*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!
Karen, Flower Mound, TX
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self-control.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV
Lacey D.
Oakwood, OH
2 Cor 3:12 NASB
Therefore having such a hope, we use great boldness in our speech
Gail Peacock, Longview, Texas
God is faithful, who has called you into fellowship with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord. (â€1 Corinthians‬ â€1‬:â€9‬ NIV)
Renee Hui, British Columbia, Canada
Romans 12:12 Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. (NIV)
Emily McAnear, Corona, CA
“The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.” Job 33:4, NIV
Debbie Lamoreux, Wilmington, NC Come and see what our God has done, what awesome miracles he performs for people…Who put and kept us among the living, and has not allowed our feet to slip. For you have tried us as silver is tried: refined and purified…We went through fire and flood [water] but you brought us to a place of great abundance…Praise God who did not ignore my prayer or withdraw his unfailing love from me. Psalm 66: 5, 9, 10, 12, 20 NLT AMP
Lenora Grayson, Nixa, Missouri
That is why his faith was “counted to him as righteousness.” (â€Romans‬ â€4‬:â€22‬ ESV)
The aim of our charge is love that issues from a pure heart and a good conscience and a sincere faith. 1 Timothy 1:5, ESV
Alice’ H. PIneville LA – And my God will supply every need of yours according to his riches in glory in Christ Jesus. Phil 4:19
Abbie, North Platte, NE
Psalm 127:2 “It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil; for he gives his beloved sleep.” (ESV)
Ally, Houston, TX.
“Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.
From the end of the earth will I cry unto thee, when my heart is overwhelmed: lead me to the rock that is higher than I.
For thou hast been a shelter for me, and a strong tower from the enemy.
I will abide in thy tabernacle for ever: I will trust in the covert of thy wings.”
Psalm 61:1-4 KJV
Julie, Albuquerque
A man’s mind plans his way, but the Lord directs his steps and makes them sure.
Proverbs 16:9 AMP
Judy Huntsville Alabama:
Above all else guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it. Proverbs 4:23
Gloria Davis, Mansfield, OH
“Blessed are those who wash their robes, that they may have the right to the tree of life and may go through the gates into the city.”
Revelation 22:14 (NIV)
Kathleen. Saint Joseph Michigan
Proverbs 16:9
We can make our plans but the Lord determines our steps.
NLT
Pammela W. from Albuquerque, NM
The Lord does not look at the things man looks at. Man looks at the outward appearance, but The Lord looks at the heart. (1 Samuel 16:23) NIV
Cindy, Lancaster OH
Psalm 19:14 (ESV)
“Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in your sight, O LORD, my rock and my redeemer.”
Roni – Demopolis, Alabama – “Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
And in sin my mother conceived me.” NABS Psalm 51:5
Kris Morrissey Omaha, NE
I am the Lord, and there is no other; apart from me there is no God. I will strengthen you, though you have not acknowledged me,
Isaiah 45:5 (NIV)
Tami, Denver, CO:
For this reason I kneel before the father,
Ephesians 3:14
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18. (NIiV)
Mission Viejo
And so I tell you, keep on asking and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on knocking and the door will be opened to you. Keep on seeking and you will find. For everyone who asks, receives, everyone who seeks, finds, and to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
Luke 11:9-11 NLT
Rebecca Sprenger; Marana, AZ
for through him God created everything in the heavenly realms and on earth. He made the things we can see and the things we can’t see— such as thrones, kingdoms, rulers, and authorities in the unseen world. Everything was created through him and for him. (â€Colossians‬ â€1‬:â€16‬ NLT)
Psalm 41:11 Amplified
“…by this I know that You favor and delight in me, because my enemy does not triumph
over me ! “
Deborah Harney-Columbia City, IN: “Fixing our eyes on ,Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2
Ashley Lewis, Marshalltown, Iowa
Psalm 127:5 NIV
Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.
My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:2 NIV
Mariposa Sivage, Albuquerque New Mexico
May the Lord answer you when you are in trouble; may the God of Jacob make you secure. Psalm 10:1
Working on ELMINATING what I do not want to Generate. Thanks for a great LPL in Albuquerque.
Steph, Irvine, CA
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.” (2 Timothy 1:7, NKJV)
Robin Byrd, Columbia,SC
Ephesians 3:16
“I pray that out of His Glorious Riches
He may Strengthen you with Power
Through His Spirit in your inner being.”
NIV
Linda, Las Vegas, NV, –
To you, O Lord, I lift up my spirit. Psalm 25:1 NIV
Amber Ball, Nicholasville, KY
God blesses those who patiently endure testing and temptation. Afterward they will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love Him. James 1:12 NLT
Kristy McIntyre, Eugene OR – 1 Cor. 9:25 NASB
Everyone who competes in the games exercises self control in all things. They do it to receive a perishable wreath, but we an imperishable.
Paula Hale, Brownwood, Tx
Then Christ will make His home in your hearts as you trust in Him. Your roots will grow down into God’s love and keep you strong.
Ephesians 3:17 NLT
Amy S., Buda, Texas
“I delight greatly in the Lord; my soul rejoices in my God. For he has clothed me with garments of salvation and arrayed me in a robe of righteousness.” -Isaiah 61:10
Max Lucado devotional Bible
Romans 12:9
Your love must be real. Hate what is evil and hold on to what is good.
…may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,… Eph 3:18
Carol Marshall- Gilbert, AZ
II Thess 2:16-17
Now may our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God Our Father, who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace, comfort your hearts and establish them in every good work and word.
ESV
Do everything without grumbling or arguing. Phil 2:14 NIV
Lisa
Moyock
Wanda Calderwood, Crofton. Maryland
“That Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you, being rooted and grounded in love,”
Ephesians 3:17 NKJV
Debbie DeLeo in Seattle…
But now, thus says the LORD, your Creator, O Jacob, and He who formed you, O Israel, “Do not fear, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name; you are Mine!… Since you are precious in My sight; since you are honored and I love you…”
Isaiah 43:1,4 NASB
Keron, Boise, Idaho
Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
Psalm 119:105 ESV
Romans 15:6 (NIV)
So that with one mind and one voice you may glorify the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ
Melany
Van Alstyne, TX
Judy Madison, Beaumont, California
Through Him then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is the fruit of lips that give thanks to His name. And do not neglect doing good and sharing, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.
Hebrews 13:15-16 NASB
Kristen Johnstone
Boulder CO
“Let the beloved of the Lord rest secure in him,
for he shields him all day long,
and the one the Lord loves rests between his shoulders.” Deuteronomy 33:12 NIV
Anna, Little Elm, TX
For freedom, Messiah set us free – so stand firm, and do not be burdened by a yoke of slavery again.
Galatians 5:1 (TLV)
Joanna Trauger, Greer, SC
You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast, because they trust in you.
Isaiah 26:3 NIV
Diane, Durham,NC
Proverbs 4:25 NIV
Let your eyes look straight ahead; fix your gaze directly before you.
Liz, Round Rock, Tx
For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it again.
John 10:17 NASB
Elizabeth Steed, Rockwall, Texas
I Cor. 9:24-27 NIV
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run but only one gets the prize. Everyone who competes in the games goes into strict training. they do it to get a prize that doesn’t last. We do it to get a prize that lasts forever. Therefore, I do not run like a man running aimlessly. I do not fight like a man beating the air. No, I beat my body and make it my slave so that after I have preached to others, I myself will not be disqualified for the prize.