HOUSTON AREA TUESDAY NIGHT BIBLE STUDY GIRLS: If by chance we end up needing to cancel tonight over the storms, I will put a cancellation notice right here on the blog so keep an eye on this spot off and on all day. Certainly check it before you set out for HFBC tonight. We love you and want to be wise!
NOON UPDATE FOR TUESDAY NIGHT BIBLE STUDY: As of right now, Bible study is ON for tonight. It will really be cold for us south Texans but it’s supposed to be dry. We are planning on starting the lesson a little earlier and ending it at 8:15. See you there with our coats on!
Now, for SSMT:
Hey, Siestas!
Happy February 1st! Did January fly past us or what?? We’re at least two Scriptures the richer for it, though. I’ve been using my time on my exercise bike in the mornings to practice my memory verses so I’ve mostly only heard myself repeat them gasping for breath. (If you like picturing things, it’s in my garage sandwiched between boxes and stacks of 26 years of Moore paraphernalia and everything else besides an actual car…which is in my driveway. You also might enjoy picturing my Border Collie Star sitting right beside me, fixating on the bicycle pedal as it goes round and round. Bless her poor sweet obsessive-compulsive self.) I might have to haul the bike up there with me to the Siesta celebration next January so I can say them to my partner the same way I’ve practiced them. Or I guess I can just sit on the floor and pump my feet in the air and play like. My partner might have to sit back from me just a tad. And if none of that works, I’ll get my man to haul Star up there to watch me and see if the right conditions are responsible for the recollections. And, of course, they’re not. In John 14:26, Christ says it is the Holy Spirit who reminds us of everything He has taught us so press on! With Him, we can do all things.
Tuesday is Bible study day for us at LPM this time of year so I don’t get to talk long on here today. So, let’s get to it! It’s already time for Verse 3!
As I told you two weeks ago, I’ll primarily be working through verses out of the Book of James for much of this year. I’ll give you mine each time but I’ll also give you an alternative that I really love outside of James in case you need some ideas. Here’s the portion I’m memorizing this time around with my information:
Beth, Houston. “Speak and act as those who will be judged by a law that gives freedom. For judgment is merciless for the one who has shown no mercy. But mercy triumphs over judgment.” James 2:12-13 The NET Bible
I love that last statement. Mercy triumphs over judgment. Aren’t you thankful we have a Savior that feels that way?
The alternative I’ll suggest to you today is on my mind because someone I care deeply about struggles terribly with fear of death. This person isn’t chronically ill. Just oppressed and tormented by possibilities. Maybe some part of this segment might minister to you today.
Since the children are made of flesh and blood, it’s logical that the Savior took on flesh and blood in order to rescue them by his death. By embracing death, taking it into himself, he destroyed the Devil’s hold on death and freed all who cower through life, scared to death of death. (Hebrews 2:14-15 The Message)
Anybody “scared to death of death”? These passages are also really rich out of the NIV if you prefer it:
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might destroy him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil— and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. (Hebrews 2:14-15 NIV)
Oh, there’s nothing like the power of God’s Word. And that’s because there’s nothing like the power of God.
You sure are loved around here. OK, let’s have it, 2011 SSMT! Verse 3! (Your first name, city, reference and translation please.)
I’ll talk to you soon!
Rogers, AR “Whatever is not from faith is sin.” Romans 14:23b NKJV
Leslie, Atlanta,GA “All discipline is for the moment seems not to be joyful but sorrowful, yet to those who have been trained by it, afterwords it yeilds the peaceful fruit of righteousness.” Hewbrews 12:11 NASB
Proverbs 15:1 (ESV)
A soft answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Betsy Shawnee, KS
Jamie, Grapevine, TX
But be sure to fear the Lord and serve hiim faithfully with all your heart; consider what great things he has done for you. I Samuel 12:24 NIV
“He leads the humble in what is right, and the humble He teaches His way.” Ps. 25:9 AMP
Melissa- Normangee, TX
Blair, Dallas
“Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.”
Proverbs 19:21 (NIV)
Kat Clarkesville, Ga
“There is therefore now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus.”
Romans 8:1 (NAS)
Kaye, Stone Mountain
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.” Col. 3:23 NIV
Sara, Mildenhall, England
“He will have no fear of bad news; his heart is steadfast, trusting in the LORD.” -Psalm 112:7 NIV
Mirinda, Mobile, Alabama
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.
Philippians 2:3 NIV
Psalm 1:3
You will be like a tree,
firmly planted by streams of water.
You will yield your fruit in season,
and our leaves will not wither;
And whatever you do will prosper.
