Hey, Darling Things! I am on my way to our Little Rock Living Proof Live with much joy, anxiousness, and anticipation and pure-dee desperation for Jesus to show up. He’s all we’ve got to offer. And, gloriously, He’s all we need.
Don’t even think of dropping out of our Scripture Memory Team! If you let the Word dwell in you richly, I promise you that, when this calendar year closes, you will have experienced a completely different 12 months than you would have if you’d let your own opinions, agendas, quandaries, fears, feelings, insecurities, and bondage dwell in you richly. God’s Word WORKS. He sends it forth with accomplishing power. Don’t just memorize the words. BELIEVE THEM. Take them all the way to your heart and apply them to your real, live experience.
My verse this time around is one I’ve loved for a long time, especially as it’s worded in the NIV, but I’ve never committed it to memory. You’re welcome to join me if you don’t have another one planned. Here goes:
Beth, Houston. “Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; He rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him!” Isaiah 30:18 NIV
I love you guys. Stay with it, Sisters! Jesus is so worthy.
Beverly
Jackson, MS
I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Psalm 16:8 (NIV)
“He has showed you, O man, what is good. And what does the LORD require of you? To act justly, and to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.”
Micah 6:8 NIV
Kay
Tupelo, MS
ALta, Indiana
“I will bless the Lord at all times;
His praise will continually be on my mouth.
My should will boast in God my Savior;
the humble will hear it and they shall be glad.”
Psalm 34:1-2 NLT
Correction…sorry
should read: “My soul will boast in God my Savior.”
Jerusalem, Israel
“Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; He rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him!” Isaiah 30:18 NIV
Just what I needed today! Thank you!!
Amanda, LaSalle, ON Canada
“He tends His flock like a shepherd: He gathers the lambs in His arms and carries them close to His heart; He gently leads those that have young.”
Isaiah 40:11 NIV
michelle
Woodstock, VT
Jeremiah 17:11 NASB
Blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD
And whose trust is the LORD.
Marilyn Gadsden Al I am God there is no other, I am God and there is no one like me. My purpose will be established and I will accomplish all good pleasures
Is 48:9-10
1 Corinthians 2: 12-13
We have not received the spirit of the world
but the Spirit who is from God,
that we may understand what
God has freely given us.
This is what we speak,
not in words taught us by human wisdom
but in words taught by the Spirit,
expressing spiritual truths in spiritual words.
Angie
Deltona, FL
Sandy, Lexington, KY “Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us, and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Ephesians 5:1-2
Amie Rochester, MN: “Since you have been raised to a new life with Christ, set your sights on the realities of heaven, where Christ sits in the place of honor at God’s right hand. Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth.” Colossians 3:1-2 NLT
Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms. If anyone speaks, he should do it as one speaking the very words of God. If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ. To him be the glory and the power for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 4:10-11(NIV)
Lindy, NC
Tanya, Warren, PA
Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous man is powerful and effective.
James 5:16 (NIV)
Janet, Georgia: “Dear children, let us not love with words, but with actions and in truth.” –John 10:9 (NIV)
Susan from Beverly, MA
Psalm 19:13 (TNIV)
Keep your servant from willful sins, may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless, innocent of great transgression.
Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth;
give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name.
Psalm 86:11 NIV
Kendra – Middle East
“And he said to them: ‘You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!'” Mark 7:9 NIV
Melissa, St. Mary’s County And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him. Isaiah 30:18 KJV
Melissa, Naju, South Korea
Who is it that overcomes the world except the one who believes that Jesus is the son of God? 1 John 5:5 ESV
Christy from Lancaster, PA:
“For your love is ever before me, and I walk continually in your truth.”
Psalm 26:13 (NIV)
I am the Lord your God who brought you out of Egypt. You shall acknowledge no God but Me, no Savior except Me. I cared for you in the desert, in the land of burning heat. When I fed them, they were satisfied; when they were satisfied, they became proud; then they forgot Me.
