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!
Bobbie Lutz
College Station, Tx
2 Corinthians 5:21 (NIV)
“God made him who had no sin to be sin for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
Kristen Gardner, NC
“But the hour cometh , and now is , when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth: for the Father seeketh such to worship him. God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.” John 4:23-24 kjv
Ruth, Sherwood, OR – “Only God can save me, and I calmly wait for him. God alone is the mighty rock that keeps me safe and the fortress where I am secure.” Ps. 62:1-2 (CEV)
Virginia Beach
Hebrews 1:3 ESV
He is the radiance of the glory of God and the exact imprint of his nature, and he upholds
the universe by the word of his power. After making purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty on high.
Anne, Athens, Greece – Isaiah 25:1 – GNT
Lord, You are my God; I will honor You & praise Your name. You have done amazing things; You have faithfully carried out the plans You made long ago.
Annette Baal Stouffville ON Canada
Jude 7
as Sodom and Gomorrah, and the cities around them in a similar manner to these, having given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire. NKJV
Linda, Sugar Land, Texas – The Lord sends poverty and wealth; He humbles, and He exalts. He raises the poor from the dust and lifts the needy from the ash heap; He seats them with princes and has them inherit a throne of honor.” 1 Samuel 2:7-8 (NIV)
Jenny Fridge, Richmond, TX
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery. NASB
For it is by grace you have been saved, through faith – and this not from yourselves, it is the gift of God.
Ephesians 2:8 (NIV)
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 marked out for us,” Hebrews 12:1 (NIV)
Kelly A, Rogers AR. “He is not here; He has risen, just as He said. Come and see the place where He lay.” Matthew 28:6 NIV
Shauna K., River Falls, WI.
Colossians 3:12 (NIV) – “Therefore, as God’s chosen
people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience.”
Delba , Dorsey, MS
” Now to Him who is able to do exceedingly abundantly above all that we ask or think, according to the power that works in us.” Ephesians 3:20
Shannon, Lexington, KY “They worshiped together at the Temple each day, met in homes for the Lord’s Supper, and shared their meals with great joy and generosity all the while praising God and enjoying the goodwill of all the people. And each day the Lord added to their fellowship those who were being saved.” Acts 2:46-47(NLT)
Laura Stuart, Nashville, Indiana: “….that according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being….” ESV
Michelle Hunter, Grand Haven MI
“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed.”
2 Corinthians 9:8 NASB
Vickie Smith, Chesapeake, VA: And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful. Colossians 3:15 ESV
Rachael Sol from Marietta, GA
Isaiah 26:3 NLT
You will keep the mind that is dependent on You in perfect peace, for it is trusting in You.
Judy Williams, Round Hill, VA
“Give your burdens to the Lord and He will take care of you. He will not permit the godly to slip and fall.” Psalm 55:22. NIV
Tillie, Spring Branch, TX
“But if we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.”
I John 1:7 (NIV)
Crystal from Hattiesburg, MS
Hebrews 13:16 “And don’t forget to do good and to share with those in need; these are the sacrifices that please God.” NLT
James 1:13-16 Amplfied
“Let no one say when he is tempted, I am tempted from God; for God is incapable of being tempted by {what is} evil and He Himself tempts no one.
But every person is tempted when he is drawn away, enticed and baited by his own evil desire (lust, passions).
Then the evil desire, when it has conceived, gives birth to sin, and sin, when it is fully matured, brings forth death.
Do not be misled, my beloved brethren.”
We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God and take every thought captive to obey Christ. 2 Cor 10:5 (ESV)
Alice Hinckley, Dallas, TX: “Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.”
–Colossians 3:15 NIV
Clarksburg, MD
John 10:10 The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life and have it to the full. NIV
Kim Peterson from Vista, CA
Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house. Test me in this,” says the Lord Almighty, “and see if I will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it. Malachi 3:10 NIV
Linda H, Buckeye, AZ
“You know when I sit down or stand up.
You know my thoughts even when I’m far away”
Psalms 139:2 NLT
“You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in you.” Isa 26:3 (ESV)
Mary Beth, St. Louis, MO
“Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others,
as faithful stewards of God’s grace
in its various forms.”
1 Peter 4:10 (NIV)
Kim of Fishers, IN “Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?” Matthew 6:27 NIV
Amanda, Chesapeake, VA, “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
Deana Gordy
Cartersville, GA
Finally, beloved, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is pleasing, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence and if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.
Philippians 4:8
NRSV
But he was pierced for our transgressions; he was crushed for our iniquities; upon him was the chastisement that brought us peace, and with his wounds we are healed. All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned—every one—to his own way; and the Lord has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
Isaiah 53:5,6 ESV
Kerry from Houston, Texas!
Tangila, Pearland TX
“But Jerusalem will become a refuge for those who escape; it will be a holy place. And the people of Israel will come back to reclaim their inheritance.” Obadiah 1:17 (NLT)
Britt Felix, Tucson, AZ
Psalm 103:8-9
The Lord is compassionate and gracious,
Slow to anger and abounding in lovingkindness.
He will not always strive with us,
Nor will He keep His anger forever.
Nevertheless, each individual among you also is to love his own wife even as himself, and the wife must see to it that she respects her husband. Ephesians 5:33 NASB (a command by God, girls, not a suggestion!)
Michelle Mardis, Scottsboro, AL
Ephesians 3:16 NAS
that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,
Rochelle Hoffman Smiths Grove, KY “Jesus said, ‘Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.'”… Luke 23:34 NIV
Lisa Lucik, Sugar Land, TX
“For I am the Lord, your God,
the Holy One of Israel, your savior;”
Isaiah 43:3a NIV
Tonya Thibodeaux, DeQuincy, Louisiana
Hebrews 11:1 – “Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidenceof things not seen. ”
Hope is what makes us different from the rest of the world.
Sara Rogers, Murray, KY
“…in order that the righteous requirement of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh but according to the Spirit. For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit set their minds on the things of the Spirit. For to set the mind on the flesh is death, but to set the mind on the Spirit is life and peace. “(â€Romans‬ â€8‬:â€4-6‬ ESV)
Sue Middeldorf – Troy, MI – “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being.” Ephesians 3:16 (NIV)
Joanna Trauger, Greer, SC
No, in all things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am convinced that neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither the present nor the future, nor any powers, neither height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:37-39 NIV
Melanie Jennings – Starkville, MS
Colossians 3:7 – NKJV – “in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.” (I’m working on the whole third chapter… Some weeks are easier than others!!! And in this case, make no sense without their neighboring verses!)
1 Peter 3:4 (NIV)
[Your beauty] should be that of your inner self, the unfading beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is of great worth in God’s sight.
Lindsey Grace, Hernando MS
But the fruit of the spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self control; against such things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 (learning this with my homeschool group of first graders) =)
Put on the whole armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devils schemes. Ephesians 6:11
Juliana
Livermore, CA
Isaiah 50:4 – God’s Word
The Almighty LORD will teach me what to say,
so I will know how to encourage weary people.
Morning after morning he will wake me
to listen like a student.
Diane Ellison from Littleton, CO
There came a man who was sent from God; his name was John. He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe. He himself was not the light; he came only as a witness to the light. The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.
John 1:6-9 NIV
Beverly Welch, Dallas, NC
Submit youselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
James 4:7 KJV