Hey Siestas!
Can you fathom that we are on our 10th memory verse??? Good grief! 2011 is almost halfway over! Amanda and Curtis just got Jackson’s preschool graduation pictures and we all nearly flipped. It is the cutest thing ever, especially with that missing front tooth. His ceremony is in a few days but the little blue cap and gown just about put all of us over the edge. We will have a kindergartener next year and a mighty fine one at that. It just sails by. And how well many of you know.
I am getting lots of questions about whether or not we’re having Siesta Summer Bible Study. I want to say yes so badly. I have tried to turn this puzzle piece every conceivable direction to see how it would fit on the table. Between SSMT every 1st and 15th, the summer Living Proof Lives, the final Deeper Still, and, probably the biggest factor of all, the complete James manuscript due date at the end of summer, I just can’t make it work and still be a wife, mom, and active Bibby. I also don’t have my faithful blog master, Amanda, here to assist me with all that summer Bible study entails right now. I am, however, presently thinking of some ways that we can hold one another accountable to stay in the Scriptures this summer and also give you the opportunity to connect with other Siestas who want to do some of the same studies. Stay tuned for that. For now, I’ll joyfully recommend to you two that I’ve done this Spring:
Duty or Delight by Tammie Head (Many of you will remember getting to know this brand new author in April through our blog video. She is dear to me and will no doubt become dear to many of you.)
Brave by Angela Thomas (Angela is a gifted teacher and writer and I try not to let anything she offers sit on the bookstore shelf for long before I bag it and read it. I’m almost finished with this study and have been tremendously blessed by it.)
Both of those women love Jesus and communicate His Word beautifully. And you know how I feel about Priscilla Shirer and everything God uses her to bring to the table. You’ll never miss on her. Man, I wish we could do one of their studies the traditional way in Siestaville this summer but sometimes we realize that even another good thing is perhaps the wrong thing for now. If the Lord is willing, we’ll definitely do a study our usual way next summer on the off year from SSMT.
OK, young ladies, how about that 10th verse?? NO DROP OUTS!!! This verse is trying to leap off the page at me this time around and not so much for my own plight right now but for some people I really love:
Beth, Houston, Texas. “The Lord is near the brokenhearted; He delivers those who are discouraged.” Psalm 34:18 The NET Bible
Praise You, Lord. You are so faithful. Close in on those who are brokenhearted and hold them in Your healing grasp. Deliver the discouraged in such dramatic ways that You alone get the credit. We exist here in this blog community to give You glory, Lord. Come and get it. Our eyes are to the skies.
See my sorrows;
feel my pain;
forgive my sins
(Psalm 25:18 NLT)
Abi, Apopka: God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” Hebrews 13:5 NIV
Kara, Ardmore, OK
In the beginning the Word already existed. The Word was with God,and the Word was God. He existed in the beginning with God. God created everything through him, and nothing was created except through him.
John 1:1-3 NLT
Debbie
Sterling Heights, Michigan
Galations 5:22-23 (Beth Moore Praying God’s Word Cards)
Lord, the fruit of Your spirit is love, joy, peace, kindness, forbearance, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. Against such things there is no law.
Tami KC, MO
Psalm 16:8 NLT
I know the Lord is always with me. I will not be shaken, for he is right beside me.
Karen – Cookeville, TN. Psalm 6:2 NKJV
Have mercy on me, O LORD
for I am weak;
O LORD, heal me
for my bones are troubled.
Melissa, Columbus, OH
Proverbs 24:13 NET
Eat honey, my child, for it is good, and honey from the honeycomb is sweet to your taste.
Holly C, Longview, TX
“Then I will give them one heart, and I will put a new spirit within them, [fn] and take the stony heart out of their flesh, and give them a heart of flesh,that they may walk in My statutes and keep My judgments and do them; and they shall be My people, and I will be their God.”
Ezekiel 11:17-18 NKJV
This is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God and Jesus Christ, whom You have sent.
John 17:3 NASB
Stephanie Atlanta, GA Gracious Words are a honeycomb sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. Proverbs 16:24 NIV
From Magnolia, TX
so humble yourselves before God. resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7
Diane, Cary NC and Naperville IL
Continuing with Psalm 100
1) Shout for joy to the Lord, all the Earth.
