*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!
Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed. (â€Mark‬ â€1‬:â€35‬ NIV)
Heather Smith
Nashville, TN
“The Lord’s promises are pure,
like silver refined in a furnace,
purified seven times over.”
– Psalm 12:6 (NLT)
Kaye form Hamburg,AR
Ascribe to the LORD the glory due his name; worship the LORD in the splendor of his holiness. Â ( Psalm 29:2 NIV)
Karen Karker New Holland, Pennsylvania
“By faith Abraham, when called to go to a place he would later receive as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did not know where he was going.”
Hebrews 11:8
Barb, Urbandale, IA
For the mind set on the flesh is death, but the mind set on the Spirit is life and peace… Romans 8:7 NASB
Camon Criger, Longmont CO
Isaiah 40:11 (NKJV)
“He will feed His flock like a shepherd; He will gather the lambs with His arms, and carry them in His bosom and gently lead those who are with young.”
“may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,” Ephesians 3:18 (ESV)
Tricia D., missionary wife in Germany
Meagan, Woodstock, Ga.
“Preserve me, O God, for in you I take refuge. I say to the Lord, ‘You are my Lord; I have no good apart from you.’ As for the saints in the land, they are the excellent ones, in whom is all my delight. The sorrows of those who run after another god shall multiply; their drink offerings of blood I will not pour out or take their names on my lips. The Lord is my chosen portion and my cup; you hold my lit. The lines have fallen for me in pleasant places; indeed, I have a beautiful inheritance.” Psalm 16:1-6 ESV
Cheri Bunch, Louisville, KY
Romans 8:15 ESV
“For you did not receive the spirit of slavery to fall back into fear, but you have received the Spirit of adoption as sons, by whom we cry, “Abba! Father!” “
Sissy Youngblood, Ruston, La
Teach us to number our days,
that we may gain a heart of wisdom.
Psalm 90:12 NIV
Jody Bowhay in Huntsville, AL NIV
Ephesians 6:10-11
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the full armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.”
Lauralee Courtney
Austin, TX
And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ,
Ephesians 3: 17a-18 NIV
Christy, Granger, IN “They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. I say to myself, the Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for Him.” Lam. 3:23-24 (NIV)
Danielle, Pinewood, SC
Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth! (â€Psalms‬ â€46‬:â€10‬ NKJV)
Abilene, TX
Psalms 84:5
Blessed are those whose strength is in you, whose hearts are set on pilgrimage.
Kristi B.
Houston, TX
Psalm 141:3
“Set a guard over my mouth, LORD; keep watch over the door of my lips.”
Liz Millinor
St Johns, FL
For the entire law is fulfilled in keeping this one command: “Love your neighbor as yourself.” (â€Galatians‬ â€5‬:â€14‬ NIV)
Shiffra Kalamazoo, MI
“I will instruct and teach you in this way that you are to go; I will give you counsel; My eyes will be watching you.” Psalm 32:8 CJB
Brenda Payne, Midlothian, VA “But now says the LORD, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.” Isaiah 43:1 ESV
Karen Laughlin, Deweyville, TX
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
(Galatians 6:9, NIV)
Phyllis, Irvine, CA, “Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as in fact you are doing.” 1 Thessalonians 5:11 (NIV)
Laura, Englewood. What good is it, my brother and sisters, if someone claims to have faith but does not have works? Can this kind of faith save him? James 2:14 NET
Sherry Chong. Orlando, fl. Psalm 16:9. Therefore my heart is glad and my whole being rejoices; my flesh also dwells secure. ESV.
Michelle G. from Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
You are my rock and my fort. Lead me and guide me for the honour of your name. Psalm 31:3 NIRV
Kem Green, Des Moines, IA
For from his fullness we have all received, grace upon grace. (â€John‬ â€1‬:â€16‬ ESV)
Margaret Neil
Jackson, TN
And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation. Romans 5:4 NLT
John 14:27 NJKV
Peace I leave with you, My peace I give to you; not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.
Sue Big Rapids, MI
l Chronicles 16:8 NASB O give thanks to the LORD, call upon His name; make known His deeds among the peoples.
Hannah Rodriguez – Dallas, Tx.
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. -Psalm 150:4 (KJV)
Teresa, Walla Walla, II Thessalonians 3:3 NLT
“But the LORD is faithful; He will make you strong and guard you from the evil one.”
Pamela, Schwenksville, PA (NIV)
“I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you; I will remove from you your heart of stone and give you a heart of flesh.” Ezekiel 36:26
Tulsa, OK
“If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things that are above, not things that are on earth. For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.”
Colossians 3: 1-3 (ESV)
“But thanks be to God, who always puts us on display in Christ, and spreads through us in every place the scent of knowing him.” 2 Corinthians 2:14 (HCSB)
Becky
Judy, Satellite Beach, FL
Set your minds on things that are above, not on things that are on earth. Colossians 3:2(ESV)
Ginger
Charlotte, NC
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.”
Hebrews 10:23 NIV
Amanda, West Monroe, La
“She is clothed in strength and Dignity! and she laughs without fear of the future”
Proverbs 31: 25
Julie Gresham Jackson, MS
Ephesians 6:13 NIV “Therefore put on the full armor of God, so that when the day of evil comes, you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.”
Nikki L, Littleton, CO
“For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.”
2 Corinthians 5:21 ESV
Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins. I Peter 4:8, NIV
Carole from Kingwood – He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way. (â€Psalm‬ â€25‬:â€9‬ NIV)
Shawna from Chandler Oklahoma.
“When I am afraid, I will trust in you.” Psalm 56:3 NIV
“Unless the Lord had given me help, I would soon have dwelt in the silence of death.”
Psalm 94:17 NIV
Adrianna Anderson
Pinson, Al
Teri, Kalamazoo Michigan
Hebrews 10:34 (NASB)
For you showed sympathy to the prisoners
and accepted joyfully the seizure of your property,
knowing that you have for yourselves a better possession and a lasting one.
Faith from Coeur d’Alene, ID
Ephesians 1:6 NKJV
to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved.
Deb, Becker, MN
But blessed are those who trust in the LORD and have made the LORD their hope and confidence. Jeremiah 17:7 ESV
Misti Robinson from Houston, TX
My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, because human anger does not produce the rightousness that God desires.”
James 1:19-20 NIV
Kim Beechem from Idabel, OK:
“So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith. And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love.” Ephesians 3:17 (NIV)
Carol Rice Deer Park, TX
Your God has decreed your strength.
Show Your strength, God,
You who have acted on our behalf. Psalm 68:28 HCSB
Jenny Fridge, Richmond, TX
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Galatians 6:9 NIV
Connie – Fulton,KY
Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing I desire besides you.
My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
Psalm 73:25-26 NIV 1984