*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!
Kelly Sayle, Chattanooga, TN
Proverbs 31:17 (AMP)
“She girds herself with strength [spiritual, mental, and physical fitness for her God-given task] and makes her arms strong and firm”
Cynthia, Missouri
He predestined us for adoption as sons through Jesus Christ, according to the purpose of His will.
Esphesians 1:5 ESV
Peggyann Calderwood, Crestview, Florida
“In the day of my trouble I call upon You, for You answer me.”
Psalm 86:7 NKJV Always Remember Jesus Loves You
1 Thessalonians 2:12GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)
you should live in a way that proves you belong to the God who calls you into His kingdom and glory.
Becky. Elkhart, KS
Pat Tilson, Firt Worth, TX: For Gid has not given us a spirit of fearfulness, but one of power, love, and sound judgment. 2 Timothy 1:7 (HCSB)
Candie – Waterloo, Iowa
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer.
Romans 12:12 (ESV)
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. (â€1 Peter‬ â€4‬:â€8‬ NIV)
Robin Sandlin, Denver City, Tx—Let all that I am praise the LORD; with my whole heart, I will praise his holy name. Psalm 103:1-2
“These are the things God has revealed to us by his Spirit. The Spirit searches all things, even the deep things of God.” 1Corinthians‬ â€2‬:â€10‬ NIV
Toni Amarillo Texas
In you,O Lord, I have taken refuge;let me never be put to shame;deliver me in your righteousness.
Liz Richmond, Midland, Texas
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.
Ps. 139:14, NIV
Laura Proctor, Madison, MS
But the seed on good soil stands for those with a noble and good heart who hear the Word, retain it, and by persevering produce a crop. Luke 8:15 NIV
Wendy Karabensh
Vero Beach
“He gives strength to the weary
and increases the power of the weak.”
Isaiah 40:29
NIV
Peggy Hale
Mauriceville,Texas
Continuing with Psalm 103:11 (LASB NIV)
11 For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his love for those who fear him;
Tami J Fall City WA
“Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”. Matthew 11:28 HCSB
Aretha Gearhart, Council Bluffs IA – John 19:30 ESV – When Jesus had received the sour wine, he said, “It is finished,” and he bowed his head and gave up his spirit.
Dana McKinney. For, ” In just a little while , he who is coming will come and will not delay.” Hebrews 10:37 NIV
Train up a child in the way they should go and when they are old they will not turn from it.
Proverbs 22:4. NIV
Fran, Jackson, TN
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another, even as I have loved you, that you also love one another. “By this all men will know that you are My disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:34-35 NASB
Gwen of Doylestown, PA
And yet, “Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind.” (â€Ecclesiastes‬ â€4‬:â€6‬ NLT)
Pamela Muncy from Ashland, KY
Above all love each other deeply because love covers over a multitude of sins.
1 Peter 4:8 NIV
Dawn Moore Buford,GA
Romans 12:2
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will.
Kim Davis, Bristol, Tenn.
“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.”
Psalm 103:1-2 (NLT)
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever
Psalm 125:1
Anna from Mo
Connie, Tyler Tx. For I know that my Redeemer lives, and He shall stand at last in the earth. Job 19:25 NKJV
Trudy Burnett, Middletown, OH
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.
Philippians 4:6 NLT
Cheri VerMurlen, Bothell, WA
The Lord your God will cleanse your heart and the hearts of all your descendants so that you will love him with all your heart and soul, and so you may live!
Deuteronomy 30:6 NLT
Sarah, Kingwood, TX
Micah 6:8 (NKJV)
He has shown you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?
Juanita
Boston, MA
But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. Gal 5:22-23 ESV
Beth, Lansing, MI
Ephesians 3:16 NASB, “that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man,”
karen, Cheney, WA
“Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.”
-Phillipians 1:2- (KJV)
Linda Ballard, Waxahachie, TX: “Yet the Lord longs to be gracious to you; he rises to show you compassion. For the Lord is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait on Him.” Isaiah 30:18 NIV
Judy Bailey, Panama City, Fl
Matthew 5:16 ESV
Let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven.
Kathy Springer, Baton Rouge, LA
1 John 1:6 NLT
“So we are lying if we say we have fellowship with God but go on living in spiritual darkness; we are not practicing the truth.”
Karen McCormick – Waco, Texas.
For by grace you have been saved through faith. And this is not by your own doing; it is the gift of God, not a result of works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9
Barbara Stone
Springfield Mo.
Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation :old things have
passed away :behold, all things have become new.
2Corinthians. Z6:17
2 Corinthians 6:17
Isaiah 41:10
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
It is changed like clay under the seal, and its features stand out like a garment. Job 38:14 (ESV)
Corpus Christi, TX:
“This is the day the Lord has made; let us rejoice in it and be glad.”
Psalms 118:24 NAB
Charlotte
Philadelphia MS
“I am the vine; you are the branches. If you remain in me and I in you, you will bear much fruit; apart from me you can do nothing.
John 15:5
NIV
Karen Erickson, Richardson, TX
Oh, taste and see that the LORD is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!
Psalm 34:8 NKJV
Linda Turner, San Diego, CA
“Blessed are those who mourn, for they will be comforted.” Matthew 5:4
Doris, Madison, MS
It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23 (KJV)
Beth Adler, Visalia, CA
But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far away have been brought near through the blood of Christ. Ephesians 2:13 NIV
Paula Hayes, Oklahoma City, OK
The Lord is the one who goes ahead of you; he will be with you. He will not fail you or forsake you. Do not fear or be dismayed. Deuteronomy 31:8. NASB
Phoebe Holbrook from KY
Whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men.
Colossians 3:23 NAS
Lisa Jensen- Lyman, WY
And regardless of what else you put on wear love. Colossians 3:14a MSG
Just really having a hard time the last couple of weeks.
Honestly I have done nothing on memorization!!
I will try and pray harder
Hey girl:)
Don’t give up… Press on. Stand firm… The only way you make it to the top of a mountain is by steady endurance and pressing on. If it feels like a mountain just look and the little bit ahead which is just 15day…. I have been transformed by doing this. It will give you a stronger spirit proverbs 18:14… I literally have been delivered from deep dark pits of depression and now laugh to myself all the time because of what his word has done in me. The enemy would gladly have you thinking whatever you please or whatever he wants but I will minister directly from my last verse that is now written on my heart and fights for me when I get in doubt….. John 15:5 MSG I am the vine and you are the branches. When you are joined with me and I in you, the relation intimate and organic, the harvest is sure to be abundant! …seperate do from me you can do no good thing. But, when you make yourself at home with me and my words are at home in you, you can be sure whatever you ask will be listened to and acted upon.
Now this is not me bragging but boasting in the goodness of God, he bought that all out of my spirit because I would proclaim it everyday in the morning on my walk and in the evening before I go to bed….. I thought I couldn’t memorise scripture that well and was lagging but God prompted me I need to do this just as I would physical exercise to strengthen my spirit. Now when accusations come in my mind I have so much more ammunition and am taking back ground. You can do it! I used to memorise poems as a 5 year old and then as an adult for some reason I believed I couldn’t remember one verse! that was the enemy! I just didn’t put the effort in like I did for my little poem recitals. Now I have something infinitely more powerful on the inside of me. Press on! You can!
Lynda Staton, Keo, AR #9
The Lord is the strength of his people, a fortress of salvation for his anointed one.
Psalm 28:8. NIV
Amanda, Westfield, NC:
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..-Ephesians 3:20, NIV