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.
I have swept away your sins like a cloud.
I have scattered your offenses like the morning mist.
Oh, return to me, for I have paid the price to set you free.
Isaiah 44:22 NLT
Cheryl, Everett Psalm 119:10 Amplified
“With my whole heart have I sought you, inquiring for you and of you and yearning for you; oh, let me not wander or step aside either in ignorance or willfully from your commandments”
Staci, Bismarck, ND
“7 Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence? 8 If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.” Psalm 139:7-8 NIV
Sandy in Amarillo, TX
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil; for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.
Psalm 23:4 NKJV
Debra, Meadville, MS:
Isaiah 41:13 TLB
I am holding you by your right hand—I, the LORD your God—and I say to you, Do not be afraid; I am here to help you.
Sheryl, PA – Job 19:25-27 NIV
I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand upon the earth. And after my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. I myself will see Him with my own eyes – I, and not another. How my heart yearns within me!
Tiffany, Chesterfield:
Anxiety in a man’s heart weighs it down, but an encouraging word makes it glad. Proverbs 12:25 (AMP)
Marceil – Cedar Rapids, IA “giving thanks to the Father who has qualified us to share in the inheritance of the saints in light” Col. 1:12 NASV
2 Corinthians 5:21 (New Living Translation)
For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin,[a] so that we could be made right with God through Christ.
Sharon
Glennville, GA
Hebrews 13:5 NIV
Keep your lives free from the love of money
and be content with what you have,
because God has said,
“Never will I leave you;
never will I forsake you”.
Stacie, Livonia,MI
2 Peter 1:3 NIV
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
Amy: Columbus, OH. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Phillippians 4:6 NIV
Ramona, Pasadena:
All Scripture is inspired by God and is useful to teach us what is true and to make us realize what is wrong in our lives. It straightens us out and teaches us to do what is right. 2 Timothy 3:16 NLT
Karen, Springfield, MO: Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you. Matthew 7:1-2 NIV
Jamie, Phoenix: “Others, like seed sown on good soil, accept it, and produce a crop – some thirty, some sixty, some a hundred times what was sown.” (Mark 4:20 NIV)
Vanessa, Rio Rancho NM
Do not be quickly provoked in your spirit, for anger resides in the lap of fools. Ecclesiastes 7:9 NIV
Daphne – Winnipeg, Canada
See that no one pays back evil for evil, but always try to do good to each other and to all people. Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus. 1 Thessalonians 5:15-18 NLT
2 Corinthians 5:17 (NIV): “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come; the old has gone, the new is here.”
God is greater than our hearts
and knows all things.
1 John 3:20 NIV
Ti-Leigh
Orlando, FL
Sandy, Deming, NM
Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think according to the power that works in us. Eph 3:20 NKJ
For every living soul belongs to me, the Father as well as the son-both alike belong to me. The soul who sins is the one that will die. Ezekiel 18:4 NIV
Missi, Bargersville
“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
Shannon, 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
TammyM,FuquayVarina,NC The LORD is my strength and my shield;my heart trusts in Him and I am helped. Psm28:7aNIV
Debbie from Westerville, OH – Psalm 143:8 NIV
Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in You. Show me the way I should go, for to You I lift up my soul.
Margie Allen,TX
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of Scriptures we might have hope.
Romans 15:4 NIV
This is my comfort in my affliction, that your promise gives me life.
Psalm 119:50 (ESV)
Shannon
Katy, Texas
Joy – Asheboro, NC
“Therefore, we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.”
2 Corinthians 4:16-17, NIV
LeAnn, Gettysburg, SD: Hebrews 12:3 NIV
Consider Him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Katie B. from Oxford, MS: “Here I am with the children the Lord has given me to be signs and wonders in Israel from the Lord of Hosts who dwells on Mount Zion. ” Isaiah 8:18 HCSB
May God Himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through & through. May your whole spirit, soul & body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The One who calls you is faithful & He will do it.
1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 (NIV)
Shannon,
Buda, TX
But as for me, it is good to be near God.
I have made the Sovereign Lord my refuge;
I will tell of all your deeds.
Psalm 73:28 NIV
Katherine Lee-Jonesboro, Arkansas-2 Corinthians 5:17 NIV “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!”
Debbie, Fort Thomas, KY
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me.
Psalm 51:10-11 NIV
Leverett, MA
Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.
Romans 6:8
Cheri
Louisville, KY
I came forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
John 16:28 KJV
Laura Hoyt, KS. “But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be give to you as well.” Matthew 6:33 NIV
Elizabeth Meagher Richmond, VA
“I am clothed with strength and dignity.”
Proverbs 31:25
Dear Beth,
Our God is awesome.
Just finished Get Out of That Pit. My cousin passed away
and I was the one who had to make the decision DNR. My life will never be the same.
I know that I am a creation of God’s. He will help me all I have to do is ask.
Thank you for this inspirational outlook
May God continue to bless your life, your family and the ministry that has opened so many eyes.
Lisa
Erin D, Dover, NH – “Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on the earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:9-11, NIV
Gina, San Antonio, TX
“Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.”
Psa 9:10 NIV
Shannon, Tuscaloosa
Prov 15:31-32, NASB
He whose ear listens to the life-giving reproof will dwell among the wise. He who neglects discipline despises himself, but he who listens to reproof acquires understanding.
Erin, Grayson: Remember, O LORD, thy tender mercies and thy lovingkindnesses; for they have been ever of old. Psalm 25:6 KJV
“Keep your eyes fixed straight ahead. Don’t look to the left and don’t look to the right” Proverbs 4:25
Cindy, Fort Worth, TX
Your beauty should not come from outward adornment, such as elaborate hairstyles and the wearing of gold jewelry or fine clothes. Rather, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.
1 Peter 3:3-4 NIV
Teresa
Cincinnati, Ohio
“And God raised us up with Christ and seated us with him in the heavenly realms in Christ Jesus, in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace, expressed in his kindness to us in Christ Jesus.”
Ephesians 2: 6-7 NIV
Joy-Georgetown, Tx -“And do not grieve the Holy Spirit of God, with whom you were sealed for the day of redemption.” Ephesians 4:30 NIV
But I am trusting You, O LORD, saying, “You are my GOD!” My future is in Your hands.
Psalm 31:14-15
NLT
Hebrews 11:6
Without faith it is impossible to please God.
Sara from Knoxville, TN
Isaiah 30:18
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! (NIV)