Three more to go!
Three more to go!
Three more to go!
(Hear that all cheerleader like)
Ladies, the finish line is in sight! Let’s run the rest of this race marked out for us. What a privilege this has been, you guys.
I think I told you guys recently that I’d gotten a new Bible. I absolutely love it. I always choose one Book of the Bible to read through carefully when I get a new one and this time I chose the Book of Acts. I’ve been so incredibly inspired by it. The verse I’m memorizing this time is for the sake of prayer. (Do you guys often use your memory verses in prayer, turning them into intercession? It really stirs up my faith and my strength.) I’m praying that what happened when Peter was in the midle of bringing the Scriptures to attentive listeners will happen in our environments, too. I’m praying this for my pastor and those who hear the Scriptures through him. I’m praying it for myself and for those I’m privileged to serve. I now pray it for you and those you teach and encourage with the Word of God.
Beth, Houston. “While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the Word.” Acts 10:44 ESV
Lord, let it be! Drench Your listeners with Your Spirit! While we are right in the middle of sharing the Scriptures, fall on every single person who hears. I want this so much. I want a fresh anointing, don’t you? I think our God is willing to give it. Let’s ask Him boldly! All we have to do is make absolutely certain that He gets every ounce of credit. Oh, what He’d be willing to do if we jealously guarded His glory and humbled ourselves as slaves of God and the Lord Jesus Christ.
Ok, Girls. How about yours?
I love you so much.
Jovin, Houston TX
1 Peter 4:9 (NIV)
“Offer hospitality to one another without grumbling.”
Heather, Ontario, Canada
I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ (Philemon: 6) NIV
Barbara, Arcadia, CA
Blessed is she who has believed that what the LORD has said to her would be accomplished. Luke 1:45
Martha
Florida
“If we live by the Spirit, let us also walk by the Spirit.” Galatians 5:25
Be very careful, then, how you live- not as unwise but as wise, making the most of every opportunity, because these days are evil. Ephesians 5:15-16
Roxanne, Frankfort, “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ,…who comforts us in all our affliction, so that we may be able to comfort those who are in any affliction, with the comfort with which we are comforted by God.” (2 Corinthians 1:3-4, ESV)
Ashley, Southern, IL
“What shall we say then? Is the law sin? Certainly not! On the contrary, I would not have know sin except through the law. ” -Romans 7:7 NKJV
Rebecca, Pineville
But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:57
Sorry I’m late! Been out of town!
Kathy
Dow, IL
Be hospitable to one another without complaining.
1 Peter 4:9
NRSV
Suzanne; Pasadena, Tx
Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Romans 15:13 NKJV
Natalie; Trussville, AL “No weapon forged against you will prevail, and you will refute every tongue that accuses you. That is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and this is their vindication from me,” declares the LORD. Isaiah 54:17 (NIV)
Psalm 25:18 NIV
Look on my affliction and my distress and take away all my
sins.
Ann from Indiana
Susan, Dalton, GA
Hebrews 10:19-25 (NIV84)
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 in 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.
Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another-and all the more as you see the Day approaching.
Commit to the LORD whatever you do,
and your plans will succeed. Proverbs 16:3 NIV
BE MINDFUL TO BE A BLESSING.
Galations 6:10
Tammy
Cincinnati, Ohio
Lisa, Fredericktown
Send forth Your light and Your truth, let them guide me; let them bring me to Your holy mountain, to the place where You dwell.
Psalm 43:3, NIV
Lichelle, Austin
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm then and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery. Gal. 5:1
Sheila, Sevierville, TN
Restore to me the joy of your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me. Psalm 51:12
Sandy from Cedar Rapids
Ephesians 3:18 (in continuation from previous verses)
….may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,..
Pam Hamilton, OH
So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
I or. 15:54 (KJV)
Revelation 22:6 “The angel said to me, ‘These words are trustworthy and true…'” NIV
Rosalie Cincinnati
“In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps.” Proverbs 16:9 NIV
Katherine, Houston. “If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.” Galatians 5:25 NKJV
Dedra Herod, Madison, AL
“I pray that the perception of your mind may be enlightened so you may know what is the Hope of His calling, what are the glorious riches of His inheritance among the saints.” Eph. 1:18 HCSB
Debbie, Fort Thomas, KY
The Lord had done great things for us, and we are filled with joy.
