*This post is coming to you a few days early as our staff travels with Beth, which you will read more about below.
Hey, Everybody! It’s May! We are making progress, Girls! By now you are getting some verses down in your bones. I was thrilled two weekends ago when we had our clandestine Siesta picture after the end of our Albuquerque Living Proof Live and a bunch of them brought their spirals. Talk about teacher’s pets! Here they are:
OK! I’ve done a little video – a really, really short one this time – where I say my verses to you while I’m on a walk in our woods so this stands as my official entry for Verse 9! I’m doing memory work right now out of Ephesians Chapter Four and it is so powerful. As you’ll hear in this segment, God seems to have a tremendous partiality to the number ONE.
Y’all, I love doing this with you. I love an SSMT year. You are so dear to us. By the time you’re submitting your verses, I’ll be speaking in London at Hillsong Colour Conference. Our whole LPM staff is coming and many of our volunteers. Melissa is with me and will be heading up a short tour with our volunteers after the Hillsong conference ends, giving emphasis to several figures in Christianity who had tremendous influence on Spiritual formation. We are looking extremely forward to it. Her suitcase weighed 10 whole pounds more than mine strictly from books. Made me grin. The girl is a book nerd if you’ll ever meet one. We were so sad Amanda couldn’t come on this trip but she needed to be home with her very busy family this round. We miss her like nobody’s business. Would all of you please pray for us as we labor in this gorgeous field of harvest? Please ask Jesus to pour out His Holy Spirit lavishly upon us and to give us such hearts of love for every person we serve.  When I say, ask Jesus to pour out His Spirit, I mean like GUSHES. FLOODS, TIDAL WAVES of Living Water. Understand what I’m saying? PRAY BIG. Get in there with your faith if you’d be willing and ask God to be enormously present among us here. Ask for many to be saved, many to be delivered from strongholds, healed, and made whole in Jesus. Ask for multitudes to awaken to the breadth and length and height and depth of the borderless love of Jesus. Thank you! I owe you a debt of love which I gladly, joyfully pay.
Ok, Girls! Hit it with those verses!
Cary, NC
John 10:10 NIV The thief comes only to steal, kill, and destroy; I have come that they might have life and have it to the full.
Jeanette Pham, Coral Springs, FL
“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.”
Psalm 37: 23-24
Psalms 119:105 NKJV
Your word is a lamp to my feet And a light to my path.
Rene Adee, Canyon TX
Psalms 51:1 (NAS)”Be gracious to me, O God, according to Your lovingkindness;
According to the greatness of Your compassion blot out my transgressions.”
Carolyn Stutz, Dover, Ohio
“…may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ…” Eph. 3:18 NIV
Indianola, IA “knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” 1 Peter 1:18-19 (NKJV)
Indianola, IA “knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct received by tradition from your fathers, but with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot” 1 Peter 1:18-19 (NKJV)
Jaime ~ Wilson, NC
1 Peter 1:3 (NASB)
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
“Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.” Psalm 51:10 NIV84
Janice Bells #9 I Peter 2:9 NIV
“But you are a chosen people, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people belonging to God, that you may declare the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.”
Walker, LA:
Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things. (â€Colossians‬ â€3‬:â€2‬ NIV)
Jennifer Kinsler
Rogersville, TN
“Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.”
~Psalms 2:11 KJV
What a joy it is to pray with you all and for this ministry of God. My husband and I have been discussing how it seems the Lord is deeply sanctifying the Body of Christ. He showed me something recently that was a sin that I didn’t even know was a sin. Praise God! The Lord is opening the eyes and ears and hearts more clearly of His saints to be brighter lights and vessels of His love and grace in this very dark world.
Dear Heavenly Father, we love You so much! You are our life, we love you more than anything. Lord, pour out your grace, mercy, holiness, conviction, Truth, your living water poured out in overflow of abundance upon the Living Proof ministry staff and volunteers~ pour it out through them and into people’s hearts. Open up hearts to received Jesus Christ as Savior and follow Him so closely as Lord and Shepherd. Bless Melissa and Beth and make them smile so big on their face, in their hearts and through their eyes. May people see Jesus through all of the volunteers at this mission and want to know Him more and fall head over heals in love with Him. Thank You Jesus that You save, transform, redeem. Praise You for everything You have done and have yet to do. You do more than we could ever hope for or imagine. May You be honored and glorified. In the precious name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
Love you! God delights in you.
Donna
Ephesians 4:5 ESV
One Lord, one faith,one baptism,
Pam Mayer from Apple Valley, MN: “This is the day the LORD has made; let us rejoice and be glad in it.” Psalm 118:24 NIV
Calgary, Alberta
2 Corinthians 4:16-18 NIV
Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
Everything is possible for one who believes.
Mark 9:23
Sheri Matsumoto, Riverside, CA
“Do not fear, for I am with you; do not anxiously look about you, for I am your God.
