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!
Brandy, Burleson, TX
The name of the LORD is a strong tower; the righteous run to it and are safe. Proverbs 18:10 NIV
Lauren, Boston, MA: “Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.” 1 Timothy 4:12 (NIV)
Stephanie Solomon, Morgantown, WV
Do not repay evil with evil or insult with insult, but with blessing, because to this you were called so that you may inherit a blessing. 1Peter 3:9 NIV
“Rejoice always.:
1 Thessalonians 5:16
Susan, Longmont, CO
“I continually look to the Lord for help, for He will free my feet from the enemy’s net.” Psalm 25:15 (NET)
Laura, Greenville: “For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love, and of self-discipline.” 2 Timothy 1:7 (NIV)
Kelly, Charlotte, NC
Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the Lord your God, listen to his voice and hold fast to him. For the Lord is your life…
Deuteronomy 30: 19b-20a
Sharla, Granbury TX. “Let us then fearlessly and confidently and boldly draw near to the throne of grace (the throne of God’s unmerited favor to us sinners), that we may receive mercy [for our failures] and find grace to help in good time for every need [appropriate help and well-timed help, coming just when we need it].” Hebrews 4:16 AMP
Beth,
I was at the Baltimore gathering and the net concept was powerful. Your comments to the young woman who accepted the Lord were so important. Thank you for encouragement because as soon as I get home, I find out that more beloved pastor husband is so discouraged because no one does their homework, no one seems interested in growing. We have such a small church that we could be a very close group but both of us so discouraged. At least now I can remember the beautiful sounds of women worshipping their God. Please women don’t be discouragers be encouragers, live your faith outside the arena. Thank you, Beth and team for your efforts.
PS Please tell who ever types up the power point the the pronoun “I” should be capitalized. Sorry, it is the English teacher in me, and I believe as Christians we should always be our best.
Love in Christ,
Madeleine,Corrales, Trust in Him at all times,O people;pour out your hearts to Him,for God is our refuge. Ps.62-8 NIV
Cara McKaskle
Conway, AR
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.” 2 Corinthians 10:5, NIV
Lyn Steriti
Littleton NH
For My yoke is easy, and My load is light.
Matt. 11-29. NASB
Linda, Blue Springs, MO
Psalm 139:23-24 ESV
23. Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
24. And see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!
All my longings lie open before you, O Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.
Psalm 38:9
Naomi, Acworth, GA
All my longings lie open before you, O Lord; my sighing is not hidden from you.
Psalm 38:9 NIV
Carol ~ Webb City, MO
My soul, wait silently for God alone, for my expectation is from Him. Psalm 62:5 (NKJV)
Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit
through the bond of peace. Ephesians 4:3 NIV
Patti, Roxboro, NC
Proverbs 16:3 “Roll your works upon the Lord [commit and trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, and] so shall your plans be established and succeed.” Amplified
Leslie from Maui-
“For all have sinned and fall short of the Glory of God, and are justified by his grace as a gift, through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus”
Romans 3:23-24
Paige, ATL, Phil. 2:12b-13 NLT
You must be even more careful to put into action God’s saving work in your lives, obeying God with deep reverence and fear. For God is working in you, giving you the desire to obey Him and the power to do what pleases Him.
Diane – Chesapeake, Va.
“My eyes are ever toward the Lord, for He will PLUCK my feet out of the net.”
Psalm 25:15 ESV
I’m looking UP, Beth ! THANKS !!
Jill Sayles, Puyallup, WA
Phil. 4:7(NAS)
“And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension, shall guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus”
Valerie ~ Oklahoma
“…Everything is possible for him who believes.” “…I do believe, help me overcome my unbelief.” Mark 9:23-24 NIV
Lisa, Rainbow City, Alabama. “Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.” NIV
Diana @Surrey, BC Canada
“… that I AM the LORD, who exercises kindness, justice, and righteousness on earth, for in these I delight; Declares the LORD.” Jeremiah 9:24b N.I.V.
