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
Martha, Clearwater,FL
You believe that there is one God. Good! Even the demons believe that-and shudder.
James 2:19 NIV
Karen, Colchester VT
Because the Sovereign Lord helps me, I will not be disgraced.
Therefore I have set my face like a stone, determined to do his will.
And I know I will not be put to shame.
Isaiah 50:7. NLT
Melody, Jefferson Ga.
Above all, fear the Lord and worship Him faithfully with all your heart; consider the great things He has done for you. – 1 Samuel 12:24 (HSBC)
Vivian, Birmingham, Alabama
But you, O Lord, are a shield about me,
my glory, and the lifter of my head.
Psalm 3:3 ESV
Teresa, Orange City. In the morning, Lord, You hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before You and wait expectantly. Psalm 5:3 NIV
Sue, Kingsport. “Your speech should always be gracious and sprinkled with insight so that you may know how to respond to every person.” Colossians 4:6 CEB
Ann, SC
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word. I seek you with all my heart;do not let me stray from your commands.
Psalm 119: 9-10 NIV
1 John 3:18 (NIV ’84)
“Dear children,let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.”
Missy, Andersonivlle, TN Malachi 3:10 NIV “Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that you will not have room enough for it.”
Ally from Searcy, AR.
NIV. 2 Chronicles 20:15b
Do not be afraid or discouraged because of this vast army. For the battle is not yours, but God’s.
Jana, Brenham, TX
James 5:16 – NIV
“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.”
Lou Ann Smith, McAllen, TX
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the LORD, who made heaven and earth. Psalm 121: 1-2 ESV
I thank Jesus Christ our Lord, who has given me strength to do His work. He considered me trustworthy and appointed me to serve Him. I Timothy 1:12 (NLT)
Carol
Jena, LA
Darcy – Edwardsville, IL
“Carry each other’s burdens and in this way you will fulfill the law of Christ.” -Galatians 6:2 (NIV)
Shannon, Columbia, SC
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the heavenly lights, who does not change like shifting shadows.” – James 1:17 (NIV)
Esme Brown- Memphis, TN
Wait on the Lord; Be of good courage, And He shall strengthen your heart; Wait, I say, on the Lord ! (Psalms 27:14 NKJV)
Jenni, San Diego, continuing with Psalm 37…I have been young, and now am old; Yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, Nor his descendants begging bread. He is ever merciful, and lends; And his descendants are blessed. (Psalms 37:25, 26 NKJV)
Better is one day in your courts than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
Psalm 84:10 NIV
Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself I spotted from the world. James 1:27 KJV
Chapter 1 of James memorized, onward to Chapter 2! Our James bible study starts Sept 30, so excited!
Shawna Kent, WA
“But you are a shield around me, O Lord; you bestow glory on me and lift up my head.” Psalm 3:3 NIV
quita from trenton,tx
kjv
ps.4:8
I will both lay me down in peace,
and sleep:
for thou, LORD,only
makest me to dwell in safety.
James 1:8 NIV
He is a double-minded man, unstable in all he does.
“The Lord’s bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged,” 2 Timothy 2:24 NASB
Jaime Turner from Nederland, TX
“Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone.” ~ Colossians 4:5-6 (NIV)
Anne, Simpsonville, SC “For I am persuaded beyond doubt – am sure- that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things impending and threatening, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39 The Amplified Bible
Fay, Springfield,NO
Isaiah 54:8b NLT
With everlasting love I will have compassion on you, says the Lord, your Redeemed.
Barbara, Birmingham, Al
Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days.
Psalm 90:14 NIV
Lori
Concordia, KS
Hebrews 13:6 NKJV
So we may boldly say:
“The Lord is my helper;
I will not fear.
What can man do to me?”
Cindy, Las Cruces, New Mexico
“For in Him we live, and move, and have our being; …
Acts 17:28 KJV
Karen Payne, Hartselle, AL
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are mine;
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you pass through the rivers, they will not sweep over you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned; the flames will not set you ablaze.
Isaiah 43: 1b-2 (NIV)
Missy S (Chapel Hill, NC)
“Then I saw ‘a new heaven and a new earth,’ for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband.” Revelation 21:1-2 (NIV)
Jennifer, Cypress, TX
2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV
We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.
Corley in Conway, AR:
“The Lord watches from heaven; he sees all people.” NET
I chose this verse because it’s the theme verse for the mission trip I’m going on to Northeast Asia next week. (“He Sees”)
Eph. 2:4&5 (NKJV)
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved).
Deanna, Akron OH
Proverbs 18:21 the Message
Words kill, or words give life; they are either poison or fruit. You choose.
Galatians 3:13-14 NKJV
Christ has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”), that the blessing of Abraham might come upon the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith.
Paulette P. Mays
Elmer, La
First I thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you, because your faith is being reported all over the world.
Romans 1:8 NIV
Faye, Calgary Alberta, Canada
Even to your old age and gray hairs I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. (Isaiah 46:4 NIV)
Kaylin from Searcy, AR
“yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will be joyful in God my Savior.” Habakkuk 3:18 NIV
Jill, Searcy, AR
“For he himself is our peace, who has made the two groups one and has destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility.” Ephesians 2:14 NIV
Deborah – Nashville, TN
“Pray also for me, that whenever I speak, words may be given me so that I will fearlessly make known the mystery of the gospel.” -Ephesians 6:19 (NIV)
Jones Creek,Texas
No weapon forged against you will prevail.
Isaiah 54:17
(NIV)
Hannah from Mt. Holly, NC:
“Better one handful with rest than two handfuls with effort and a pursuit of the wind.”
(Ecclesiastes 4:6 HCSB)
Maria
Oxford, MS
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up.
James 4:10 NIV
Amanda, Calgary, Alberta
‘Then Jacob woke up, and thought, ‘Surely, the Lord is in this place and I did not realize it!’ Genesis 28:16
NET Bible
Jessica from Rockvale, TN
Philippians 2:14 (NIV) “Do everything without grumbling or arguing.”
Cheryl, Brisbane says:
“Go and announce to them that the Kingdom of Heaven is near. Heal the sick, raise the dead, cure those with leprosy, and cast out demons. Give as freely as you have received!” (Matthew 10:7, 8 NLT)
Put on the full armor of God,so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil. Ephesians 6:11 NAS
Vanessa, Rio Rancho NM
“And whatever you do in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the father through him. ”
Colossians 3:17 NET
Diera- Austin, TX
“Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ.”
Galatians 1:10 NIV