I will surely strengthend you, surely I will help you, surely I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”
Isiah 41:10
Judy, Oswego, NY
Psalm 7:10 NIV: ‘My shield is God Most High, who saves the upright in heart. God is a righteous judge, a God who expresses his wrath every day.’
Jeannine Anderson, Pelican Rapids, MN
For this reason I bow my knees before the Father.
Ephesians 3:14 ESV
Allison from Fort Worth, TX:
Hear me, Lord, and answer me,
for I am poor and needy.
Psalm 86:1 (NIV)
DAWN, SOUTH BEND, IN
They are a garland to grace your head and a chain to adorn your neck.
Proverbs 1:9 NIV
Lisa, McKinney,TX “may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ” , (â€Ephesians‬ â€3‬:â€18‬ NIV)
Meredith from Nashville, TN (I am working on Psalm 19:7-14) “the precepts of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes” Psalm 19:8 (ESV)
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.
John 1:1. KJV
Lisa, West Des Moines, IA “Do not call to mind the former things, or ponder things of the past. Behold I will do something new.” Isaiah 43:18-19a (NASB)
Laura, San Diego, CA
Zephaniah 3:17New Living Translation (NLT)
17 For the Lord your God is living among you.
He is a mighty savior.
He will take delight in you with gladness.
With his love, he will calm all your fears.[a]
He will rejoice over you with joyful songs.”
Joan Wetzel, New Orleans, Louisiana
“The shepherds went back, glorifying and praising God for all that they had heard and seen, just as had been told them.” Luke 2:20 (NASB)
Rachel H., North Alabama,
“You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.”
(â€Jeremiah‬ â€29‬:â€13‬ ESV)
Debbie Brubaker, Robstown, TX
Jesus said to her,”I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live.” John 11:25 NKJV
Kathryn, Oceanside, “So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God” 1 Corinthians 10:31 NIV
Betsy Morris, Virginia Beach, VA: “For who is God besides the Lord? And who is the Rock except our God?” 2 Samuel 22:32 (NIV)
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons. Freely you have received, freely give.
Matt 10:8
Dottie Morrow, Mansfield, TX
“And He died for all, that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for Him who died for them and was raised again.”
2 Corinthians 5:15 NKJV
Kim H., McKinney, TX
Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.
Ephesians 4:3 NIV
Gilbert, AZ
Ephesians 3:20 NIV
“Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us…”
Kim Pearson, Laguna Niguel, CA
“…For I am going to do something in your days that you would not believe, even if you were told.”
Habakkuk 1:5 NIV
Esther, Jonesborough, TN. Romans 15:13 ESV. May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound in hope. [Biblical hope = certainty]
Ellen, Amersfoort, the Netherlands
Dan zult u met alle heiligen de lengte en de breedte, de hoogte en de diepte kunnen begrijpen, ja de liefde van Christus kennen die alle kennis te boven gaat, opdat u zult volstromen met Gods volkomenheid.
Efeziërs 3:18-19, NBV
Theresia Whitfield, Indianapolis, IN
“The righteous cry out, and the Lord hears them; he delivers them from all their troubles.” Psalm 34:17
There was a man, sent from God, whose name was John. He came as a witness, to bear witness about the light, that all might believe through him. John 1:6,7 ESV
Sara Wichert, Hillsboro, KS
Stand firm then, with the belt of truth buckled around your waist, with the breastplate of righteousness in place, Ephesians 6:14 NIV
Kelly in South Arkansas
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.”
1 Peter 5:7 NIV
Meredith Sloan – Greer, SC
Matthew 10:29- 30 (TLB)
Not one sparrow (What do they cost? Two for a penny?) can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it. And the very hairs of your head are all numbered. So don’t worry! You are more valuable to him than many sparrows.
Riche L, Fayetteville, NC
I will say of the Lord, “He is my refuge ad my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” Psalm 91:2 NIV
Melissa Morrow, Pike Road, AL
“Lead me by your truth and teach me,for you are the God who saves me.All day long I put my hope in you.”
Psalm 25:5 NLT
Alexia-Champaign, IL
“So then, those who suffer according to God’s will should commit themselves to their faithful Creator and continue to do good.”
I Peter 4:19 NIV
Lacy, Eugene, OR
2 Corinthians 1:8-9
“We were under great pressure, far beyond our ability to endure, so that we dispaired even of life. Indeed, in our hearts we felt the sentence of death. But this happen that we might not rely on ourselves but on God, who raises the dead.” NIV
We also pray that you will be strengthened with all his glorious power so you will have all the endurance and patience you need. May you be filled with joy,
Colossians 1:11
Regina~ Floydada, Tx.
~”Therefore be imitators of God, as beloved children. And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.” ~Ephesians 5:1-2 ESV