Hosea 13:4-6 (NIV)
Kelli in Ohio
Tammy
Lusby, MD
Colossians 3:15 (NIV)
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
Yanna, Bryan Tx “Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; He rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him!” Isaiah 30:18 NIV
Suzanne Bailey, Harrisville, RI
Romans 4:20-21
Yet, he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had the power to do what he had promised.
Jodi, Fairhope, AL: These will make war with the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and those who are with Him are called, chosen, and faithful. Rev 17:14 NKJV
Beth from Emmalena
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but an encouraging word makes it glad. Proverbs 12:25 (amp)
Amber, Euless Texas
Ecclesiastes 3:11 He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Sarah, NC. “Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; He rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him.” Is. 30:18
Jodi, Loganville “I love the Lord, he heard my voice, he heard my cry for mercy. Because he turned his ear to me, I will call on him as long as I live.”. Psalm 116:1-2, NIV
Jennifer D. Kansas
“To grasp how wide
and long
and high
and deep
is the LOVE of Christ.”
Eph 3:18b NIV
Idabel, OK
Like a city whose walls are broken down is a man who lacks self control.
Proverbs 25:28
Kristy – Princeton, NC
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. “
Cindy – Lexington, KY – For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show Himself strong on behalf of those whose heart is loyal to Him. 2 Chronicles 16:9
Linda – Boulder CO
He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, yet the world knew Him not.
James 1:10 rsv
Jeanette, Indian Trail, NC. “Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you. I have called you by name; you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1 (NLT)
Shannon:Elmira, Canada: Psalm 56:3-4 (NASB) When I am afraid, I will put my trust in You. In god, whose word I praise, In God I have put my trust; I shall not be afraid. What can mere man do to me?
Crystal Lord
Brandon, MS
Psalm 16:8 “I have set the Lord continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.”
New American Standard
Lorraine, Tyler, TX
“Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal.” Isaiah 26:4 NIV
SusanD, Southern Illinois – No one is holy like the LORD, For there is none besides You, Nor is there any rock like our God. 1 Samuel 2:2 (NKJV)
Sandi
Williams Bay, Wisconsin
Ephesians 1:18-19 NIV
I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.
Tammy from Fort Myers, Florida: “And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow – not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love.” Romans 8:38 NLT
Vickie, Poplar Bluff, MO:
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying,”this is the way, walk in it.” Isaiah 30:21 NIV
Lord willing, I’ll see ya this evening. Don’t ever get to say that….lost sleep last night looking forward to this event. May He be glorified!
Psalm 16:8 “I have set the Lord continually before me; Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.”
New American Standard
Brandon Mississippi
Nicole, Parker, CO
Hebrews 3:1 Therefore, holy brothers, who share in the heavenly calling, fix your thoughts on Jesus, the apostle and high priest whom we confess.
Angie, Kansas City, MO: Show me your ways, O 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
“Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.” Psalmn 119:18 (ESV)
DeAnne, Talmage
Victoria
Thomasville, NC
For if you keep silence at such a time as this, relief and deliverance will rise for the Jews from another quarter, but you and your father’s family will perish. Who knows? Perhaps you have come to royal dignity for just such a time as this. (Esther 4:14, NRSV)
Tanya, West Paducah, Ky. Let not sin therefore reign in your mortal body, to make you obey its passions. Do not present your members to sin as instruments for unrighteousness, but present yourselves to God as those who have been brought from death to life, and your members to God as instruments for righteousness. For sin will have no dominion over you, since you are not under law but under grace. Romans 6:12-14 ESV
Dear Friends, I urge you as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires which war against your soul. Live such good lives among the pagans that, through they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorify God on the day he visits us. 1 Peter 2:11-12
Kristen Austin, Texas
Seven and Eight
“How happy is the one whose sins are forgiven, whose sin is covered” Ps 32:1
“O Israel, put your hope in the Lord for with the Lord is unfailing love and with Him is FULL redemption” Ps 130:7