*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!
Lisa, Granville, Ohio
There I will give her back her vineyards and will make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will sing as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up out of Egypt. Hosea 2:15 NIV
Makoto- Carlsbad, CA
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. (â€1 Peter‬ â€5‬:â€6‬ NIV)
Malia R. – California
I brought you into a fertile land to eat its fruit and rich produce. But you came and defiled my land and made my inheritance detestable. (â€Jeremiah‬ â€2‬:â€7‬ NIV)
Sara Blakely, Lavonia, GA. “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
Makoto Houck, Carlsbad, CA
Humble yourselves, therefore, under God’s mighty hand, that he may lift you up in due time. (â€1 Peter‬ â€5‬:â€6‬ NIV)
Terry in Louisa, VA
And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Colossians 3:14 NIV
“Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, Lord”
Psalm 89:15 NIV
Eph 3:17-19
17 so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith—that you, being rooted and grounded in love, 18 may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, 19 and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
ESV
Merideth Colvert, Conroe, TX
“Do everything without grumbling or arguing, so that you may become blameless and pure, “children of God without fault in a warped and crooked generation.” Then you will shine among them like stars in the sky”
Philippians 2:14-15
Anita Siecker, Purcellville, VA
I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end he will stand upon the earth.
Job 19:25 NIV84
” Father forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing “Luke 23:24 NIV
Ruth, Shawnee, KS
Psalm 27:5-6 — For in the day of trouble he will keep me safe in his dwelling; he will hide me in the shelter of his sacred tent and set me high upon a rock. Then my head will be exalted above the enemies who surround me; at his sacred tent I will sacrifice with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the Lord.
Catherine Lisle, Albuquerque NM. “He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it.” 1 Thessalonians 5:24 ESV
Marilyn Gillis, Florence, AL
4/30/15
Ephesians 3:18 NIV
may have power, together with all the saints,
To grasp how wide and long and high and
deep is the love of Christ,
Beth Stoffregen, Laguna Hills, CA
may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Ephesians 3:18 (ESV)
Leslie Jordan
Rochester, MN
“Never stop praying.”
1 Thessalonians 5:17 NLT
Ashley G.
Royal Oak, MI
“For the foolishness of God is wiser than man’s wisdom, and the weakness of God is stronger than man’s strength.” – 1 Corinthians 1:25 NIV
for May 1,2015:
” For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.”
Ephesians 2: 10 (NIV)
Barbara Ford – Troy, MO – “Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.” – Proverbs 29:25 NIV
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
Marie from Post Falls, Idaho –
“Stand fast therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free,and do not be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.” – Galatians 5:1 (NKJV)
Pam in Chiangmai, Thailand
Ephesians 3:19 NLT
May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.
Franklin TN
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied.
Matthew 5:6 ESV
Tina Lockhart, Gulfport, MS
Come to me, all who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. (Matthew 11:28) NIV
Philippians 3:20 (NASB)
20 For our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we eagerly wait for a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ;
Kristen Lucas: San Diego, CA: ” But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may rest on me.” -NIV
Shana – Dequincy, La
Psalm 103:1-2 (NLT)
Let all that I am praise the Lord; with my whole heart, I will praise His holy name. Let all that I am praise the Lord; may I never forget the good things He does for me.
Dianne Maineville, Ohio
Ephesianes 3 :14&15
For this reason I kneel before the Father,
from whom every family in heaven and on
earth derives it’s name.
Laurel Montealegre White Pigeon, MI
“I have no greater joy than this, to hear of my children walking in the truth.”
3 John 1:4 NASB
Bradenton FL
Psalm 16:6 NASB The lines have fallen to me in pleasant places; Indeed, my heritage is beautiful to me.
Danyelle
Beavercreek, OH
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. â€Philippians‬ â€3‬:â€12‬ (NIV)
Red Deer, AB, Canada
Psalm 18:3 (NAS)
“I call upon the Lord who is worthy to be praised, and I am saved from my enemies.”
Southlake, TX
2 Corinthians 4:18 NIV “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”
Angela from Aurora, NE – “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where theives do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.” Matthew 6:19-21 NIV84
Kathryn Wolff from Pawnee, Texas
Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men, knowing that from the Lord you will receive the reward of the inheritance. It is the Lord Christ whom you serve.
Colossians 3:23, 24 NAS
Shelley from San Angelo
Your laws are always right;
help me to understand them so I may live.
Psalm 119:144
Amy – Omaha NE
1 Corinthians 16:13-14
Be on your guard; stand firm in the faith; be men (women) of courage; be strong. Do everything in love.
“and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.” Ephesians 3:19 NIV
John 1:9 (NIV)
“The true light that gives light to every man was coming into the world.”
Sunni Sutphin Mount Airy North Carolina 1 Corinthians 2:7 NASB
but we speak God’s wisdom in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God predestined before the ages to our glory;
Carol Bruntlett
Albuquerque Nm
Psalm91:1 NIV
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty
Mary Witte, Grand Rapids, MN
“These things will last forever–faith, hope, and love–and the greatest of these is love.”
1 Corinthians 13:13 NLT
Moulton, Alabama: “From the end of the earth I call to you when my heart is faint. Lead me to the rock that is higher than I.” Psalm 61:2 ESV
Renee from Lansing, MI
2 Corin 12:9 ESV “But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness” 2 Corin 12:9 ESV
Psalm 139: 7-8
“Where can I go from Your Spirit? Where can I flee
from Your Presence? If I go to the heavens, You are
there; if I make my bed in the depths, You are there.”
Lisa Curtis
Jackson, MO
And without faith it is impossible to please God because anyone who comes to him must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who earnestly seek him.
Hebrews 11:6 NIV
Melissa Rausch Blue Springs, MO
God is not a man so He does not lie. He is not human, so He does not change His mind. Has He ever spoken and failed to act? Has He ever promised and not carried it through?
Numbers 23:19 NLT
Molly Overland Park “Fear not, little flock, for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom” Luke 12:32 ESV
Kristen Apache junction, Az
Psalm 27:1 NIV
The Lord is my light and my salvation— whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life— of whom shall I be afraid?
Let your gentleness be evident to all.
Philippians 4:5a
I am a school teacher & I have a rough class this year and it’s had to let my gentleness be evident…