**Siesta Celebration is January 20-21, 2012**
Hey Sweet Things!
We’ve made it to September 1st! That is great news for those of us who live in 3-digit temperatures for most of August! It won’t be an eternity before cool breezes start blowing golden leaves off the trees. I love Autumn best of all seasons. Bring it on, Jesus! September 1st is also great news for those of us planning to attend our SSMT Grand Celebration in January! We’re getting closer and closer to our big weekend. I hope so much that many of you will be able to come. We at LPM are making big plans toward it. Travis will be there to lead us in worship and he and I talked last weekend in Salt Lake City about how we can hardly wait.
Since my last post went on…and on…and on…and on, I will keep this one short and sweet. I don’t think I’ve ever relished my memory work more than this year. God has caused the Scriptures in my bones to spring to life in my heart these last 8 months and I pray that the same is true for you. Here’s mine this time around:
Beth, Houston. “Dear friends, I urge you as foreigners and exiles to keep away from fleshly desires that do battle against the soul, and maintain good conduct among the non-Christians, so that though they now malign you as wrongdoers, they may see your good deeds and glorify God when He appears.” 1 Peter 2:11-12 The NET Bible.
I’m crazy about you guys! Keep hiding those Scriptures in your heart. THEY MATTER.
And you matter. You are so deeply loved by the Lord Jesus. May He reveal Himself to you this day.
Dawn, Zionsville
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13: 34-35
Angie, Kansas City, MO: Cheerfully pleasing God is the main thing, and that’s what we aim to do, regardless of our conditions. 2 Corinthians 5:9 (MSG)
Shari, Augusta, GA
“You will not be afraid of the terror by night, or of the arorw that flies by day; of the pestilence that stalks in darkness, or of the destruction that lays waste at noon.”
Psalm 91:5-6 NASB
“Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more valuable are you than the birds! Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to her life?”
Luke 12:24-25 (NIV)
Traci Vadnais Heights MN
Cheryl
Hephzibah, Ga.
“Is not my word like fire,” declares the Lord, “and like a hammer that breaks a rock in pieces?” Jeremiah 23:29
Tami, Michigan:
“I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God for the salvation of everyone who believes: first for the Jew, then for the Gentile.”
Romans 1:16 NIV
Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise–the fruit of lips that confess his name. And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Hebrews 13:13-14 NIV
Bobbie
College Station
John 15:11-12
“I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete. My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.”
Cheryl, Coffeyville, KS
“For this reason I remind you to fan into flame the gift of God, which is in you…” 2 Tim. 1:6a NIV
Anita, Chattanooga, TN “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.”
I Peter 5:6-7 NIV
Melissa TRA Stranger in Salt Lake City, UT “In the time of my favor I will answer you, and in the day of salvation I will help you; I will keep you and will make you to be a covenant for the people, to restore the land and to reassign its DESOLATE inheritances, to say to the captives, ‘COME OUT’, and to those in darkness, ‘BE FREE!’ Isaiah 49:8-9
Becca, TN
“To whom who loves us and has set us free from our sins by his blood, made us a kingdom, priest to his God and Father– to him be the glory and dominion forever and ever. Amen.” Revelation 1:5b-6 HCSB
Susan,Silverhill,AL: “A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Proverbs 15:1 (NIV)
Tracy, Atlanta:
You have made known to me the path of life; you will fill me with joy in your presence, with eternal pleasures at your right hand.
Psalm 16:11 NIV
Just as you cannot understand the path of the wind or the mystery of a tiny baby growing in its mother’s womb,
so you cannot understand the activity of God, who does all things. Ecclesiastes 11:5 NLT
Instead of being motivated by selfish ambition or vanity, each of you should, in humility, be moved to treat one another as more important than yourself. Each of you should be concerned not only about your own interests, but about the interests of others as well.
Phillipians 2:3-4 (NET)
He is before all things and in Him all things hold together. Colossians 1:17 NIV
McKenna, Henrietta, TX
He is before all things and in Him all things hold together. Colossians 1:17 NIV
Cindy, Henrietta, TX
I’m determined to stop forgetting to post these!!! Maybe I need to find a memory verse to help my memory. 😉
It’s late in the year, but never too late to start! All on His time.
