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!
Kathy, Houston:
“So I say, let the Holy Spirit guide your lives. Then you won’t be doing what your sinful nature craves. The sinful nature wants to do evil, which is just the opposite of what the Spirit wants. And the Spirit gives us desires that are the opposite of what the sinful nature desires. These two forces are constantly fighting each other, so you are not free to carry out your good intentions.”
Gal 5:16-17, NLT
Gayla, Lee’s Summit, MO
1 Thes 5:16-18
Be joyful always; pray continually; five thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Julia, Wellington
I had only heard about You before, but now I have seen You with my own eyes. Job 42:5 NLT
Kim, Corning, NY: “Indeed we count them blessed who endure. You have heard of the perseverance of Job and seen the end intended by the Lord–that the Lord is very compassionate and merciful” (James 5:11 NKJV).
Leah (Charlotte, NC)
Show me your ways, Lord,teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for You are God my Savior, and my hope is in You all day long. Psalm 25: 4-5 (NIV)
Jennifer, San Antonio. “Fix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as symbols on your hands and bind them on your foreheads. Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.” Dueteronomy 11:18-19
Clyde, MO
Proverbs 15:1 NRSV
A soft answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Lauren, Kansas City, MO: “I, the Lord, have called you in righteousness; I will take hold of your hand.” Isaiah 42:6, NIV.
Tracey, Knightdale, NC:
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. Ephesians 4:32, NIV
Kelley, Willow Spring, NC
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.Phil 4:7 NIV
Sheila
Garner, NC
Philippians 3:8 CEV
Nothing is as wonderful as knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. I have given up everything else and count it all as garbage. All I want is Christ and to know that I belong to Him.
Suzy, Wheelersburg, OH. “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness,faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.” NIV Galatians 5: 22-23
Cedarburg, WI
Psalm 62 (New Living Translation)
Psalm 62:2
For Jeduthun, the choir director: A psalm of David.
2 He alone is my rock and my salvation,
my fortress where I will never be shaken.
Kathy Ontario Canada
In the multitude of thy thots within me,
thy comforts delight my soul. Ps. 94:19 NIV
Carrie
Poplar Bluff
Ps. 106:14-15 NIV
In the desert they gave in to their craving; in the wasteland they put God to the test. So he gave them what they asked for, but sent a wasting disease upon them.
Genevieve, Orange, Texas – Philippians 4:8
“Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy–think about such things.”
Kayla Haddon, Guthrie,OK
“Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord” Psalms 27:14 NIV
In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words cannot express.
Romans 8:26
NIV
Susan
Elizabethtown, PA
Sue; Greenwood, IN
A man’s heart plans his way, but the Lord determines his steps. Proverds 16:9 HCBS
Janell, Clovis, NM “Though the mountains shake and the hills be removed, yet MY UNFAILING LOVE FOR YOU WILL NOT BE SHAKEN NOR MY COVENANT OF PEACE BE REMOVED, says the Lord who has COMPASSION on you. ” Isaiah 54:10 NIV
Tricia, Tucson.
Philippians 1:6
Being confident in this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus. (NIV)
“Lord I believe, help my unbelief.” Mark 9:24 NKJV
Sharon, Colorado Springs
Hebrews 4:12 NIV
12 For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.
“When you go through deep waters,I will be with you.” Isiah 43:2
Sr. Rebecca, Clyde
Ex 14:14 The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still. NIV
Rosalee, Oklahoma City “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.” Psalm 19:14 NIV
Alexis, Corvallis, OR:
“When the earth and all its people quake, it is I who hold its pillars firm.” Psalm 75:3 (NIV)
Carolyn, Terrace BC Canada
Phillipians 4:8 (NIV)
Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.
Sheron, Rockwall, TX
“I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection
and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings,
becoming like him in his death”
Phil 3:10 (NIV)
Psalm 103:11-12 (ESV)
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is His steadfast love toward those who fear Him;
12 as far as the east is from the west,
so far does He remove our transgressions from us.
“Those who know YOUR NAME will trust in YOU, for YOU, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek YOU.” PSALM 9:10 NIV
Shannon: Elmira, Canada: Psalm 27:4 (NIV) One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple.
Wanda – Laurel, MS
I Corinthians 15:58 (NASB)
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be steadfast, immovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your toil is not in vain in the Lord
Kristen, Austin
Isaiah 50:4-5 (NIV)
The Sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught. [5] The Sovereign Lord has opened my ears, and I have not been rebellious; I have not drawn back.
Stephanie, Fruita, CO “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.” Colossians 3:12
Sarah, Burlington, ON: “Therefore, my dear brothers and sisters, 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 Cor 15:58, TNIV)
1Peter 4:8. The Message
Most of all, love each other as if your life depended on it. Love makes up for practically anything.
Praise the LORD, O my soul;
all my inmost being, praise his holy name.
Praise the LORD, O my soul.
and forget not all his benefits-
who forgives all your sins
and heals all your diseases,
who redeems your life from the pit
and crowns you with love and compassion,
and satisfies your desires with good things
so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.
(Psalm 103:1-5)NIV
Jeri Cook, Missouri City, TX
KJV
1Peter4:12-13
Beloved, think it not strange concerning the fiery trial which is to try you, as though some strange thing happened unto you: But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ’s sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.
Kristin
Clearwater, FL
“And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him.”
I John 4:16 NIV
Tamara
Kelowna, BC, 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 labour in the Lord is not in vain.”
1 Corinthians 15:58, NIV
Could you not watch for one hour? Watch and pray so that you will not fall into temptation.
The spirit is willing but the body is weak.”
Mark 14:37,38.
NIV
Lindsey, San Francisco, CA
“The Lord is righteous in all his ways and gracious in all his acts.” Ps. 145:17 (HCSB)
Tammy ~ Tampa, FL
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Heb 12:1 (NIV)
April, San Angelo,TX
But among you there must not be even a hint of sexual immorality, or of any kind of impurity, or of greed, because these are improper for God’s holy people. Eph 5:3 NIV
Jasmyn ~ Tampa, FL
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us. Heb 12:1 (NIV)
Tracy, Tyler, TX
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 42:5 (NIV)
Jane, Canton,Il
” Your Word have I hid in my heart that I may not sin against You.”
Psalm 119: 11 NIV
Nikki, Wichita
By David. Bless, O my soul, Jehovah, And all my inward parts — His Holy Name.
Bless, O my soul, Jehovah, And forget not all His benefits,
Who is forgiving all thine iniquities, Who is healing all thy diseases,
Who is redeeming from destruction thy life, Who is crowning thee — kindness and mercies,
Who is satisfying with good thy desire, Renew itself as an eagle doth thy youth.
Psalm 103:1-5
Young’s Literal Translation
Linda, OFallon, IL
God is not a man, that He should lie, nor a son of man, that he should change his mind. Does He speak, and then not act? Does He promise and not fulfill?
Numbers 23:19