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.
Tiffany, Houston, Texas. “The Lord is near the brokenhearted; He delivers those who are discouraged.” Psalm 34:18 The NET Bible
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Cathy, Princeton, TX
Galatians 5:14 NIV
The entire law is summed up in a single command:
Love your neighbor as yourself.
“My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.” Psalm 73:26 NIV
Sarah Jenkins
Bancroft, Ontario
Canada
I Thessalonians 5:23, 24 “May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.” (NIV)
“In the morning, O Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in expectation.” NIV Psalm 5:3
Marcia, Salem, IN
Heather, Cleveland, GA
“even there your hand will guide me, your right hand will hold me fast” Psalm 139:10 (memorizing the whole chapter this year!)
“Just then God showed up and said, “Fool! Tonight you die. And your barnful of goods-who gets it?”
“Thats what happens when you fill your barn with Self and not with God.”
Luke 12:20-21 The Message
Leslie in Utah
Kimberly, el paso, tx
And my God will supply every need of yours according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.
Phil. 4:19, esv
Cindy from Valdosta, GA
Proverbs 19:21, NIV
Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
Marie, Denver: Humble yourselves under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you. 1 Peter 5:6-7, NIV
Madelin, Thousand Oaks, CA
“The Lord is near the brokenhearted; He delivers those who are discouraged.” Psalm 34:18 The NET Bible
Kendra, Portland, OR.
“He makes the barren woman to be a homemaker and a joyful mother of children. Praise the Lord! (Hallelujah!)” Psalm 113:9, Amplified Bible
Linda, Oklahoma City
Ephesians 2:10
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
April – Lubbock, TX
Ps. 25:4-5 Show me your ways, O Lord, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long. NIV
Celeste, Thompson’s Station, TN:
There are many plans in a person’s mind, but it is the counsel of the Lord which will stand.
Prov. 19:21 (The NET)
Katie, Houston, Texas. “It is not rude, it is not self‑seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.” 1 Corinthians 13:5 NIV
Donna, DFW, TX
Isaiah 30:21 (NIV)
Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
Evansville, IN
“Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Philippians 4:6 The Message
Kathie. Satsuma, Alabama. Romans 8:31 What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Summer C.
Fuquay Varina, NC
Psalm 25:5 NIV
Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
Amy, St. Louis, MO
“Cast all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you.”
1 Peter 5:7 (NIV)
Terry, Abilene, Kansas – Ecclesiastes 11:5 (The Message) – Just as you’ll never understand the mystery of life forming in a pregnant woman, So you’ll never understand the mystery at work in all that God does.
Sue, Abilene, Kansas – Psalm 100:4 (NKJV) – Enter into His gates with thanksgiving, And into His courts with praise. Be thankful to Him, and bless His name.
Wendy, from Dalton; Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Philipians 4:6 (NIV)
Allison Atlanta, GA “For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith, and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.” Ephesians 2:8
Kristen, Largo, FL “If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there Your hand will guide me. Your right hand will hold me fast.” Psalm 119:9, NIV
Colossians 3:12-13 NIV
But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God,who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. James 1:5
Colossians 3:12-13 NIV
But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere. Peacemakers who sow in peace reap a harvest of righteousness.
“The LORD your God is with you,
the Mighty Warrior who saves.
He will take great delight in you;
in his love he will no longer rebuke you,
but will rejoice over you with singing.”
Zephaniah 3:17 (NIV)
Show me your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths; guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.
Psalm 25:4-5 (NIV)
Terry
Washington, IL
“The Lord is near the brokenhearted; He delivers those who are discouraged.”
Psalm 34:18 The NET Bible
Christy
Fayetteville, AR
“The Lord is near the brokenhearted; He delivers those who are discouraged.” Psalm 34:18 The NET Bible
Thank you again for the verse. I need this one!
Billie, Greenville, KY “They overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony; they did not love their lives so much as to shrink from death.” Revelation 12:11 NIV
Romans 10:9nlv
That if you confess with your mouth,
“Jesus is Lord” and believe in your heart that God raised Him from the dead, you will be saved.
Farrah, Jackson MS
“whatever you ask in prayer, BELIEVE that you have received it, and it will be yours.”
mark 11:24 NIV
Amy Huntsville,AL
“The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lot. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed I have a beautiful inheritance.” Psalm 16:5-6 (ESV)
Lynette, Alton, IL
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will
reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9 NIV
Nancy, Sanger TX
Habakkuk 2:4 (NLT)
“Look at the proud! They trust in themselves and their lives are crooked. But the righteous will live by their faithfulness to God.”
Nicola, Calgary, Alberta
(For my determined purpose is) that I may know Him (that I may progressively become more deeply and intimately acquainted with Him, perceiving and recognising and understanding the wonders of His presence more strongly and clearly) and that I may in that same way come to know the power outflowing from His resurrection (which it exerts over believers) and that I may so share in His sufferings as to be continually transformed (in spirit into His likeness even) to His death, (in the hope) that if possible I may attain to the spiritual and moral resurrection (that lifts me) out from among the dead (even while in the body). Phil 3:10-11 AMP
Bettie, Wendell,NC
John 10;28. I give them eternal life, and they shall never perish; no one will snatch them out of my hand.
Beth Clark, La Verne, CA
“Your unfailing love is better than life itself; how I praise You”
Psalm 63:3, New Living Translation
Renee, Calgary, Canada
I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.
Ps 34:4 NIV
Lyndsey, LA- Isaiah 30:15, NIV
Andrea, Ontario, Canada
“Don’t fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns.” (Phillip. 4:6 The Message)
For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, that through endurance and encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.
Romans 15:4
I Corinthians 1:58 NIV
Always give yourselves fully to the work of the Lord…
Pam
Greenville, SC
🙂 Getting ready for VBS…
So faith comes from what is heard, and what is heard comes through the message about Jesus Christ.
-Romans 10:17 (HCSB)
Lewisville, TX
“Many are the plans in a person’s heart,
but it is the LORD’s purpose that prevails.”
Proverbs 19:21 (NIV)
Sandy, Galveston, Texas
But as for you, be strong and do NOT give up, for your work WILL be rewarded.
2 Chronicles 15:7