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!
Karen Glisson, Kennesaw, GA Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it. Hebrews 2:1 ESV
Jackie C…Southaven, MS
We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with His Son, Jesus Christ.
1 John 1:3 NIV
Stacy Mc…Southaven, MS
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Phil. 4:13 KJV
Martha S….Olive Branch, MS
I can do all things through Christ, who strengthens me.
Phil. 4:13 KJV
Angelica (Angel) Chilton, Hillsboro, Texas
“A wise woman builds her home, but a foolish woman tears it down with both hands.” Proverbs 14:1 (NLT)
Shelly, Rochester, MN
Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all our days. Psalm 90:14 NIV
I’m behind so want to post three. all from Life application study bible New living translation NLT
April 1
James 4:12 God alone ,who gave the law, is the judge . He alone has the power to save or destroy. So what right do you have to judge your neighbor.
April 15
James 4:4 Don’t you realize that friendship with the world makes you an enemy of God.
May 1
James 5:1-4Look here you rich people: weep and groan with anguish because of all the terrible troubles ahead. This treasure you have accumulated will stand as evidence against you on the day of judgment.
Shout for joy all the earth, worship the Lord with gladness; come before Him with joyful songs. Psalm 100:1-2 NIV
1 Corinthians 10:31 NIV
So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God
Aimee Wodkowski, Bay City, MI – “I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.” Psalms 40:8 KJV
Victoria, Hooksett NH
Then the LORD will appear over them, and his arrow will go forth like lightning; and the Lord GOD will blow the trumpet, and will march in the storm winds of the south. The LORD of hosts will defend them. And they will devour and trample on the sling stones; and they will drink and be boisterous as with wine; and they will be filled like a sacrificial basin, Drenched like the corners of the alter. Zechariah 9: 14-15 (NASB)
Katrina Casey from Chandler, Ok
1 John 5:14-15 ESV “Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him.”
Lacy McMurry
Carthage, MS
“For I know the thought that I think toward you says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” Jeremiah 29:11
Debbie, Hattiesburg, MS
“For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this age, against spiritual hosts of wickedness in the heavenly places.” Ephesians 6:12 NKJV
Whitney Payne, LaGrange, GA: James 1:27 (NIV84) – 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.
May 1st, 2015 SIESTA Scripture Memory Verse
Isaiah 30:21 NIV “Whether you turn to the right or to the left, your ears will hear a voice behind you, saying, “This is the way; walk in it.”
Learning to recognize the voice of the Holy Spirit, to welcome Him, and to ask Him to fill me with understanding and remembrance of everything my Jesus said and taught has been a delight to my heart and a joy unspeakable! It has been my Father’s Will I believe and I am in awe of the way my Father cares for us by sending His Holy Spirit! Thank You LORD for loving and forgiving and teaching this child of yours forever more!!! I am crazy in love with You!
Heather Dutton, League City, Tx
“I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies.” John 11:25 NIV
Jolie Schafer Houston, TX
Psalm 119:90 NIV
“Your faithfulness continues through all generations; you established the earth and it endures.”
Laura Naiser, Georgetown TX
John 10:10 ESV
The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly.
Erin Rhoades- Maryville, TN
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will direct your paths.”
-Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)
Stacey B., Fayetteville, GA
“The Lord bless you
and keep you;
the Lord make his face shine on you
and be gracious to you;
the Lord turn his face toward you
and give you peace.”’
Numbers 6:24-26 (NIV)
Diane Welch from Corinth TX
“For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted” Luke 18:14 ESV
This is a lesson I learned the hard way this week.
Sheba Munroe
St Petersburg Fl
1 Timothy 6:18 ESV
They are to do good, to be rich and good works, to be generous and ready to share,
Debbie Nelson
Hot Springs, Arkansas
Philippians 4:13. NIV
I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me.
Angie Miller, Macon, MS
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal comfort and a wonderful hope, comfort you and strengthen you in every good thing you do and say.
2 Thessalonians 2:16-17, NLT
Colossians 3:7 “And in them you once walked, when you were living in them.” NASV
Winder, GA
Jamie Raborn from Ooltewah, Tennessee
Romans 6:6-7 NIV
[6] For we know that our old self was crucified with him so that the body ruled by sin might be done away with, that we should no longer be slaves to sin— [7] because anyone who has died has been set free from sin.
Psalm 121:3 He will not let your foot slip,He who watches over you will not slumber.
Rebecca & Emma Jamerson, Hallsville, TX
Emma
Surely I have behaved and quieted myself, as a child that is weaned of his mother: my soul is even as a weaned child. Psalm 131:2
Rebecca
For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it. Romans 8:24-25, KJV
“A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another.” John 13:34-35
Amanda Dodd; Queen City, TX
You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Matthew 5:14 (NIV)
Sarah Moen Fairfield Me
1 peter 1:8 NLT
You love Him even though you have seen Him.
Though you do not see Him now, you trust Him;
And you rejoice with a glorious inexpressible joy.
Pamela Hardin
Pickerington, Ohio
“Give thanks to the Lord, for He is good. His love endures forever.” -1 Chronicles 16:34 (NIV)
deb Normandin, Anchorage, Ak
1John 3:1 NIV
How great is the 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.
Nikki McGregor, Radford, VA
If any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to him. – James 1:5 (NASB)
Natalie, Cumberland Gap, TN
Proverbs 3:7-8
Be not wise in thy own eyes fear the Lord and depart from evil. It shall be health to thy navel and marrow to thy bones.
Submit yourself then to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you. James 4:7
Gisella Oliver, Toledo Ohio
“He himself bore our sins” in his body on the cross, so that we might die to sins and live for righteousness; “by his wounds you have been healed.” 1Peter 2:24 NIV
Much love to the Moore family at this time of loss.
Psalm 19:14
“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in Your sight, O lord, my Rock and my Redeemer” NIV
Cindy Cabaniss, Shelby, NC
Revelation 21:4 NIV
He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.
Sheri, Morrisville, MO
Therefore, since through god’s mercy we have this ministry, we do not lose heart. Rather, we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the Word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to everyone’s conscience in the sight of God.
2 Corinthians 4:1-2
I am sorry to be late in posting. I have had a rough spring with my full time job, taking the last of the classes I needed to graduate with my Specialist degree and some terribly hard family problems. I have barely kept my head above water–and only then by God’s grace. I am committed to this, though, and I am going to catch up!
Priscilla Nash- San Antonio, TX
They will be beautiful and lovely. Young men will prosper on grain, and young women will prosper on new wine. (Zechariah 9:17 GW)
Kandace Blowey, Houston, TX
“For the Spirit of God gave us does not make us timid, but gives us power, love and self-discipline.” (NIV)
2 Timothy 1:7
Jennifer B, Plano, TX
Such a person is double-minded and unstable in all they do.
James 1:8 NIV
Beverly, Cumberland Gap, TN
Ephesians 6:16 (KJV)
Above all taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall be able to quench the fiery darts of the wicked.
Scarlett Flynn, Round Rock, TX
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. (Romans 12:12, NIV)
Nancy Huebner, Spring Hill, TH
“Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain. Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to Your word.” Psalm 119:36-37 NIV
“And call upon me in the day of trouble: I will deliver thee, and thou shalt glorify me.” (Psalms 50:15 KJV)
Rebecca S, Fort Worth, Texas
” By this my Father is glorified that you bear much fruit and so prove to be my disciples” John 15:8
Isaiah 41:13
For I am the Lord, your God, who takes hold of your right hand and and says to you, Do not fear, I will help you.
Debbie Nelson
Hot Springs, Arkansas