Gretchen, Long Island, New York
“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)
Carol, Gig Harbor, WA
“If You, O Lord, kept a record of sins, O Lord, who could stand? But with You there is forgiveness; therefore You are feared.” Psalm 130:3-4
For consider Him who has endured such hostility by sinners against Himself, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart. Hebrews 12:3
New American Standard
Kristi, Lenoir City, TN
“Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.” The Lord has done great things for us and we are filled with joy.”
Psalm 126:2-3 NIV 1984
Yes, from ancient days I am he.
No one can deliver out of my hand.
When I act, who can reverse it?
Is 43:13 NIV
Sandra, Florida. “Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. John 11:25 (NKJV)
Cynda
Newnan, GA
“Glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice.”
Psalm 105:3 NIV
Jenny, Elida, “Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.” Hebrews 11:1 (NIV)
Grace, Elida, “A person shouldn’t trick his neighbor, then say I was just joking.” Proverbs 26:18 (ICB)
O my people, trust in him at all times. Pour out your heart to him, for God is our refuge. Psalm 62:8 NLT
Kristie
Queen City, TX
Ruth, Sanger Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet they cannot fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Be imitators of God, therefore, as dearly loved children and live a life of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God. Ephesians 5:1-2 NIV
Leverett, MA
But thanks be to God that, though you used to be slaves to sin, you whole-heartedly obeyed the form of teaching to which you were entrusted.
Romans 6:17 NIV
John 1:16
From the fullness of his grace we have all received one blessing after another.
Margie
Hilton Head, SC
Marla, Lame Deer
James 1:19 My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen slow to speak and slow to become angry. NIV
Lichelle Austin SSMT 17 Is 41:10NIV
Fear not I am with your; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you with My righteous right hand.
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. Mark 1:35 (NIV)
Lauren, Boston, MA: “Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.” Psalm 62:8
“For you will go out with joy and be led forth with peace; the mountains and the hills will break forth into shouts of joy before you and the trees of the field will clap their hands.” Isaiah 55:12 NIV
Heather, Woodstock, GA
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.” Philipians 4:6 (NIV)
Anita Siecker
Purcellville, VA
“The LORD your God is with you,
he is mighty to save.
He will take great delight in you,
he will quiet you with his love,
he will rejoice over you with singing.”
Zephaniah 3:17 NIV
Charlotte, Houston Thinking of, praying for and loving our Siestas on the East Coast;
“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, though its waters roar and foam and the mountains quake with their surging.” (Psalm 46:1-3) NIV
Susan
Lititz, PA
“And the God of all grace,
who called you to his eternal glory in Christ,
after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
To him be the power for ever and ever. Amen”
1 Peter 5:10-11 (NIV)
Wichita Falls, TX
“The LORD does not look at the things that man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”
1 Samuel 16:7b NIV
Anne, Minneapolis
“As for God, his way is perfect; the word of the Lord is flawless. He is a shield for all who take refuge in him.” 2 Samuel 22:31 NIV
Theresa – Pace, Florida
Jeremiah 17:7&8 (NIV)
“But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him.
He will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream.
It does not fear when heat comes, its leaves are always green.
It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit.”
Susan – Maynard, MA
Hebrews 10: 35-36 – NIV
“So do not throw away your confidence; it will be richly rewarded. You need to persevere so that when you have done the will of God, you will receive what he has promised.”
“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 NKJV
Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then ut was said among the nations “The Lord has done great things for them.” The Lord has done great things for us and we are filled with joy.
Psalm 126:2-3 NIV 1984
The Lord protects the simplehearted; when I was in great need, he saved me. Psalm 116:6 NIV Crissy Nashville, TN
Janell ~ Frisco~ “As iron sharpens iron, so does one person sharpen another.” Prov 27:17 NIV Praise be to God!!
Psalm 119:1 NIV
Blessed are those whose ways are blameless; who walk in the law of the Lord.
Eleanor
Memphis, TN
Mary, Columbia, PA
Only goodness and faithful love will pursue me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the house of the Lord as long as I live.
Psalm 23:6