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!
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you. (â€Ephesians‬ â€4‬:â€32‬ NIV)
Jackie, Versailles, KY
“Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, give thanks in all circumstances, for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” I Thessalonians 5:16-18
Kyleigh Porter Raleigh, NC “Heal me, Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise.” Jeremiah 17:14 (NIV)
Nancy -Versailles, Ky
“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 NIV
Mandy Daniel, LaGrange, GA: “For the sun rises with a scorching wind and withers the grass; and its flower falls off and the beauty of its appearance is destroyed; so too the rich man in the midst of his pursuits will fade away.” James 1:11 NASB
Karen, Saint Petersburg, Florida
He fills my life with good things. My youth is renewed like the eagle’s! Psalm 103:5, NLT
from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named, (â€Ephesians‬ â€3‬:â€15‬ ESV)
Carmen Ashford
Okla City, Ok
I can do everything through Him who gives me strength . NIV Philippians 4:13
Yael Hernandez, New York, NY
Ephesians 3:15
From whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name
ESV
Emily-Warsaw, IN
Let love and loyalty always show like a necklace, and write them in your mind.
Proverbs 3:3 CEV
Margaret, Falls Church VA
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is. (â€1 John‬ â€3‬:â€1-2‬ NIV)
Denise Smith, Wilmington, NC
Revelation 4:11 NISB
You are worthy, our Lord and God, to receive glory and honor and power, for You created all things, and by Your will they were created and have their being.
Becky, Huntington, WV
“For if you possess these qualities in increasing measure they will keep you from being ineffective and unproductive in your knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ.” 2 Peter 1:8 (NIV)
TORONTO, CANADA
“For He will command His angels concerning you, to guard you in all your ways – they will lift you up in their hands, so that you will not strike your foot against a stone”
Psalm 91:11-12
NIV
Cathy, Gastonia,NC
Psalm 139:23-24 NKJV
“Search me, O God, and know my heart;
Try me, and know my anxieties,
And see if there is any wicked way in me,
And lead me in the way everlasting.”
Liz, Round Rock, Texas
Greater love has no one than this, that one lay down his life for his friends. John 15:13 NASB
Battle Ground, WA
Acknowledge and take to heart this day that the Lord is God in heaven above and on the earth below. There is no other.
Deuteronomy 4:39 NIV
Lindsay Newman, Prophetstown, IL. “Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; ” Romans 5:3, NIV
“Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus…”
Philippians 2:5 NIV
As it is written: “For your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.”
Romans 8:36 NIV
Rachel J., Wichita, KS
“So speak encouraging words to one another. Build up hope so you’ll all be together in this, no one left out, no one left behind.” 1 Thes. 5:11
Tamara McNeill, Highfalls, NC
Isaiah 26:3
“Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.”
Lorie Dudeck-Thorpe, Palm Desert, CA Jeremiah 9:20: 20 Hear, O women, the word of the Lord,and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament,
and each to her neighbor a dirge. (ESV)
Donna Huneycutt, Mt. Pleasant NC
Beyond all these things put on love, which is the perfect bond of unity.
Colossians 3:14 NASB
Diane Jackson, Riverside, CA
“I press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus” Phil 3:14
Ann Gardner, North Canton, OH “When my soul was embittered, when I was pricked in heart, I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you” psalm 73:21-22 (ESV)
Lafayette, IN
26 Then Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. But now he has appeared once for all at the end of the ages to do away with sin by the sacrifice of himself. 27 Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, 28 so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him.
Hebrews 9:26-28 NIV
Stephanie Volkmer, Tulsa Ok.
*just as He chose us in Him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before Him in love, (â€Ephesians‬ â€1‬:â€4‬ NKJV)
Beth Reid, London, ON
2 Thessalonians 3:2-3 ESV
For not all have faith, but the Lord is faithful.
Kelly, Enid OK
Be thankful in all circumstances for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.
1 Thesselonians 5: 18 NLT
Revelation 1:3 ESV
Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear it and take to heart what is written in it, because the time is near.
Arkansas
Mark 5:34 Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.
Hannah Huneycutt, Mt. Pleasant, NC
The LORD is good to all, and His mercies are over all His works. Psalm 146:9 NASB
Ruth 3:18
then she said, sit still my daughter, until you know how the matter will fall;for the man will not be in rest, until he had finished the thing this day.
Denisha Bonds, Boynton Beach, FL: In the morning, Lord, you hear my voice; in the morning I lay my requests before you and wait expectantly. Psalm 5:3
Carrie Gill, Tyler, TX. “Let love and faithfulness never leave you; bind them around your neck, write them on the tablet of your heart. Then you will win favor and a good name in the sight of God and man.” Proverbs 3:3-4 NIV
Tiffany Wooldridge, Bolivar, MO
“For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:38-39 NKJV
Lana, Bryant, AR “I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. (â€Psalm‬ â€139‬:â€14‬ NIV) “
Faye Waraksa, Franklin, TN
He was with God in the beginning.
John 1:2. HCSB
Lisa from Little Rock
1 I lift up my eyes to the hills—
from where will my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord,
who made heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:1-2
New Revised Standard Version (NRSV)
Caty Paben
Independence, Tx
Hebrews 13:8 (NIV)
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.
Lisa, Huntsville, AL:
Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.’ — John 12:26. NIV 84
Karen Beckles, Toronto Canada
“As a result, no one can every boast in the presence of God.”
1 Corinthians 1:29 (NLT)
Kaitlynn, Nixa, MO
“Listen to instruction and be wise; don’t ignore it.” Proverbs 8:33 HCSB
Misty Schoephoerster, Abilene, TX.
“the king loved Esther more than all the women, and she won grace and favor in his sight more than all the virgins, so that he set the royal crown on her head and made her queen instead of Vashti.”
Lindsay Loper, Chattanooga, TN
“Teach me Your way, LORD, that I may rely on Your faithfulness; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear Your name.”
Psalm 86:11, NIV
Sonya Ryder, Baton Rouge, LA: “But I say to you who hear, love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who abuse you.” Luke 6:27-28 (ESV)
“The LORD your God is with you, He is mighty to save. He will take great delight in you, He will quiet you with His Love. He will rejoice over you with singing.
Zeph. 3:17 NIV
Megan JOY – Calgary Alberta Canada – By faith we understand that the universe was formed at God’s command/by the word of God, so that what is seen was not made out of what was visible/can be seen. – Hebrews 11:3 – NIV/NLT/ESV
Micah 7: 18 (KJv.) Who is a God like unto thee, that pardoneth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? he retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in mercy.