I cannot believe my eyes! Verse 17! And you, my dear sisters, have outdone yourselves. You are still numbering 2000+ this far into the year so it looks like our hard-working team is going to finish 2013 STRONG. I pray that even today you would feel a great rush of God’s sublime pleasure over you.
You’ll notice by the date on this post that I published it late Saturday night. Our handsome nephew is spending the night with us and he’s sleeping in the area of our house where we get the best internet connection. I thought maybe he might be a bit more blessed if I did not wake him up first thing Sunday morning and need in his room with my laptop.
My selection this time around comes from my morning devotional yesterday. I have loved this verse for so long and, this many years from the first time I saw it, the tears still burned in my eyes over the beauty of it.
Few things strike awe in our wondering, wandering hearts like waking up all the sudden to a fresh revelation that God is right there in that place. And has been all along.
To shake up the look of our SSMT post this time around, I believe I’ll share my verse with you in pictures. This should be an extremely familiar sight to you at this point:
In case you need to see the verse a little closer up:
I love to look up a verse in a number of different translations. I was touched by each one I found for Genesis 28:16 and I’m memorizing it out of the NET. But I was completely captivated by how The Message worded what Jacob whispered. Isn’t it beautiful?
Incredible. Wonderful. Holy.
God, we love You. We long for You. We want to see you revealed and perhaps most of all in the places we least expect to find You. Awaken us to Your Presence. Hear the song of our souls even when our lives betray it.
Awake, my soul, and sing
Of Him who died for thee,
And hail Him as thy matchless King
Through all eternity.*
OK, Sisters, I’ve shared my verse with you. Now you share your verses with me!
*Lyrics from the great hymn, Crown Him with Many Crowns
Tags: Scripture Memory 2013
Tracy
Andice, TX
“See how great a love the Father has bestowed on us,
that we should be called children of God;
and such we are.
For this reason the world does not know us,
because it did not know Him.”
1 John 3:1 NASB
A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed. (Proverbs 11:25 NIV)
Midge Edmond Atlanta/Florence, SC My eyes are ever on the LORD, for only He will release my feet from the snare.”
Psalm 25:15 NIV
I just discovered I forgot to post my August 15th verse!
Jaclyn, Houston. “No one has seen God; if we love one another, God abides in us and His love is perfected in us.” 1 John 4:12 ESV
MaryClare Hill in Frisco, Texas
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit
Romans 15:13 NIV
“Indeed, the word of God is living and effective, sharper than any two-edged sword, penetrating even between soul and spirit, joints and marrow, and able to discern reflections and thoughts of the heart.”
Hebrews 4:12 NAB
Mary Soisson, Barboursville, VA
When these things begin to take place, stand up and lift up your heads, because your redemption is drawing near. Luke 21:28, NIV
Tell the righteous it will be well with them, for they will enjoy the fruit of their deeds. (Isaiah 3:10 NIV)
Lonnie G, Omaha NE:
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
(Hebrews 10:23 NIV)
Misti, Brookshire, Tx Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” (Genesis 28:16 ESV)
Psalm 51:10 (ESV)
Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.
Ann
Mandeville, LA
Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts to him, for God is our refuge.
Psalm 62:8 NIV
emi, white house: “Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” 1 Corinthians 13:7 ESV
Proverbs 24:3-4 “By wisdom a house is built, and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge the rooms are filled with all precious and pleasant riches.” NAS
San Antonio, Texas
Jane, Gulfport, MS – “Jesus answered and said to him, ‘If anyone loves Me, he will keep My word; and My Father will love him, and We will come to him and make Our abode with him.'” John 14:23 (NASB)
Patti, Clemmons,NC
“That in everything ye are enriched by Him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge”. 1Corinthians 1:5 KJV
Susan
Jersey Village, TX
“How great is the love the Father has lavished upon us, that we should be called the 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
NIV
Ann. Centerville
But whoever does not have them is nearsighted and blind, forgetting that they have been cleansed from their past sins. II Peter 1:9. NIV
Diane, Longmont, CO
Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. Love the Lord you God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. Deut 6:4-5 NIV
But you, Lord, are a shield around me,
    my glory, the One who lifts my head high….psalm 3:3 (nlt) y
Our first full month as empty-nesters so this is appropriate:
“do not be anxious for anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your request be known to God.” Phil 4:6 ESV
Joyce Grimes
Pace, FL
Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery. (Galatians 5:1 HCSB)
Elizabeth, Gilbert,AZ
You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. I will be found by you, declares the Lord, “and will bring you back from captivity. Jeremiah 29:13-14 NIV
Beth, West Des Moines, Iowa
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 develops perseverance. Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything.
