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.
Lori, Odessa, TX
John 16:33 NIV
I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
Betty from Austin, Texas: But God’s word is not chained. 2 Timothy 2:9
Karen Basham, Lutz, FL: “Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything worthy of praise, dwell on these things.” Philippians 4:8 (NASB)
Kathi
Lexington, OH
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.
Romans 12:1 (NIV)
Austin, Tx
everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:11b
NIV
Kristie
Tyler, TX (formerly from Sandia, TX… just moved last week!)
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.
Ephesians 3:20-21 (NIV)
My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry
James 1:19 NIV
Pam
Brighton, CO
1 Peter 4:10 NET
Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God.
Heather Ferris
McDonough GA
” I pray that your love will overflow more and more, and that you will keep on growing in knowledge and understanding. For I want you to understand what really matters, so that you may live pure and blameless lives until the day of Christ’s return.”
Philippians 1:9-10 (NLT)
Lisa Auten; Rogers, AR: “Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse.” Romans 12:14 NIV
For it is by grace you have been saved, though faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God – not by works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9 NIV
Kay, Richmond Hill GA. “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
Cindy, Ft. Worth, TX
O Lord, be gracious to us; we long for you. Be our strength every morning, our salvation in time of distress.
Isaiah 33:2 NIV
Bonnie, Alexandria, LA
Deuteronomy 31:8, NLT
“Do not be afraid or discouraged, for the Lord will personally go ahead of you. He will be with you; he will neither fail or abandon you.”
2 Cor 10:5 NIV
The weapons we fight with are not the weapons of the world. On the contrary, they have divine power to demolish strongholds.
Gail Jones
Decatur, TX
D’Anna
Kilgore, Texas
1 Peter 4:10-11 The NET Bible
“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.”
Nicole, Trinity, FL: “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9 NIV
Angie Loveland OH
Matthew 5:6 NIV
Blesses are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness for they will be filled
Suzanne; Pasadena, Texas
Every word of God is pure; He is a shield to those who put their trust in Him.
Proverbs 30:5 NKJV
Shauna, Horn Lake
Let us… 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.Â
(Hebrews 10:25 NIV)
Colossians 3:2 Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. (NIV)
Donna, Albuquerque, NM
“Search me, O 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
“And without faith it is impossible to please God because anyone who comes to Him must first believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him”~Hebrews 1:6 (NIV)
Kelley, Russellville
“For lack of guidance a nation falls, but victory is won through many advisers.” Proverbs 11v14 NIV.
Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with truth and action. 1 John 3:18 HCSB
Maxie, Montgomery, “You turned my wailing into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and clothed me with joy, that my heart may sing to you and not be silent. O Lord my God, I will give thanks forever.” Ps.30:11-12
Lacey, Leonard Tx. “For the spirit God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love, and self discipline.” 2 Timothy 1.7
Maria from North Dakota
Trust in the LORD and do good;
dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.
Delight yourself in the LORD
and He will give you the desires of your heart.
Ps. 37:3-4 (NIV)
Pauline, Kearney NE
Indeed, let no one who waits on You be ashamed; Let those be ashamed who deal treacherously without cause.
Psalm 25:3 NKJV
Jan, Marion IA Eph. 4:4 There is one body and one Spirit, just as also you were called in one hope of your calling
Sierra Parker, Tired & Weary, but trucking on in Vandalia, MO
“Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain! Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.”
Psalm 119:36-37 ESV
Susa, Tucson. A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity. Prov 17:17 NIV
Carol Belleville, On…
You priests should be eager to spread knowledge, and everyone should come to you for instruction, because you speak for Me, the Lord All Powerful Malachi 2:7 CEV
“Therefore, since we have so great a cloud of witnesses surrounding us, let us also lay aside every encumbrance and the sin which so easily entangles us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of faith, who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:1-2 (NASB)
Hannah from Chesterland, Ohio
“For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.”
(Hebrews 4:12 ESV)
Midge, Florence: For nothing is impossible with God. Luke 1:37 NLT
Karissa, Martinsburg, WV
NIV Psalm 145:18
“The LORD is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.”
Johanna, Forsyth, MT-
Do your own work well, and then you will have something to be proud of. But don’t compare yourself to others. Galatians 6:4 CEV
Mary in Austin (continuing in Psalm 139!) Psalm 139:14-16(NIV)– For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body;all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be.
“But who am I, and who are my paeople, that we should be able to give as generously as this? Everything comes from you, and we have given only what comes from your hand.”
1Chron 29:14
NIV
shelly, los angeles
Megan JOY Burdzy – Calgary Alberta, Canada – Give praise to the LORD, proclaim His name; Let the whole world know what He has done…Glory/Exult in His holy name; Let the hearts of those who seek the LORD rejoice. Look to the LORD and His strength; Continually seek Him. – Psalm 105:1,3,4 – (NIV/NLT)
Let us come before him with thanksgiving and extol him with music and song. Psalm 95:2 NIV
Amy, Sweeny TX
I do live in the world. But I don’t fight my battles the way the world does. The weapons I fight with are not the weapons of the world. In fact, it is just the opposite. My weapons have the power of God to destroy every claim and every reason that keeps people from knowing God. I keep every thought under control in order to make it obey Christ. 2 Cor 10:3-5 NIrV
Molly, Macon
Proverbs 31:26, 27 NASB “She opens her mouth in wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue. She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the bread of idleness.”
Proverbs 18:7
New International Version (NIV)
The mouths of fools are their undoing,
and their lips are a snare to their very lives.
Melissa, Miles City, MT: I will praise You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Psalm 139:14 NKV
Romans 8:28 NIV
“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.”
Shawna – Boise, Idaho
The Lord is the stronghold of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid. Psalm 27:1
Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
Isaiah 41:30 NIV
Is.55:5 ESV
“Behold, I made him a witness to the peoples
a leader and commander for the peoples.