Psalm 126:3 NIV
Melissa, Walla Walla, WA “Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!” Luke 1:45 NIV
Glad I waited a day…heard this one listening to you on Life Today Beth! 🙂
Sherry in Marietta GA
“In the morning O Lord, you hear my voice: in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait in EXPECTATION.
Psalms 5:3 NIV
Rebecca, Kilgore, TX
Ephesians 5:20 ESV
“giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ,”
Amy Storms
Santa Clarita, CA
John 20:27-29, NIV
Then he said to Thomas, “Put your finger here; see my hands. Reach out your hand and put it into my side. STOP DOUBTING AND BELIEVE.” Thomas said to him, “My Lord and my God!” Then Jesus told him, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
Marilyn Dale, Fort Pierce, FL, 29 He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak. 30 Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall; 31 but 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. Isaiah 40:29-31
Leah, Atlanta: “While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the Word.” Acts 10:44 ESV
(Beth, I have also been reading through Acts, slowly since summer, and I, too, am so moved by those early Christians who followed their calling at all costs. I just read about Paul falling upon Eutychus and the Holy Spirit bringing life back into his body. Wow! Oh, how Jesus moves in our lives today and breathes life into our souls.)
Shannon in Louisville, KY
No, O people, the Lord has told you what is good, and this is what he requires of you: to do what is right, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8 (NLT)
Cathy from Loxahatchee, FL
1 Thes 5:18 NIV
Give thanks in all circumstances for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Heather G, Shiloh, NC
For my yoke is easy and my burden is light. Matthew 11:30 (NIV)
My internet has been down for 5 days, finally back today. I’m a day late, but I hope this counts. 🙂
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Psalm 46:1 NIV
Kristi, Puyallup: “And God placed all things under his feet and appointed him to be head over everything for the church,” Ephesians 1:22 (NIV)
Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you
Matthew 7:7 (NIV)
Peg, Naperville, IL
“I will lead the blind by ways they have not known, along unfamiliar paths I will guide them; I will turn the darkness into light before them and make the rough places smooth. These are the things I will do; I will not forsake them.” Isaiah 42:16 (NIV)
Debbie, Houston “…they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.”
Psalm 91:12 NAS
Acts 10:44 ESV
While Peter was still saying these things, the Holy Spirit fell on all who heard the Word.
Kelly~Hermiston, OR
For the Word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
Hebrews 4:12 (NKJV)
Beverly, Vicksburg, MS
Luke 1:45 NIV
“Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished!”
My bible study group just finished Breaking Free today and I just have to thank Beth for opening our hearts and minds to God with it. We all had so many aha! moments, so many direct answers to prayer…so many goosebumps! I’m taking some writing classes, hoping to write for a living. One morning as I started my study I prayed for guidance about writing, was I wasting my time, should I do this? I opened my bible to our first bible verse that day, Isaiah 30:8. In my NLV, it reads, “Now go and write down these words. Write them in a book.” Could this be any clearer?
Susan, Houston – Psalm 84:10-11 – One day in Your courts is better than one thousand outside. I would rather stand at the threshold of the house of God, than dwell in tents of wickedness. For the LORD GOD is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; no good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.
BraydenandBodiesMama
Daphne, AL
LORD, You are my lamp;
the LORD illuminates my darkness.
2 Samuel 22:29
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Hanni, Indiana:
Let us know;
let us press on to know the LORD;
his going out is sure as the dawn;
he will come to us as the showers,
as the spring rains that water the earth.
Hosea 6:3 ESV
Terri, Pleasant Hope, MO
For this very reason, make every effort to add to your faith goodness; and to goodness, knowledge; and to knowledge, self-control; and to self-control, perseverance; and to perseverance, godliness; 2 Peter 1:5-6 (NIV)
Christy
Fayetteville, AR
2 Timothy 1:12
“I am not ashamed, because I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him.”
NIV
Mary Ellen in Billings, MT
“Behold 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!…”
1 John 3:1 NIV
Marrissa, orlando
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done. Then you will experience God’s peace, which exceeds anything we can understand. His peace will guard your hearts and minds as you live in Christ Jesus. (Philippians 4:6, 7 NLT)