Hey, beloved Scripture Memory Team!
I so hope you are blessed in the presence of Christ Jesus today. I am all the way in Baltimore, Maryland serving a wonderful group of women at our Living Proof Live. Our dear Lindsee is pinch-hitting for me this time around and she also has some great information for you regarding our upcoming celebration. Her portion will pick up immediately following my 19th verse. I’m choosing my verse this round from the theme Scripture God gave us for our Friday night session here at Living Proof Live in Baltimore. I want to remember it forever. You don’t have to hear the session to see why it is enormously relevant and a powerful Scripture indeed to have hidden in your heart. You’re welcome to share it with me if you don’t have a selection ready.
Beth, Houston. “I continually look to the Lord for help, for He will free my feet from the enemy’s net.” Psalm 25:15 The NET Bible
I love you guys so dearly! OK, Lindsee, take it from here!
Girls, registration for the SSMT is flourishing and we already have over 1000 ladies registered. Praise God! Don’t stress if you’re not already registered, we have plenty of room. Registration will officially close two weeks before the event, so know that you have plenty of time. We are so excited and can’t wait to celebrate with you! When we say you are highly treasured around here, we mean it.
With that said, we have had a lot of unique questions come in that are not covered in the FAQ page so we wanted to put them here and then we’ll put them on that page as well. We hope this is helpful to you as you plan your trip to Houston in January. We don’t want anyone to feel left out or lost.
Are my children welcome to attend the celebration?
While we all know how much our Siesta Mama loves little ones (grin), and understands that some of them might be memorizing scripture with us, her teaching is specifically geared toward women 18 and older. Please use caution in bringing little ones. As a reward, we encourage you to do a special party for your children if they have been memorizing with you. Make it a special time to celebrate their hard work.
Is there anything LPM can do to help Siestas in the same region connect prior to the January meeting?
We are blessed to hear you are coming to SSMT in 2012! As much as we would love to publish a regional list of those attending, we are unable to do this due to the confidentiality of each individual’s information. This is for your protection, ladies. Thanks so much for understanding. If you would like to put your Facebook page (not your email or phone number) in the comments section, we will post it, as we know you have more control over the privacy of that. We should all be very careful about what we post on the World Wide Web for all to see!
Can we do t-shirts, pink feather boas, etc to help connect with other Siestas in the airports and restaurants?
First of all, y’all are AMAZINGLY creative and fun! We love that and are so blessed by your anticipation for this special weekend. In light of these fun ideas, we have a special photo op planned on Friday evening. This will be your special keepsake from LPM for the weekend. If you want to make your own fun memory (ie. t-shirts, bracelets, boas, etc) by all means have a blast with it! We’ll look forward to seeing you in 2012!
I want to attend the SSMT Celebration, but I’m nervous about coming solo. What should I do?
Please come! We promise you will be blessed! Many women came solo in 2010 and left with new friendships and blessings in abundance. During the celebration, we will have you pair off with another Siesta sitting around you and say your verses. It will be a very rich time of celebration indeed. Don’t let coming alone keep you from coming. You will not be the only “one” coming!
Since today is the first of October, we are only three months away from the celebration. Can you believe that? We are so looking forward to January and know you are too!
Have a wonderful weekend!
Tracey from Shawnee, Kansas
Deuteronomy 6: 4-5 (NIV)
Hear, O Israel: The LORD your God, the LORD is one. Love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul and will all your strength.
Sarah, Christina and Esther May, Wenatchee.
“All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.”
II Corinthians 4:5 NIV
Colleen, Mae Sot, Thailand
You will increase my honor and comfort me once again. I will praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, O my God; I will sing praise to you with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel.
Psalm 71: 21-22 NIV84
James 3:13 (NIV)
Who is wise and understanding among you? Let him show it by his good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.
Margie
Hilton Head, SC
Elaine ~ Powder Springs ~ Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. Romans 12:13 (NIV)
“It is not good to have zeal without knowledge, nor to be hasty and miss the way.”
~ Proverbs 19:2 NIV
Jane, Milton, GA “All authority on heaven and earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always to the very end of the age.” Matthew 28:18-20
Karessa, Peoria, IL: In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will. Ephesians 1:11 NIV
Beth, Toronto: But You, O Lord are a shield for me, my glory and the One who lifts up my head … Salvation belongs to the Lord. Your blessing is upon Your people.
Psalm 3: 3,8 (NKJV)
Alta, Sharpsville, In
Listen, my child, and be wise and direct your heart in the way.
Proverbs 23:19 NASB
Katherine, Lilburn For nothing is concealed except it be revealed, and nothing hidden except it come to light. Mark 4:22 HCSB
Angie, Kansas City, MO: Look to the LORD and his strength; seek his face always. 1 Chronicles 16:11 NIV
Kathy H Collgege Station TX…Do not let your hearts be troubled. Trust in God…John14:6a
Tami, Michigan
“A fool shows his annoyance at once, but a prudent man overlooks an insult.” Proverbs 12:16 NIV
Patti, Tampa. But He knows the way that I take;
When He has tested me, I shall come forth as gold.
My foot has held fast to His steps;
I have kept His way and not turned aside.
I have not departed from the commandment of His lips;
I have treasured the words of His mouth more than my necessary food.
Job 23:10-12 (NKJV)
Janet, Georgia: “He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.” –Deuteronomy 32:4(NIV)
Hey Beth, I’m here in Baltimore at LPL! I want to meet you! My scripture is the same…Amy, Washington DC “My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for He will pluck my feet out of the net.” Psalm 25:15 ESV
Oshkosh, WI
How blessed are those whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord. How blessed are those who observe His testimonies, who seek Him with all their heart.
