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
Dena K. from Columbus, OH:
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. (1 Corinthians 13:6-8,part NIV)
Jennifer, Sisters, OR
You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.
Isaiah 26:3 NIV
Visalia, CA
NIV Ephesians 6:13
Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
Finished radiation on Friday, the 30th…stage 4 breast cancer, age 39…..nothing else to do but STAND. God is so faithful!
Cara – Fridley, MN
But Jesus responded to them, “My Father is still working, and I am working also.”
John 5:17, HCSB
Margo Burlington ON
Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, “Surely the Lord is in this place, and I did not know it.” Gen 28:16 ESV
Sheila, Splendora, TX
Let your speech always be gracious, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how you ought to answer each person.
Colossians 4:6 (ESV)
Stacy – Hinckley, England
And they devoted themselves to the apostles’ teaching and to the fellowship, to the breaking of bread and to prayer.
Acts 2v42 NIV
Carol Midland,Texas
The Lord replied, “My presence will go with you, and I will give you rest.
Sarah, Bracknell, UK
Even so consider yourselves to be dead to sin, but alive to God in Christ Jesus.
Romans6:11 NAS
Nadine from Morton,UK
Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be strong.
1Corinthians 16:13 NIV
Peggy, Wakarusa IN
Psalm 121:3-4 “He will not let your foot slip – He who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.”
Mitzi from Midland, TX
All your children will be taught by The Lord, and great will be their peace. Isaiah 54:13 (NIV)
Lori from St. Catharines, ON
Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”
Genesis 28:16 NET
Look at the nations and watch and be utterly amazed. For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe even if you were told. Habakuk 1:5 (NIV), Shantha, Lincoln, RI
Ruth Cherry, Royse City, Texas
“Restore to me the joy of Your salvation and grant me a willing spirit, to sustain me.”
Psalms 51:12
Kathi Jacksonville,Fl “I run in the path off your commands,for you have set my heart free.” Psalm 119:32 niv
Doris, Whiteville, NC
Psalm 4:8 ESV
In perfect peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Angie Smith
Waxhaw, NC
“I will teach all your children and they will enjoy great peace.”
Isaiah 54:13 NLT
Julia Stevens Hill — Anniston, Alabama
1 Corinthians 3:16 (NIV)
Don’t you know that you yourselves are God’s temple and that God’s Spirit lives in you?
Lisa, Mauldin, SC
The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us. We have seen his glory, the glory of the one and only Son, who came from the Father, full of grace and truth.
John 1:14 (NIV)
Deanna, Frisco
Psalm 46:10 – NIV
Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.
Rene’, Edmond, OK
I know, O Lord, that Your judgements are right and righteous, and that in
faithfulness You have afflicted me.
Psalm 119:75 AMP
Kaye from Hamburg, AR
“The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit. ” Psalm 34:18 (NIV)
Betty, Wendell, NC
Genesis 28:16 NET
Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the LORD is in this place, but I did not realize it!”
Thanks, Beth
Ephesians 2:14 “For he himself is our peace, who has made the two one and destroyed the barrier, the dividing wall of hostility.”
For you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. Col.3:3 NIV
Pam Hendersonville, NC
“And Jacob awaked our of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.” Genesis 28:16 KJV
Jenny, Des Moines, IA
He is your praise; He is your God, who performed for you those great and awesome wonders you saw with your own eyes. Dt. 10:21 NIV
Isaiah 58:11 NKJV
“The LORD will guide you continually,
And satisfy your soul in drought,
And strengthen your bones;
You shall be like a watered garden,
And like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.”
Michele, Naperville, IL – Therefore the Lord longs to be gracious to you, And therefore He waits on high to have compassion on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; How blessed are all those who long for Him.
Isaiah 30:18 NASB
Sarah, Lincoln, NE… “for man’s anger does not accomplish God’s righteousness.” (James 1:20 HCSB)
in Muscle Shoals:
Children, obey your parents in everything, for this pleases the Lord. Fathers, do not embitter your children, or they will become discouraged. (Colossians 3:20, 21 NIV)
Connie, Chariton, NKJV James 2:13 For judgment is without mercy to the one who has shown no mercy. Mercy triumphs over judgment. James 2:13
Jean ~ Lebanon, Tennessee
“For God has not given us a spirit of timidity, but of power and love and discipline.”
2 Timothy 1:7 NASB
Melina
Okc, OK
For God is not a God of disorder but of peace—as in all the congregations of the Lord’s people. (1 Corinthians 14:33 NIV)
Patrice from Abilene TX, Psalm 25:14: The friendship of the LORD is for those who fear him, and he makes know to them his covenant. ESV
Traci, vadnais heights, mn.
Luke 10: 39 (niv)
“She had a sister called Mary who sat at the Lord’s feet listening to what He said.”
Connie, Shipshewana, And you also were included in Christ when you heard the message of truth, the gospel of your salvation. When you believed, you were marked in him with a seal, the promised Holy Spirit. Ephesians 1:13 NIV
Terry in Louisa, VA
Psalm 103:15-16 NIV
As for man, his days are like grass,
he flourishes like a flower of the field;
the wind blows over it and it is gone,
and its place remembers it no more.
Sarah
Portales, NM
Psalm 22:9-10 ESV
“Yet you are He who took me from the womb; you made me trust you at my mother’s breasts. On you was I cast from my birth, and from my mother’s womb you have been my God.”
Adrienne
Jaspre, TN
“On the contrary, if your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him something to drink. In doing this, you will heap burning coals on his head.”
Rom 12:20 NIV
Michelle, Alberta, Canada
“We do not want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith and patience inherit what has been promised.”
-Hebrews 6:12
I have the very same Genesis verse on my refrigerator!! My verse this time around is “God has restored our relationship with Him through Christ, and He has given us this ministry of restoring relationships.” 2 Corinthians 5:18
Cindy, Kearney NE
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. (Galatians 6:9 NIV)
Maria, Katy, TX
John 12:27-28a (NIV)
“Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. Father, glorify your name!”
“He who has knowledge spares his words, and a man of understanding is of a calm spirit. Even a fool is counted wise when he holds his peace; when he shuts his lips, he is considered perceptive.” Proverbs 17: 27-28
Dawn, highlands Rancg, CO
The tongue can bring death or life; those who love to talk will reap the consequences. (Proverbs 18:21 NLT)
Vicki Knott, Greenwood, SC
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord you are serving. Colossians 3:23-24 (NIV)
Sharpsburg, Ga.
2 Cor 12:9 NIV
“But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses so that Christ’s power may rest on me.”
Margaret
The Villages, FL
Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever.
Psalm 107:1
NIV