Hi Siestas! It is such a joy to be able to talk to you! My name is Sherry McClure and I just love this community so very much. I live in the suburbs of Houston, Texas, and I work here at Living Proof Ministries. One of my responsibilities right now at LPM is to help moderate your comments and it brings me such delight. Thank you for letting me be a part of your life in that way. All of you have so much to offer and I love getting to know you through your comments here! I also have the joy of tending to many of you through Facebook and I love y’all so incredibly much.
A little bit about me: I have been here at LPM for just over 11 years and have had the opportunity to do many things here! I started working at LPM when I had only been married for 2 years and we didn’t have children at the time. As I have grown and changed, my responsibilities at LPM have changed as well. I have been married for 13 years to David and we have two boys –Sam (9) and Jacob (7). We have a lot of fun together, but life with boys is loud, fast, and sometimes messy.  I also have the privilege of serving my home church in our women’s ministry. Life is full and fun! Some of the things that I enjoy most in this life are playing with my kids, being outside, shopping, cooking, and most of all, studying God’s word. His Word is the absolute thrill of my life. The Lord has recently breathed a new passion for His word into my soul and it is what I wake up for everyday…to see the Lord in His Word.  He is the love of my life.
1 Samuel 12:24 (ESV)
“Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.”
This is one of the verses that the Lord has given me to focus on throughout the entire year. He broke it down for me like this:
Only fear the Lord: I am not to fear failure. I am not to fear what someone may think. I am not to fear the enemy. I am not to fear people I think are my enemies. I am not to fear things I imagine. I am not to fear man. My only fear should be of the Lord. There is safety in fearing Him.
Serve him faithfully: I am to be faithful in the ways that He has given me to serve. I am to work in excellence and do everything unto Him.
With all your heart: I am to give my all to the things that I am serving in. No settling for mediocrity. No half-accomplishing things. No “it’s fine.” No “this will do.” I am to give my whole heart.
Consider what great things He has done for you: I want to be living in a constant state of gratitude before the Lord. I want to be mindful that He rescued me from the dominion of darkness and transferred me to the kingdom of light (Colossians 1:13). He indeed has done great things for us!
So, my dear sisters, I pray that you will only fear the Lord. I pray that you will serve Him with all of your heart. I pray that you will remember the great things He has done for you. He is everything and I pray you experience Him through His word as it sinks into your souls!
I love you all so much,
Sherry
Jennifer Tunstall, deer park, TX. “I am the gate for the sheep”, He said. John 10:7 NIV
Onda Jenks, Morgantown, WV- “You will declare a thing, and it will be established for you;so light will shine on your ways.” (Job 22:28 NKJV)
Shelley, Georgetown, KY. If you love me, keep my commands. John 14:15 (NIV)
Tenille Rauls, Mountain Home, AR
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.
Habakkuk 1:5 NIV
Tenille Rauls, Mountain Home, AR
Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans. Proverbs 16:3 NIV
Mary Beth- Cleveland, GA
Psalm 90:12 (NKJV) Teach us to number our days that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Heather H, Pflugerville, TX
Psalm 104:24 NASB
O LORD, how many are Your works! In wisdom you have made them all; the earth is full of Your possessions.
Psalm 51:10 (ESV)
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
Jennifer Adams; Canton, MS
1 Timothy 6:17 (ESV)
As for the rich in this present age, charge them not to be haughty, nor to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who RICHLY provides us with everything TO ENJOY.
PatWilfong, GreenBank, WV.
1.”Let us run with patience the race that is set before us,
2. Looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our faith; who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is set down at the right hand of the thrown (throne) of God.”
Hebrews 12.1,2.
this was quoted from an ancient little book printed before publication dates, titled, ‘daily light on the daily path’, written there as it says, ‘in the very words of the scripture’.
curiously I began looking to find a bible that would have this wording. then found a very old bible and compared it with more contemporary bibles.
coming from the comparisons, one stood out with ‘let us run with endurance the race’ and another stood out with jesus ‘disregarding the shame’ rather than ‘despising’ it.
the different versions paint a differing image with just a few placements of specific words.
I rather prefer, the quote from that little old ancient book, which corresponds with that old bible I found the same wording in, Hebrews 12. 1,2. Authorized KJV.
However, as it is written:
“What no eye has seen, what no ear has heard, and what no human mind has conceived” –
the things God has prepared for those who love him –
I Corinthians 2:9 (NIV)
Mary-Chattanooga, TN
For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places.
Ephesians 6:12 NASB
Rebecca, Hallsville, TX
2 Peter 1:8-9, KJV
For if these things be in you, and abound, they make you that ye shall neither be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.
Emma, Hallsville, TX
Exodus 33:2, KJV
And I will send an angel before thee; and I will drive out the Canaanite, the Amorite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite:
Pslams 19:14 NIV
May these words of my mouth and this meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Pearland, TX
Joshua 1:9 NASB
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous! Do not tremble or be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go.
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
Be completely humble and gentle; bearing with one another in love.
Ephesians 4:2 NIV
Haley Jones
ESV
Psalm 46:10
Be still, and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you.
