What???? Are you kidding me??? Verse 21?!?
We’re just four verses from the finish line, Sisters! To God’s great glory, we’re doing this thing! I grinned from ear to ear two weeks ago when someone posted “Jesus wept” as her verse. That’s fair game! All of us could use a little catch from time to time. You guys bring me so much joy. May God cause His love and power to explode within you because you’ve worked so hard and fought so many distractions to get to this point.
OK, Girlfriends, here’s mine:
Beth, Houston. “Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God. Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To Him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 4:10-11 The NET Bible
Let me hear yours!
Stay the course, Sweet Things. You are so dearly loved and planned for by God.
Cheryl – Concord, NC
“Beloved, if our heart does not condemn us
we have confidence before God.”
IJohn 3.21 ESV
Cynda
Newnan, GA
“From the fullness of His grace we have all received one blessing after another.”
John 1:16 (NIV)
Luann, Grand Junction CO
New International Version 1984 (NIV1984)
Romans 12:1
Living Sacrifices
1 Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God—this is your spiritual[a] act of worship.
Holly Belt, Spring Hill,TN
He also says,
“In the beginning, Lord, you laid the foundations of the earth, and the heavens are the work of your hands….”
Hebrews 1:10
Gretchen, Gahanna, OH–For the vision is yet for the appointed time; it hastens toward the goal and it will not fail. Though it tarries, wait for it; for it will certainly come, it will not delay.
Habakkuk 2:3 (NASB)
For nothing is impossible with God.” (Luke 1:37 NLT)
Barbara, Prospect, KY: “But godliness with contentment is great gain.” 1 Timothy 6:6 NIV.
Psalm 19:14
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord my Rock and my redeemer.
Exodus 14:14 (NIV)
14 The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still.”
Kelly in Bham, AL
Amberley, Pasco, WA
“You’re my place of quiet retreat;
I wait for your Word to renew me.”
~Psalm 119:114 The Message
Madelin, Thousand Oaks, CA
Psalm 139 1-3 NIV
1 You have searched me, LORD,
and you know me.
2 You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.
3 You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.
Pam Hendersonville, NC Lamentations 3:22&23-“It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.” KJV
Michelle, Waco, TX
Psalm 88:13 NLT
“Oh LORD, I cry out to you. I will keep on pleading day by day”
Debbie, Sevierville, TN
The lips of the righteous feed many.
Proverbs 10:21
Doris, Whiteville, NC
continuing in Psalm 148
Psalm 148:7-10 (ESV)
“Praise the Lord from the earth,
you great sea creatures and all deeps,
fire and hail, snow and mist,
stormy wind fulfilling his word!
Mountains and all hills,
fruit trees and all cedars!
Beasts and all livestock,
creeping things and flying birds.
Darcy, Northern VA. My God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches. Philippians 4:19
“I will plant them and not uproot them. I will give them a heart to know me, that I am the Lord. They will be my people and I will be their God, for they will return to me with all their heart.” Jeremiah 24:6b-7 NIV
Kelly, Colorado Springs, CO
Megan, Maple Valley, WA
“Therefore, get your minds ready for action by being fully sober, and set your hope completely on the grace that will be brought to you when Jesus Christ is revealed.”
1 Peter 1:13 NET
Beth
Rome, GA
“Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.”
-Psalm 91:1 HCSB
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 Corinthians 12:9
Martha,Lynchburg,VA
For ever, O LORD, thy word is settled in heaven.
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. Psalm 119:89,90 KJV
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1 John 3:1
Psalm 95:1
“Come, let us sing for joy”
NIV
Becky
Brentwood
Phil 3:13
….Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead.
NIV
Amy, Colorado Springs:
“He is not afraid of bad news;
his heart is firm, trusting in the LORD.” – Ps. 112:7, ESV
Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. Hebrews 4:16 NIV
Dallas, TX, “He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.” NIV
Sara, Greenville, SC – “Search me, God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.” Psalm 139:23-24 (NIV)
Sara! I am from Greenville SC too! How amazing to meet you here in Bible Study/ Siesta Land!
Pam, Tyler, TX: “Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.” Col. 3:2, ESV
1 Thessalonians 5: 16-17 NLV “Be joyful always, pray continually.”
Crystal, Munford, TN
As they began to sing and praise, the Lord set ambushes against the men of Ammon and Moab and Mount Seir who were invading Judah, and they were defeated.
2 Chronicles 20:22 NIV
BraydenandBodiesMama
Daphne, AL
I give you peace, the kind of peace that only I can give. It isn’t like the peace that this world can give. So don’t be worried or afraid.
John 14:27
CEV
Vicki
Murfreesboro, TN
Philippians 4: 6-7 (NIV)
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.”
Sarah, Colorado Springs
Psalm 55:22 Cast your burden on the Lord (releasing the weight of it) and He will sustain you; He will never allow the (consistently) righteous to be moved (made to slip, fall, or fail). Psalm 55:22 (AMP)
Thanks Beth for the great verse! I think I’ll go along with you! It’s good to be reminded to use what we have been given!
Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God. Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To Him belong the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.” 1 Peter 4:10-11 The NET Bible
Cody * Houston, TX
This High Priest of ours understands our weaknesses, for he faced all of the same testings we do, yet he did not sin.
Hebrews 4:15, NLT
Lindsey from Dubach, LA is memorizing 1 Peter 4:10-11 (NET). “Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God. Whoever speaks, let it be with God’s words. Whoever serves, do so with the strength that God supplies, so that in everything God will be glorified through Jesus Christ. To him belongs the glory and the power forever and ever. Amen.”
Melissa, Vicksburg, MS. “She who guards her mouth and her tongue keeps herself from calamity.” Proverbs 21:23 NIV
Gwen, Kennesaw, GA. “So love God, your God; guard well his rules and regulations; obey his commandments for the rest of time.” Deuteronomy 11:1 The Message
Robin, Tracy CA
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23 NIV
Love
bears all things,
believes all things,
hopes all things,
endures all things.
1Cor.13:7 ESV
Kelly Snodgrass
Rogersville, TN
1 Peter 2.24-25 NIV
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
Great verse Kelly! Love you!
To the Lord I cry aloud, and he answers me from his holy hill. Psalm 3:4 NIV
Karie-Phoenix
A cheerful hear is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a persons strength.
Proverbs 17:22 NLT
Thomasine, Rio Rancho. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.”
– Isaiah 40:29 NIV
Above all, keep fervent in your love for one another, because love covers a multitude of sins. 1 Peter 4:8
Lacie
Chesapeake, VA
Marilyn Horton
Fort Smith, AR
“It is impossible to please God without faith. Anyone who wants to come to Him must believe that God exists and that He rewards those who sincerely seek Him.”
(Hebrews 11:6, NLT)
Carla Ritz from Lock Haven, PA – “She who guards her mouth and her tongue keeps herself from calamity.” Proverbs 21:23 NIV
Vicksburg, MS
Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Come near to God and he will come near to you. Wash your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
James 4:7-8
NIV
Kristin, Hamburg, AR
“For the LORD your God is living among you.
He is a mighty savior.
He will take delight in you with gladness.
With his love, he will calm all your fears.
He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.”
Zephaniah 3:17 NLT