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.
Kim, Corning, NY:
“Therefore be patient, brethren, until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently for it until it receives the early and latter rain. You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming of the Lord is at hand” (James 5:7-8 NKJV).
“This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.” 1 John4:10 (NIV)
Stephanie Techau
Cynthiana, Ky.
Erica G, Denver “I would have lost heart, unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait on the Lord. Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord!” Psalm 27:13-14 NKJV
Maggie Sand Springs, OK
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.” Galatians 5:22-23
Elkins, AR
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Tim 4:7 NIV
Randa, Oklahoma:
If you declare with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved. Romans 10:9-10. NIV
Darcy, Lenoir
John 16:33 (New International Version)
33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Jae, Lenoir
John 16:33 (New International Version)
33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Praise be to the LORD, to God our Savior, who daily bears our burdens. Ps. 68:19, NIV
Darien, Lenoir
John 16:33 (New International Version)
33 “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.”
Cindy
Flemingsburg, KY
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
Jennifer Milford, OH
“You made me; you created me. Now give me the sense to follow your commands.”
Psalm 119:73 NLT
Sarah, Colorado Springs
No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8: 37-39
Vicki, Corpus Christi Tx, Deut 30:19-20…
Oh, that you would choose life, so that you & your
Descendants might live. You can make this choice
Choice by loving The Lord your God by obeying
Him & committing yourself firmly to Him. This the
Key to your life. NLT
Becky Dayton, Ohio
Matthew 22:29 NIV “Jesus replied,’You are in error because you do not know the scriptures or the power of God”.
Yet the LORD longs to be gracious to you. He rises to showshow you compassion. Isaiah 30:18a NIV
Shelly, Downey, CA
Julie Lexington, KY
“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
(thanks Beth! I was about to call it quits, then I read, “don’t even think about dropping out…”)
Beth in Mullica Hill, NJ
He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together. Colossians 1:17
Kathryn, Birmingham, AL
“I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 NIV
Holly Mc Tyler Texas
…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.
Philippeans 1:6 NIV
The Lord God is my strength; He will make my feet like deer’s feet. And He will make me walk on my high hills.
Hab. 3:19, NKJV
Patti, Kissimmee, FL
Pam, Holt, “The Lord is good to those who depend on Him, to those who search for Him.”
Lamentations 3:25, New Living Translation
Tiffany, Houston. Out of his fullness we have all received grace in place of grace already given. John 1:16 (NIV)
(Sorry we are late–we haven’t had internet service.) “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.” 1Cor 10:31 (NIV)
(oops,Im sorry I’m late) Shannon, Greenville, “Be joyful always; pray continuously; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” -1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Cara
Lewisville, TX
“You will keep in perfect peace the mind that is dependent on You, for it is trusting in You.”
Isaiah 26:3
Reba, Chattanooga, TN
Thus I have seen You in the sanctuary, to see your power and your glory. Psalm 63:2 NASB
Stephanie, Youngstown, OHIO
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13 NIV
Waupun, WI
Hebrews 12:1 (NIV)
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 perseverence the race marked out for us.
Jennifer
Cape Coral, Florida
“Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.”
Colossians 3:13-14 NIV
Jen W., El Segundo, CA, Colossians 3:17: “And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of teh Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.” – NIV
Pam….Campbellsburg, In
Multitudes multitudes in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
Joel 3;14 NKJV
Jen P. in Arkansas
Jeremiah 17:7 NLT
But blessed are those who trust in the Lord and have made
the Lord their hope and confidence.
Kelly, Houston Texas
Those who know your name trust in you, for you, LORD, have never forsaken those who seek you. Psalm 9:10 (NIV)
Vivian, Clovis, CA
1 Peter 1:3-4
3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, 4 and into an inheritance that can never perish, spoil or fade. This inheritance is kept in heaven for you,”
Mary H
Ardmore, AL
“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
Sorry I’m late this time…
Mara Ridgefield, WA
If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
I Corinthians 13:2
Karen R.
Coffeyville, KS
1 Pet 1:8 NIV
Though you have not seen him, you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and are filled with inexpressible and glorious joy.
Danielle, Atlanta: “Teach us to number our days, that we may gain a heart of wisdom.” Psalm 90.12, NIV
I Peter 3:4 – Your beauty should come from your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.
Joanne
St. Petersburg, FL
As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
Isaiah 55:9 NIV
Kathleen, Tallahassee, FL
“For the LORD your God is the God of gods and the Lord
of lords,
the great, the mighty, and the awesome God
who does not show partiality nor take a bribe.”
Deuteronomy 10:17 (NASB)
“Search me O God and know my heart, try me and know my thoughts. See if there is any evil way in me, and lead me in the path of eternal life.”
Psalm 139:23-24
Sabrina
Morristown, Tennessee
The lines of purpose in your lives never grow slack, tightly tied as they are to your future in heaven, kept taut by hope.
Colossians 1:5 The Message
Denise, Ocean Springs,MS – And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. NIV
Ps. 26:3 NIV “for I have always been mindful of your unfailing love and have lived in reliance on your faithfulness.”
Jeanie
Sparta, TN
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”
2 Corinthians 10:5
For He rescued us from the domain of darkness, and transferred us to the kingdom of His
beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
Colossians 1: 13-14 NASB
Amy, Houston
2 Peter 1: 3-4 NLT
By his divine power, God has given us everything we need for living a godly life. We have received all of this by coming to know him, the one who called us to himself by means of his marvelous glory and excellence. And because of his glory and excellence, he has given us great and precious promises. These are the promises that enable you to share his divine nature and escape the world’s corruption caused by human desires.
“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