James 1:1-4 NIV
Wendy
Vero Beach
“Many are the woes of the wicked,
but the Lord’s unfailing love
surrounds the man who trusts in him.”
Proverbs 32:10 (NIV)
Darl, Bakersfield, CA
“But let all who take refuge in You rejoice; let them shout for joy forever. May You shelter them, and may those who love Your name boast about You.”
Psalm 5:11 (HCSB)
DeeDee Katy,Tx
I will praise You as long as I live and in Your Name I will lift up my hands.
Psalms 63:4
NIV
Natalie Dawes, Calgary, AB, Canada
For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.
Ephesians 2:10 (NIV84)
Courtney De La Rosa, Dallas, TX
“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks recieves; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.”
Matthew 7:7-8 NIV
April lopez, bonneylake, wa
You O Lord, keep my lamp burning; my God turns my darkness into light.Psalm 18:28 NIV
Emmilianna Ferreria, bonneylake, wa
God is the one who saves me. I trust him. I am not afraid.
Isaiah 12:2 Icb
DeeDee in Tallahassee — “As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.” Proverbs 26:11, NIV
Caitlin Long
Demopolis, AL
“In Him and through faith in Him, we may approach God with freedom and confidence.” Ephesians 3:12 NIV
James 1:12 NIV
Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who loves him.
Kathleen, Tallahassee, FL:
“How sweet are Your words to my taste!
Yes, sweeter than honey to my mouth!”
Psalm 119:103 (NASB)
Annie
Dallas, TX
“For the creation was subjected to frustration, not by its own choice, but by the will of the one who subjected it, in hope that the creation itself will be liberated from its bondage to decay and brought into the glorious freedom of the children of God.”
Romans 8:20-21
NIV
Kim, Nashville, TN
Blessed be the name of the Lord from this time forth and forevermore! From the rising of the sun to its setting, the name of the Lord is to be praised!
Psalm 113:2-3 (ESV)
Tyra, Atlanta
“Look, I have inscribed your name on My palms…”
Isaiah 49:16
Michelle – Frisco, Texas – the Message – Proverbs 15:15 – A miserable heart means a miserable life; a cheerful heart fills the day with song.
Kira, Ray,MI
Proverbs 31:27
She looks well to the ways of her household, and does not eat the brass of idleness.
Kathy, Lake Jackson, Texas
How sweet Your word is to my taste—
sweeter than honey in my mouth.
Psalm 119:103. HCSB
Sabrina from Morristown, Tennessee
“so that in Christ Jesus the blessing of Abraham might come to the Gentiles, so that we might receive the promised Spirit through faith.” Galatians 3:14 ESV
Christina Fort Worth
You all must be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry. James 1:19
Exodus 20:12 Honor your mother and your father so that you might enjoy this life The Lord has given you.
karen,
cheney, wa
“Therefore, let us draw near with confidence to the throne of grace so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help in time of need.”
Hebrews 4:16 (NASB)
Heidi in Whitefish, MT
“Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life,
to mind your own business and to work with your hands,
just as we told you.”
1 Thessalonians 4:11 NIV
Cory Anna, Atlanta
“The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace and remain at rest.”
-Exodus 14:14 AMP
Carol, Woodbridge, CA
“For it is,written, As I Live, saith the Lord, Every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” Romans 14:11. NKJV
Nicki
Worcester
England, UK
Ephesians 3:20 NIV
[20] 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,
Marta, Anchorage
 Repeat them to your children. Talk about them when you’re sitting together in your home and when you’re walking together down the road. Make them the last thing you talk about before you go to bed and the first thing you talk about the next morning.
Deuteronomy 6:7 (The Voice)
Brenda Hayden, Auburn, WA
Psalm 84:11 ESV
For the Lord God is a sun and a shield, the Lord bestows favor and honor. No good thing does he withhold from those who walk uprightly.