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.
“You, O LORD, will not withhold Your compassion from me; Your lovingkindess and Your truth will continueally preserve me.” Psalm 40: 11 NASB
Kathie. Satsuma,Alabama. Romans 8:32 NLT
Since He did not spare even His own Son but gave Him up for us all, won’t He also give us everything else?
Amy, Washington DC: “He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also He has put eternity in their hearts, except that no one can find out the work that God does from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11
Amber, Alexandria VA
Proverbs 10:16, New Living Translation
The earnings of the godly enhance their lives, but evil people squander their money on sin.
Heather, Wilmington. “Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my father in heaven. For where two or three gather in my name, there am I with them.” Matthew 18:19-20. NIV
I’m going to go with yours this time, Beth.
Kristi, Abilene, 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
Allison
Hanover, WV
Romans 8:5-6(NIV),”Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what that nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. The mind of sinful man is death, but the mind controlled by the Spirit is life and peace.
But the wisdom that comes from God is first of all pure; then peaceloving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy, and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace raise a harvest of righteousness. James 3:17-18 NIV
Deb, Windsor, CT:
“And you have been given fullness in Christ, who is the head over every power and authority.” – Colossians 2:10, NIV
“…sanctify Christ as Lord in your hearts, always being ready to make a defense to everyone who asks you to give an account for the hope that is in you, yet with gentleness and reverence.” 1 Peter 3:15 NASB
Joy, Tri-Cities: “But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.” James 1:6, KJV
Laura, Greenville, NC: “I remember my affliction and my wandering, the bitterness and the gall. I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me. Yet this I call to mind and therefore I have hope: Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness.”
Lamentations 3:19-23 (NIV)
CArol, Santa Maria, CA, Psalm 86:11 NIV, “Teach me Your way, O LORD, and I will walk in Your Truth; Give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your Name.
Jenny, Des Moines, Iowa
But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart, who hear the word, retain it and by persevering produce a crop. Luke 15:8 NIV
Isaiah 30:18 NIV
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!
Lindsay, Grapevine, Tx: “I know, O Lord, that a man’s life is not his own; it is not for man to direct his steps.” Jeremiah 10:23 (NIV)
Paddy, Plattsburgh, NY
Yet [she] did not waiver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in [her] faith and gave glory to God, being fully persuaded that God had power to do what He had promised.
Romans 4:20-21 NIV
Misty;Marco island. ” A man’s wisdom gives him patience;
it is to his glory to overlook an offense.” Provide 19:11 NIV
Charlotte from Memphis, TN
“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. John 10:10 KJV
Wendy, Orillia, Ontario, Canada
“Trust in the LORD forever, for the LORD, the LORD, is the Rock eternal. NIV
Laila, Chicago
Teach me your way, O LORD
that I may walk in your truth;
unite my heart to fear your name.
(Psalm 86:11 ESV)
Melissa, Round Rock, TX
She considers a field and buys it,
out of her earnings she plants a vineyard
Proverbs 31:16 (NIV)
Ingrid, now moved from Redmond, Wa to Frenchtown, MT:)
Romans 15:13 I pray that God, the source of hope will fill you completely with joy and peach because you trust in Him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit. NLT
Karen, Saskatchewan:
“And we, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into his likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” 2 Cor. 3:18
O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek thee,
my soul thirst for you. My body longs for you in
a dry and weary land where there is no water. I have seen
you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and glory.
Because you love is better then life I will glorify you
with my lips. Psalms 63:1-3 NIV
Ellen from Bad Axe
In Michigan’s Thumb
James 1:22 Do not merely listen to the Word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. NIV
“…Praise be to the name of God for ever and ever; wisdom and power are his.” Daniel 2:20 (NIV)
Sasha
Washington
Chyrll, Memphis, TN
“For every high priest taken from among men is appointed on behalf of men in things pertaining to God, in order to offer both gifts and sacrifices for sins;” Hebrews 5:1 NASB
May I enter my April 1st verse? I was w/out access to a computer.
“Therefore, let us fear lest, entering His rest, any one of you should seem to have come short of it.” Hebrews 4:1 NASB
Diane, Missoula, MT:
“Those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the sinful nature with its passions and desires. Since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit. Let us not become conceited, provoking and envying each other.” Galatians 5:24-26 NIV
Karen, Lexington, KY. “God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; he does great things beyond our understanding.” Job 37:5 (NIV)
Jessica, Toronto
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with God’s people in need. Practice hospitality.
Romans 12:12-13 NIV
Lesia from Elizabethtown, Kentucky
“There is a river whose streams shall make glad the city of God, The holy place of the tabernacle of the Most High.”
Psalm 46:4 NKJV
Emily, McKenzie TN
No human wisdom or understanding or plan can stand against the LORD. The horse is prepared for the day of battle, but the victory belongs to the LORD. Proverbs 21:30-31
Kristina, MN
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” ~ Psalm 73:26 (NIV)
Karen
Tallahassee, FL
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves. Phil. 2:3 NIV
Tracie, Taylorville IL
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]
Melanie Grace, Greenbrier,Tn
Proverbs 4:18 (New International Version, ©2011)
18 The path of the righteous is like the morning sun,
shining ever brighter till the full light of day.
“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
emi, white house “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 on him!” Isaiah 30:18 NIV
(I read this verse this very morning in Priscilla Shirer’s book,Life Interrupted, p.105)
Rosalee, Oklahoma City
Oh Lord, God of our fathers Abraham, Isaac and Israel, make your people always want to obey you, and keep their hearts loyal to you. Give my son the wholehearted desire to obey all your commands, laws and decrees. I Chronicles 29:18-19a NIV,NLT
Tiffany, Columbus: “Trust in the Lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do, and he will show you which path to take. Don’t be impressed with your own wisdom. Instead, fear the LORD and turn away from evil. Then you will have healing for your body and strength for you bones.” Proverbs 3:5-8 (ESV).
“In [Christ] lie hidden all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge…and now,just as you accepted Christ Jesus as your Lord, you must continue to follow him. Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him,. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.” Colossians 2:3, 6-7 (ESV)
Dawn, Zionsville
“Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.”
Malachi 3:10 NIV
Linda, Springfield – Don’t be impatient for the Lord to act! Keep traveling steadily along his pathway and in due season, He will honor you with every blessing and you will see the wicked destroyed. – Psalms 37:34 – Living Bible
Amy Ann, Tulsa, OK “[We pray] that you may be invigorated and strengthened with all power according to the might of His glory, [to exercise] every kind of endurance and patience (perseverance and forbearance) with joy.” Col. 1:11 AMP
Cathy Pierceton, IN
Colossians 3:10
Put on your new nature, and be renewed as you learn to know your Creator and become like him. NLT
Port Huron,MI
Trust in the Lord with all your heart, And lean not on your own understanding; In all your ways acknowledge Him, And He shall direct your path.
Proverbs 3:5-6 (NKJV)
Deidra, Waynesboro
The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear: the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?
Psalm 27:1 KJV
Sandy, Gettysburg, SD “If we say we have no sin, we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us. If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.” 1 John 1:8-9 (NKJV)
This is what the LORD Almighty says: ‘If you will walk in obedience to me and keep my requirements, then you will govern my house and have charge of my courts, and I will give you a place among these standing here.-Zechariah 3:7
Martha,Lynchburg,VA
If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life is hid with Christ in God. Colossians 3:1-3 KJV