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!
Becky Bigbie. Highland Village, Tx
Paul’s prayer for spiritual Empowering
When I think of the wisdom and scope of God’s plan, I fall to my knees and pray to the Father,
Ephesians 3:14
Susan B. – Chapin, SC
He does not deal with us according to our sins,
Nor repay us according to our iniquities.
Psalm 103:10 ESV
Shaon Gaudet, Rochester,NH: “Cause me to hear Your lovingkindness in the morning, for in You do I trust; cause me to know the way in which I should walk, for I lift up my soul to You.” Psalm 143:8
Beverly, Vicksburg, MS
I pray this: that your love will keep on growing in knowledge and every kind of discernment so that you can determine what really matters and can be pure and blameless in the day of Christ.
Philippians 1:9-10 Christian Standard Bible
Genesis Eakes – San Antonio, Tx
“For it is God who is working in you both to desire and to work out His good purpose.”
Philippians 2:13 HCSB
Brianna from Jonesboro, AR
“And do not be grieved, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.” Nehemiah 8:10b NIV
Rita, Lexington SC
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want. He makes me lie down in green pastures. He leads me beside still waters. He restores my soul. He leads me in paths of righteousness for his name’s sake. Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff, they comfort me. You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies; you anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows. Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever. (â€Psalm‬ â€23‬:â€1-6‬ ESV)
Psalm 90:12 NASB
So teach us to number our days, that we may present to you a heart of wisdom.
Carolyn, Chicago, IL
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up. Galatians 6:9 NIV
Ceffie Haught Bridgeport WV Psalm 3:3 NLT But you, O Lord, are a shield around me: you are my glory, the one who holds my head high
Ephesians 6:16 NIV
In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one.
Diane, Fresno, CA
Until we all attain to the unity of faith and of the knowledge of the son of God, to mature manhood, to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ.
Ephesians 4:13
Paula, OKC, OK. “When we put bits into the mouths of horses to make them obey us, we can turn the whole animal.” James 3:3 NIV
Onda Jenks, Morgantown, WV- “But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.” Rom. 8:25 (ESV)
Melissa Briggs, Brandon, MS
“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. ” John 3:16 NIV
Debbie, Decatur IL, Psalm 115:14,15
May the LORD cause you to flourish, both you and your children.
May you be blessed by the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.
NIV
Carol, Waterloo, ON My flock will be secure in their land. Ezekiel 34:27b HCSB
Kimberly Mason, Tuscaloosa, AL:
Ephesians 1:5 ESV
“He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of his will.”
Lacey Thames, Kirbyville, TX
Now faith is confidence in what we hope for and assurance about what we do not see. (â€Hebrews‬ â€11‬:â€1‬ NIV)
Steph Smith, Sioux Falls, SD
“Wait patiently doe the Lord. Be brave and courageous. Yes, wait patiently for the Lord.” Psalms 27:14. NLT
Woodstock, Ontario
Romans 6:23 NIV
For the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Jenni Thomas
Tionesta, PA
Acts 13:39 NIV
Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, something that you were not able to obtain through the law of Moses.
“I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth” Job 19:25 NIV
Allison from Richmond, TX: “We went through water, yet You brought us out into a place of abundance.” Psalm 66:12
Brenda, Greenville SC
Ps. 84:12 NIV
O Lord Almighty, blessed is the man who trusts in you.
Lise Ode, Cumming, GA. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand so that we would walk in them. Ephesians 2:!0 NASB
Stacey Doran tunnel hill, Ga
In Him we live, and move, and have our being. Acts 17:28
Jenn Danhof, Marana, AZ
“Now choose life, so that you and your children may live and that you may love the LORD your God, listen to his voice, and hold fast to him. For the LORD is your life”
Deuteronomy 30:19b-20a NIV
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)
Julie Brock, New Albany, MS “Not that i have already obtained all this, or have already arrived at my goal, but i press on to take hold of that for which Christ JESUS took hold of me. Brothers and sisters, i do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing i do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead, i press on toward the goal to win the prize for which GOD has called me heavenward IN Christ JESUS.” Phillipians 3:12-14 (NIV) (((-:
Ally Velderman, Memphis, TN
The Word became flesh and blood,
and moved into the neighborhood.
We saw the glory with our own eyes,
the one-of-a-kind glory,
like Father, like Son,
Generous inside and out,
true from start to finish.
John 1:14 MSG
Kristi, Telford, PA
For this reason I kneel before the Father
Eph 3:14 HCSB
Shannon Salazar, Dubois, WY
Words kill, words give life; they’re either poison or fruit—you choose. Proverbs 18:21 MSG
Lynda from Dallas, Tx. “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 say: the Lord is my portion, therefore I will put my hope in Him.” Lamentations 3:24
Becky, Alberta, Canada
But as for me, the nearness of God is my good. Ps. 73:28
Misha McGill, Arroyo Grande
Hebrews 3:13 NIV
But encourage one another daily, as long as it is called “Today,” so that none of you may be hardened by sin’s deceitfulness.
“But he was pierced for our transgressions,
he was crushed for our iniquities;
the punishment that brought us peace was on him,
and by his wounds we are healed”
Isaiah 53:5 NIV
Candis South Bend IN 3rd time to post these 3 verses
That Christ may dwell in your heart by faith, that ye being rooted and grounded in love may be able to comprehend, with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and depth and height and to know the love of Christ which passeth knowledge that ye might be filled with all the fullness of God Eph. 3:17-19 KJV Almost forgot to post. have so enjoyed the time in these verses
Nancy Parks, Houston, TX
You will die in peace, at a ripe old age. Genesis 15:15 TLB
Sylvia S. Collinsville, IL
“Yield now and be at peace with Him; Thereby good will come to you. (â€Job‬ â€22‬:â€21‬ NASB)
Columbus, OH
. . .for if you are living according to the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you are putting to death the deeds of the body, you will live. 14 For all who are being led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.
Romans 8:13-14, NASB
Catherine, Fort Wayne, IN
“Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” Galatians 6:9, NIV
Gail Jones
Decatur, TX
Proverbs 11:4 NIV
Wealth is worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Ruth, Shawnee, KS
Psalm 73:25-26 (NASB)
Whom have I in heaven but You? And besides You, I desire nothing on earth. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Robin
Rockwall, TX
That according to His riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His spirit in your inner being. Ephesians 3:16 ESV
Courtney, Houma, LA
“He is not here, but He has been resurrected! Remember how He spoke to you when He was still in Galilee,
Luke 24:6, HCSB
Molly
Paris, KY
2 Timothy 2:16 (NIV) Avoid godless chatter, because those who indulge in it will become more and more ungodly.
We walk by faith, not by sight.
2 Corinthians 5:7 KJV
Springville,Al
Revelation 22:21 KJV
The Grace of our Lord be with you all.Amen