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!
He chose us, before creation, to be holy and blameless in His sight in Him. In love. Ephesians 1:4
Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love,
For I have put my trust in You.
Show me the way I should go, for to You I lift up my soul.
Psalm 143:8 NIV
Marie, Kinard FL
Let the morning bring me word of Your unfailing love,
For I have put my trust in You.
Show me the way I should go, for to You I lift up my soul.
Psalm 143:8 NIV
Reeder
Auburn, AL
The most important thing is that I complete my mission, the work that the Lord Jesus gave me — to tell people the Good News about God’s grace.” (Acts 20:24b NCV)
Deena – Rural Hall, NC
“For this reason I bow my knees to the Father…”
Ephesians 3:14 NKJV
Alicia Parker, Edgewater, FL “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
Julie Medway Port Macquarie, NSW Australia
In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength.
Isaiah 30:15 NIV
Is 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation,
I will trust and not be afraid;
For the LORD GOD is my strength and song,
And He has become my salvation. (NASB)
Kristen, Landisville, Pa
I remain confident of this: I will see the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. Wait for the Lord; Be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord. Psalm 27:13-14 (NIV)
Stephanie from Street, MD
“Your words were found and I ate them, and your words became to be a joy and the delight of my heart, for I am called by your name, O Lord, God of hosts.”
Jeremiah 15:16 (ESV)
It was just before the Passover Festival. Jesus knew that the time had come for him to leave this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
John 13:1
Sloan, Atlanta, GA
A person’s steps are directed by the Lord. How then can anyone understand their own way. (Proverbs 20:24, NIV)
Jaclyn, Houston, TX
“And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that having all sufficiency in all things at all times, you may abound in every good work.” 2 Corinthians 9:8
Though the fig tree does not bud and there are no grapes on the vine, though the olive crop fails and the fields produce no food, though there are no sheep in the pen and no cattle in the stalls, yet I will REJOICE in the LORD, I WILL BE JOYFUL in GOD MY SAVIOR. Habk. 3:17 (NKJV)
Ashley, Abingdon, VA
Ephesians 4:2-3
Always be humble and gentle. Be patient with each other, making allowance for each other’s faults because of your love. Make every effort to keep yourselves united in the Spirit, binding yourselves together with peace.
Susan Kreider – Bird in Hand, PA
“from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name.” Eph 3:15 NIV
Carrie – Cary, NC
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
Kandi Sullivan – Tallahassee, Florida
Challenged by Rick Warren’s Devotion today my next verse:
I don’t care about my own life. The most important thing is that I complete the mission, the work the Lord Jesus gave me — to tell people the Good News about God’s grace. Acts 20:24 NCV
Mandy Codding, wadsworth OH
Psalm 139:13-14 “you created my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” (NIV)
Sandra, Keller, TX
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.”
– Matthew 5:4 (NIV)
Christine, newcastle, England. Every word of God proves true. He is a shield to all who come to him for protection ( prov 30:5 NLT)
he stores up sound wisdom for the upright; he is a shield to those who walk in integrity, Proverbs 2:7
Debbie B., Marietta GA
But you, man of God, flee from all this, and pursue righteousness, godliness, faith, love, endurance, and gentleness. Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called when you made your good confession in the presence of many witnesses
1 Timothy 6:11-12
Cheryl – Concord, NC
“Let your gentleness be evident to all.
The Lord is near.”
Philippians 4.5 NIV
Laura, San Diego, CA
“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
The LORD thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the LORD hath said. KJV
Diana, Round Hill, VA, Why do you look for the living among the dead? He is not here but has risen! Luke 24:5
2 Thess 3:2b-3a NIV
for not everyone has faith BUT the Lord IS faithful!
Kathy
Woodstock, GA
1 Thess. 5:16-18 NIV
Rejoice always, pray without ceasing, in everything give thanks for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you..
Lynn Fields, Erlanger, KY. Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you will abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 (NASB)
Angie
Greenville Ohio
Above all else guard your heart for everything you do flows from it.Proverbs 4:23 NIV
Deborah E. Bell — Bridgeton, New Jersey
(3). Endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:3 KJV
Bernadette. Mtn home Arkansas. “Be cheerful no matter what. Pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. 1 Thess 5:16-18 the message
Sam, Colorado Springs, CO
He brought them out of the darkness, the
utter darkness,
and broke away their chains.
Psa 107:14, NIV
For I, the Lord your God, hold your right hand; it is I who say to you, “Fear not, I am the one who helps you.”
Isaiah 41:13
ESV
Jamie Martin, Judsonia AR, ” Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived they were uneducated, common men, they were astonished. And they recognized that they had been with Jesus ” Acts 4:13 ESV
Katie G., Crawford, Texas “He must increase and I must decrease.” John 3:30 (NIV)
Misti Robinson from Houston, TX:
“Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones.”
Proverbs 16:24 NIV
Debbie, St. Paul, MN
Psalm 139:23,24 MIV
Search me, O God, and know my heart; test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
Robbyn Hanstad, Frisco Texas
1 Peter 4:11(HCSB)
“If anyone speaks it should be as one who speaks God’s words; if anyone serves, it should be from the strength God provides so that God may be glorified through Christ Jesus in everything.”
Kathy Pietraszewski, Des Moines, IA – “[Love] bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” 1 Cor 13:7 (NASB)
Jackie Pope, Covington, IN: he is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways. James 1:8 NKJV
Shinae, Owasso, OK
“that their hearts may be encouraged, having been knit together in love, and attaining to all the wealth that comes from the full assurance of understanding, resulting in a true knowledge of God’s mystery, that is, Christ Himself, in whom are hidden allthe treasures of wisdom and knowledge.”
Col 2:2-3 NASB
“Who satisfies your desires with good things so that your youth is renewed like the eagle’s.”
Psalm 103:5 NIV
Annette- Reno,NV
Nations are in uproar, kingdoms fall; he lifts his voice, the earth melts.
Psalm 46:6 NIV
Pam, Augusta. Ga
1 Corinth 1:18. “For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.” (â€1 Corinthians‬ â€1‬:â€18‬ NIV)
Happy Easter!
Isaiah 55: 8-9 NKJV
” For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the LORD. “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, and My thoughts than your thoughts.”
Pam Hunter Asheville NC Glory in His holy name;let the hearts of those who seek the Lord rejoice! Psalm 105:3(ESV)
Kathy, Danvers, MA
Psalm 130:7 NIV
O Israel, put your hope in the LORD,
for with the LORD is unfailing love
and with Him is full redemption.
Psalm 145:18 NKJ
“The Lord is near to all who call upon HIM, to all who call upon Him in truth.”
Cindi Latson, Madison, MS
“Fear not, therefore; you are of more value than many sparrows.” Matthew 10:31 (ESV)
God gave me this scripture as I sat in ICU with my daughter last week, and thousands of small birds swirled like a cloud outside her window. She is home and improved today. Glory to God!