Hey, you Scripture memory friends! We have made it all the way to verse 7! I felt like doing another little video for you this time around. It just feels warmer to me this way even if a written post is far more orderly and includes far less rambling. These videos are rough and unpolished but they are from the heart. I’m so proud of your hard work and your perseverance. Often when I read through your entries, I wonder if I’m getting a little clue about some of your circumstances and challenges. I don’t miss how many of you are memorizing Scriptures that encourage you to forgive someone. I am also deeply moved as I see many memorize Scriptures that remind you that YOU are forgiven and that you have been completely cleansed and that the power of Christ’s cross extends to YOU. Other times I smile seeing countless women selecting verses to help them keep their mouths shut in situations. Still other times I sense through your selections how very much you want to love people the way Christ has called you to love. AND IT’S HARD.
Maybe I’m reading too much into all of this. Maybe what’s resonating with me about your selections is that I myself am desperate for them. I have people to forgive. I need to believe and know without a doubt that I am completely forgiven and cleansed. I absolutely need to shut my mouth more often. And I want to love the way Christ has called me to love and, yes, sometimes it is the hardest thing on earth for me.
Nothing is like the Word of God. He leaves nothing out.
Ok, Girls! I am continuing a segment of Ephesians 3 so here is my entry this time around:
Beth Moore, Houston. “That according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being.” Ephesians 3:16 ESV
I sure love all of you and I am blessed beyond words to serve you! Press on and keep up your memory work!
Gretchen, McKinney, TX Isaiah 12:2 (HCSB) Indeed, God is my salvation; I will trust Him and not be afraid, for Yah, the LORD, is my strength and my song. He has become my salvation.
Much a, Sheridan, Wyoming. Colossians 2:12-13 ESV
Put on then as God’s chosen one’s,holy and beloved,compassionate hearts,kindness,humility,meekness,and patience. Bearing with one another and if one has a complaint against another,forgiving each other as the Lord has forgiven you,SO you also must forgive.
Colossians 3:12-13
Katie Mitchell Louisville, KY
“For the mountains may move and the hills disappear, but even then my faithful love for you will remain. My covenant of blessing will never be broken,” says the Lord, who has mercy on you. Isaiah 54:10
Therefore I, the prisoner of the Lord, implore you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you have been called,
Ephesians 4:1 NASV
Kim from NC
Only fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart:
For consider how great things he hath done for you.
1Samuel 12:24(KJV)
Ronda Hawkins, Murfreesboro, Tennessee
“That according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being.” Ephesians 3:16 ESV
Wendy Buttrey Acworth, Ga
Why would you ever complain, O Jacob, or whine, Israel, saying, “God has lost track of me. He doesn’t care what happens to me?” Isaiah 40:27 MSG
Vanessa Himes, Newark OH: 1 Peter 5:7- Cast all of your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.
Maureen, Pascoag, RI
For God so loved the world that he gave his only son.
John 3:16
NRSV
“She is clothed with strength & dignity. She laughs without fear of the future.” Proverbs 31:25 NIV
Grand Lake, LA The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor, But through knowledge the righteous will be delivered. (Proverbs 11:9 NKJV)
Janet, Sylacauga, AL
“I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, would give you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Him.” Ephesians 1:17 (HCSB)
Susan, Wynne. 1Peter 1:17-19 (NASB)
17 If you address as Father the One who impartially judges according to each one’s work, conduct yourselves in fear during the time of your stay on earth; 18 knowing that you were not redeemed with perishable things like silver or gold from your futile way of life inherited from your forefathers, 19 but with precious blood, as of a lamb unblemished and spotless, the blood of Christ.
For you died to this life and your real life is hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:3 NLT
Esther. jonesborough Tn. Romans 4:21 ESV. (Continuing passage on Abraham). Fully convinced that God was able to do what He had promised.
Sue, Houston, Romans 4:17, It is God who gives
life,calls into being things that were not. NIV
Abdolutely enjoy your words of encouragement. I have been so blessed by this SSMT group.
Thank you for encouraging us to get closer to God, hear from Him and trust that HE will accomplish in my life what HE has promised me.
Joan (Coppell, TX): And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless for the day of Christ. Philippians 1:9-10 NIV
Patti Klasing-Houston, Tx
“God is within her, she will not fall; God will help her at break of day. Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice the earth melts.” Psalm 46:5-6
Melanie Groff, Katy, TX, “nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord. (Romans 8:39 ESV)”
Susan Orr Houston, TX
You we’re running a good race. Who cut in on you to keep you from obeying the truth?
