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!
Liz Millinor
St Johns, FL
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, (Ephesians 3:17-18 NIV)
Jolene, Suwanee, GA
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body we were called to peace. And be thankful.
Colossians 3:15 NIV
” If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing.”
1 Cor 13:2 (NIV)
Kris – Westbrook, ME
The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer; my God is my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold. Psalm 18:2 NIV
Denise Vick, Ruby, South Carolina
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely whatever is admirable–if anything is excellent or praiseworthy, think about such things. Philippians 4:8 NIV
Romans 9:25- Those who were not my people I will call my people, and her who was not beloved I will call my beloved. (ESV)
“Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.” James 4:7 KJV
Martha Stephenson
Olive Branch,MS
NIV
He settles the barren woman in her home as a happy mother of children.
Psalms 113:9
Sheri Matsumoto, Riverside, CA
“A broken spirit is my sacrifice, God. You won’t despise a heart, God, that is broken and crushed.”
Psalm 51:17 (NLT)
Martha from Corpus Christi, Texas
Know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ.
Galatians 2:16a NIV
Keron, Eagle, Idaho
Isaiah 26:3 ESV
You keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on You, because he trusts in You.
Tracy Chapman
Andice, TX
Luke 6:36 NIV
“Be merciful,
Just as your Father is merciful.”
Jennifer, Grove City, OH
And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. 1 John 2:28 NIV
Sharon, McKinney, TX
You will seek Me and find Me when you seek Me with all your heart.
Jeremiah 29:13
Amy Andrews, Edmond Oklahoma
Therefore the Lord will wait, that He may be gracious to you; and therefore He will be exalted, that He may have mercy on you. For the Lord is a God of justice; blessed are all those who wait for Him.
Isaiah 30:18
John 1:7 (NIV)
“He came as a witness to testify concerning that light, so that through him all men might believe.”
Kathleen Noisette, Ottawa ON Canada
1 John 4:18 “There is no fear in love. But perfect love (in Jesus) drives out fear, because fear has to do with punishment. The one who fear is not made perfect in love.” NIV
This is the way to be set free from ‘The Fear’.
Intimacy and fear:
In the midst of your fears, keep trusting Jesus – keep putting your confidence in him
DeAnne, Talmage, KS “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Jesus Christ to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 NIV
Jenni Johnson, Murray, KY
“I pray that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give you spiritual wisdom and revelation in your growing knowledge of Him,” Ephesians 1:17 NET
Becca Williams – Irvine, Ca
Ephesians 2:1 (NIV)
“As for you, you were dead in your transgressions and sins,”
(I will be memorizing a segment, Ephesians 2:1-10!)
Katie Nicholls- Tucson, AZ
O Lord, be gracious to us; we wait for you. Be our arm every morning, our salvation in the time of trouble. Isaiah 33:2 ESV
Elsie – Scottsbluff NE
The Lord is my rock and my fortress and my deliverer, my God, my rock, in whom I take refuge, my shield, and the horn of my salvation, my stronghold.
oops! Psalm 18:2 ESV
Colossians 4:2 (NLT)
An Encouragement for Prayer
2 Devote yourselves to prayer with an alert mind and a thankful heart.
Karen Penn, Sturgis, Mi., “Then he opened their minds so they could understand the Scriptures.” Luke 24:45 NIV
Karla, Broomfield, CO
“Trust in the LORD, and do good; Dwell in the land, and feed on His faithfulness.”
Psalm 37:3 NKJV
Connie Windham
Trout, LA
Isaiah 53:5 ESV
But He was pierced for our transgressions; He was crushed for our iniquities; upon Him was the chastisement that brought peace, and with His wounds we are healed.
Fran, Stedman,NC
“The Lord is my light and my salvation; who shall I fear? The Lord is the strength of my life; of who shall I be afraid? Psalm 27:1 NKJV
Claudia Wadzinski, Franklin, TN. “And I will restore to you the years that the locust hath eaten, the cankerworm, and the caterpiller, and the palmerworm, my great army which I sent among you.” Joel 2:25 KJ
Melinda Sue Kimble, Nashville, TN “Therefore take up the whole armor of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand firm.” Ephesians 6:13
Melissa, Walla Walla, WA “Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.”
-Ephesians 6:11 NASB
Megan, Dothan, AL
“The Lord your God is with you, the Mighty Warrior who saves. He will take great delight in you; in His love He will no longer rebuke you, but will rejoice over you with singing.” Zephaniah 3:17, NIV
Kitty Schlosser, Zamora, CA – 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 NIV
Shiela Meert, Elkhart, IN
2 Timothy 1:6-7 NLT
This is why I remind you to fan into flames the spiritual gift God gave you when I laid my hands on you. For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love, and self-discipline.
Laura, Iowa City, IA “May you be strengthened with all power, according to His glorious might, for endurance and patience with joy.” Col 1:11 ESV
Sheilah, Melbourne, FL
Deuteronomy 32:1-3 (ESV)
“Give ear, O heavens, and I will speak,
and let lthe earth hear the words of my mouth.
May my teaching drop as the rain,
my speech distill as the dew,
like gentle rain upon the tender grass,
and like showers upon the herb.
For I will proclaim the name of the Lord;
ascribe greatness to our God!
He revealed his character to Moses and his deeds to the people of Israel. (Psalms 103:7 NLT)
Carol Rea Midland, Texas
Guard my life and rescue me; do not let me be put to shame, for I take refuge in you.
Psalm 25:20
Joan G, Allentown, PA. “I have directed you in the way of wisdom; I have led you in upright paths.” Proverbs 4:11 NASB
Lacey D.
Oakwood, OH
Romans 11:33 HCSB
Oh, the depth of the riches
both of the wisdom and the knowledge of God!
How unsearchable His judgments
and untraceable His ways!
Pam Coleman
Deleon Springs, Florida
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)
Danielle,Pinewood,SC
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful. (Hebrews 10:23 NKJV)
Rhonda Jackson
Godfrey, Il
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28 – KJV
Peggy Watson, Whitby, ON “He has displayed his might with his arm, He has scattered those who were haughty in the thoughts of their hearts.” Luke 1:51 (Weymouth)
Aubrey, Houston,TX.
“Better is one day in your court than a thousand elsewhere; I would rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God than dwell in the tents of the wicked.” Psalm 84:10
Trudy Burnett, Middletown, OH
May the Lord smile on you and be gracious to you. Numbers 6:25 NLT
Sunny, Las Vegas, NV (ESV) Hebrews 12:12,13 Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, 13 and make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put out of joint, but rather healed.
Jennifer Frisbie, Jefferson City, MO
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. (Ephesians 6:10, NIV)
Romans 9: 30-33
30 What does all this mean? Even though the Gentiles were not trying to follow God’s standards, they were made right with God. And it was by faith that this took place. 31 But the people of Israel, who tried so hard to get right with God by keeping the law, never succeeded. 32 Why not? Because they were trying to get right with God by keeping the law[a] instead of by trusting in him. They stumbled over the great rock in their path. 33 God warned them of this in the Scriptures when he said,
“I am placing a stone in Jerusalem[b] that makes people stumble,
a rock that makes them fall.
But anyone who trusts in him
will never be disgraced.”[c]
We all have different gifts, according to the grace given us. If a man’s gift is phrohesying, let him use it in proportion to his faith.
Romans 12:6
Sherry Page
Elizabeth, CO
Psalms 45: 1
My heart is stirred by a noble theme
as I recite my verses for the king;
my tongue is the pen of a skillful writer.