*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!
Lorri Matthews Phenix City, Al.
Psalm 112:7 The Living Bible
He does not fear bad news, nor live in dread of what may happen. For he is settled in his mind that Jehovah will take care of him.
Linda Jewell
Sedona, AZ
Romans 14:13 (AMP)
13 Then let us no more criticize and blame and pass judgment on one another, but rather decide and endeavor never to put a stumbling block or an obstacle or a hindrance in the way of a brother.
Peoria, Arizona
“The Lord your God is in your midst, a might one who will save; he will rejoice over you with gladness; he will quiet you by his love; he will exult over you with loud singing.” Zephaniah 3:17 ESV
Sherry Page
Elizabeth, CO
Ephesians 4:32 NIV
Be kind and compassionate to one
another, forgiving each other, just
as in Christ God forgave you.
Angie Vernon, Harrah, OK
“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.” Psalms 119:36-37 NIV
Amy from Big Lake, MN
“I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future.”
Jeremiah 29:11 (NIV)
Elizabeth Marchman Blue Ridge, Georgia
But it is written,
“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined what God has prepared for those who love Him.”
1 Corinthians 2:9 ESV
Diana , Indianapolis, Isaiah 43:18-19a NIV
18 “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. 19 See, I am doing a new thing!
Delores, El Cajon, CA
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 (NIV)
Jacquie Terada from Mt. Vernon, WA
So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God. There we will receive his mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most. Hebrews 4:16
Salem, VA
O Lord, You are my God; I will exalt You; I will praise Your Name, for You have done wonderful things, plans formed of old, faithful and sure.
Isaiah 25:1 ESV
Michelle, Fort Collins, CO
“If you abide in me and my words abide in you, ASK for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you.” John 15:7 NRSV
Karen, La Vernia, TX
“I consider that our present sufferings are not worth comparing with the glory that will be revealed in us.”
Romans 8:18, NIV
Jen Massara, Albany, OR
For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus so we can do the good things He planned for us long ago. -Ephesians 2:10 NLT
Vicki, Surprise AZ
The Lord your God is in your midst,
a mighty one who will save;
he will rejoice over you with gladness;
he will quiet you by his love;
he will exult over you with loud singing.
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV
Cathy
Lebanon, OH
“If I ride the wings of the morning, if I dwell by the farthest oceans,” Psalm 139:9 NLT
Beverly V., Glasgow, KY
Psalm 20:7 (NIV) Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
Kerry,Durham NC
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus; (â€1 Timothy‬ â€2‬:â€5‬ KJV)
Emily, Petal, MS
“The Lord will accomplish that which concerns me; Your lovingkindness, O Lord, is everlasting; Do not forsake the works of your hands.” Psalm 138:8
Linda H, Buckeye, Az
“You know what I am going to say even before I say it, Lord”
Psalms 139:4 NLT
Alison Wagler, Vancouver, Canada.PSA 74:16 NASB
Yours is the day, Yours also is the night; You have prepared the light and the sun.
Julia, Whidbey Island, WA: ” 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.” Eph 3:19 NLT
Psalm 71:5 (KJV) For thou art my hope, O LORD GOD:
thou art my trust from my youth.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own Matt 6:34 NIV
Leisa Hale, Sheridan, Indiana
Revelation 21:4
He will wipe every tear from their eyes, and there will be no more death or sorrow or crying or pain. All these things are gone forever.
LASB / NLT
Krista Valdes Zamora. Round Rock, TX
“Whoever says he abides in HIM ought to walk in the way in which He walked.”
I John 2:6 ESV
Ephesians 3:18 ESV
may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Lori K., Leander, TX
“And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through Him.”
Col.3:17 NIV
Annette Turner, Houston Texas
The steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord,
And He delights in his way.
Though he fall, he shall not be utterly cast down;
For the Lord upholds him with His hand.
Psalm 37:23-24 (NKJV)
Laura Berg from Carlsbad, 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.”
2 Corinthians 12:9 NIV
Casey Hale, Roanoke, Texas
“I have stored up your word in my heart, that I might not sin against you.”
Psalm 119:11 – ESV
Becca Williams – Irvine, Ca
Ephesians‬ â€2‬:â€3‬ NIV
All of us also lived among them at one time, gratifying the cravings of our flesh and following its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature deserving of wrath.
Lydia Patterson, Gadsden, Alabama
“which He exerted in Christ when He raised Him from the dead and seated Him at His right hand in the heavenly realms,”–Ephesians 1:20 (small leg at continuing to memorize a large portion of Ephesians)
AND have to share, this will be the last memory verse I post as Lydia PATTERSON, I’m getting married next week y’all!!!!!!!! I’m 31 and this is my first (and only) marriage! Waited for it!!!! Praise God!!!
Polly from Pa
Romans 12-2 NIV
Do not conform any longer 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.
Christy Jones, Summit, MS; “Joyful are those who obey his laws and search for him with all their hearts.” Psalm 119:2 NLT
Marylee Hamblin, Nicholasville Ky, “if I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea” Psalm 139:9 NIV
Katie Logsdon – Dallas, TX – “He changes times and seasons; he sets up kings and deposes them. He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to the discerning. He reveals deep and hidden things; he knows what lies in darkness and light dwells with him.” Daniel 2:21-22 (NIV)
Melani Shock, Alexandria, LA (KJV) Isaiah 64:4-“For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.”
Pause for a moment, Job, and listen; consider the wonderful things God does.
Job 37:14 GNT
Ruth-Anne, Garvagh, N.Ireland
Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And [yet] not one of them is forgotten or uncared for in the presence of God. (â€Luke‬ â€12‬:â€6‬ AMP)
Kelli Hall ~ Sherwood, Oregon
“Listen, my son, accept what I say, and the years of your life will be many. I instruct you in the way of wisdom, and lead you along straight paths. When you walk, your steps will not be hampered; when you run, you will not stumble. Hold on to instruction, do not let it go; guard it well, for it is your life. “. Proverbs 4: 10-13. (NIV).
Katherine Jurn Emmett MI Psalm 23:6 Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD forever. king James Bible
Pause for a moment, Job, and listen; consider the wonderful things God does.
Job 37:14 GNT
Tanya, from Lorton, VA,
Psalm 16:8(NIV)
I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With him at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Callee Maglothin, Houston TX: “I love the Lord because he hears my voice and my prayer for mercy. Because he bends down to listen, I will pray as long as I have breath.” Psalm 116:1-2
Linda Hite, Borger, TX
Psalms 19:13 NIV Keep your servant also from willful sins; may they not rule over me. Then I will be blameless, innocent of great transgressions.
Holly Tabor, Nixa, Missouri
Finally, brothers, 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
From the rising of the sun to the place where it sets, the name of the Lord is to be praised. Psalms 113:3(NIV) Twyla McAmis, Cleveland, Tennessee.
Sarah C. Edmond, OK
“Blessed are those who have learned to acclaim you, who walk in the light of your presence, Lord. They rejoice in your name all day long; they celebrate your righteousness.” Psalm 89:15-16 NIV
Mary Goins, Bluford, Illinois
I will sing the Lord’s praise, for he has been good to me. (â€Psalm‬ â€13‬:â€6‬ NIV)