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.
SMMT #8: “Forget the former things, do not dwell on the past.” Isaiah 43:18 NIV
Shauna from Horn Lake
Colossians 1:11 (HCSB)
May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for all endurance and patience, with joy…
Vickie. Russellville
Acts 20:24
However I consider my life nothing to me if only I may finish the race and complete the task the Lord Jesus has given me – the task of testifying to the gospel of God’s grace
NIV
Paula, Lake Charles
“Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; therefore he will rise up to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him!
Isaiah 30:18 (NIV)
Brittany, Gainesville, FL:
and be found in him, not having a righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that which is through faith in Christ—the righteousness that comes from God on the basis of faith. -Philippians 3:9
Mari Raleigh, NC
Send forth your light adn your truth, let them guide me, let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell. Psalm 43:3 (NIV)
Lyndsey, Telford, PA: “Now if you will obey me and keep my covenant, you will be my own special treasure from among all the peoples on earth; for all the earth belongs to me.” Exodus 19:5 NLT
Jamie, Kansas City Mo
II Peter 3:18a ESV
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Kyndra, Houston, “Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the intersts of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus.” Philippians 2:3-5 (NIV)
Kayla
Cleveland
Give thanks to the LORD for he is good;his love endures forever.
Psalm 118:29 NIV
Georgia, Tn
I didn’t post mine for the 1st.. so here it is:
“But as for me, I will always have hope; I will praise you more and more. My mouth will tell of your righteousness, of your salvation all day long, though I know not it’s measure. Psalm 71:14-15
And this one is for this time :o)
“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
Rissa, Boaz: “We must pay the most careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away” Hebrews 2:1 (NIV)
Holly, Allen, Texas
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 direct your paths.
Proverbs 3:5
Megan Hughes, Edina, MN
“For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure, they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ”
2 Peter 1:8, NIV
Amber, Clarksville, TN
You will keep in perfect peace all who trust you, whose thoughts are fixed on you. Isaiah 26:3 NLT
Frederika, Iowa
Consider it pure joy, my brothers, when you face trials of many kinds because you know that the testing of your faith develops perseverance. James 1:2-3 NIV
Lori, Sulphur- Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all wrongs. Proverbs 10:12
“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
Kim, Laguna Niguel, CA
“The Lord is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.” Psalm 145:17 NASB
Tina – White Salmon, WA ~ 1 Corinthians 16:13-14 “13 Watch, stand fast in the faith, be brave, be strong. 14 Let all that you do be done with love.” NKJV
Suzanne, Birmingham: “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. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.” 2 Corinthians 4: 16-18 NIV
On hearing this, Jesus said to them,”It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners.” Mark 2:17 NIV
Tricia, Tucson, AZ.
Philipians 4:4 (NIV) Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice!
Crystal-Everett,Ontario: “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 records or wrongs.” 1 Corinthians 13:4-5, NIV version
Midland, TX
to the praise of his glorious grace, which he has freely given us in the One he loves. Ephesians 1:6 (NIV)
Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in Him.
Psalm 62:5 (NLT)
Psalm 16:8-9 NIV
“I have set the Lord always before me. Because he is at my right hand,I will not be shaken. Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices, my body also will rest secure.”
Amber
Sulphur, LA
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10 NIV
addie sulphur the righteous man will have many troubles,but the lord delivers them from them all.
psalm 34:19
Abby, Corvallis OR
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called sons of God. Matt 5: 7-9
My oldest son, Quinn just received Jesus and was baptized
On Sunday!
Kim, Richmond, TX: “For I am the Lord your God, who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, do not fear; I will help you.” Isaiah 41:13
Darbi
Saltillo. MS
Proverbs 31:26-27
“She speaks with wisdom,
and faithful instruction is on her tongue.
She watches over the affairs of her household
and does not eat the bread of idleness.”
Shannon, Chino, CA
Psalm 43:3-4 (The Message)
“Give me your lantern and compass, give me a map,
So I can find my way to the sacred mountain,
To the place of Your presence,
To enter the place of worship, meet my exuberant God,
Sing my thanks with a harp,
Magnificent God, my God.”
Dawn W. – Falmouth, KY – John 14:1 NLT “Don’t let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God, and trust also in me.”
Nicole, Winnipeg, 1 Peter 4:8 NIV
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.
Allie, Sulphur: Hatred stirs up dissension, but love covers all wrongs.
Psalm 56:3
Unbelievable Beth! We picked the same one! Melany, Garrison, MO “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
He who sacrifices thank offerings honors me, and he prepares the way so that I may show him the salvation of God. Psalm 50:23 (NIV)
Gracen
Floyds Knobs, IN
“I lift up my eyes to the hills-where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. – Psalm 121:1-2 NIV
Colossians 3:16 Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts. I am memorizing this with my best friend!
“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
Samantha
Menomonie, WI.
NAS
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow about His promise, as some count slowness, but is patient toward you, not wishing for any to perish but for all to come to repentance.
Lanita – Lake Jackson, Tx
“Dear children, let us not love with words, but with actions and in truth.” John 10:9 (NIV)
Colossians 3:16 “Let the message of Christ dwell among you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom through psalms, hymns, and songs from the Spirit, singing to God with gratitude in your hearts.”
Edna
O’Fallon, MO
For the LORD God is a sun and shield;
the LORD bestows favor and honor.
No good thing does he withhold
from those who walk uprightly.
Psalm 84:11
ESV
Sharon, San Antonio
“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
Robyn, Wichita: Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 NIV
1 John 4:10-11
In this is love, not that we have loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitation for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.
Anica, Huntsville, Al
James 3:17 ESV
“But the wisdom form above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.”
Lisa Sparks, Nevada
“..and you are to rejoice before the Lord your God in everything you put your hand to.” Deut 12:18b NIV