Siesta Scripture Memory Team 2015: Verse 4!

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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

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  1. 6301
    Katie Nash says:

    Katie Nash
    San Antonio, TX

    It [love] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails.

    I Corinthians 13:7-8a NIV

  2. 6302
    Emily says:

    Emily Kingsbury, Elkins, AR “You are altogether beautiful, my love; there is no flaw in you.” Song of Solomon 4:7 (NRSV)

  3. 6303
    Lori says:

    Lori
    Bangor, Maine

    …Don’t be afraid. Stand firm and watch God do His work of salvation for you today…God will fight the battle for you. And you? You keep your mouths shut!

    Exodus 14:13A, 14 (Message)

  4. 6304
    Deb Nance says:

    Deb Nance
    Merced, CA

    This day is sacred to our LORD
    Do not grieve, for the joy of the LORD
    Is your strength.

    Nehemiah 8:10

    (Somehow I missed posting my 041515 verse, so will be back tomorrow with my 050115 post LOL)

  5. 6305
    Laurie Anthony says:

    Laurie -Albany, Ga.
    He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. Revelation 21:7 NIV

  6. 6306
    Jerri says:

    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

  7. 6307
    Laurie says:

    5/1/15
    Laurie Pilson,Marietta. Rise during the night and cry out.
Pour out your hearts like water to the Lord.
Lift up your hands to him in prayer, pleading for your children. For in every street they are faint with hunger. Lamentations 2:19, NLT

  8. 6308
    Carlos says:

    Psalms 27:1
      The LORD is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the LORD is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid? KJVLite

  9. 6309
    Shelley says:

    Running behind, Kinda fell off the scripture wagon..

    Hebrews 9:9 Seeing that the first outer portion of the tabernacle was a parable (a visible symbol or type or picture of the present age). In it gifts and sacrifices are offered, and yet are incapable of perfecting the conscience or of cleansing and renewing the inner man of the worshiper.

  10. 6310
    Rhonda Green says:

    Rhonda. Anderson,Indiana.

    Psalm 19:3-4

    They have no speech, they use no words, no sound is heard from them. Yet their voice goes out into all the earth; their words. To the end of the world. In the heavens., God has pitched a tent for the sun.
    NIV

  11. 6311
    Malisa Grantham says:

    Malisa Grantham, Tucson, AZ
    And whosoever shall compel thee to go a mile, go with him twain. Matthew 5:41 (KJV)

  12. 6312
    Heidi says:

    Psalm 139:4 NLT

    You know what I am going to say
    even before I say it, Lord.

  13. 6313
    Robin Shackleford says:

    Robin Shackleford, Hendersonville, Tn
    She is clothed in strength and dignity, and laughs without fear of the future. Proverbs 31:25

  14. 6314
    Laura Naiser says:

    Laura Naiser, Georgetown TX

    Ephesians 4:15, NIV

    Instead, speaking the truth in love, we will grow to become in every respect the mature body of him who is the head, that is Christ.

  15. 6315
    Shelley Powers says:

    Shelley Powers Hartford, AR
    Beloved, I pray that you may prosper in every way and [that your body] may keep well, even as [I know] your soul keeps well and prospers. (‭3 John‬ ‭1‬:‭2‬ AMP)

  16. 6316
    Jerri Thompson says:

    But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, forbearance, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such things there is no law.

    Galatians 5: 22 & 23 NIV

  17. 6317
    Carlos Carrington says:

    Be still, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth.
    Psalms 46:10

  18. 6318
    Malisa Grantham says:

    Malisa Grantham, Tucson, AZ
    For by grace we are saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God: Not of works, lest any man should boast.
    Ephesians 2:8-9 (KJV)

  19. 6319
    Robin Shackleford says:

    Robin Shackleford, Hendersonville, TN
    “Let everything that has breath, praise The Lord! Praise The Lord!”
    Psalm 150:6 ESV

  20. 6320
    Sarah S. says:

    Sarah, McKinney, TX

    Psalm 90:15 ESV

    So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

  21. 6321
    Toni Cassidy says:

    Toni, Toney, AL

    “Train up a child in the way he should go, Even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Proverbs 22:6 NASB

  22. 6322
    Natalie Ely says:

    Natalie, Cumberland Gap, TN

    Song of Solomon 2:1-2 KJV

    I am the Rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys. As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

  23. 6323
    Beverly Ely says:

    Beverly, Cumberland Gap, TN

    Ephesians 6:13 (KJV)

    Wherefore take unto you the whole armor of God that ye maybe able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand

  24. 6324
    Jessica says:

    Jessica, Vicksburg, MS. So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. John 8:36 NKJV

  25. 6325
    Scarlett says:

    Scarlett Flynn, Round Rock, TX

    God is our refuge and strength, an ever-present help in trouble. (Psalm 46:1, NIV)

  26. 6326
    Nancy Huebner says:

    Nancy Huebner, Spring Hill, TN
    “He is the Rock, His words are perfect, and all His ways are just. A faithful God Who does no wrong, upright and just is He.” Deuteronomy 32:4 NIV

  27. 6327
    Trisha Tracht says:

    “The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.” (‭Psalms‬ ‭28‬:‭7‬ KJV)

  28. 6328
    letsroll says:

    Janice, Tulsa.

    And this is eternal life, that they may know You, the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent. John 17:3 NKJV

  29. 6329
    Jerri Thompson says:

    Jerri Thompson of Omaha says

    Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.

    Proverbs 4:23 NIV

  30. 6330
    Shelley Powers says:

    Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new. (‭II Corinthians‬ ‭5‬:‭17‬ NKJV)

  31. 6331
    Malisa Grantham says:

    Malisa Grantham, Tucson, AZ
    Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Matthew 11:28 (KJV)

  32. 6332
    Faylee says:

    So then my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath; for the wrath of man does not produce the righteousness of God.

    James 1:19, 20

    New King James

  33. 6333
    Robin Shackleford says:

    Robin Shackleford, Hendersonville, TN
    “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

  34. 6334
    Joan Heffner says:

    Lamentations 3:23 NIV

    “They are new every morning;
    great is your faithfulness.”

  35. 6335
    Hilary says:

    Hilary
    Orlando, FL

    1 John 4:4

    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.

  36. 6336
    Ruth Garmon says:

    Ruth Garmon
    Kaufman, Texas
    I am crucified with Christ: nevertheless I live; yet not I, but Christ liveth in me: and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. Galatians 2:20 (KJV)

  37. 6337
    Melinda O'Dell says:

    Melinda, Rowlett, Tx
    The Lord will fight for you, and you have only to be silent.” (‭Exodus‬ ‭14‬:‭14‬ ESV)

  38. 6338

    Joan, La Vernia, Texas
    for all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.
    Romans 3:23 ESV

  39. 6339
    Karen Helms says:

    Karen Helms, Largo, FL, “Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be discouraged for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.” Joshua 1:9 NIV

  40. 6340
    Cara says:

    Cara
    Umatilla, FL
    Psalm 139:4
    Before a word is on my tongue,
    you, Lord, Know it completely. (NIV)

  41. 6341
    Shelley Powers says:

    Shelley Powers Hartford,AR
    Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart Be acceptable in Your sight, O LORD, my strength and my Redeemer. (‭Psalms‬ ‭19‬:‭14‬ NKJV)

  42. 6342
    Ivy Morrison says:

    (just wanted to say sorry – i lost my list of verses & which ones i posted so im catching up and might accidently repeat one or two!)

    Ivy Morrison, Dayton TX

    James 1:19 NIV “My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry”

  43. 6343
    Joan Heffner says:

    NIV: Lamentations 3:24

    I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for Him.”

  44. 6344
    Carlos says:

     ISV: 1 Peter 1:13

    Therefore, prepare your minds for action, keep a clear head, and set your hope completely on the grace to be given you when Jesus, the Messiah, is revealed.

  45. 6345
    Malisa Grantham says:

    Malisa Grantham, Tucson, AZ
    Psalm 121:1-2
    I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills, from whence cometh my help. My help cometh from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. (KJV)

  46. 6346
    Robin Shackkeford says:

    Robin Shackleford, Hendersonville, TN
    “He has shown you, O mortal, what is good. And what does the Lord require of you? To act justly and love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.” Micah 6:8 NIV

  47. 6347
    Stephanie Shirley, Queen City, Tx says:

    “Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap.” Galatians 6:7 (NKJV)

  48. 6348
    Michelle Matlock says:

    Michelle Matlock, Queen City, TX
    The Lord is my shephard, I shall not want. NiV

  49. 6349
    Pat says:

    Pat-Dallas, Tx

    In all your ways acknowledge Him,
    And He shall direct your path.

    Proverbs 3:6, NKJV

  50. 6350
    Pat says:

    Pat-Dallas, Tx

    He who is faithful in what is least is faithful also in much;
    and he who is unjust in what is least is also unjust also in much.

    Luke 16:10, NKJV

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