Isaiah 46:41(b)
But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness and these things will be provided for you. Don’t worry about tomorrow for tomorrow has enough worry for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. Matthew 6:33-34 HCSB
Sugar Land, TX
Teresa Marsh, New Bern, NC
Romans 12:2 (NIV)
Do not conform any longer 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.
Hebrews 2:1 NIV “We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away.”
Cortney Dlapa New Berlin WI
Angela McCracken, San Diego, California. “No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.” Hebrews 12:11 NIV
Lisa Corbin,KY
Psalm 27:14 NASB
Wait for The Lord ; be strong and let your heart take courage; wait for The Lord.
Jerri Thompson of Omaha says
My old self has been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. So I live in this earthly body by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.
Galations 2:20 Life Recovery Bible
Sarah
Portales, NM
John 14:27 ESV
Peace I leave you, my peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your hearts be troubled, neither let them be afraid.
Sabrina Young, Yakima, WA
“This hope is a strong and trustworthy anchor for our souls. It leads us through the curtain into God’s inner sanctuary.” – Hebrews 6:19 NLT
Shaci Tillman -Aztec,NM
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. ROMANS 8:28 NIV
Brittany Powell, Jayess, Ms
The Lord is not slack concerning Hid promise, as some men count slackness, but is long suffering to usward, not willing that any man should perish, but that all should come to repentance. -2 Peter 3:9
Raquel Davis, Monticello, Ms
Charity suffereth long, and is kind; charity envieth not; charity vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up, Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things. – 1 Corinthians 13:4-7
Rebecca Copico from Monticello, AR
He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.
1 Peter 2:24 (NIV)
Kaitlin Tindall Manchester, MI
“Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.”
1 Samuel 12:24 (ESV)
Jo, Columbia, Missouri
“In your anger do not sin”: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, and do not give the devil a foothold. (â€Ephesians‬ â€4‬:â€26-27‬ NIV)
Kay Berland, Richmond Hill Ga
“Only fear the Lord and serve Him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things He has done for you .”
1 Samuel 12:24
Mei, Easley SC
To this you were called, because Christ suffered for you, leaving you an example, that you should follow in his steps. 1 Peter 2:21 NIV84
Miranda • West Virginia • “She does not fear bad news, she confidently trusts the Lord to take care of her” Psalms 112:7
Matthew 5:13.“You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its saltiness, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, except to be thrown out and trampled underfoot.”
Hey! I am here still! I worked on this verse while I was moving from Minnesota to TEXAS! 🙂 I just realized I forgot to put it here. Sorry!
Emily Ardolf Waco, TX (formerly Cottage Grove, MN)
“Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.” ~ Romans 12:12 (ESV)
Tonya, Searcy, AR
“When I am afraid, I will trust you. ”
Ps. 56:3 NCV
James 1:2 (NKJV) 2 My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials,
Go to the ant, O Sluggard
consider her ways, and be wise.
Without having any chief, officer or ruler,
she prepares her bread in summer
and gathers her food in harvest
Proverbs 6:6-8 ESV
(9-11 are the verses for my next set)
Cassi Reyes, Chattanooga, TN Verse 4
For of him, and through him, and to him are all things, to whom be glory forever, amen.
Romans 11:36
This verse just about sums it all up! Amen.
Debbie, Littleton, CO
Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.
1 Peter 5:7 NCV
Late Entry – 2 Corinthians 4:16 “Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.” (NIV)
The wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure;
then peace loving, considerate, submissive,
full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.”
(James 3:17 NIV)
Linda Kelly, Sharon Center, Ohio
Make me to know Your ways, O LORD, teach me your paths. Lead me in Your truth and teach me, for You are the God of my salvation for You I wait all the day long. Ps. 25:4,5 NIV
Baltimore, MD
Dear friends, do not believe every spirit,
but test the spirits to see
whether they are from God,
because many false prophets
have gone out into the world.
This is how you can recognize the Spirit of God:
Every spirit that acknowledges that
Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is from God,
but every spirit that does not acknowledge Jesus
is not from God. This is the spirit of the antichrist,
which you have heard is coming and
even now is already in the world.
You, dear children, are from God
and have overcome them,
because the one who is in you
is greater than the one who is in the world.
They are from the world and therefore
speak from the viewpoint of the world,
and the world listens to them.
We are from God, and whoever knows God listens to us;
but whoever is not from God does not listen to us.
This is how we recognize
the Spirit of truth and the spirit of falsehood.
(1 John 4:1-6)
Psalm 118:24 This is the day the Lord has made, we will rejoice and be glad in it.
Barbara
Dayton, Ohio
God has given each of you a gift from His great variety of spiritual gifts. Use them well to serve one another.
Do you have the gift of speaking? Then speak as though God Himself were speaking through you.
Do you have the gift of helping others? Do it with all the strength and energy that God supplies.
Then everything you do will bring glory to God through Jesus Christ. All glory and power to Him forever and ever. Amen.
1 Peter 4: 10-11 (NLT)
But those who wait on the Lord Shall renew their strength; They shall mount up with wings like eagles, They shall run and not be weary, They shall walk and not faint.
Isaiah 40:31 KJV