other.We need BOTH.
It’s finally time to post your first memory verse of 24 in 2011! If you haven’t already read the instructions thoroughly, please look at the post on December 26th titled “Siesta Scripture Memory Instructions.” It will tell you everything you need to know. Just a quick refresher: Your comments will almost entirely consist of these entries:
First name, city, verse, reference, and version.
Please keep it limited to these facts so that the verses stand out prominently for us to behold. You can occasionally say something as brief as “I’m excited!” Or “I need prayer!” but nothing longer than that please. Let’s let the Scriptures themselves rise like we’re looking at them with our 3-D glasses on.
Here’s my first Scripture entry of 24 in 2011:
Beth, Houston: All generous giving and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or the slightest hint of change. James 1:17 The NET Bible
Be sure and hand write your verse in your spiral to help engrave it on your sweet mind. Also consider writing your contact information on the inside cover in case you leave it somewhere and God causes someone gracious to find it.
I love to claim Psalm 65:11 on the first day of the new year:
You crown the year with Your good blessings, and You leave abundance in Your wake. The NET Bible
Lord, I want an abundance of Your Holy Spirit! (See Luke 11:13!) Abba, go before us this year and leave the fragrance of Your very presence in Your wake!
OK, Siestas! Hit it! I’ve prayed for you and can’t wait to pursue the Lord Jesus Christ with you this year. If some of you don’t know which verse to use this time around, consider Psalm 65:11. It’s a great first round.
Remember to wait 24 hours from the time you post your comment until you assume it got lost and enter it again. So many comments come in at once on these Scripture memory posts that the server bogs down, causing it to take extra time.
I love you, Sisters! Through the power of the Holy Spirit, we can do this! Remember, KEEP IT SIMPLE AND MEANINGFUL!
Dori, Meridian: I pray that the God who gives hope will fill you with much joy and peace while you trust in Him. Then your hope will overflow by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13, NCV
Tonya in Walled Lake, MI
Zeph. 3.17- “The Lord your God is with you, He is mighty to save. he will take great delight in you, he will quiet you with his love, he will rejoice over you with singing.”
Queen City, Tx
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.”
Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV
The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has annointed me to preach good news to the poor.He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim freedom to the captives and release from the darkness for the prisoners…
Isaiah 61:1
Patty, Lakeport, FL: Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of you heart. So you will find favor and good repute in the eyes of God and man. Proverbs 3:3-4 NAS
Maureen, Cambridge, MA: May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 NIV
Dee, Zeeland, MI “Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3: 22 & 23
Sorry, NIV
Julie
Columbia, SC
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassion’s never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him”.
Lam 3: 22-24 NIV
Lauren from Indiana
Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ. (NIV)
Renee Frisco, TX
“Every generous act and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of light; with Him there is no variation or shadow cast by turning.” James 1:17 Holman Christian Standard
Sarah, Atlanta
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him, and he will make your paths straight.”
Proverbs 3:5-6, NIV
Jill, Lexington, KY
“This is what the Lord says: ‘Let not the wise boast of their wisdom or the strong boast of their strength or the rich boast of their riches, but let the one who boasts boast about this: that they have the understanding to know me, that I am the Lord, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight,’ declares the Lord.”
Jeremiah 9:23-24 NIV
Beth Bixby, Oklahoma
Stay awake and pray, so that you won’t enter into temptation. The spirit is willing, but the flesh is weak. Matthew 26: 41 Holman Christian
[That you may really come] to know [practically,through experience for yourselves] the love of Christ, which far surpasses mere knowledge [without experience]; that you may be filled [through all your being]unto all the fullness of God [may have the richest measure of the divine Presence, and become a body wholly filled and flooded with God Himself]! Eph.3:19
Jan Georgetown,TX: And let our people also learn to maintain good works, to meet urgent needs, that they may not be unfruitful. Titus 3:14, NKJV
Sara-Jacksonville, NC
“Wealth and riches are in his house, and his righteousness endures forever.” Psalm 112:3 NIV
Suzy, Terre Haute IN
“Jesus replied: “‘Love your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.’
