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
Lynda, Monterey,CA:
Colossians 1:10 (NLT)
“Then the way you live will always honor and please the Lord, and your lives will produce every kind of good fruit. All the while, you will grow as you learn to know God better and better.”
Julie, Houston, TX. “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 of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamities. For when I am weak, then I am strong.”
2 Corinthians 12: 9-10 (ESV)
Shelley from San Angelo, TX
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end;
Lamentations 3:22
ESV
Gwyn Tidwell of Haslet
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, and against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. Ephesians 6:12 (NIV84)
Cathy Reineke
Orofino, ID
My heart says of YOU, “seek His face.” Your face LORD I will seek! Ps.27:8 NIV
“The Lord your God is in your midst;
he is a warrior who can deliver.
He takes great delight in you;
he renews you by his love;
he shouts for joy over you.” Zephaniah 3:17 NET
Patti San Rafael, CA
“I cry out to God Most High, to God who fulfills his purpose for me.”
Psalm 57:2 ESV
Karlys, La Place, LA
My son, do not lose sight of these—
keep sound wisdom and discretion,
and they will be life for your soul
and adornment for your neck.
Then you will walk on your way securely,
and your foot will not stumble.
Proverbs 3:21 to 23 ESV
Philippians 2:3
Do nothing from rivalry or conceit, but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Marsha Gray, Jefferson, ME
Give, and you will receive. Your gift will return to you in full-pressed down, shaken together to make room for more, running over, and poured into your lap. The amount you give will determine the amount you get back.
Luke 6:38 NLT
Amanda, Van Buren, AR
To do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. Proverbs 21:3 ESV
“Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right, persevering, and steadfast spirit within me.” -Psalm 51:10, Amplified Bible
Judy Heindl – Cottageville WV KJV
Ps 32:8 “I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.”
Cyndi, Lexington KY
Set a guard over my mouth, Lord; keep watch over the door of my lips.
Psalm 141:3 NIV
(so late this time! Sorry!)
Melissa, Boston on my way to Nashville, TN
“Then Jacob woke up and thought,’Surely the Lord is in this place but I did not realize it!'” Genesis 28:16 NET
Cindy, Columbia, MO
“Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,”
Colossians 2:6 ESV
Kristin, Archbold, OH
“Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.” Philippians 4:6&7, ESV
Ginger from Phoenix, AZ
“I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.”
Ephesians 1:17, NIV 1984
Annette, Tomball, ‘Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed,for his compassions never fail.They are new every morning;great is your faithfulness.I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”‘,Lamentations 3:22-24(NIV)
. My blessing is on those people who trust in Me, who put their confidence in Me. Jeremiah 17:7 The NET Bible
Desiree in Carlsbad
Your ears will hear a word behind you,
“This is the way, walk in it,”
whenever you turn to the right or to the left.
(Isaiah 30:21 NASB)
Clancie, Elizabethtown, KY
“May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love,”
Clancie, Elizabethtown, KY
“May Christ through your faith [actually] dwell (settle down, abide, make His permanent home) in your hearts! May you be rooted deep in love and founded securely on love,”
Ephesians 3:17, AMP
Bobbie From Ft. Worth, Texas
Exodus 14:14 NIV
The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
Kelly Collett, Buckhannon, WV
Jeremiah 29:12 NIV
Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.
Romans 12:2 (NIV)
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Sherilyn, Warsaw, IN
Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”
Genesis 28:16 NET
Angie. Belleville, IL 1 Cor. 6:19 NLT
“Don’t you realize that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who lives in you and was given to you by God? You do not belong to yourself.”
Ronda, Tulsa, OK: “Do not repay evil for evil or reviling for reviling, but on the contrary, bless, for to this you were called, that you may obtain a blessing.” 1 Peter 3:9 ESV
Whatever you do, do it enthusiastically, as for the Lord and not for men. Colossians 3:23 HCSB
Belinda from Blacklick, OH
Psalm 62:6
“He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be shaken. (ESV)
Mindy B, Gloster, LA
(continuation of last time Ezekiel 36:26)
Ezekiel 36:27
New International Version (NIV)
27 And I will put my Spirit in you and move you to follow my decrees and be careful to keep my laws.
Kathy Leamington Ontario Canada
“..I will hope continually, and will praise You yet more and more.”
Ps. 71:14
Lesley, Clinton, MS
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.
1 John 4:4 NKJV
Shellie P.
Spokane, WA
Get rid of all bitterness, rage and anger, brawling and slander, along with every form of malice.
Ephesians 4:31 NIV
Becky, Oklahoma City
Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”
Genesis 28:16 NET
Rachel D., Meridian, “But I will call on God, and the Lord will rescue me. Morning, noon, and night I cry out in my distress, and the Lord hears my voice” (Psalms 55:16, 17 NLT).
Shirley Barry, Mooresville, NC
I have no grater joy than to hear that my children are walking in the truth. 3 John 1:4 NIV
NIV
Hebrews 10:23
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for He who promised is faithful!
Dori
Meridian, ID
Isaiah 43:4
Since you were precious in My sight,
You have been honored,
And I have loved you;
NKJV
He says, “Be still, and know that I am God;
I will be exalted among the nations,
I will be exalted in the earth.”
Psalm 46:10 NIV
Ally, Houston.
“We, who with unveiled faces all reflect the Lord’s glory, are being transformed into His likeness with ever-increasing glory, which comes from the Lord, who is the Spirit.” 2 Corinthians 3:18
Jeri from Draper, UT
1 Peter 5:8
Be alert and of sober mind. Your enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour.
NIV
Jessica, San Diego
Then Jacob woke up and thought, “Surely the Lord is in this place, but I did not realize it!”
Genesis 28:16 (NET)
Wendy Smith, Plano TX.
Do you not know?
Have you not heard?
The Lord is the everlasting God,
the Creator of the ends of the earth.
He will not grow tired or weary,
and his understanding no one can fathom.
Isaiah 40:28 – NIV
Mary Ellen in Laurel, MT
“who formed the mountains by your power, having armed yourself with strength” Ps. 65:6 NIV
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Matthew 5:7
Megan from Salisbury, MD
Above all else, guard your heart, for it is the wellspring of life. Proverbs 4:23 NIV
Angie, Markham ON
So submit to God.But resist the devil and he
will flee from you. Draw near to God and he
will draw near to you.
James 4:7-8a NET
But grow in the grace and knowledge of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. To Him be the glory both now and to the day of eternity. Amen. 2 Peter 3:18 (HCSB)