WHAT???? The 20th verse???? You know what that means, don’t you? Those of you who have clocked in every single time so far have accumulated enough verses to qualify for the celebration! However! If you’ve gotten this far, you surely want to see it all the way to 24 and not just for the celebration but for the fortification and fruit of 2 dozen Scriptures in your darling head. Scripture memory has meant so much to me this year. Except for a full-on-crisis season of time when I promise you I would have lost my ever-loving mind without it, I have never sensed more of a harvest deep in my soul from the process. I so hope you can also testify that your year would have been altogether different without it.
I will get right to it because I am expecting a ton of family over to celebrate Amanda’s 32nd birthday and I have a Texas-size pot of chicken and dumplings to cook! Here’s mine:
Beth, Houston. But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess. Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you. 1 Peter 3:15-16 The NET Bible
Let’s hear it, Siestas! Hey, don’t be alarmed if it takes me a good while to moderate all the verses or even if it sits on zero for a little while. I’ll bring them in every couple of hours so I can still get the most out of a Saturday off. I hope you have some Sabbath time this weekend, too!
Talk to you very soon.
You’re a big deal around here.
SKay Fires, Possum Kingdom Lake, Graford
20. Ephesians 6:13 NIV
“Therefore, put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”
Complete passage selection Ephesians 6:10-18
Annita, Haleyville, AL “Listen to advice and accept discipline, and at the end you will be counted among the wise. Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” Proverbs 19:20-21, NIV
Fenton, Ashburn, VA. “For you are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus.” Gal.3:26 NKJV Sorry to be late!
If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.
Gal 5:25 NKJV
Kay – Deer Park
15 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, 16 keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.
Peter 3:15-16 NIV’84
Kim, Detroit, MI
“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.”
Psalm 139: 14 (NIV)
MiChal in College Station, TX
“…for He who is mighty has done great things for me, and holy is His name.”
Luke 1:49 (ESV)
Zeph. 3:17 (NIV)
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.”
Kelli, Anaheim
Do not merely listen to the word, and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says. (James 1:22 NIV)
Romans 16:19 NIV
“I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.”
Leah, Indpls
Restore to me the joy of your salvation
and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.
Psalm 51:12 NIV
Luann, Grand Junction CO
Proverbs 25:28
New International Version (NIV)
28 Like a city whose walls are broken through
is a person who lacks self-control.
Vicki, Indpls
He gives power to the weak,
And to those who have no might He increases strength.
Isaiah 40:29, NKJV
Kristin, Carlsbad, CA “I love you, O Lord, my strength.” Psa. 18:1 NIV
Hannah, Austin, TX NASB Romans 6:14
For sin shall not be master over you, for you are not under law but under grace.
Psalm 51:12 – Restore to me the joy of your salvation. NIV
Kathy Leamington Ontario Canada
DLynn; Amarillo
Galations 6:9 NIV
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Valerie
Sparks, Nevada
And if our hope in Christ is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world.
I Corinthians 15:19 NLT
Ali C., Dublin, CA- It’s what we trust in but don’t yet see that keeps us going. 2 Corinthians 5:7 (MSG)
KELEI. IOWA PARK. “on that day His feet will stand on the Mount of Olives, east of Jerusalem, and the Mount of Olives will be split in two from the East to West, forming a Great Valley, with 1/2 of the mountain moving North &1/2 moving South!”
James 1:5
If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to al without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
Buffy
Rogers
“If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask of God who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.”
James 1:5 NIV
Cathy, Houston, TX. And without faith it is impossible to please God because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exits and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him. Hebrews 11:6 NIV.
Jeri B., Battlefield, MO
But even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel other than the one we preached to you, let him be eternally condemned.
Galatians 1:8 NIV 1984
Christa (Michigan)
I Peter 1:13-14
So think clearly & exercise self control. Look forward to the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. So you must live as God’s obedient children. Don’t slip back into your old ways of living to satisfy your own desires.
Gloria in Houston says:
Praise the Lord, all you nations! Praise Him all you people.
For His mercy and loving-kindness are great toward us, and the truth and faithfulness of the Lord endure forever.
Praise the Lord.
Psalm 117:1,2 (TAB)
Janae – Riverside,PA
Psalm 25:15 (NET) “I continually look to the Lord for help, for He will free my feet from the enemy’s net.”
kimberly mason, tuscaloosa, al:
“you will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” jeremiah 29:13 niv
“Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.”
I Thessalonians 5:16-18
NIV
Lacey, Leonard Tx. “I want you to be wise about what is good, and innocent about what is evil.” Romans 16.19
Psalm 100
Shout for joy to the LORD, all the earth.
Worship the LORD with gladness;
come before him with joyful songs.
Know that the LORD is God.
It is he who made us, and we are his[a];
we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
Enter his gates with thanksgiving
and his courts with praise;
give thanks to him and praise his name.
For the LORD is good and his steadfast(.. my addition)love endures forever;
his faithfulness continues through all generations.
This was grandchildren weekend…. I did not have time to post until after they left… what a joy I sing to the Lord for my precious children and their most precious children. God is GOOD ALL THE TIME!
Christy, FL – “O Lord my God, I will give you thanks forever.” Psalm 30:12
North Palm Beach, FL
1 Peter 3:15-16 NET
“But set Christ apart as Lord in your hearts and always be ready to give an answer to anyone who asks about the hope you possess. Yet do it with courtesy and respect, keeping a good conscience, so that those who slander your good conduct in Christ may be put to shame when they accuse you.”
Debbie, Calgary.
“…’This is the word of the LORD to Zerubbabel saying, ‘Not by might nor by power, but by My Spirit,’ sas the LORD of hosts.'”
Zechariah 4:6. NASB
(Sorry I’m late :os )
Revelations 22:21 (NLT)
The grace of the Lord be with you all.
“The Lord will fight for you. You need only to be still.”
Exodus 14:14 NIV
Tammy
Cincinnati,Ohio
Matthew 6:19-21 (NIV)
“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moths and vermin destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moths and vermin do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.”
Patty Pierce
Searcy AR
Acts4:12 niv
Salvation is found in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved.
“God will be in control forever! Amen” (1 Peter 5:11 CEV)
Tina, Gahanna Ohio.
The LORD is my strength and my shield; my heart leaps for joy and I will give thanks to him in song. Psalm 28:7 NIV
Terry in Louisa, VA
Luke 2:4-7
And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judea, unto the City of David, which is called Bethlehem (because it was of the house and lineage of David) to be taxed with Mary his espoused wife, begin great with child.
And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered. And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn.
Irving, Texas
NIV Philippians 4:4 Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again, Rejoice.
Stephanie, Atlanta, GA “Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.” Romans 12:21 NIV
Briten, North Providence, RI Luke 12:48b NASB
From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.
Kim B. – Orlando, FL
“Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run the race marked out for us. ” Hebrews 12:1 NIV
Brittney, Olympia:
“So do not throw away this confident trust in the Lord. Remember the great reward it brings you!” Hebrews 10:35 (NLT).
Dolly, Middletown, OH
Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Colossians 4:6 KJV
1Peter 3:15 NIV
In your heart set apart Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope you have.
Kim Safina, Los Osos, CA.
He is the LORD of God: his judgments are in all the earth.
Psalm 105:7
He is the LORD our God…
Jodi: Fairhope, AL But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts, and always be ready to give a defense to everyone who asks you a reason for the hope that is in you, with meekness and fear; having a good conscience, that when they defame you as evildoers, those who revile your good conduct in Christ may be ashamed. I Peter 3:15-16 NKJV