Galatians 5:7 (NIV)
Idolatry, witchcraft,hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, Galatians 5:20 KJV
Vicki Knott, Greenwood, SC
“Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.” Proverbs 16:24 (NIV)
Mary Rosevear McNeal
Roswell, Georgia
“If you seek Me, you will find Me, when you seek Me with all your heart.”
Jeremiah 29:13
Miriam, Nottingham UK
“But in your hearts revere Christ as Lord. Always be prepared to give an answer to everyone who asks you to give the reason for the hope that you have. But do this with gentleness and respect.” 1 Peter 3:15 (NIV)
Ashleigh C., Terre Haute, IN: “Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.” James 1:27
Melissa, Sacramento CA “Then He told them, ‘These are my words that I spoke to you while I was still with you- that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, the Prophets, and the Psalms must be fulfilled.’ Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures.”
Kathy, High Point, NC
I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go;
I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.
Psalms 32:8 (NIV)
Christian McEndarfer – Tulsa, OK
“And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus.” – Philippians 4:19 (ESV)
Lori in Bangkla, Thailand
เพราะว่าค่าจ้างของบาปคือความตาย แต่ของประทานจากพระเจ้าคือชีวิตนิรันดร์ในพระเยซูคริสต์องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าของเรา. โรม6:23 TSV 2011
The wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Romans 6:23
Allie Schielack, Houston, Texas- “You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.” Psalm 139:1-3 NIV
Lou Verner mineola Texas Now then, stand still and see this great thing the Lord is about to do before your eyes! I SAM 14:16
Nanette Smith Jacksonville, TX
But avoid worldly and empty chatter, for it will lead to further ungodliness. NAS
2 Timothy 2:16 (I forgot to add this above)
Jamie Marsh, Las Colinas, TX
This is the day the Lord has made. We will rejoice and be glad in it. (Psalms 118:24 NLT)
Jen Massara – Albany, OR
I will be your God throughout your lifetime – until your hair is white with age. I made you, and I will care for you. I will carry you along and save you. -Isaiah 46:4 NLT
Amanda Teske, Chandler AZ
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Ephesians 4:29 ESV
Cathy, Rhinebeck,NY
For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you. Isaiah 41:13(NIV)
Kelly Davis, Danville VA 2 Corinthians 7:1 NIV
Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friend, let us purify ourselves from everything that contaminates the body and spirit, perfecting Holiness out of reverence to God.
Km Cook, Valley, AL –
“Lord, you alone are my portion and my cup; you make my lot secure.” NIV
Psalm 16:5
Matt. 6:33-34
Seek ye first His kingdom and His righteousness and all these things shall be added to you. Do not worry about tomorrow; for tomorrow will care for itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
NASB
Leigh Ann, Atlanta
So do not fear, for I am with you;
do not be dismayed, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you and help you;
I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10 (NIV)
Joan, Portage, MI
“Commit your way to the LORD; trust in Him
and He will do this:” Psalms 37 : 5 NIV
Reanna Cypress, CA
“If you do well, will you not be accepted? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door. Its desire is for you, but you must rule over it.””
Genesis 4:7 ESV
Stacey B., Fayetteville, GA
“As for God, his way is perfect: the word of the LORD is proven: he is a shield to all those that trust in him. For who is God except the LORD? or who is a rock except our God? It is God that girds me with strength, and makes my way perfect.”
Psalm 18:30-32 (KJV2000)
Liz Payne, Camano Island WA
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
Allison Rains, Benton, LA
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight.” ~Proverbs 3:5-6~
“Teach me and I will be quiet; show me where I have been wrong.”
Job 6:24 NIV
Eutawville, SC
“so that your faith might not rest in the wisdom of men but in the power of God?”
1Corinthians 2:5 ESV
Shelagh Garry from Newcastle upon Tyne, England:
Never let yourself think you are wiser than you are; simply obey the Lord and refuse to do wrong. If you do, it will be like good medicine, healing your wounds and easing your pains.
Proverbs 3:7-8 Good News Version
“Therefore, He is able to save completely those who come to God
Through Him because He always lives to intercede for them. ”
Hebrews 7:25 NIV
Linda, Fort Collins, CO