Angie P Loveland OH
Psalm 84:10 NIV
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
“Better is one day in your house”
Cynthia, Massanutten, VA
“You are my witnesses,” declares the LORD,
“and my servant whom I have chosen,
so that you may know and believe me
and understand that I am he.
Before me no god was formed,
nor will there be one after me.
I, even I, am the LORD,
and apart from me there is no savior.
IS 43:10-11 (NIV)
Pamela Bishop, Ca. Acts 7:55 But he, full of the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at the right hand of God. ESV
Wendy, Mechanicsville, VA
I so loved being in Baltimore and needed this scripture and the teaching! Thanks, Beth for the Word!! So, you know my verse is the same!
“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
Joyce, Lebanon, TN
Whoever compels you to go one mile, go with him two.
Matthew 5:41 NKJV
“The Son is the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word.” Hebrews 1:3a (NIV)
Kathy
St. Louis, MO
Natalie, Houston (but posting this from Astana, Kazakhstan:
Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.
1 Peter 5:7 NIV
Susie, Knoxville, TN:
Be completely humble and gentle; be patient, bearing with one another in love. Ephesians 4:2 NIV
Judy, Norfolk, Va.
I continually look to the Lord for help, for He will free my feet from the enemy’s net.
Ps. 25:15 NRT
Darcy, NOVA. 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. Hebrews 10:35-36 NIV
Alyson Lung- Longmont, CO
This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
Romans 3:22- NIV
Danna-Atlanta,TX.
My heart has heard you say,”Come and talk with me.” And my heart responds,”LORD I am coming.” Psalm 27:8(NLT)
Ruth, Providence
7 “Do not be deceived: God is not mocked, for whatever one sows, that will he also reap. 8 For the one who sows to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption, but the one who sows to the Spirit will from the Spirit reap eternal life.9 And let us not grow weary in well doing, for in due season we will reap, if we do not give up.”
Galatians 6:7-9 RSV
Wendy, and my daughters, Faith (15) and Naomi Hope (11)
Eden Prairie, MN
“And in Jesus,
you too are being built together
to become a dwelling
in which God lives
by His Spirit.” Eph. 2:22 NIV
Kim, Detroit, MI
“I continually look to the Lord for help, for He will free my feet from the enemy’s net.”
Psalm 25:15 (NET)
Jessica, NYC
“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is recognized by its fruit…how can you who are evil say anything good? For the mouth speaks what the heart is full of.”
Matthew 12:33-34
Marla, Lame Deer
Ephesians 3:16 I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen You with power through his Spirit in Your inner being. NIV
Guard my life and rescue me, do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
Psalms 25:20
Chris, Louisville, KY
Trust in the LORD with all your heart,
And lean not on your own understanding;
6 In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He shall direct[a] your paths.
Proverbs 3:5,6, NKJV
Kim, Louisville, KY
But just as he who called you is holy, so be holy in all you do
I Peter 1:15, NIV
Jennifer, Denham Springs, LA, “If it is possible, as much as depends on you, live peacably with all men.” Romans 12:18, NKJV
Karyn, Elberfeld, IN – In the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groanings too deep for words; (Romans 8:26 NASB)
Charlotte, Seymour, Texas
“Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all.” Proverbs 31:29 ESV
Julie B. – Wentzville, MO – finishing the last 2 verses of this set from last time…
“18 Against all hope, Abraham in hope believed and so became the father of many nations, just as it had been said to him, “So shall your offspring be.”[d] 19 Without weakening in his faith, he faced the fact that his body was as good as dead—since he was about a hundred years old—and that Sarah’s womb was also dead. 20 Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God, 21 being fully persuaded that God had power to do what he had promised.” Romans 4:18-21 NIV
“Let us therefore come boldy to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need.” Hebrews 4:16 NKJV
Praise God for mercy. Oct 1 snuck up on me!