Lisa, New York
Look to the Lord and His strength; Seek His face always.
Psalms 105:4 NIV
Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look affter orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world. James 1:27 NIV
Jacqueline, CT
Sandra, Kayleigh and Bethany, Waco, TX: Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts to which indeed you were called in one body; and be thankful. Colossians 3:15 (NASB)
Whatever things were gain to me, I now consider loss for the sake of Christ. What is more, I consider everything a loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord, for whose sake I have lost all things. I consider them garbage, that I may gain Christ and be found in Him.
Philippians 3:7-9a (NIV)
Martha Helen
Asheville, NC
Kellie, Mineola, TX
Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.
Psalm 31:24 NIV
Psalm 37:23,24 “The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord: and He delighteth in his way. Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down: for the Lord upholdeth him with His hand.”
Lyn, Shelton, CT.
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
2 Corinthians 9:8
sharon in Illinois
Colossians 3:12 NLT
Since God choose you to be the holy people He loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
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
Beverly, Fresno – Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. James 1:2-3 NIV
ICorth:13:1-3 ESV
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned but have not love, I gain nothing.
Michele
North OAks
LOOK to the Lord and his strength
SEEK his face always.
Ps 105:4 NIV
Tammy Marlton, NJ
“Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus” Philippians 1:6 NIV
Tina, Roxboro, NC
But I trust the LORD God to save me, and I will wait for him to answer my prayer. Micah 7:7 CEV
Beth, Troy
“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”
1 Peter 5:6-7 (NIV)
Ginger, Albuquerque, NM
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding: Proverbs 3:5 (for 2nd memory verse)
v6 “In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” (for 3rd memory verse)
Kathy-Charleston
Psalm 40:1 Amplified Bible
I waited patiently and expectantly for the LORD; and He inclined to me and heard my cry.
Teri- Boise, Id
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. Anyone who listesns to the word but does not do what it says is like a man who looksat his face in a mirror and after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
James 1:22-24 NIV
Psalms 133:23-24
Search me, O God,and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
And see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting. (KJV)
Col 3:17(NASB) – And whatever you do in word or deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks through him to God the Father.
Kaylie, Vega “For if when we were still enemies we were reconciled to God through the death of His Son, much more, Having been reconciled, we shall be saves by his life” Romans 5:10 NKJV
Parker, CO 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV
“Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
Melissa, Fort Myers, FL
For the word of God is living and effective and sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating as far as to divide soul, spirit, joints, and marrow; it is a judge of the ideas and thoughts of the heart. Hebrews 4:12
Karen, Fruit Heights, Utah:
I have not stopped thanking God for you. I pray for you constantly, asking God, the glorious Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to give you spiritual wisdom and insight so that you might grow in your knowledge of God. Ephesians 1:16-17 NLT
Stacey, Sugar Land, TX:
“Above all, clothe yourselves with love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony.”
Colossians 3:14 NRSV
He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? That you act justly and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God. Micah 6:8 NIV
Jennifer – St. Peters, MO
Karen, Livermore, CA
Genesis 9:13 – New American Standard Bible
I set My bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a sign of a covenant between Me and the earth.
Ephesians 4:29 (New International Version)
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
Hermann, MO “Thou will keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee” Isaiah 26:3 NIV
But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that.
1 Timothy 6:6-8 (NIV)
Kathleen
Bellmore, LI, NY
Marsha, Minden, La
There is more to this life than trusting in God. There’s also suffering. And the suffering is as much of a gift as the trusting. (Phillipians 1:29 The Message)
Jennifer Acworth, GA
Psalm 25: 14-15
The Lord confides in those who fear Him; He makes His covenant known to them.
My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only He will release my foot from the snare.
Natalie, Trussville, AL “I have no greater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth.” 3 John 1:4-NIV
Miquela
Knoxville, TN
If you remain in me and my words remain in you, ask whatever you want and it will be done for you.
John 15:7 Holman Christian Standard Version
April, Vermilion
But blessed is the one who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.
Jeremiah 17:7 (NIV)
Susan, Old Hickory, TN
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 NIV
Teresa, Haxtun, CO Psalm 62:8 Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before Him; God is a refuge for us. (NAS)
Callee, Houston:
“Then this city will bring me renown, joy, praise, and honor before all nations that hear of all the good things I do for it; and they will be in awe and will tremble at the abundant prosperity and peace I provide for it.”
Jeremiah 33:(
Angela, Grand Ridge, FL
Isaiah 43:2-3 (NIV)
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze. For I am the Lord you God, the Holy One of Israel, your Savior; I give Egypt for your ransom, Cush and Seba in your stead.