2) Worship the Lord with gladness; Come before him with joyful songs.
3) Know that the Lord is God. It is he who made us, and we are his. We are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Shaminder
Toronto,ON
And now abideth faith, hope charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
1Corinthians 13:13
KJV
Michelle Sylvan Springs, AL ESV
Psalm 34:18
The LORD is near to the brokenhearted
and saves the crushed in spirit.
Andrea Roberts from Mansfield, TX–
Yet if anyone suffers as a Christian, let him not be ashamed, but let him glorify God in that name.
—1 Peter 4:12-14, 16
Stephanie, Winder, GA
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 NIV
Lee Ann, Brentwood, TN – “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 NIV
Philippians 4:19
And my God will meet all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
Donna
Ponder, TX
Donna, Spring, TX: “Jesus replied, ‘They do not need to go away. You give them something to eat.'” Matthew 14:16 (NIV)
Karie-Phoenix, AZ
“Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.”
Jeremiah 29:12 NIV
Julie Elrod, Smyrna, GA:”No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” Hebrews 12:11
Karen H., Stephenville, TX
Psalm 46:10 (NASB)
Cease striving and KNOW that I….AM….GOD!
Beth in Mullica Hill, NJ
Joshua 1:9 (NKJV)
Be strong and of good courage
Do not be afraid or dismayed
For the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands;
your walls are ever before me.
Isaiah 49:16
Dagmar, Tyler, TX
Death and Destruction are never satisfied, and neither are the eyes of man.
Proverbs 27:20 NIV
Sara G, Oklahoma City, OK:
“Trust in the LORD with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6 NKJV
Bev
Louisville, KY
“As obedient children, do not conform to the evil desires you had when you lived in ignorance. But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do.”
1 Peter 1:14-15 NIV
Brenda, Derby, KS
I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one can snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all: no one can snatch them out of my Father’s hand. John 10:28&29 NIV
Tiffany, Sandwich, IL “So humble yourselves before God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” James 4:7NLT
Liz from Verona:
“Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you.”
~Luke 6:27b-28 NIV
I Peter 2:9 (NIV)
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Jane
Boone, NC
Sarah, Little Rock
“With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day.” 2 Peter 3:8 NIV
Leigh-Anne
Bemus Point, NY
“I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” John 14:6 NIV
Kristy, MB Canada
Phil 2: 6-7 (NIV)
“Jesus – Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped, but made himself nothing, taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness.”
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
Psalm 139:23-23 NIV
Psalm 78:41 KJV
“Yea, they turned back and tempted God, and limited the Holy One of Israel.”………..I don’t want to LIMIT God in my life!
Marilyn…in Mississippi
“He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.” Colossians 1:17 NIV
Becky
Murfreesboro, TN
Beth, why not open your blog and let Tammie facilitate her own Bible study? She’s your spiritual daughter. She’s living proof, too. Everyone would love it!
Chattanooga, TN – “Delight yourself in the Lord and he will give you the desires of your heart.”
Psalm 37:4 NIV
Cathy Boyd, Pierceton, IN
Col. 3:12 N.L.T.
Since God chose you to be the holy people He loves,you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.
Michelle, Frisco, TX – May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 NIV
Christi – Colleyville, TX
1 Cor. 2:9 (Is. 64:4)
No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.
Kim-Wylie TX
Be still. Be patient. Wait for the Lord to act. Don’t be upset when other people succeed. Don’t be upset when they carry out their evil plans.
Psalms 37:7 niv
Carrie, Fort Mill, SC
“This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us.” 1 John 5:14 NIV
Gayle, Salinas
The Lord is near the brokenhearted, He delivers those who are discouraged. Ps 34:18 NET
Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. Proverbs 26:12 NIV
Laura, Del Rio, TX
“You search the Scriptures, because you think in them you have eternal life; and it is these that bear witness of Me”
John 5:39 NASB
“The tassels will remind you of the commands of the LORD, and you are to obey His commands instead of following your own desires and going your own ways, as you are prone to do.” Numbers 15.39 (NLT)♥
Christi – Colleyville, TX
Psalm 20:4
May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.
Christy, Orlando FL, kJV
Psalms 34:1
Psalm 34
A Psalm of David, when he changed his behaviour before Abimelech; who drove him away, and he departed.
1 I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.