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.
Cheryl, Redlands, CA: Psalms 46:1 (NIV)
“God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble.”
I’m praying this for my niece, Gretchen, who has leukemia.
Ingrid, Frenchtown, MT
Phil. 3:10-11 I want to know Christ and experience His might power that raised Him from the dead. I want to suffer with Him, sharing in His death, so that one way or another I will experience the resurrection from the dead. NLT
Please keep my husband and me in prayer as we journey to Uganda and Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya for the next month.
Ann H., Murrells Inlet
“. . . and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father.” Phil. 2:11 NIV
Bridget, Phoenix.
Psalms 146:5. NKJV
5 Happy is he who has the God of Jacob for his help,
Whose hope is in the Lord his God,
Central Point, OR
Give your worries and cares to God, for he cares about you.
1 Peter 5:7 NLT
Tricia, Tucson, AZ. Psalm 19:14 “May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.” (NIV)
Cindy, Gold Canyon, AZ. Be filled with the Spirit. Speak to one another with psalms, hymns and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your heart to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Ephesians 5:18-20 (Could you please pray for me. My husband in in the end stages of cancer)
Mary in Austin: Psalm 139:11-12 (NIV)
If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,” [12] even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
melody from crystal springs, ms
James 4:10–Humble yourselves before the Lord and He wil lift you up.
Be of sober spirit, be on the alert. Your adversary, the devil prowls around like a roaring lion, seeking someone to devour. 1 Peter 5:8 NASB
Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, just as we told you, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody. 1 Thessalonians 4:11 NIV
Do not be afraid of sudden panic, or of the storm that strikes the wicked; for the Lord will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being caught.
Proverbs 3:25-26 NRSV
Kelli ~ Kalispell, MT
“But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, who will transform our lowly body to be like His glorious body, by the power that enables Him even to subject all things to Himself.”
Philippians 3:20-21 ESV
Julie Minneapolis
Ephesians 3:20-21 NIV
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen.
Rena, Tulsa. “Remember the word to your servant, in which you have made me hope. This is my comfort in my affliction, that your word has revived me.” Psalm 119:49-50 NASB
Rachel, Surprise, AZ
“Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vines, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will rejoice in the LORD, I will be joyful in God my Savior. The Sovereign LORD is my strength; he makes my feet like the feet of a deer, he enables me to go on the heights.” ~Habakkuk 3:17-19 (NIV)
emi, white house: “Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and your dominion endures through all generations. The LORD is faithful to all his promises and loving toward all he has made. The LORD upholds all those who fall and lifts up all who are bowed down.” Psalm 145:13-14 NIV
Susan Soares, Carpina, Brazil “Behold, God is my salvation, I will trust and not be afraid, for the Lord God is my strength and song, and He has become my salvation.”Isaiah 12:2 NAS
Deuteronomy 33:27
“The eternal God is your refuge, and underneath are the everlasting arms…”
(NKJV)
Traci – Corona, California
Picked this verse to encourage my friend as she left on a missions trip. Please keep Dayna and the team in your prayers. She will be gone for 19 days and within that time she will be trekking 7 days (location cannot be disclosed but I know my Siestas can figure it out =).
Numbers 6:24,25,26 – (HCSB)
“The LORD bless you and protect you; the LORD make His face shine on you, and be gracious to you; the LORD look with favor on you and give you peace.”
I pray His name and countenance will be on all who are walking out in faith in foreign countries or nearby backyards to lead others to Him. May He bless and pour out His heavenly riches on them.
Diane, Hemet, CA
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my eye upon you.
Psalm 32:8 NKJV
Continuing in Isaiah 40…
“To whom will you compare me?
Or who is may equal?” says the Holy One.
Isaiah 40:25 NIV
Melana Cummings
Sheridan Wyoming
Peggy, Tucson, Ps.4:3 “But know that the Lord has set apart the godly man for Himself; the Lord hears when I call to Him.” NAS
Wives, submit to your husbands as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, of which he is the Savior. Now as the church submits to Christ, so also wives should submit to their husbands in everything. Ephesians 5:22-24 NIV
Jyothi Houston:
Romans 8:18 I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.
Cindy, Laguna Niguel. But we are not of those who shrink back and are destroyed, but of those who have faith and preserve their souls. Hebrews 10:39 ESV)
Psalm 121: 1, 2 ESV, “I lift up my eyes to the hills from where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth.” Pam in San Diego
Jyothi Houston
Habbakuk 3: 19 The Sovereign LORD is my strength;
he makes my feet like the feet of a deer,
he enables me to tread on the heights.
Be thankful on purpose.
Psalms 107:1
Ashley Sullens
Kings Mountain, NC
Hebrews 4:13 (NIV)
Nothing in all creation is hidden from God’s sight. Everything is uncovered and laid bare before the eyes of him to whom we must give account.
Linda, Longview: “Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” Hebrews 12:1 NIV
Hebrews 10: 24 “Think of ways to encourage one another to outbursts of love and good deeds.”
Bridgett from Pell City, Alabama: Answer me, Lord, in the goodness of your constant love; in your great compassion turn to me! Psalm 69:16 GNT
Troy, Ohio
Psalm 121 NIV
I lift up my eyes to the hills-where does my help come from?
My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
He will not let your foot slip-he who watches over you will not slumber;
Indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord watches over you-the Lord is your shade at your right hand;
the sun will not harm you by day, not the moon by night.
The Lord will keep you from all harm-he will watch over your life;
the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.
katie, gig harbor WA / roach MO
though the fig tree should not blossom and there be no fruit on the vines,
though the yield of the olive should fail and the fields produce no food,
though the flock should be cut off from the fold and there be no cattle in the stalls
yet i will rejoice in the LORD.
i will take joy in the God of my salvation.
the LORD GOD is my strength, and he has made my feet like hinds feet and makes me walk on my high places.
habakkuk 3:17-19 NASB
Lisa, Rainbow City, Alabama. ” 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, keeping a clear conscience, so that those who speak maliciously against your good behavior in Christ may be ashamed of their slander.” 1 Peter 3:15-16 NIV
Sarah, Montrose, CO:
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Colossians 3:14-15 (ESV)
Kim
Kim
Orange City
For you have been my hope, O Sovereign Lord, my confidence since my youth.
Psalm 71:5 NIV
For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone. Teach me thy way, O LORD; I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name.
I will praise thee, O Lord my God, with all my heart: and I will glorify thy name for evermore.
Psalm 86:10-12 (KJV)
April Lopez, BonneyLake, Wa
Psalm 62:5 NIV
Find rest, O my soul, in God alone; my hope comes from him.
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 NIV
Amy
Norfolk, MA
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.”
John 14:27
NIV
Diane from Littleton, CO
You will make 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)
Pam, Dallas, TX, “Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”
Mary, Pierre SD
Psalm 90:12
New International Version (NIV)
Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Michelle Parma, Ohio
So think clearly and exercise self-control. Look forward to the gracious salvation that will come to you when Jesus Christ is revealed to the world. 1 Pet. 1:13
Cindy from Alton NH And this is the confidence that we have in him, that if we ask anything according to his will, he heareth us: And if we know that he hears us, whatsoever we ask, we know we have the petitions that we desired of him. KJV I John 5:14 & 15
Joy, Peachtree City. This I recall to my mind, Therefore have I hope. The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease, For His compassions never fail. They are new every morning: Great is They faithfulness. Lamentations 3:21-23 The NAS Bible
“For with God nothing will be impossible.” Luke 1:37