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
Julene, Cowiche, WA
For as the soil makes the sprout come up and a garden causes seeds to grow, so the Sovereign LORD will make righteousness and praise spring up before all nations.
Isaiah 61:11 NIV
Bridget in Phoenix 2 Corinthians 4:6-7 NKJV
6 For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
7 But we have this treasure in earthen vessels that the excellence of the power may be of God and not of us.
Romans 8:19-21, NLT
For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who His children really are. Against its will, all creation was subjected to God’s curse. But with eager hope, the creation looks forward to the day when it will join God’s children in glorious freedom from death and decay.
Becky, Chattanooga, TN
” My command is this: love each other as I have loved you.”
John 15:12 NIV
Because of the Lords great love we are not consumed for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning;great is your faithfulness. Lamentations 3:22,23. NIV
James 3:1 NIV
Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
Jenny S., Fishers, IN
Welcome with open arms fellow believers who don’t see the things the way you do. Romans 14:1a (The Message)
April, Lake Charles, LA
And God is able to make every grace overflow to you, so that in every way, always having everything you need, you may excel in every good work. ~ 2 Cor. 9:8 (HCSB)
Ramona Gellick
Medina, OH
Joshua 3:5 (NIV)
Consecrate yourselves for tomorrow the LORD will do amazing things among you.
Anna Elkhart, IN
Deuteronomy 6:6 NKJ
And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart.
Anna – Conroe, TX
“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.”
Joshua 1:9 NIV
Shout for joy to the Lord,
all the earth.
Psalm 100:1 NIV
Freeland, MI As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. James 2:26 NIV
Susie from Carmel, IN
“Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable—if anything is excellent or praiseworthy—think about such things.” Philippians 4:8 (NIV)
Sandra
Wichita Falls, TX
This is the day which the LORD has made; Let us rejoice and be glad in it.
PS 118:24 NASB
Lindsay from Tampa, Florida
O LORD, I come before you in prayer.
Psalm 25:1 (NE)
Nancy, Junction City, Ar.
“Blessed be God, who has not turned away my prayer, nor His mercy from me.” Psalm 66:20 NJK
Alicia, Gulfport MS
How precious to me are your thoughts, God! How vast is the sum of them! (Psalm 139:17 NIV)
Debbie, Rochester, MN
Those who say they live in God should live their lives as Jesus did. 1 John 2:6 NLT
Kristie Nanes, Clearfield, UT
“Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.”
Hebrews 10:23 NASB
Tori, Robinson
“For this we know that when this earthly tent we live in is taken down (that is, when we die and leave this earthly body), we will have a house in heaven, an eternal body made for us by God himself and not by human hands.”
2 Corinthians 5:1
Susan, Overland Park, KS
“Therefore, there is now no condemnation for those who are in Christ Jesus…”
Rms. 8:1 NIV 84
Norka, Mississauga, ON Canada
Those who were full have hired themselves out for bread
but those who were hungry have ceased to hunger
1 Samuel 2:5a (ESV)
Allison Crook
Albuquerque, NM
“He is the one we proclaim, admonishing and teaching everyone with all wisdom, so that we may present everyone fully mature in Christ.”
Colossians 1:28 (NIV)
Scarlett Flynn
Round Rock, TX
But whoever loves God is known by God. (1 Cor 8:3, NIV)
Megan, Houston
I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 NIV
My father died when I was 15. I was so sad and frightened because my mother was a very angry person and physically and verbally abusive. Years after that, Jesus saved me and I started to get to know The Lord. He gave me this verse which is one of my favorites: Proverbs 23:10-11, “Do not move an ancient boundary stone or encroach on the fields of the fatherless, for their Defender is strong; he will take up their case against you.” I have seen over and over again how God is my father and he defends me like no other. Thanks for sharing one of your favorite verses!
Linda, Spring, Texas – The LORD bless you, and keep you; The LORD make His face shine on you, And be gracious to you; The LORD lift up His countenance on you, And give you peace. Numbers 6:24-26 NAS
Rebecca, Hallsville, TX
“In him was life, and the life was the light of men. The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.”
John 1:4-5 ESV
Allison Ashton
Houston, TX
KJV (of course)
Verses for August and Sept (15, 16 and 17!)
“My substance was not hid from thee when I was made in secret and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.
Thine eyes did see my substance yet being in perfect and in thy book all my members were written which in continuous were fashioned when as yet there was none of them.
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me oh God, how great is the sum of them!”
Psalm 139: 15-17
Jennifer, San Antonio, TX
For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do. (Ephesians 2:10 NIV)
Rachel – Nashville, TN
“Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters”. – Colossians 3:23 (NIV)
Then they cried to the LORD in their trouble, and He saved them from their distress. He sent forth His word and healed them; He rescued them from the grave. Psalm 107:19-20 (NIV)
Stephanie
Pawleys Island, SC
Sue
Carmel, IN
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race maked out for us.
Hebrews 12:1 NIV 84
Caroline
Houston,TX
If anyone acknowledges that Jesus is the Son of God, God lives in him and he in God. And so we know and rely on the love God has for us. God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in him. 1 John 4:15-16 (NIV84)
Rachelle H. – Cedar Park, TX: “I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world. ” (John 16:33 NIV)
Atlanta, GA
“For God gave us a spirit not of fear
but of power and love and self-control”
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV
Marilyn from Missouri:
Finally brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy – meditate on these things.
Philippians 4:8 NKJV
Miriam from Granby, CT
Galatians 6:10 (ESV)
So then, as we have opportunity, let us do good to everyone, and especially to those who are of the household of faith.
Emily Byrd; Baton Rouge, LA
For the Lord God is a sun and shield; the Lord bestows favor and honor; no good thing does he withhold from those whose walk is blameless.
Psalm 84:11 (NIV)
“It is never glad about injustices but rejoices whenever the truth wins out.” 1 Corinthians 13:6
Feel so badly about posting my verse so late. Almost gave up on it due to my hectic life, but here goes: Carla Hampton, Indianapolis,In (KJV). Isaiah 40:8. “The grass withers, the flower fadeth but the word of our God shall stand forever.”
Vicki, Lake Jackson, TX
I pray that you may be active in sharing your faith, so that you will have a full understanding of every good thing we have in Christ.
Philemon 1:6 (NIV)
Joretta Windham
Waxahachie, TX
“Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.” Colossians 3:2 KJV
Sonya
Aurora, Colorado
For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted. Luke 14:11 (NIV)
Debbie
Olathe, KS
“How precious to me are your thoughts,God!
How vast is the sum of them!” Psalm 139:17 (NIV)
Amanda, White Hall, AR
The Lord said to Samuel, “How long do you intend to mourn for Saul? I have rejected him as king over Israel. Fill your horn with olive oil and go! I am sending you…
-1 Samuel 16:1
An odd one, but it means something to me. How long will I continue to mourn and yearn for a path that God has rejected?
Psalm 73:23 NIV
Yet I am always with you; you hold me by your right hand.
Angie M – Macon, MS –
Let your eyes look forward; fix your gaze straight ahead.
Proverbs 4:25 – HCSB
Mary Jane, Troy KS
“Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have summoned you by name; you are Mine.” Isaiah 43:1b NIV