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!
So excited! Love watching you ,Beth. Love your teaching. Just found this site today and I want to start memorizing with you all. Gonna start with Eph 3:14-16.” For this cause I bow my knees unto the father of our Lord Jesus Christ. Of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named. That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man. “So blessed. Thank you for your transparency.
“He himself bore our sins in his body on the tree, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; by his wounds you have been healed.” 1 Peter 2:24 NIV
Tammy,
Lusby, MD
Proverbs 3:26 …for the Lord will be at your side and will keep your foot from being snared. (NIV)
Tricia, So.Cal.
Daniel 4:37 (ESV)
Now I, Nebuchadnezzar, praise and extol and honor the King of heaven, for all his works are right and his ways are just;
and those who walk in pride he is able to humble.
Johnnie, Wake Forest, NC
Now it is evident that no one is justified before God by the law, for “The righteous shall live by faith.” Galatians 3:11 ESV
Molly-Overland Park, KS “4 Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths.
5 Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long. – Psalm 25:4-5 ESV
When I am afraid, I will trust in you. Psalm 56:3 NIV
‘Be still and know that I am God’ Psalm 46:10
Amy, Hobe Sound, FL “it does not rejoice at wrongdoing, but rejoices with the truth.” 1 Cor. 13:6 ESV
Katie from Greensboro, NC
I will give you a new heart and a new spirit I will put within you. I will remove the heart of stone from your flesh and give you a heart of flesh.
Ezekiel 36:26 ESV
Delight in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your heart. Psalm 37:4
Kathy,
Missouri City, Texas
Psalm 33:5
The Lord loves righteousness and justice;
the earth is full of his unfailing love.
Vanessa Lipsit, San Antonio, TX
Philippians 4:8 NLT
“And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.”
Pam Willis, Centerville,Texas
Psalm 119:66 (NIV)
Teach me knowledge and good judgment for I trust your commands.
Martha, Georgetown, TX “I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in Him. Then, you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13 NLT
Karen. Amarillo, Tx. In all circumstances take up the shield of faith with which you can extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one. Ephesians 6:16.
Romans 8:9 NIV
You, however, are not in the realm of the flesh, but are in the realm of the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God lives in you, and if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, they do not belong to Christ.
Debbie Nelson
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Sierra Skowhegan Maine
Romans 8:28-30
“We know that in everything God works for the good of those who love Him. They are the people He called, because that was His plan. God knew them before He made the world, and He decided that they would be like His Son so that Jesus would be the first born of many brothers. God planned for them to be like His Son; and those He planned to be like His Son, He also called; and those He called, He also made right with Him; and those He made right, He also glorified.” NCV
And you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (â€John‬ â€8‬:â€32‬ NKJV)
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the LORD, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon Me and go and pray to Me, and I will listen to you. And you will seek Me and find Me, when you search for Me with all your heart. (â€Jeremiah‬ â€29‬:â€11-13‬ NKJV)
Barrett
Plano TX
After the death of Moses, the Lord’s disciple, God spoke to Moses’ assistant, whose name was Joshua (the son of Nun), and said to him, “Now that my disciple is dead, (you are the new leader of Israel). Lead my people across the Jordan River into the Promised Land. I say to you what I said to Moses: ‘Wherever you go will be part of the land of Israel”
Joshua 1:1-3 NIV
Marilyn Brown of The Plains,OH says:
But if we walk in the light as He is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, His Son, purifies us from all sin.
1Jn.1:7
Diane Welch, Corinth TX “The Lord is close to the brokenhearted and saves those who are crushed in spirit” Psalm 34:18 NIV
Julie-Leonardtown, MD
“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, he will rejoice over you with singing”.
Zephaniah 3:17
Deirdre, Windsor Mill, MD
James 1: 2-3, NIV
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters
whenever you face trials of many kinds
because you know that the testing of your faith produces
perseverance.
Gloria Davis, Mansfield, OH
Psalm 27:4 (NIV)
One thing I ask from the Lord, this only do I seek: that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to gaze on the beauty of the Lord and to seek Him in His temple.
Keller, TX…Psalm 37:23-24 NIV The Lord makes firm the steps of the one who delights in him; though he may stumble, he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with his hand.
Janey from Naples FL:
“As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord.” Joshua 24:14
6 Therefore, as you received Christ Jesus the Lord, so walk in him,
7 rooted and built up in him and established in the faith, just as you were taught, abounding in thanksgiving.
Colossians 2:6-7
Ephesians 4:32 ESV
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as in Christ God forgave you.
Phyllis Norwich, CT
1 Corinthians 15:33 (NIV)- Do not be misled, bad company corrupts good character.
Debbie Jones New Carlisle, Ohio NIV Mark 12:10 The stone the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone
“Be wise in the way you act toward outsiders; make the most of every opportunity. Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer to everyone.” Colossians 4:5-6 NIV
Romans 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.
Elaine, New Orleans, LA
Psalms 1:3 NIV
[S]he is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither. Whatever [s]he does prospers.
Kim, Euless, TX
from whom every family in heaven and on earth derives its name. (â€Ephesians‬ â€3‬:â€15‬ NIV)
Terri
Stonewall, LA
Daniel 3:18 NIV
But even if He does not, we want you to know, Your Majesty, that we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you have set up.
Stacey B., Fayetteville, GA
“There shall no evil befall thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling. For He shall give His angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.”
Psalm 91:10-11 (KJV)
Christina, Decatur, TX –
1 Corinthians 6:19-20 NIV
Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whim you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.
April 15, 2015
Trudy Smith, Baton Rouge, LA.
Matthew 6:34
There, do not be anxious about tomorrow,
for tomorrow will be anxious for itself.
Sufficient for the day is its own trouble.
Linda York Haven, PA
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
Ephesians 4:29 NIV
Ann Medford, Sunset, TX, 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, Philippians 3:13 NIV
Tammy Holley
Sugar Land, 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)
Angela, Cullman, AL “Don’t copy the behavior and customs of this world, but let God transform you into a new person by changing the way you think. Then you will learn to know God’s will for you, which is good and pleasing and perfect.” Romans 12:2 NLT
Pamela Green Waynesboro, GA
Philippians 4:13 (NKJV)
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me
Deuteronomy 33:12 KJV
And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.
Little children, let us not love with word or with tongue, but in deed and truth. I John3:18 (NASB)
Gail A. Alderman
Minden, Nebraska
Psalms 8:6 “You made him ruler over the works of your hands; you put everything under his feet;”
Sandy from Bowie, MD
“I will praise the Lord according to his righteousness: I will sing praise to the name of the Lord most high.” Ps 7:17, KJV
Erin Boling- Denison, TX
But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, God’s special possession, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
1 Peter 2:9 NIV
(I cannot remember if I posted this or not… So here it is just to be safe!)