Hey, Sweet Things! I’m a mighty long way from home in Fresno, California and looking so forward to getting into the Scriptures and into some passionate praise and worship with these West-side women. I love knowing that Priscilla is in Florida this weekend serving at her first simulcast and we are on the opposite side of the continent with our Living Proof Live. You wouldn’t waste a prayer on either one of us.
This will be a record setting post – my shortest ever! Wish so much I could tarry here and visit with you but, Sister Girl, my hands are FULL. Oh, how I pray you are sticking with your Scripture memory. Don’t give up! God will bring a harvest if we persevere and see it all the way through. I love my selection this go round. If you don’t know what you want to memorize for Verse 7, you are welcome to share mine. Here goes!
Beth, Houston. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV
I love you like crazy. Stay in the Word!
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation, the old has gone, the new has come!
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV)
My daughter Jasmine says: The king said to the man of God, “Come home with me and have something to eat, and I will give you a gift.” 1 Kings 13:7 (NIV)
Jackie & Jasmine: Newport, TN
Billie, Greenville, KY. “Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in it’s various forms.”. 1 Peter 4:10 NIV
Keli from Talihina, Oklahoma
“She opens her mouth with wisdom, And on her tongue is the law of kindness.” Proverbs 31:26 NKJV
Emily – Fairburn, GA
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever” (Psalm 73:26 ESV).
John 1:9
NIV
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
Gracen – Floyds Knobs, IN
“Through Him all things were made. Without him nothing was made that has been made. In Him was life and that life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness but the darkness has not understood it.” John 1:3-5 NIV
Bonnie, Seattle
Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
1Thes.5:17-18 (NLT)
Heather
McDonough, GA
“All of this is for your benefit. And as God’s grace reaches more and more people, there will be great thanksgiving, and God will receive more and more glory.”
2 Corinthians 4:15 (New Living Translation)
John 15:5 (Contemporary English Version)
I am the vine, and you are the branches. If you stay joined to me, and I stay joined to you, then you will produce lots of fruit. But you cannot do anything without me.
Sheila Clark
Austin, TX
Vicksburg – And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. John 14:3
Crissy– Jay, OK “Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” 1 Corinthians 15: 58 NIV
Michelle, Lutz FL
Mt 18:22
Jesus said to him, “I do not say to you, up to seven times, but up to seventy times seven.
NKJV
Ashley, Tampa, Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 NIV
Ringgold, GA
Using Beths.
1 Cor 15:58 NIV
Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
Kate, Ottawa area, Canada. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV
O God you are my God; I shall seek you earnestly; My soul thirsts for you, my flesh yearns for you. In a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Psalms 63:1 NASB
Holly, Prairie City IA, Matthew 6:32-34
For after all these things the Gentiles seek. For your heavenly Father knows that you need all these things. But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you. Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Shanna, West Bloomfield, “Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.” 1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV
Jackie, Brockville, Canada. Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV
Shannon, North Little Rock, AR
“Therefore, since through God’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart.”
2 Corinthians 4:1
Joy, California;
But I am like an olive tree,thriving in the house of God.
I trust in God’s unfailing love forever and ever.
Psalm 52:8 (NLT)
Karen, Springfield, MO: 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. Ephesians 4:29 NIV
Jaime
Fort Collins, CO
I praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Wonderful are Your works; my soul knows it very well.
Psalm 139:14 ESV
Linda Holts Summit, MO
Micah 7:7 ESV
But as for me, I will look to the Lord: I will wait for the God of my salvation; my God will hear me.
Sharon Griffin, Ga
Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV
Heather, McCalla
May the favor of the Lord our God rest on us; establish the work of our hands for us-yes, establish the work of our hands. Psalm 90:17 NIV
Genesis 50:20 ” You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”
Nicole/Dallas/NIV
AMEN! You have a purpose and I love you!
Claire, Memphis, TN
James 1:19-20
My dearly loved brothers, understand this: Everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak, and slow to anger, for man’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.
John 15:16 YOu did not choose me but I chose you and appointed you to go and bear fruit; fruit that will last. Then the Father will give you whatever you ask in my name.
Katie, Crawford, Texas – “Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God.” Psalm 62:11 (NIV)
Tami DS, LA
ESV Psalm 126:4-6
Restore our fortunes, O LORD,
like streams in the Negeb!
Those who sow in tears
shall reap with shouts of joy!
He who goes out weeping,
bearing the seed for sowing,
shall come home with shouts of joy,
bringing his sheaves with him.
Karen, Russellville, AR
I have been cricified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galatians 2:20 (NIV 2010)
Terri, Kirkland. “It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.” Galatians 5:1, NIV.
Lauren, Arlington. “Do not withhold discipline from a child; if you strike him with a rod, he will not die.” Proverbs 23:13 ESV
Kristen, Allen. “May the Lord keep watch between us to make sure that we keep this covenant when we are out of each other’s sight.” Genesis 31:49 NLT
Cindy, Montgomery,AL Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. I Corinthians 15:58 (NIV).
I am SO sorry for posting late & last time I completely forgot BUT I wrote a scripture in my book anyway.
With all the things I have been going through, I definitely need to memorize the scripture Beth shared!
Amanda, Nashville, TN
Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord, because you know that your labor in the Lord is not in vain. 1 Corinthians 15:58 NIV
Mary Beth ~ Pittsburgh, PA
There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
1 John 4:18 NIV
Julie, Broken Arrow OK.
He turned the desert into pools of water and the parched ground into flowing springs.
Ps. 107:35 NIV
Lisa S. Sparks Nv
“For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” Col 1:13,14 NIV
Kim, San Juan Capistrano, CA: “Refrain from anger and turn from wrath; do not fret-it leads only to evil.”
Psalm 37:8 NIV
Abigail, Cincinnati. “Though we were overwhelmed by our sins, you forgive them all” (Psalm 65:3, NLT).
Sharon from Houston, TX
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men.” Colossians 3:23 NIV
Susan,Silverhill,Al: “You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is stayed on you because he trusts in you.” Isaiah 26:3 NIV
Lauren, Jackson, Ky. Jeremiah 33:3, NIV, “Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.”
Psalm 89:15 NLT
Happy are those that hear the joyful call to worship, for they will walk in the light of your presence, Lord.
Ephesians 6:14-18 (NIV) Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, and with your feet fitted with the readiness that comes from the gospel of peace. In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.
Jennifer, Kodak, TN
Blessed is she who has believed that what the LORD has said to her will be accomplished!
Luke 1:45 NIV
For form him and through him and for him are all things.To him be the glory forever! Amen Romans 11:36 NIV
For as the rain and snow come down from heaven,
And do not return there without watering the earth
And making it bear and sprout,
And furnishing seed to the sower and bread to the eater;
So will My word be which goes forth from My mouth,
It will not return to Me empty,
Without accomplishing what I desire,
And without succeeding in the matter for which I sent it.
Isaiah 55:10-11 NASB