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
Lititz, Pa.
If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from his love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion,then make my joy complete by being like-minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose.
Phil 2:1-2 (NIV)
Terri, Pleasant Hope, Mo
Through these He has given us His very great and precious promises, so that through them you may participate in the divine nature and escape the corruption in the world caused by evil desires. 2 Peter 1:4 (NIV)
Diane, Commerce Twp., MI
God’s voice thunders in marvelous ways; He does great things beyond our understanding. Job 37:5 NIV
Karen, Dover, NH “Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight, O LORD, my strength and my redeemer.” Psalm 19:14 (KJV)
Barb, Kentwood MI:
“Ah Lord God! Behold, You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. There is nothing too hard for you” Jer 32:17 NKJV
Karen…Tn. Psalm 118:29 KJV
O give thanks unto the LORD; for He is good: for His mercy endureth forever.
Jennifer, San Antonio: “Those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.” Â Isaiah 40:31 NIV
Jaye – Southlake, TX
Don’t be afraid of them. Remember the Lord, who is great and awesome, and fight for your brothers, your sons and your daughters, your wives and your homes.
Nehemiah 4:14
Heather, Whittier, CA
Zephaniah 3:17
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.
NIV
Jamye L., Greenbrier, AR
But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus:
Ephesians 2:4-5 KJV
Mindy, Rowley, IA
Ephesians 5:15-16 “Be very careful, then, how you live–not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because the days are evil. NIV
Pat/Valley Center, Ks/ Psalm 101:3a NIV
” I will set before my eyes no vile thing.”
Cherry B., Conway, AR
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.
Psalm 139: 13-14 NIV
Kim Eshelman Lewisburg, PA
James 2:22 Niv
“Do not merely listen to the
word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says”
? Will a 2012 Siesta index cards be available soon?
Johanna
Carlsbad
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 act of worship. Do not conform any longer to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is – his good, pleasing and perfect will. Romans 12:1,2 NIV
Jackie from Lake Charles: “the kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of His Christ and He will reign forever and ever.” Rev 11:15 NIV
Job 5:24 You will know that your tent is secure for you will visit your abode and fear no loss.
Jan in Tulsa,
The Word became flesh and made His dwelling among us. We have seen His glory, the glory of the One and Only, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14 (NIV 1984)
Sheila, Sevierville, TN
“Just as each one has received a gift, use it to serve one another as good stewards of the varied grace of God.
1 Peter 4:10
Nancy, Denver
“Every good thing bestowed and every perfect gift is from above coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.” James 1:17 NAS
Tracy, Spring, TX
I lift up my eyes to the mountains—
where does my help come from?
My help comes from the LORD,
the Maker of heaven and earth
Psalm 121:1-2 NIV
Robin, Landing, NJ
Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.”
John 14:27 KJV
Lisa, Granville, Ohio
I led them with cords of human kindness, with ties of love; I lifted the yoke from their neck and bent down to feed them. Hosea 11:4 NIV
Wendy, Cody, Wyoming NAS John 10:27-30 “My sheep hear My voice, and I know them, and they follow Me; and I give eternal life to them, and they shall never perish; and no one shall snatch them out of My hand. “My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all; and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. “I and the Father are one.”
Marcie, Frisco
“I don’t think the way you think. The way you work isn’t the way I work.”
Is 55:8 (MSG)
Cathy, Richmond, VA – Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus. Philippians 3:13B-14 NIV
Wheaton, IL
Galations 2:20 NLT
My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Madge, Marietta, GA
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Heb. 4:16 ESV
Naomi, Acworth, GA
Let us then with confidence draw near to the throne of grace, that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Heb. 4:16 ESV
But now, thus says the Lord, your Creator, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel, I have called you by name; you are Mine!
–Isaiah 43:1 [NAS]
I waited patiently for the LORD; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and mire; he set my feet on a rock and gave me a firm place to stand. He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the LORD and put their trust in Him.
Tricia Faison Wendell, NC
1 Peter 1:13
Therefore , prepare your minds for action; be
self-controlled;set your hope fully on the grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.
Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset [us], and let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
Hebrews 12:1
Rebecca, Kilgore
Jenn
Frederick, MD
If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth.
Colossians 3:1-2
ESV
Olathe, KS
If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own; but because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you. (John 15:19 ESV)
Marrissa, Orlando
“You’re my place of quiet retreat;
I wait for your Word to renew me.”
~Psalm 119:114 The Message
Gail, McDonough, Ga
I John 5:13-14 (NIV)
I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life. This is the confidence we have in approaching God: that if we ask anything according to his will, he hears us.
Tricia Faison Wendell, NC 1 Peter 1:13
Therefore, prepare your minds for action; be
self-controlled; set your hope fully on the
grace to be given you when Jesus Christ is revealed.
Susan, Cumberland, RI
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Eph. 5:20
Joyce, Exeter,RI
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Eph. 5:20
Shannon, Parker, CO
“For I know the plans I have for you, says the Lord. They are plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11
Rita, Birmingham
I have the mind of Christ therefore I act in a way that is consistent with His actions. 1 Corinthians 2:16 (Going Beyond blog post)
Christy H., Sherman, Tx.
“The Lord watches over you-
the Lord is your shade at your right hand.”
Psalm 121:5 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, (Ephesians 3:20 NIV)
Joy – Georgetown, TX – Instead, it should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight. – I Peter 3:4 NIV
Becky, Dayton Ohio
14 God says, “Rebuild the road!
Clear away the rocks and stones
so my people can return from captivity.”
15 The high and lofty one who lives in eternity,
the Holy One, says this:
“I live in the high and holy place
with those whose spirits are contrite and humble.
I restore the crushed spirit of the humble
and revive the courage of those with repentant hearts.
Isaiah 57:14&15 NLT
WHO will separate us from the love of Christ? Will tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? (to be continued…=) Romans 8:35 Briten Providence, RI
Do not remember the former things,
Nor consider the things of old. Isaiah 43:18 KJV
“In Him, you also, after listening to the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation-having also believed, you were sealed in Him with the Holy Spirit of promise, who is given as a pledge of our inheritance with a view to the redemption of God’s own possession, to the praise of His Glory.” Ephesians 1: 13-14
Wendy, Elm City, NC
(NIV) Exodus 33:14
The Lord replied, “My Presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.”