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
MaryJo ~ Plainfield, IN
Dear Children, let us not love with our words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18 (NIV)
Theresa Villazon, Riverview, FL
The weapons we use are not human ones. Our weapons have power from God and can destroy the enemy’s strong places. We destroy people’s arguments, and we tear down every proud idea that raises itself against the knowledge of God. We also capture every thought and make it give up and obey Christ. (â€2 Corinthians‬ â€10‬:â€4-5‬ ERV)
Amy Libdan, Westminster MD
He will cover you with his feathers and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart. Psalm 91:4
Little children, we must not love with word or speech, but with truth and action.
1 John 3:18 HCSB
Evansville, IN
“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)
Linda/Chester, VA
“You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you.”
Isaiah 26:3 (NLT)
Karen – Lake Jackson, TX
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways submit to Him and He will make your paths straight. Proverbs 3:5-6 NIV
Barbara, Clinton, MS — Turn my eyes from worthless things and give me life through Your Word. Ps. 119:37 NLT
Amy Gossen
Springfield MO
I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh. (â€Ezekiel‬ â€36‬:â€26‬ NIV)
Michelle V, Hewitt, TX
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Psalm 51:10 NIV
Phyllis
Gilmer, Tx
Ephesians 1:18,19a
I pray also that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, in order that you may know the hope to which he has called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints, and his incomparably great power for us who believe.”
NIV
Amber, Champlin, MN
You do not stay angry forever but delight to show mercy. You will again have compassion on us… Micah 7:18b-19a NIV
Orlando, FL / 1 John 3:18 “I will not only love with word or with tongue, but in deed and in truth.”
Connie
Greene IA
Continue steadfastly in prayer, being watchful in it with thanksgiving.
Colossians 4.2 ESV
Crawfordsville, IN
Colossians 3:1-3 NIV
Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on earthly things. For you died, and your life is now hidden in Christ with God.
Trina Stephens, Denton, TX
God is my refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1 ESV
A thief comes only to steal and to kill and to destroy. I have come so that they may have life and have it in abundance. (â€John‬ â€10‬:â€10‬ HCSB)
Jill Holamon, Early, Tx
Psalm 25:4-7 NLT
Show me the right path, O Lord; point out the road for me to follow.
Lead me by your truth and teach me,for you are the God who saves me.
All day long I put my hope in you.
Remember, O Lord, your compassion and unfailing love,which you have shown from long ages past.
Do not remember the rebellious sins of my youth.
Remember me in the light of your unfailing love,for you are merciful, O Lord.
Michele Gibbons, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. 1 John 3:2 (NASB)
Beloved, now we are children of God, and it has not appeared as yet what we will be. We know that when He appears, we will be like Him, because we will see Him just as He is.
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart
be pleasing in your sight,
O LORD, my Rock and my Redeemer.
Psalm 19:14
For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh. For the weapons of our warfare are not of the flesh but have divine power to destroy strongholds. (2 Corinthians 10:3-4 ESV) Charlita Brown, Carbon Hill, Alabama
Beth Bellow, Houston, NIV- Psalm 139: 11-12
11. If I say, “Surely the darkness will hide me and the light become night around me,
12. even the darkness will not be dark to you; the night will shine like the day, for darkness is as light to you.
Laura Wassink – Brantford, Ontario, Canada
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleating; but I women who fears the Lord is to be praised. Honor her for all that her hands have done, and let her works bring her praise at the city gates.
Proverbs 31: 30,31
Leslie, Hildebran NC
Psalms 46:1 KJV
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
Heather, Easley, SC: “Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things He does for me. He forgives all my sins and heals all my diseases.” (Psalm 103:2-3 NLT)
Jennifer, Harrisburg, PA: “You will keep in perfect peace all who trust in you, all whose thoughts are fixed on you!” Isaiah‬ â€26‬:â€3‬ NLT
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the LORD, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11 ESV)
Kim Bulles Yorktown, VA ” The LORD bless you and keep you, the LORD make his face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the LORD lift up his countenance upon you and give you peace.
Numbers 6:24-26 ESV
Bette from Danville, PA
Psalm 71:3 NIV
Be my rock of refuge, to which I can go;
Give the command to save me,
For you are my rock and my fortress.
WAYNE, PA
How great is the goodness you have stored up for those who fear you. You lavish it on those who come to you for protection blessing them before the watching world.
PS 31:19 NLT
Tricia Enfield, Gardner, KS: “For I am the Lord your God, who upholds your right hand, who says to you, “Do not fear, I will help you.” Isaiah 41:13 NASB
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11 ESV)
Lauren H., Cincinnati, OH: “Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus.” (NIV)
This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it.
Psalm 118:24 NLT
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.”
Amanda, Chesapeake, VA – “When there are many words transgression is unavoidable, but he who restrains his lips is wise.” Proverbs 10:19 NASB
Melanie Shenning, Valrico FL
1 Timothy 1:15 NIV
Here is a trustworthy saying that deserves full acceptance: Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners—of whom I am the worst.
Cheri, Grand Island, NE
Proverbs 31:25 (AMP)
25 Strength and dignity are her clothing and her position is strong and secure; she rejoices over the future [the latter day or time to come, knowing that she and her family are in readiness for it]!
Uniontown, Ohio. “For though we walk in the flesh, we are not waging war according to the flesh”. 2 Corinthians 10:3 ESV
Patti from Brentwood TN
Romans 6:4 ESV
We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.
Misty Schoephoerster. Abilene, TX.
“Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain, and for three years and six months it did not rain on the earth.” (James 5:17 ESV)
Kristi Longino, Moira, NY Do not fear, for I am with you; I will bring your offspring from the east, and gather your children from the west. I will say to the north,’Give them up!’ And to the south, ‘Do not hold them back.’ Bring my sons and daughters from the ends of the earth. Isaiah 43:5-6 NASB
Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth!
Serve the Lord with gladness!
Come into his presence with singing!
Know that the Lord, he is God!
It is he who made us, and we are his;
we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Psalm 100:1-3. ESV
Today is my grandson’s birthday. I rejoice and praise God for him and for my other grandchildren.
“So he answered, ‘Do not fear for those who are with us are more than those who are with them.’ Then Elisha prayed and said, ‘O Lord, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.’ And the Lord opened the servant’s eyes and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full o f horses and chariots of fire all around Elisha.” 2 Kings 6:16,17 NASB
Wendy. OKC. NIV
Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels.
And the Lord’s servant must not be quarrelsome but must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful.
2 Tim 2:23-24
(So thankful for SSMT!!)
Sara, Alexandria, AL – 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)
Kim Lee, Faison, NC: But since we belong to the day, let us be self-controlled, putting on faith and love as a breastplate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet. (1 Thessalonians 5:8, NIV)
Isaiah 26:3 NIV
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts you.
(I have forgotten to share verses 2 & 3 but I’ve been hanging in there!) 🙂
Emily, Warsaw, IN
“My child, you must follow and treasure my teachings and my instructions.” Proverbs 2:1 CEV
Audra Heinman, Flemington MO
2 Corinthians 12:9
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.