Psalm 119:1-2 NASB
Melissa, St. Mary’s County, MD Mine eyes are ever toward the Lord; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net. Psalms 25:15 KJV
Stacie- Cyvadier, Haiti
Hebrews 10:23
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who has promised is faithful.”
Jerri Cookeville, TN
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. Ephesians 2:10 NIV
Debbie Walpole, MA
Psalm 121:8 (continuation) NIV
“The Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.”
Audrey, Ohio
Jeremiah 31:31-34 ESV
31 “Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah, 32not like the covenant that I made with their fathers on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, my covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, declares the LORD. 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, declares the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts. And I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 34And no longer shall each one teach his neighbor and each his brother, saying, ‘Know the LORD,’ for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, declares the LORD. For I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more.”
Sandra
Wichita Falls, TX
Sorrow is better than laughter, for sadness has a refining influence on us. Ecc 7:3 NLT
Laura, Clay Center, KS
I raise my eyes toward the mountains.
Where will my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord,
the Maker of heaven and earth.
He will not allow my foot to slip;
Your Protector will not slumber.
Indeed, the Protector of Israel
does not slumber or sleep.
Psalm 121:1-4 (HCSB)
“But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I wait for God my savior, my God will hear me. ” (Micah 7:7 NIV)
Kelly Snodgrass
Rogersville, TN
Psalm 31:24 HCSB
Be strong and COURAGEOUS,
all you who put your hope in the LORD.
Hey Kellly! Love your verse! Love you!!! and Olivia!
Elaine, New Orleans, LA
Proverbs 30:8-9 “Keep falsehood and lies far from me; give me neither poverty nor riches but give me only my daily bread. Otherwise, I may have too much and disown you and say, ‘Who is the Lord?’ Or I may become poor and steal, and so dishonor the name of my God.”
Dawn, Clinton PA
Jer. 9;23-24
This is what the LORD says:
“Let not the wise man boast of his wisdom
or the strong man boast of his strength
or the rich man boast of his riches,
but let him who boasts boast about this:
that he understands and knows me,
that I am the LORD, who exercises kindness,
justice and righteousness on earth,
for in these I delight,”
declares the LORD.
Ooops…not sure what I did there….the WORDS really did leap off the page and post prematurely 🙂 NIV translation…so sorry!
Paula, Brownwood, Tx
For I will satisfy the weary soul,
every languishing soul I will replenish.
Jeremiah 31:25. ESV
Then Asa called to the Lord his God and said, “Lord, there is no one besides You to help in the battle between the powerful and those who have no strength; so help us, O Lord our God, for we trust in You, and in Your name have come against the multitude. O Lord, you are our God; let not man prevail against You.”
2 Chronicles 14:11 NAS
Jillian, Louisville, KY
Galatians 6:9 NIV: Let us not become weary in doing food, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Jillian, Louisville, KY
Correction: let us not become weary in doing GOOD, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Gal 6:9 NIV
Michelle, Houston “But in your hearts set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect” 1 Peter 3:15 NIV 1984
Karen, Scottsdale
“Abraham planted a Tamarisk tree in Beersheba, and there he called upon the name of the LORD, the Eternal God.” Genesis 21:33 NIV
kendal. north wilkesboro, nc.
who am i, o sovereign lord, and what is my family, that you have brought me this far?
2 Samuel 7:18b
Lori Beaube, Hazlehurst, Ms
Fear not, for I am with you; Be not dismayed, for I am your God, I will stengthen you. Isaiah 40:10 NKJ
Kelly Watson
Greer, SC
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me. – 2 Cor. 12:9 (NIV)
Vicki in Colleyville, TX – Whoever can be trusted with very little can also be trusted with much, and whoever is dishonest with very little will also be dishonest with much. NIV Luke 16:10
Psalm 30:11 NKJV
You have turned for me my mourning into dancing; You have put off my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness.
Tammy from Fort Myers, Florida: “The Lord gives the word, and a great army brings the good news.” Psalm 68:11 NLT
Susan,Silverhill,AL: “Be self-controlled and alert. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.” I Peter 5:8 (NIV)
‘For You light my lamp;
The LORD my God illumines my darkness.’
Ps 18:28 NASB
Becky Jo
Chesterfield, MI
Know this, my beloved brothers: let every person be quick to hear, slow to speak, slow to anger; for the anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God. Therefore put away all filthiness and rampant wickedness and receive with meekness the implanted word, which is able to save your souls.
James 1:19-21 ESV
Laura, Englewood. For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose. Philippians 2:13
Hannah from Albuquerque New Mexico
Beloved, do not be surprised at the fiery trial when it comes upon you to test you, as though something strange were happening to you.
But rejoice insofar as you share Christ’s sufferings…
1 Peter 4:12 – part of 13
ESV
Lanita from Lake Jackson, TX:
1 John 4:10
This is love: not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as an atoning sacrifice for our sins.
NIV
Charmaine, Miami: “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
Gizmo, Spring Branch, TX
“The LORD is my Shepherd, I lack nothing.”
Psalm 23:1 (NIV)
Valerie, Omaha, NE
Now repent of your sins and turn to God, so that your sins may be wiped away. Then times of refreshment will come from the presence of the Lord, and he will again send you Jesus, your appointed messiah.
Acts 3: 19-20