*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!
Vicki
Murfreesboro, TN
Deut. 31:8 (HCSB)
“The Lord is the one who will go before you. He will be with you; He will not leave you or forsake you. Do not be afraid or discouraged.”
Jerri Hadley, Wimberley, TX
“Satisfy us in the morning with your unfailing love, that we may sing for joy and be glad all of our days.” NIV
Elizabeth Steed, Rockwall, Texas
II Tim. 4:2 (NIV)
Preach the word; be prepared in season and out of season;correct, rebuke and encourage-with great patience and careful instruction.
Elisabeth
South Africa/Modesto, Ca
“If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea, even there your hand will guide me. Your right hand will hold me fast.”
Psalm 139:9-10 NIV
Janine – Ojai, CA
“This is love for God: to obey His commands. And His commands are not burdensome, for everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome the world, even our faith. Who is it that overcomes the world? Only he who believes that Jesus is the Son of God.” 1 John 5:3-5 NIV
Susan G., Overland Park. KS
“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Mt. 5:3 NIV
Lisa, Huntsville, AL:
Even to your old age and gray hairs, I am he, I am he who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you; I will sustain you and I will rescue you. — Is. 46:4 NIV84
Kim Freeman Fort Worth, Texas Ephesians 3:20 NIV
Now to him who is able to do immeasurably (abundantly)more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us.
Isaiah 55:6
” Seek the LORD while he may be found; call on him while he is near. “
Sharon from Van, TX
How can a young man keep his way pure? By living according to your word.
Psalm 119:9
Kristin, San Marcos, CA “But the wisdom that comes from heaven is first of all pure; then peace-loving, considerate, submissive, full of mercy and good fruit, impartial and sincere.” James 3:17 NIV
Lori Haller, Easton MD: Lamentations 3:22-23 The faithful love of the Lord never ends!His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness;his mercies begin afresh each morning. (NLT)
Lisa Medina
Fort Worth, TX
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous runs into it and is safe.
Proverbs 18:10, NAS
Naomi Rozak, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
“His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.” 2 Peter 1:3, NIV
Eva, Knoxville, TN – a time to search and a time to give up, Ecclesiastes 3:6 NIV
Yates Center, KS
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!”
Romans 8:15 ESV
Anne, Athens, Greece – Proverbs 16:3 (Amplified) – Roll your works upon the Lord [commit & trust them wholly to Him; He will cause your thoughts to become agreeable to His will, &] so your plans be established & succeed.
Ellen from Bad Axe Michigan
Ephesians 3:16 I pray that out of His glorious riches He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being
Dawn Doty. Tijeras NM
Isaiah 55:10 NLT
The rain and snow come down from the heavens and stay on the ground to water the earth. They cause the grain to grow, producing seed for the farmer and bread for the hungry.
Tammy Cosby; Siloam NC Proverbs 16:3….Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and your plans will succeed. (NIV)
Proverbs 11:30 NKJ. The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, and he who wins souls is wise.
Jenni, Elk Grove, CA, Zephaniah 3:17 (ESV) “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.”
Taryn from Corinth, TX
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
Isaiah 26:3 (NIV)
Sandra, Rock Hill, SC
Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.
Proverbs 19:21 NIV
Lynn, Lake Villa, IL
Ephesians 2:9 NLT
Salvation is not a reward for the good things we have done, so none of us can boast about it.
Shelly Elston, Portland, OR
“May have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth”
Ephesians 3:18 (ESV)
Philippians 4:7English Standard Version (ESV)
7 And the peace of God, which surpasses all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Kim L., Colonial Heights, VA
“But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.”
1 Peter 3:4 EXV
Kristen Fowler, Marble, NC
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.
Colossians 1:9 NIV
Cathy Bailey, Laguna Beach, Ca
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling you have received.
Ephesians 4:1 NIV
Mary Jayne, Holcomb MO
“All flesh is as grass, And all the glory of man as the flower of the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls away, but the word of the LORD will endure forever”
1Peter 1: 24,25
“What, then, shall we say in response to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all–how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?”
Romans 8:31-32 (NIV)
Plano, TX
Tempa Babington, Palm Bay, Fl
“Above all, LOVE each other deeply, because LOVE COVERS over a multitude of sins.”
I Peter 4:8 NIV
Liz Kelley, College Station, Tx
“Trust in Him at all times, o people; pour out your hearts to Him, for God is our refuge.”
Psalms 62:8 (NIV)
Samantha Zumbro, Golden, CO
“Truly he is my rock and my salvation; he is my fortress, I will not be shaken.” Psalm 62:6 (NIV)
Marsha Middleton – Lee’s Summit, MO
even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ(by grace you have been saved), Ephesians 2:5 NKJ
Whitney from Russellville, TN
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say, rejoice. Let your reasonableness be known to everyone. The Lord is at hand. Philippians 4:5-6. ESV
From Orange Park, Florida
But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father Will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all that I have said to you. ~John 14:26
Joy Wylie from College Station, TX
Ecclesiastes 7:12 NIV
Wisdom is a shelter as money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is this: Wisdom preserves those who have it.
Diane Flook, Flagstaff, AZ
“that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith; that you being rooted and grounded in love.” Ephesians 3:17
Diane White, Williamstown, WV
“Trust the Lord with all your heart and do not lean on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make straight your paths.”
Proverbs 3:5-6, NIV
Caroline Hucks
Conway, SC
“Be still, and know that I am God…” Psalm 46:10 NKJV
The Lord is a stronghold for the oppressed, a stronghold in times of trouble. And those who know your name put their trust in you, for you, O Lord, have not forsaken those who seek you. (Psalm 9:9-10 ESV)
Danielle from Cedar Park, TX
But let your adorning be the hidden person of the heart with the imperishable beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which in God’s sight is very precious.
1 Peter 3:4 (ESV)
Stacy from Hawkinsville, GA:
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful. Hebrews 10:23 (NIV)
Tina Shelton- Richmond, TX
“A time to scatter stones and a time to gather them, a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing”, – Ecclesiates 3:5. NIV
Eph 3:19 (ESV)
And to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge, that you may be filled with all the fullness of God.
Brenda Zabriskie
Lindon, Utah
Proverbs 3:5-6 Lean on, trust in, and be confident in the Lord with all your heart and mind and do not rely on your own insight or understanding. In all your ways know, recognize, and acknowledge Him, and He will direct and make straight and plain your paths.
Rhonda Jackson, Godfrey, Illinois
His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord. Matthew 25:21 – KJV
Shannon, Mandeville. “For the eyes of the Lord range throughout the earth to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him.” 2 Chronicles 16:9a