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
Rebecca
Wiggins, MS
Then Jacob woke up and thought “surely The Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it”
Genesis 28:16 The NET Bible
Cindy Rabe
Houston
To do what is right and just is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice.
Proverbs 21:3 NIV
Daniela
Abingdon, MD
Genesis 28:16 The Net Bible
“Then Jacob woke up and thought ‘surely the Lord is in this place but I did not realize it!'”
Tisha, Pilot Mtn, NC
You thrill me, Lord, with all you have done for me!
I sing for joy because of what you have done.
Psalm 92:4 (NLT)
Erin B. League City, TX
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Gal 6:9 niv
Donna
Franklin, TN
I am praying to you because I know you will answer, O God. Bend down and listen as I pray.
Psalm 17:6 (NLT)
It is God’s will that your honorable lives should silence those ignorant people who make foolish accusations against you. 1 Peter 2:15 NLT
Emily (Kemptville, Ontario) Joshua 1:9 Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.”
Kerry
St. Louis, MO
“Send me your light and your faithful care, let them lead me; let them bring me to your holy mountain, to the place where you dwell.”
Psalm 43:3
NIV
Suzanne, Decatur, Texas
“Above all else,guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. ”
Proverbs 4:23 NIV 84
“The Everlasting God, the Lord, the Creator of the end of the earth does not become tired or weary. He gives strength to the weary and increases the power of the weak.” Isaiah 40:28-29 (NRSV)
Temple, TX
James 1:6 NIV
“But when he asks, he must believe and not doubt, because he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, blown and tossed by the wind.”
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (Proverbs 9:10 NIV)
Darla, Pittsburgh (GO PIRATES!)
“I am with you! I will protect you wherever you go and will bring you back to this land. I will not leave you until I have done what I promised you!”
Genesis 28:15 NET
Auburn, AL
Gal. 6:2 Share each others troubles and problems and in this way obey the law of Christ
Amy, Snellville, GA “Obey Me, and then I will be your God, and you will be My people. You must follow every way I command you so that it may go well with you.” Jeremiah 7:23 (HCSB)
Rosalye
Vicksburg, MS
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.
2 Cor. 9:8
ESV
Allison from Nashville, TN
Hebrews 10:23 (NIV) “Let us hold fast to the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”
Deneen – Pittsburgh, PA
“From birth I have relied on you; you brought me forth from my mother’s womb.
I will ever praise you.”
Psalm 71:6 NIV
Lisa Walden from Grand Prairie Texas
Ephesians 6:5 (NIV)
Slaves obey your earthly masters with respect and fear and with sincerity of the heart, just as you would obey Christ.
Desiree, Calgary, Alberta
But thanks be to God, who in Christ always leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere.
2 Corinthians 2:14 ESV
Cindy
Flemingsburg, KY
The Lord is your keeper, the Lord is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night.
Psalm 121:5-6
Kelly, Starr, SC
16) Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.
1 Peter 2:16 (ESV)
Ashley from Bean Starion,Tn: Oh give thanks to The Lord, for He is good, for His steadfast love endures forever! Psalms 107:1 ESV
Elizabeth, Charleston, WV
So God created man in his own image,in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. Genesis 1:27 (NIV)
“You will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart.”
Jeremiah 29:13 (NIV)
Lisa, Charleston, WV
Rejoice always,pray without ceasing,give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. I Thessalonians 5:16-18 (ESV)
“Come to Me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matt. 11:28 HSCB
Kelly P., Concord, NC:
Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”
Genesis 28:16, NET
Sarah – Appleton, WI
Psalm 9:10
“Those who know your name will trust in you, for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.”
NIV
Cindy, Graceville,FL
Ps 59:17 ESV
O my Strength, I will sing praises to you, for you, O God, are my fortress, the God who shows me steadfast love.
Burlington, VT
The Lord is my strength and shield.
I trust in Him with all my heart.
He helps me, and my heart is filled with joy.
I burst out in songs of thanksgiving.
Psalm 28:7 NLT
“I cling to You; Your right hand upholds me.”
Psalm 63:8 NIV
Amy S. from Saint Cloud, FL
“Be kind to one another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, as God in Christ forgave you.”
Ephesians 4:32
(ESV)
Suzy, Wheelersburg, OH – Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Romans 12:12 NIV
Kat, Albany, NY
“They will be my people, and I will be their God. I will give them singleness of heart and action so that they will always fear me for their own good and the good of their children.”
~Jeremiah 32:38 NIV~
2Timothy 3:16-17 (NIV)
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the man of God may be throughly equipped for every good work.
Linda, Bartelso, IL. My mouth will declare the LORD’s praise; let every living thing praise His holy name forever and ever. Psalm 145:21 (HCSB)
Tracee, Morristown, TN
Then Jacob woke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not know it.”
Genesis 28:16 CEV
Susan, Kansas City
We are therefore Christ’s ambassadors, as though God was making His appeal through us.
We implore you on Christ’s behalf:be reconciled to God.
2 Corinthians 5:20 NIV
Emily, Charleston, WV
The Son of Man is going to be betrayed into the hands of men. They will kill him, and on the third day he will be raised to life. Matthew 17:22-23
Arlington TX
Ephesians 3:16-19
16 I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being, 17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, 18 may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, 19 and to know this love that susrpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.
Ambur, Fulton, MO ‘”But with everlasting love I will have compassion on you,” says the Lord, your Redeemer’. Isaiah 54:8b NLT
“The Lord bless you
and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.” Numbers 6:24-26 (NIV)
Brenda Kelley, Taylors, SC
“Your word is a lamp to guide my feet and a light for my path.” Psalm 119:105 NLT
Sue M in Grand Rapids, Michigan
For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds.
2 Corinthians 10:4 ESV
Judy says: How do you know what your life will be like tomorrow? Your life is like the morning fog-it’s here a little while, then it’s gone.” James 4:14 NLT
Andria from northern Virginia,
John 3:16
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
Niv
Lisa- Fishers, IN
Jude 19 NIV
“These are the men who divide you, who follow mere natural instincts and do not have the Spirit.”
*I’m memorizing the book of Jude : )
Adrienne, Valdosta
“Yet I am confident I will see the Lord’s goodness while I am here in the land of the living.”
Psalm 27:13 NLT