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!
Regina, Salado, TX
Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies;”
John 11:25 (NIV)
MODESTO CALIFORNIA
“AND SHE WENT UP, AND LAID HIM ON THE BED OF THE MAN OF GOD
AND SHUT THE DOOR UPON HIM, AND WENT OUT” 2KINGS 4:21
Connie Vorwald
Suffolk, VA
Ephesians 3:14 ESV
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father.
Chrystal – Coachella, CA – “And don’t let us yield to temptation, but rescue us from the evil one”(Matthew 6:13)
Jessica, Wyoming Mi
2 Corinthians 5:7
“for we walk by faith, not by sight.”
Fran Scott, Stafford TX Eph 2:8
For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God.
“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction.” Proverbs 1:7 (NIV)
Westerville, Ohio
Psalm 27:13 (NASB)
“I would have despaired unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.”
Sara Morris, Alpharetta, GA
Matthew 27:51 (NIV)
“At that moment the curtain of the temple was torn in two from top to bottom. The earth shook, and rocks split…”
Lisa Markley, Cary, NC- Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified; do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9 NIV
Phyllis – Slidell, LA
After this I will pour out My Spirit on all humanity;then your sons and your daughters will prophesy,your old men will have dreams,and your young men will see visions. – Joel 2:28
Joel 2:28 I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh.
Ashley
Sugar Land, TX
“Like newborn infants, long for pure spiritual milk, that by it you may grow up into salvation-”
1 Peter 2:2 ESV
Ezekiel 36:27 (MSG)
I’ll put my Spirit in you and make it possible for you to do what I tell you and live by my commands.
(Hallelujah!!)
Lyn, Tulsa, OK
“Not that I have already attained, or am already perfected; but I press on, that I may lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus has also laid hold of me.” Philippians 3:12 NKJV
Jackson, TN A false witness will not go unpunished, and he who speaks lies will not escape. Prov. 19:5 NKJV
Jacqueline M, Lancaster Co. PA
Jeremiah 2:13 (NIV)
For my people have committed to evils: they have forsaken me, the fountain of living waters, and hewed out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that hold no water.
Noreen
Calgary, AB
“They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they go right on producing delicious fruit.” Jeremiah 17:8 (NLT)
Dee Ann, Henderson, Texas
Acts 2:22-23 “Men of Israel, hear these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested to you by God with mighty works and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, as you yourselves know— this Jesus, delivered up according to the definite plan and foreknowledge of God, you crucified and killed by the hands of lawless men.” ESV
Jennifer, Fort Worth
1 Cor. 13:3 “And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned,[a] but have not love, it profits me nothing.” (NKJV)
1 John 2:3,4 (NIV)
We know that we have come to know Him if we keep HIs commands.
Whoever says “I know Him” but does not do what He commands is a liar, and the truth is not in that person.
Francine Thacker, Burnet, Tx
Therefore, do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of it’s own. Matthew 6:34 NIV
Anne Acker, Johnson City, TN
Romans 8:32 (ESV)
He who did not spare His own Son, but gave Him up for us all, how will He not also with Him graciously give us all things?
Melody
Myrtle Beach, SC
“Whatever you say or do should be done in the name of the Lord Jesus, as you give thanks to God the Father because of him.” Colossians 3:17 CEV
Colossians3:15 NIV: “Let the peace of Christ rule your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.
Sharon Crow, Winchester, VA,
7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands you sinners and purify your hearts, you double-minded. (ESV)
Stacey, Tomball, Ephesians 1:15-17
For this reason, ever since I heard about your faith in the Lord Jesus and your love for all God’s people, I have not stopped giving thanks for you, remembering you in my prayers. I keep asking that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the glorious Father, may give you the Spirit of wisdom and revelation, so that you may know him better.
A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another. John 13:34 ESV
Sharon Crow, Winchester, VA
7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. 8Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners and purify your hearts, you double-minded. James 4:7-8 (ESV)
Peggy, Yorktown, Va
“It has been said, ‘Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a certificate of divorce.’ But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except for martial unfaithfulness, causes her to become an adultress,and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery. Again, you have heard that it was said to the people long ago, Do not break your oath, but keep the oaths you have made to the Lord. But I tell you, do not swear at all: either by heaven, for it is God’s throne; or by the earth, for it is his footstool; or by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the Great King. Matt 5:31-35
Paula, Fuquay Varina NC: “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
Lea Ann Frank from Hales Corners, WI
Isaiah 26:3 NIV ~ “You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.”
Julie – Albuquerque
God means what he says. What he says goes. His powerful Word is sharp as a surgeons scalpel, cutting through everything, whether doubt or defense, laying us open to listen and obey. Nothing and no one is impervious to God’s Word. We can’t get away from it-no matter what.
-Hebrews 4:12 MSG
Send out your light and your truth; let them bring me to your holy hill and to your dwelling!
Psalms 43:3 ESV
Debbie from Colorado Springs
Ephesians 3:16-18 NIV
“I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being roooted and established in love, may have power, together with his people…”
Fort Wayne, IN
“Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.” Romans 12:12 (ESV)
Being confident of this, that He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.
Philippians 1:6 NIV
Judi Early, Darlington, PA
John 16:33 “I have told you these things, so that you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 NIV
Charity Keith, Georgia. “For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him.” John 3:16-17 NIV
Clarksville, TN
Many are saying, “Who will show us any good?”
Lift up the light of Your countenance upon us, O Lord!
Psalm 4:6, NASB
Donna -Burleson Tx
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. (Psalms 139:23-24 NKJV)
Debbie Gordon, Severna Park, MD
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“therefore I will hope in him.” Lamentations 3:24 ESV
You are a shield around me O lord, you bestow glory on me and lift up my head. Psalm 3:3 NIV
Lynn, Lake Villa, IL
Ephesians 2:7 NLT
So God can point to us in all future ages as examples of the incredible wealth of His grace and kindness toward us, as shown in all He has for us who are united with Christ Jesus.
Marlena Cantrell, Alabaster, Alabama
“In this you rejoice, though now for a little while, if necessary, you have been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness of your faith—more precious than gold that perishes though it is tested by fire—may be found to result in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ.” (1 Peter 1:6-7 ESV)
Psalms 143:11 KJV “Quicken me, O LORD, for thy name’s sake: for thy righteousness’ sake bring my soul out of trouble.”
Amanda Carter
Ocean Springs, MS
Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men of courage; be string. Do everything in love.
1 Corinthians 16:13-14
NIV
Sue H, Hendersonville NC
Psalm 46:2 (NIV)
“Therefore we will not fear, though the earth give way and the mountains fall into the sea”
Jodi, Sweetwater, TN – Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. – Philippians 4:5 (NIV)
Janice MacNealy; Bethesda, OH
I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. 2 Timothy 4:7 NIV