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.
Leah; Perkins, OK
“Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.”
1 Peter 5:7 (NASB)
Jane, Gulfport-“and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope;” Romans 5:4 (NASB)
Liz, Lexington KY
But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord,
whose confidence is in Him.
He will be like a tree planted by the water
that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes;
its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought
and never fails to bear fruit.
Jeremiah 17:7-8 (NIV)
Linda, Laurel, Ms.
“For you did not receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the Spirit of adoption by Whom we cry out,”Abba, Father”. Rom.8:15 NKJV
Marie, Harrison: “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
Krista, Jamesburg, NJ
Romans 12:2, NLT
Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.
Norma,Rowlett
“So I say,live by the spirit,and you will not gratify the desires of the sinful nature.” Galations 5:16 NIV
Carolyn, TX “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. Isaiah 55:8 NIV
Becky, Scottsdale, AZ: “…God never abandons us. We get knocked down, but we get up again and keep going….” 2 Corinthians 4:9 NLT
“Therefore we do not lose heart. Even though our outward man is perishing yet the inward man is being renewed day by day.” 2 Cor 4:16
Kate, Ottawa area, Canada. “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
Laura K in Spearfish, SD
Romans 15:13 ESV
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope.
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 afaid? Psalm 27:1 KJV
Cortni, Coden,AL, “And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:7
Ginny, Cape May, NJ
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Matthew 5:4 NIV
Patti, Phoenix AZ “Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good;
his love endures forever.” NIV
Nancy, Oxford, FL, Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. I Corinthians 13:4-7 (NIV)
Cathy S., Terra Ceia, Florida:
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. 2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)
“Be strong and take heart, all you who hope in the Lord.” Psalm 31:24 NIV
Alli
College Station, Phi Lamb
“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins, in which you used to live when you followed the ways of this world and the ruler of the kingdom of the air, the spirit who is now at work in those who are disobedient. All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our sinful nature and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature objects of wrath. But because of his great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy, made us alive with Christ even when we were dead in transgressions–it is by grace you have been saved. 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. For it is by grace you have been saved through faith–and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God–not by works, so that no one can boast. For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Therefore, remember that formerly you who are Gentiles by birth and called “uncircumcised” by those who call themselves “the circumcision” (that done in the body by the hands of men)–remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, excluded from citizenship in Israel and foreigners to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world. But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ.”
Ephesians 2:1-13
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see. Hebrews 11:1 NIV
Michelle, Morristown, “Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, and profane talk. Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive on another as quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.”
Ephesians 4:31-32 (The Message)
Peggy, Indianapolis
“Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the
Lord.” Psalm 27:14 NIV
Abilene, KS
Ephesians 6:17 (New International Version)
17 Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God.
Kelly, Auburn, AL – “You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for you created all things and by your will they were created and have their being.” Rev. 4:11 NIV
Rachel, Flagstaff, AZ
“Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that He may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.”
~1 Peter 5:6-7 (NIV)
Susie, Knoxville, TN
“For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.” Jeremiah 29:11
Darla Tampa Fl
My verse from the (BAD WEEK) 1st: 1Peter 2:9 NIV
But you are chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation. God’s special possesion that you may declare the praises of him who called out of darkness into his wonderful light.
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!”
Stacey -Morocco,in
Psalm 19:14 (New Living Translation)
14 May the words of my mouth
and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing to you,
O Lord, my rock and my redeemer.
Patti, Sun City Center. Psalm 84:10-12
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does He withhold from those whose walk is blameless.
O LORD Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in You.
Elizabeth, Chicago
The fear of man lays a snare,
but whoever trusts in the LORD is safe.
Prov. 29:25, ESV
Natalie-Trussville, AL “But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumphal procession in Christ and through us spreads everywhere the fragrance of the knowledge of Him.” 2 Corinthians 2:14 (NIV)
Lindsay, Kokomo, IN
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If a man remains in me and I in him, he will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.”
John 15:5 NIV
Kelli, Anaheim
God’s gift has restored our relationship with him and given us back our lives. And there’s more life to come-an eternity of life! Titus 3:10
Psalm 84:11
For the LORD God is a sun and shield; the LORD bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.
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
Mary Ellen, Billings, MT
“Do not conform any longer 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. Rom. 12:2 NIV
Sharon, Geigertown, PA
Colossians 4:5-6 “Walk in wisdom toward outsiders, making the best use of the time. Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person. (ESV)
Jennifer, Knoxville, TN: Those who live according to the sinful nature have their minds set on what the nature desires; but those who live in accordance with the Spirit have their minds set on what the Spirit desires. Romans 8:5 NIV
Jeanine
Athens, NY
Proverbs 19:21 (NIV)
Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
Linda, Sonora, KY
“Blessed are those who persevere under trial, because when they have stood the test, they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.” James 1:12 (NIV)
Heather, Shiloh, NC
“The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Almighty gives me life.” Job 33:4 (NIV)
Michelle
Clanton, AL
Many, O Lord my God, are the wonders you have done. The things you planned for us no one can recount to you; were I to speak and tell of them, they would be too many to declare.
Psalm 40:5. NIV
Ft. Pierce
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!”
LaTava. Lincoln, NE
What, then, shall we say in response to this? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:31. NIV
Suzette Vidor,Tx
Psalm 71:14 (New International Version)
But as for me, I will always have hope;
I will praise you more and more
Mary, NH
Ephesians 1:4 NKJ
He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame, before Him in love.
God loves you no matter what!
Sarah, Burlington, ON: “But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Cor 15:57 (TNIV)
Loganville, GA
“Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment with a promise: Ephesians 6:2 NKJV
Kristie
Sandia, TX
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23 (NIV)