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.
Anna
Houston, TX
“The LORD, the God of Israel, was their inheritance, just as He had promised them.” Joshua 13:33 HCSB
“You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.”
1 John 4:4 (NIV)
Morgen from Elizabethtown, Kentucky
“Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright. At the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.”
Proverbs 23:31-32 KJV
Melissa, Columbus, OH
Ps. 112:4 NET
In the darkness a light shines for the godly,
for each one who is merciful, compassionate, and just.
Nicole, Norman, OK
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
Ephesians 4:29 (NIV)
Susan, Atlanta, GA
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you may know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. Ephesians 1:18-19a NASB
Rhonda Newnan, Ga.
John 1:16 (Good News Translation)
16 Out of the fullness of his grace he has blessed us all, giving us one blessing after another.
Carolyn, Dover “My son, if your heart is wise, then my heart will be glad; my inmost being will rejoice when your lips speak what is right.” Prov 23:15,16 NIV
Karene, Yorba Linda, CA
Continuing Psalm 46:
Come and see the works of the Lord,
the desolations He has brought on the earth.
Psalm 46:8 (NIV)
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth. John 1:14 NIV
Lori – Syracuse
Philippians 1:6 (NIV)
Being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Beverly, Vicksburg, MS
Hebrews 11:1 NIV
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see.
Stepahnie Lewisburg, OH “I will pour water on the thirsty land, and streams on the dry ground; I will pour out my Spirit on your offspring, and my blessing on your descendants.” Isaiah44:3 NIV
The Lord is good,
A stronghold in the day of trouble;
And He knows those who trust in Him.
………… KJV
Michelle, Colorado Springs – Eph 3:12 “In him and through faith in him, we may approach God with freedom and confidence.” NIV
WAIT ON ME has been something God has been trying to impress on me (and my family) with a 2×4 this past week. This was a hard lesson and one that will not easily be forgotten. My family and I will be much better off if we can cement this virtue into our hearts and change the way we think and live. Here is my verse…
Psalm 27:14 (NIV)
“ Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart
and wait for the LORD. “
Praying for an overflow & total surrender to the HOLY SPIRIT’s power in & through my life! He is Faithful!
“On the last & Greatest day of the festival, Jesus Stood & said in a loud voice, “Let anyone who is thirsty come to me & drink. Whoever believes in me, as scripture has said, Rivers of Living Water will flow from within them.”…John 7:37-38(NIV)
Monica, NY.
Renee – Charlotte, NC
“I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.” (NIV)
Was this Galatians 2:20 Renae? I also clicked on your link! What a powerful message!
Love & Prayers Sister! 🙂
You keep him in perfect peace whose minds is stayed on you, because he trusts in you. Isaiah 26:3 ESV
(sorry i’m late! )
Lynn, St Michael, MN. One thing I ask of the Lord, this is what I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze upon the beauty of the Lord and to seek him in his temple. Psalm 27:4
Judy – Cottageville WV
Ps 139: 23-24
Search me, oh God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Liz, Overland Park, KS – Prov.18:12 (NASB) “Before destruction, the heart of a man is haughty, but humility goes before honor.”
Allison, Annapolis, MD, “Forget about what’s happened! Don’t keep going over old history. Be alert! Be present! I’m about to do something brand new. It’s bursting out. Don’t you see it? There it is! I’m making a road in the desert and rivers in the badlands.” Is. 43:18019 Message
Julie, Lexington, Ky Isaiah 54:10 NIV Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed, yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken nor my covenant of peace be removed, says the LORD, who has compassion on you.
Anita – Lynchburg, VA
Ps 139:23-24 KJV
Search me, oh God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:
and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Cassandra – Raleigh NC
Ps 139: 23-24
Search me, oh God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts: and see if there be any wicked way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Psalm 27:13 (New King James Version)
I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Jan, Winnipeg, Manitoba “I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.” Ephesians 1:17 (NIV)
Third time is a charm…
Rhonda
Gilmer
Psalm 27:13 (New King James Version)
I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Keeps me humble;)
Rebecca, Houston ” I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living. Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD.” Psalm 27:13-14 (NIV)
Merrie – Katy, Tx
Be therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect. Matthew 5:48 NIV
Katy, Round Rock
“I desire to do your will, O my God. Your law is within my heart.” Psalm 40:8 NIV
The Lord is my Sheperd I shall not want. Psalm 23:11 (NKJ)
Charli, Hoover, AL
“Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord.”. Hebrews 12:14 (NIV)
Christi, Cameron, NC
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
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7 NIV
Leslie, Tyler, TX
“I am not overstating it when I say that the man who caused all the trouble hurt all of you more than he hurt me. Most of you opposed him, and that was punishment enough. Now, however, it is time to forgive and comfort him. Otherwise he may be overcome by discouragement. So I urge you now to reaffirm your love for him.”
2 Corinthians 2:5-8 NLT
He is not here!
For He has been resurrected, just as He said.
Matt. 28:6A
Janice
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Rene, Overland Park, KS “There is no wisdom, no insight, no plan that can succeed against the Lord.” Proverbs 21:30 NIV
Nancy, Arkansas “For I know that my Redeemer lives, and
He shall stand at last on the earth.” Job 19:25
Kelly, Appleton, WI
I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
Ephesians 1:17 (NIV)
Psalm 90:14-15: (NIV)
“Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.”
Allison, Washington DC
With the arrival of Jesus, the Messiah, that fateful dilemma is resolved. Those who enter into Christ’s being-here-for-us no longer have to live under a continuous, low-lying black cloud. A new power is in operation. The Spirit of life in Christ, like a strong wind, has magnificently cleared the air, freeing you from a fated lifetime of brutal tyranny at the hands of sin and death.
Romans 8:1-2 (The Message)
Cheryl, Visalia, CA
May the God who gives endurance and encouragement give you the same attitude of mind toward each other that Christ Jesus had,
Romans 15:5 (NIV, ©2011)
Why are you downcast, O my soul?
Why so disturbed within me?
Put your hope in God,
for I will yet praise Him,
my Savior and my God.
Psalm 43:5 NIV
Beverly, Des Moines
We rejoice in suffering knowing that suffering produces endurance, endurance character, and character hope. Rom 5:3b-4 NET
Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things Col.3:2 Angie, Weston, MO
Do not love the world or anything in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For everything in the world – the cravings of sinful man, the lust of his eyes and the boasting of what he has and does – comes not from the Father but from the world. The world and its desires pass away, but the man who does the will of God lives forever. 1 John 2:15-17 NIV
Delta from Lakeland,
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
cindy sacramento 1 Sam 12:22 NIV
22 For the sake of his great name the LORD will not reject his people, because the LORD was pleased to make you his own.