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!
Tiffany, Houston, TX
Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be on your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up. Tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Write them on the doorframes of your houses and on your gates. Deut 6:4-9
I’m posting a day late due to travel. Thank you!
Rhonda
Lima, OH
Ps. 113:2-3 (nasb)
“Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forever. From the rising of the sun to its setting the name of the Lord is to be praised.”
Yet those who wait for the Lord will gain new strength;
they will mount up with wings like eagles,
they will run and not get tired,
they will walk and not become weary. Isaiah 40:31 NISB
Three Rivers. “Praise God, everybody! Applaud God, all people! His love has taken over our lives; God’s faithful ways are eternal. Hallelujah!” Psalm 117:1-2 (The Message)
Ann
Lincoln, NE
James 1:19-20 NIV 1984
“My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man’s anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.”
April
Oviedo
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 26:3 NIV
Dawn, Dubuque, IA
“The Lord is my strength and shield; my heart trusts in him, and I am helped. My heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. Psalm 28:7 NIV
Malinn – Houston
Isaiah 41:10
“Do not fear, for I am with you. Do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God. I will strengthen you, surely I will help you, Surely I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
This verse literally saved my life about 30 years ago!!!
“Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.”
James 1:19-20 NIV
Sarah Jenkins
Bancroft, ON Canada
Midland, TX
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.
Zephaniah 3:17 (NIV)
Kristie, that is my life verse. It is threaded into and marked all over an incredible season of my life. I’m glad the timing worked out to where i would read your post. 🙂
Psalm 34:1-3 AMP
1)I will bless the Lord at all times;His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
2)My life makes its boast in the Lord; let the humble and afflicted hear and be glad.
3)O magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt His name together.
Angie, Lino Lakes, MN
Lisa, Willimantic, CT
Now we see things imperfectly as in a cloudy mirror, but then we will see everything with perfect clarity. All that I know now is partial and incomplete, but then I will know everything completely, just as God now knows me completely.
I Corinthians 13:12
Debra, Sulphur Springs Tx; ” When you pass thru the waters I will be with you and thru the rivers they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire you will not be scorched nor will the flame burn you.FOR I AM THE LORD YOUR GOD.” Isaiah 43:2-3 NASB
And my God shall supply all my needs according to His riches in Glory by Christ Jesus.
Phil 4:19
Ramona, Medina, Ohio
2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Oh, come on you Texans! We went to our biggest shopping town yesterday which is Minot ND and we were coming home last eve to snow drifted roads and -18 with a wind chill of 30- !!!! We were also thinking we did not have a winter survival kit in the one Jeep we were driving! We have too many vehicles!!It was alittle unnerving but a prayer soon pacified my anxious mind. Out here in this dangerous winter, prayer is often offered up as you venture out!!!!
Scared to death of death? Even our Lord did not look forward to his cruel death on the cross and most of us would have to admit the process of dying does not seem to pleasent but the great assurance of what we have beyond the grave should help us get beyond that at least alittle. I personally look forward to the day I die because I know without a doubt there is a glorious reuniting with loved ones and I will get to see Jesus with my own eyes and behold Him as He is!!!
I am memorizing portions of Romans 8. It is my favorite chapter of the Bible because it starts out with no condemnation and ends up with no separation. How’re those for promises?? I am struggling with verse 3 and I am memorizing the in the New King James version because I love the poetic flow of that version and because it is the KJ version I started learning from back in Sunday school days. Hugs from the Heartland,
Betty
Voltaire ND
Romans 8:3
NKJ version
April, Lake Charles, LA
May our Lord Jesus Christ Himself and God our Father, who loved us and by His grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word. ~2 Thes. 2:16-17
Shannon, Chino, CA
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself up for me.” Galatians 2:20 (ESV)
Romanos 3:23 Pues todos han pecado y estan lejos de la presencia salvadora de Dios.
When evil men advance against me to devour my flesh, when my enemies and my foes attack me, they will stumble and fall.
