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.
Hilary from Langley, BC Canada
“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.” Gal. 5:22-23 (NIV)
Beth from Platte, SD: “Everything is permissible for me–but not everything is beneficial. Everything is permissible for me–but I will not be mastered by anything.” 1 Corinthians 6: 12 NIV
Harleysville, PA (stealing Beth’s this time!)
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
Kristi, North Webster, IN
“Search me, O God, and know my heart;test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.”
Psalm 139: 23-24 NIV
I’m stealing your verse! It is perfect for today and what we are going through. If you see this, please pray for my husband, as he was falsely accused of a hit and run, and we are going through court and lawyers and trying to get it solved. God is gracious and we know that HE is fighting for us! We covet and are thankful for prayers.
Melissa, Atlanta
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 139:23-24, NIV
Chrissy, Detroit Lakes, MN: “for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared.” Proverbs 3:26 (NIV)
Buffy
Rogers
Teach me Your way O Lord, I will walk in Your truth. Unite my heart to fear
your name.
Ps 86:11
KJV
Leah, Cleveland
“Live in harmony with one another. Do not be proud but be willing to associate with the people of low position. Do not be conceited.” (Romans 12:16.)
Marilyn, Peterborough ON, Canada.
Isaiah 53:5 (Today’s New International Version)
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
Susan, Cumberland, RI
“I will bless the LORD at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.” Psalm 34:1 (KJV)
Melody – Colorado Springs, CO
“For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so God will bring with Him those who sleep in Jesus.”
> 1 Thessalonians 4:14 (NKJV)
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
Jan in Florida. “And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone that comes to him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6, NIV
Christy
Fayetteville, AR
Philippians 2:13
“God is working in you to make you willing and able to obey him.”
CEV
Christa, Greeneville, TN. “Such knowledge is too wonderful for me, too lofty to attain.” Psalm 139:6 NIV
Vicksburg, MS – Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. 1 Chron 16:11
Jonda, Shakopee, MN
Honor his holy name with Hallelujahs,
you who seek God. Live a happy life!
Keep your eyes open for God, watch for his works;
be alert for signs of his presence.
Psalm 105:3-4 The Message
Gretchen, Gahanna, OH– Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows, yet we considered Him stricken by God, smitten by Him and afflicted. But He was pierced for our transgressions, He was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was upon Him and by His wounds we are healed.
Isaiah 53:4-5 (NIV)
Kathy – Cumberland, RI – Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 NIV
Teresa, Mississippi
“A man’s heart deviseth his way: but the LORD directeth his steps” Pro. 16:9 kjv
Barb, Ann Arbor, Mi
Isaiah 30:18 NIV
Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; He rises to show you compassion. For God is the Lord of justice. Blessed are all who wait for Him.
Edie
Mobile,AL
1Cor. 13:4-8. cont..(Love)
V5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
Louisville, KY
But I trust in your unfailing love; my heart rejoices in your salvation. I will sing the LORD’s praise, for he has been good to me.
Kristen, Denver: Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you and promise you that if you would believe and rely on Me, you would see the glory of God?” John 11:40, AMP
Marcia, Mpls MN
But the person who loves God is the one God knows and cares for.
1 Cor. 8:3 NLT
Sharae from Emporia, Kansas
Psalm 62:5
Yes, my soul, find rest in God;
My hope comes from Him. (NIV)
Sarah, Montrose, CO
…choose life, that you and your offspring may live, loving the Lord your God, obeying His voice and holding fast to Him, for He is your life and length of days…
Deuteronomy 30:19-20 (ESV)
Jennifer- Colorado Springs, CO.- Lamentations 3:25 TNIV “The Lord is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him”
“Honor your father and your mother so that you may have a long life in the land that the LORD you God is giving you.” Exodus 20:12 HCSB
Karen, Battle Creek, MI
Acts 18:10: For I am with you, and no one is going to attack and harm you, because I have many people in this city.”
Sharon, Moore, SC
Isaiah 53:5 (NIV)
But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed.
Laura, Southaven, MS. “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
Therefore, let those who suffer according to the will of God commit their souls to Him in doing good, as to a faithful Creator. 1 Peter 4:19 NKJV
Jennifer, Little Rock
O LORD, you are my God; I will exalt you and praise your name, for in perfect faithfulness you have done marvelous things, things planned long ago. Isaiah 25:1 NIV
You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your book? Pslam 56:8 ESV
Danielle, Missouri
“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
” Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; He rises up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait on Him! Isaiah 30:18 NIV
Manon, Pebble Beach, “The secret things belong to the Lord our God, but the things revealed belong to us and to our children forever, that we may follow all the words of this law.” Deut. 29:29
Beth Dyersburg, Tn on my way to Little Rock with
Susan and Cindy!!!woohoo!!
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
Misti, Belleville MI: “But now that you know God – or rather are known by God – how is it that you are turning back to those weak and miserable principles? Do you wish to be enslaved by them all over again?” Galatians 4:9 NIV
Peg, Naperville, IL
“The Lord Himself goes before you and will be with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged.” Deuteronomy 31:8 (NIV)
Stefanie- Parrish, FL
He won’t brush aside the bruised and the hurt and he won’t disregard the small and insignificant, but he’ll steadily and firmly set things right. Isaiah 42:3 MSG
“Delight yourselves in the LORD, and He will give you the desires of your heart!commit your way to the LORD, trust in Him and He will do this.” GNT Psalm 37:3-4
Walker, LA
This means that anyone who belongs to Christ has become a new person. The old life is gone; a new life has begun! 2 Corinthians 5:17
Ann — Cripple Creek, VA
Romans 12:1&2 NIV
Therefore, I urge you, brothers and sisters, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as a living sacrifice, holy and pleasing to God—this is your true and proper worship. 2 Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Amy from Marion, VA
“Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.” Acts 4:12 NIV
Jennifer, Fuquay Varina, 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.
Isaiah 30:18, NIV
Sophie – Birmingham, AL
“Finally, all of you, have unity of mind, sympathy, brotherly love, a tender heart, and a humble mind.” – 1 Peter 3:8, ESV
Shirley, Ashville, AL
“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 missed posting last time … but *this* was my verse! Too funny!)