Matthew 22:37 NIV
Psalms 19:14 – Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my Strength and my Redeemer! KJV
Christine
Oxford, MI
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Matthew 6:33 (NIV)
Ellen- Columbus, GA
2 Peter 1:5-10 (New International Version, ©2010)
5 For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; 6 and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 7 and to godliness, mutual affection; and to mutual affection, love. 8 For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.
When Israel was a child, I loved him, and out of Egypt I called my son. Hosea 11:1. NRSV
Melissa-Holliston, MA
“You crown the year with Your good blessing, and leave abundance in Your wake.” Amen!
Ps. 65:11 (NET)
Rachel from Houston, TX
“Seek the Lord and his strength; seek his presence continually!” Ps. 105:4 ESV
Teresa from Georgetown, Tx
If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. 1 Corinthians 13:1(NLT)
Tricia, Smyrna, GA: You crown the year with Your good blessings, and You leave abundance in Your wake. (Psalm 65:11 NET)
Shanelle, Phoenix: “There you saw how the LORD your God carried you, as a father carries his son, all the way you went until you reached this place.” Deut 1:31, NIV
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your souls.
Chrissy / Guyton, GA
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. When Christ, who is your life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.
Colossians 3:2-4 NIV
Mikee from Abilene, TX
Oh! May the God of green hope fill you up with joy, fill you up with peace, so that your believing lives, filled with the life-giving energy of the Holy Spirit, will brim over with hope!
Romans 15:13 The Message
Amy, Starkville, MS.
“Create in me a pure heart O God and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me.”
Psalm 51:10-12 (NIV)
Tangila from Pearland, TX
“There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love.” 1 John 4:18 (NKJV)
Chonda, Fayetteville: Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6, NIV
Laura from St. Louis
“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.” I Peter 2:24 NIV
Tracy from Southlake, TX
Too perfect, thx Beth –
You crown the year with Your good blessings, and you leave abundance in Your wake.
The NET bible
Oops! Psalm 65:11
Shana Chaney
Jackson, GA
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
Proverbs 31:30
King James
Boston, MA
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
-Jeremiah 29:11
“So do not worry saying “What shall we eat? or What shall we drink? or What shall we wear? For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own” Matthew 6: 31-34 NIV
Posting for Terese and Sarah, Marshfield and Ashley, Middleton:
Isaiah 26:3
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
But now you also, put them all aside; anger, wrath, malice, slander, and abusive speech from your mouth.
Colossians 3:8
Jennifer, Albany, GA
Psalm 15:1-2 Kings James Version
Lord, who shall abide in thy tabernacle?
Who shall dwell in thy holy hill?
He that walketh uprightly and worketh
Righteousness, and speaketh the truth in his heart.
Tiffany, Beaumont, TX
“Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the LORD.”
Hebrews 12:14, NIV
Shayna
Houston, TX
“My mouth will tell of your righteousness, of your salvation all day long, though I know not its measure.”
Psalm 71:15, NIV
Karen, Fortuna: You crown the year with Your good blessings, and You leave abundance in Your wake.
Psalms 65:11 The NET Bible
sorry i’m late! wouldn’t miss this for the world..
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13 (NIV)
Martha Helen
Asheville, NC
Cyndi, Illinois
Forgive one another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you. Eph. 4:32 Message
Just learned of this team. Thank you!!
Kristin, Clearwater,FL: “Now we ask you, brothers, to respect those who work hard among you, who are over you in the Lord and who admonish you.” 1 Thessalonians 5:12 NIV
Susan from Stow, Ohio
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16 KJV
Sarah from Dallas, GA
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11 NIV
Amy – Bowling Green, KY
I’m after a love that lasts, not more religion. I want you to know God, not go to more prayer meetings. – The Message