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.
Susan, Dalton, GA
Hebrews 10:19-25 (these are my verses for the last 7 weeks of SSMT 2011)
“Therefore, brothers, since we have confidence to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way opened for us through the curtain, that is, his body, and since we have a great priest over the house of God, let us draw near to God with a sincere heart and with the full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled to cleanse us from a guilty conscience and having our bodies washed with pure water. Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds, not giving up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but encouraging one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.”
Margie Allen, TX
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
Laurie New Hope, VA
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me. Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Psalm 91:10-12 NIV
Valerie, Ontario, OH
“I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in Him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13 (NLT)
Mansfield, OH
8 “But as for you …my servant… my chosen one… my friend, 9 I have called you back from the ends of the earth,saying, ‘You are my servant.’For I have chosen you and will not throw you away. Isaiah 41:8-9 NLT
Susan – Maynard, MA
Psalm 103:3-5 NET Bible
He is the one who forgives all your sins, who heals all your diseases,who delivers your life from the Pit, who crowns you with his loyal love and compassion, who satisfies your life with good things, so your youth is renewed like an eagle’s.
Kayla
Cleveland
Give thanks to the LORD,for he is good! His faithful love endures forever.
Psalm 118:1 NLT
1 Peter 4:9-10 NIV
Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.
Each one should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.
Dinah from Baraboo, WI
“Watch what God does, and then you do it, like children who learn proper behavior from their parents. Mostly what God does is love you. Keep company with him and learn a life of love. Observe how Christ loved us. His love was not cautious but extravagant. He didn’t love in order to get something from us but to give everything of himself to us. Love like that.” Ephesians 5:1,2 The Message
Martha, Clearwater, FL
” Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you”
2 Thess. 3:16. NIV
Cheryl, Everett, Psalm 139:2
“You know when I sit and when I rise, you percieve my thoughts from afar.”
Patti, Colorado
“I continually look to the Lord for help, for He will free my heart from the enemy’s net.”
Psalm 25:15
Kim, Chicago, IL, “In the same way, the Spirit helps us in our weakness. We do not know what we ought to pray for, but the Spirit himself intercedes for us with groans that words can not express. And he who searches our hearts knows the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints in accordance with God’s will.” Rom. 8:26-27 NIV
Marla Lame Deer-
Ephesians 3:18 May have power together with all the saints to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ. NIV
Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm.
Let nothing move you. Always give yourself fully to
the work of the Lord, because you know that your
labor in the Lord is not in vain. I Corinthians 15:58 NIV
Lorie, Columbia SC
Lord, you have assigned me my portion and my cup;
You have made my lot secure.
The boundary lines have fallen for me in pleasant places;
Surely I have a delightful inheritance.
You have made known to me the path of life;
you will fill me with JOY in your presence,
with eternal pleasures in your right hand.
Psalm 16:5-6,11
Rita – Alva, Florida
Joshua 1:9 – Amplified Bible
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong, vigorous, and very courageous. Be not afraid, neither be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.”
Kelly~Hermiston, OR
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and a sound mind.
2 Timothy 1:7 (NKJV)
Lu, Raleigh NC, 2 Corinthians 4:17 NIV
For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all.
Genevieve, Orange, Texas “For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.” Matthew 7:8 NIV
Loretta of Bloomfield
1 Peter 3 (1-2), NIV
Wives, in the same way be submissive to your husbands so that, if any of of them do not believe the word, they may be won over without words by the behavior of their wives, when they see the purity and reverence of your lives.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. Proverb 3:5 NIV
Stacy Detroit, mi
Proverbs 31:25 (NIV)
“she is clothes with strength and dignity. She can laugh at the days to come.”
Delores, Columbia,TN
For with God nothing will be impossible.
Luke 1:37 NKJV
Psalm 86:11 Teach me your way, O Lord, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. NIV84
Luke 10:19. Behold, I have given you authority to tread on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall hurt you. ESV
Kim
Orange City
You show that you are a letter from Christ, the result of our ministry, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts.
2 Corinthians 3:3 NIV
Jana, San Angelo, TX
“Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 NIV
Juanita, Walker Louisiana
My counsel for you is simple and straightforward: Just go ahead with what you’ve been given. You received Christ Jesus, the Master; now live him. You’re deeply rooted in him. You’re well constructed upon him. You know your way around the faith. Now do what you’ve been taught. School’s out; quit studying the subject and start living it! And let your living spill over into thanksgiving. (Colossians 2:6, 7 MSG)
Crystal, Livonia, MI
“Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.” Proverbs 4:24 KJV
Lynn, Lake Villa, IL
Psalm 143:8 NLT
Let me hear of your unfailing love each morning, for I am trusting you. Show me where to walk for I give myself to you.
Linda, Blue Springs, MO
Psalm 139:4-6 ESV
4. Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O Lord, You know it altogether.
5. You hem me in, behind and before, and lay Your hand upon me.
6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it.
Romans 6:23
“For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.”
Rebecca
Portland, TX
Sooo glad there isn’t a “.” after “death”!!!!!
Linda, Longview: “The unfolding of your words gives light; it gives understanding to the simple.”
Psalm 119:130 NIV
Olivia, Tennessee 🙂
For what good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Mark 8.36 NIV
Titus 2:4-5 “and so train the young women to love their husbands and children, to be self-controlled, pure, working at home, kind, and submissive to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be reviled.” ESV
Do not be deceived, God cannot be mocked;
A man reaps what he sows.
Galatians 6:7 NIV
Jennifer, Greensburg
Be merciful, just as your Father is merciful.
Luke 6:36 NIV
Heather, Greensburg
1 Timothy 4:4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving.
Emily, Greensburg
Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forever more! From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised!
Psalm 113:2,3 ESV
Matthew 7:8 “for everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”
Judy from Virginia
I pray that he will give you a spirti that will make you wise in the knowledge of God the knowledge that he has shown you. Eph 1:17 ICB
Katie
Duluth MN
Amanda, White Rock BC, Canada. ‘Make me walk along the path of your commands, for that is where my happiness is found.’ Psalm 119:35
Debi – Alva, Florida
Joshua 1:9 – King James
“Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.”
I Peter 2:9 (NIV) But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
Karen, Battle Creek, MI
Mark 10:27 NIV
Jesus looked at them and said, “With man this is impossible, but not with God; all things are possible with God.”
Diane – Roswell, GA
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.” Jeremiah 29:13 NIV
Heather, Austin, “Walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called.” Eph 4:1 NASB
James 1:1-5 NIV
James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, To the twelve tribes scattered among the nations: Greetings. Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith developes perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him.
Cara, Valley Head, AL 1Thess. 5:18 in everything give thanks, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. NASB
Richelle, Kingston, TN
(1)O God, you are my God, earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you, my body longs for you, in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
(2)I have seen you in the sanctuary and beheld your power and your glory.
(3) Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you.
(4) I will praise you as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands.
(5) My soul will be satisfied as with the richest of foods; with singing lips my mouth will praise you. Psalm 63:1-5 (NIV)
Kerry, Nederland, TX
So let’s not get tired of doing good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.
Galations 6:9
New Living Translation