Psalm 27:2 NIV
I’m memorizing this chapter!
Ashlie, Yukon, OK
“There is no fear in love, but perfect love casts out fear. For fear has to do with punishment, and whoever fears has not been perfected in love.”
1 John 4:18 ESV
“I am the good shepherd; I know my sheep and my sheep know me— just as the Father knows me and I know the Father—and I lay down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep that are not of this sheep pen. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my voice, and there shall be one flock and one shepherd.
John 10:14-16 NIV
Mary Ellen
Methuen
Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good.
Romans 12:9
Jordan, Dallas
“Charm is deceitful, and beaauty is vain. But a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.” -Psalm 31:30 (ESV)
Teresa – Austin, TX
If you believe, you will receive whatever you ask for in prayer. Matthew 21:22 NIV
Dawn, Overland Park, KS:
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 4:6-7
LuAnn – Winfield, IA Eph 4:22-24 You were taught with regard to your former way of life, put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitudes of your minds and to put on the new self, created to be like God in righteousness and holiness. Eph 4:22-24 NIV
I know we are supposed to try to do only one verse – but I couldn’t pick just one out of this passage.
Olathe, KS
Do not [earnestly] remember the former things; neither consider the things of old.
Isaiah 43:18 (Amp)
Lezlie- Prince George, VA – I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness could be gained through the law, Christ died for nothing – Galatians 2:21 (NIV)
Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the LORD our God. Psalm 20:7 niv
MK
Gig Harbor
“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
Sandy from Amarillo:
Train a child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not turn from it.
Proverbs 22:6. NIV
Judy
Illinois
NKJ
Psalms 3:8- I will lie down and sleep in peace for You alone O Lord make me dwell in safety. Psalms 3:8
Karla, Broomfield
He delivers the afflicted by their afflictions, he reveals himself to them by their suffering. Job 36:15 NET
Jennifer, Dallas “The Lord gives strength to his people; the Lord blesses his people with peace.” Psalms 29:11 NIV
Heidi-Wasilla, Alaska “Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.” Colossians 3:1-2 NIV
Say hi to Sarah Palin and the family for me!
Martha-Ft. Oglethorpe, GA
My soul finds rest in God alone
My salvation comes from Him.
He alone is my rock and my salvation.
He is my fortress, I will never be shaken.
Psalm 62:1-2 NKJV
Christine
Liberty Lake, WA
NIV
Acts 1:8
But you will receive power when the holy spirit comes on you, and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria and to the ends of the earth.
James 2:12-13 NIV
Speak and act as those who are going to be judged by the law that gives freedom, because judgement without mercy will be shown to anyone who has not been merciful, Mercy triumphs over judgement!
Patty – Lecanto Psalm 62:7 My Salvation and my honor depend on God; He is my mighty rock, my refuge. NIV
1 Corinthians 15:58 NLT
So my dear brothers and sisters, be strong and immovable. Always work enthusiastically for the Lord, for you know that nothing you do for the Lord is ever useless.
Joanie
Kearney, NE
Amy, Nacogdoches, Tx.
Proverbs 12:18
Reckless words pierce like a sword, but the tongue of the wise brings healing.
Kalyn – Binghamton, NY
“For though we live in the world, we do not wage war as the world does.” 2 Cor. 10:3 (NIV)
Gidget – San Angelo, TX
Let us not become weary of doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. Galatians 6:9-10 NIV
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)
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 NIV
Jenny
Longmont, CO
Psalm 9:10
Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.
“Obviously, I’m not trying to win the approval of people, but of God. If pleasing people were my goal, I would not be Christ’s servant.” Galatians 1:10 NLT
Amen,siesta!
Cristina – Seattle, WA. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of rightousness for His name’s sake. Psalm 23:3 ESV. God Bless you all in your scripture memory!!:)
Amy, Whiteman AFB, MO
He replied, “If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea’, and it will obey you.
Luke 17:6 NIV