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.
Catherine, St. Paul
“But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our inequities,
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds, we are healed.”
Isaiah 53:5 NIV
Rachel
College Station, TX
“You keep trak of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle. You hace recorded each one in your book.” Ps 56:8 NLT
What can I say I’ve always been an emotional girl
What an awesome time of worship and The Word Mama Beth! So enjoyed getting to see all our Siesta in Little Rock and can’t wait to see our pic!!
Thank you Beth for being obedient to the Lord and sharing your soul. A friend has decided to memorize scripture w/me starting w/Isa 53 that is why I am late. . .
“Who has believed our message and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? He grew up before him like a tender shoot. and like a root out of dry ground, He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him, nothing in his appearance that we should desire him.” Isa 53: 1-2 NIV
Jackie, Little Rock, AR
Shawnee, OK 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!
Thanks Ms. Beth, I needed this verse!!!
NIV 2 Corinthians 5:7
We live by faith not by sight.
April, Greensboro, NC: For He chose us in Him, before the creation of the world to be holy and blameless in His sight. Ephesians 1:4
Caitlin, Omaha
“The grass withers, the flower fades, but the word of our God will stand forever.”
Isaiah 40:8 ESV
Debra – Many, La
“Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is God’s word.” Ephesians 6:17 (Holman)
Jane, Canton,Il. Verse 8
“For to me, to live is Christ,and to die is gain”. Philippians 1: 21. NKJV
Kathy, Elk River, MN:
You hem me in behind and before, and you lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,too lofty for me to attain. Psalm 139:5-6 NIV
Stacy, Big Lake, MN:
Don’t be so naive and self confident. Your not exempt. You could fall flat on your face as easily as anyone else. Forget about self-confidence, it’s useless. Cultivate God-confidence. 1 Corinthians 10:12 (Message)
Kristin
Clearwater, FL
“He is before all things, and in Him all things are held together.” Col. 1:17 ESV
Angie Loveland Ohio,“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
Beth I am going to go with you if it’s not to late. I had a houseful of 9 year olds all night as my precious baby Maggie turns 9 tomorrow. So I didnt have time to sign on until now.
Sue, Lakeland FL
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves.”
Philippians 2:3 NIV
Jeremiah 9:17 (NIV)
but let him who boasts boast about this: that he understands and knows me, that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight, declares the LORD.
Psalm 40:8 NIV
I desire to do your will,O my God;your law is within my heart.
Stephanie Floyd
Stanford Ky
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12 (NIV)
Monique, Elizabethtown, KY – Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like the shifting shadows. James 1:17 NIV
I was at Living Proof Live in Little Rock, and I can’t even express just how much this weekend has meant to me. It has started a new work in me and I’ve been in a desert place for several months now. I feel like my parched soul has received a much needed rain. I’ve got a lot to chew on and think about now. Thank you Beth for the sacrifice you have made to lead others closer to God.
Erin – Springfield, MO
Think about the things of heaven, not the things of earth. For you died to this life, and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:2-3
(Sorry I’m a day late. But I just happened to be out of town on the 15th, listening to a certain someone in Little Rock!)
Lynn—Louisville,
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves punishment, and the one who fears is not perfected in love.
1 John 4:18 (NASB)
“Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.”
Psalm 9:10 NIV
Tammy, Ingleside, Texas
NIV, Romans 4:23 – 25
The words “it was credited to him” were written not for him alone, but also for us, to whom God will credit righteousness – for us who believe in Him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead. He was delivered over to death for our sins and was raised to life for our justification.
Sonja,Archer
I want to know Christ and the power of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in His sufferings, becoming like Him in His death, and so somehow to attain to the resurrection from the dead. Phil.3:10-11 NIV
“I will instruct you and teach you i the way you should go, I will counsel you and watch over you.” Ps. 32:8 (NIV)
I can do everything through him who gives me strength!
Phil 4:13 NIV
This is need to know so badly right now!
Melissa, Scarborough, ME: “Always giving thanks for all things in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Ephesians 5:20 NAS
Beth, Received much needed revival at the Little Rock event. God has been hearing my prayers but I felt His response today. I left a brief note with one of Travis’ helpers (employee/assistant) asking about your friend that struggled with the death of your mutual friend years ago. As you ministered to a crowded convention center in Hot Springs, Arkansas a few years ago the presence of the Holy Spirit was evident as you were also speaking to your friend. I prayed for the situation then and have thought about it frequently since then because I have Arkadelphia ties (another story all together that I will share with you in heaven.) How did things go that day and the days that followed? Thank you for sharing the overflow of God’s blessings in your life! Donna
bernadette, mountain home. Ah Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you. Jer. 32:17 NIV
Rebecca, Kilgore, TX
Therefore I will look unto the LORD; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.
Micah 7:7 KJV
Valdese, NC
But my God shall supply all your needs according to His riches in glory by Christ Jesus
Philippians 4:19
Romans 12:1 – The Message
So here’s what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him.
Marilyn, Bradenton, FL
Psa 34:8 (NIV)
“Taste and see that the Lord is good; blessed is the man who takes refuge in Him.”
Linda,Cypress, TX
“at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and earh and under the earth and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father”
Phillipians 2:10&11
Ann; Austin “In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From His temple He heard my voice; my cry came before Him, into His ears. The earth trembled and quaked, and the foundations of the mountains shook; they trembled because He was angry.” Psalm 18:6-7 NIV
Keli
Talihina, OK
“For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Romans 8:18 NKJV
Kayla Guthrie, OK. “A wife of noble character us her husbands crown but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones”. Proverbs 12:4. NIV
Kara – Ephrata, PA
“In all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight.” Prov 3:6 NIV
Nakisha, Michigan
“If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.” Romans 12:18 NIV
Katie (Pudens – the message this weekend in Little Rock was awesome) – from North Little Rock “But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry.” 2 Timothy 4:5
Janey-Bogalusa
Prov. 14:1 “Every wise woman buildeth her house; but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.”
Susan, Nashville, TN
Ezra 7:10 ESV
“For Ezra had set his heart to study the Law of the Lord, and to do it and to teach his statutes and rules in Israel.”
Carol, San Antonio: “so let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.” Hebrews 4:16 (NLT)
Debbie, Fisherville, Ky.
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a Spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline.
II Timothy 1:7 NIV
Patty, Searcy Ar
I’m sorry about being late but I have a good excuse I was soaking up the word with Siesta mama in Little Rock.
NIV
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles and let us run with perservernace the race marked out for us.
Carrie, Logan. “He will yet fill your mouth with laughter and your lips with shouts of joy.” Job 8:21 NIV
Amber, Rockwell, NC
“If anyone would come after me, she must deny herself and take up her cross daily and follow me.” Luke 9:23 NIV
Oops sorry-I am a day late was taking my oldest to a college visit.
“We live by what we believe, not by what we can see.”
2 Corinthians 5:7 (NCV)
~Bobbie Jo
San Angelo, TX
Kim, Anchorage – Alaska, NASB. I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth. My soul will make its boast in the LORD. Psalm 34:1-2
Tammy, Greenville SC
Resist him, standing firm in the faith, because you know that your brothers throughout the world are undergoing the same kind of suffering.
1 Peter 5:9 NIV
Traci from Lakewood, Washington
“You’re blessed when you feel you’ve lost what is most dear to you. Only then can you be embraced by the One most dear to you.” (Matthew 5:4 MSG)