*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!
Colorado Springs, CO (formerly Davenport, IA)
Deuterronomy 8:2 Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the desert these forty years, to humble you and to test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep His commands.
Seek to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we commanded you.
1 Thes 4:11 HCSB
Lori, Edenton, NC
Susan, Houston
Is. 40:28 (ESV)- Have you not known? Have you not heard?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of the ends of the earth. He does not faint or grow weary; his understanding is unsearchable.
Joanna Schumacher, Arlington, TX
Deuteronomy 31:6 – KJV
“Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.”
Susan Young, Fairhope.AL My brothers, as believers in our glorious Lord Jesus Christ, don’t show favoritism. James 2:1 (NIV)
Vickie, Spokane,Wa.
For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts
to give us the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:6 NIV
Abi Welch, Luverne, AL. “Whoever says he abides in Him ought to walk in the same way in which Jesus walked.” 1 John 2:6 ESV
Nashville, TN
“I will not die, but live, and tell of the works of the Lord. The Lord has disciplined me severely, but He has not given me over to death.”
-Psalm 118:17-18, NASB
Donna, Ponder, TX Galations 5:14 ESV For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: ” you shall love your neighbor as yourself.
Cait McCoy, Masontown, PA. “May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in Him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.” Romans 15:13, NIV.
Angela Tempe AZ.
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort
2 Corinthians 1:3 NIV
Valerie Maddox – Humble, Texas
Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you. Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded. (â€James‬ â€4‬:â€7-8‬ ESV)
Jana S., Houston TX
Job 11:17 (NIV)
And your life will be brighter than the sun at noonday…its darkness will be like the morning.
London
Denham Springs, LA
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.
-2 Corinthians‬ â€4‬:â€18‬ NIV
Rachel, Plano, “And without faith it is impossible to please him, for whoever would draw near to God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.” Hebrews 11:6 (ESV)
So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith-that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Eph. 3:17 ESV
Melissa, Augusta, GA
I will instruct thee and teach thee in the way which thou shalt go: I will guide thee with mine eye.
Psalm 32:8, KJV
Abigail Dubbe, Red Lion PA, Acts 4:10 “Then know this, you and all the people of Israel: It is by the Name of Jesus Chirst of Nazareth, whom you crucified but whom God raised from the dead, that this man STANDS BEFORE YOU HEALED.”
Brady Bradshaw, Cedar Rapids IA. Christ has set us free to live a free life. So take your stand! Never again let anyone put a harness of slavery on you. Galations 5:1 MSG
Pam Worcester, Glen Elder, Kansas
You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with your whole heart. Jeremiah 29:13 (ESV)
Liz Yarbrough, Atlanta, GA
Christ has set us free. He wants us to enjoy freedom. So stand firm. Don’t let the chains of slavery hold you again. (â€Galatians‬ â€5‬:â€1‬ NIRV)
Kathleen Noisette, Ottawa ON Canada
“From the month of the righteous comes the fruit of wisdom, but a perverse tongue will be silenced.” Proverbs 10:31 NIV
2 Timothy 1:7 For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. NIV
Kyleigh Porter, Raleigh, NC
“Do not be wise in your own eyes; fear the Lord and shun evil. This will bring health to your body and nourishment to your bones.” Proverbs 3:7,8 (NIV)
Candice Kindrick
Rogers, Arkansas
Let’s see how inventive we can be in encouraging love and helping out, not avoiding worshiping together as some do but spurring each other on, especially as we see the big Day approaching.
Hebrews 10: 24-25 (The Message)
Heather, Hempstead, TX
Wait for the Lord; be strong, and let your heart take courage; wait for the Lord! Psalm 27:14 (NIV)
“Wait on the Lord, Be of Good Courage, & He Shall Strengthen your Heart.” NIV Psalms 27:14
Charlotte Heisel Midesto,CA
Psalms 91:1 (NLT)
Those who live in the shelter of the Most High
Will find rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
Susan, Knoxville, TN
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. Romans 5:3-4
Rolanda Hairston Ft. Worth, TX
“So we are Christs ambassadors; God is making his appeal through us. We speak for Christ when we plead, “Come back to God!” For God made Christ, who never sinned, to be the offering for our sin, so that we could be made right with God through Christ.” 2nd Corinthians 5:20-21 NLT
Makayla, Nixa, MO
For the entire law is fulfilled in one statement: Love your neighbor as yourself.
Galatians 5:14 HCSB
Goshen, IN
So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen, since what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2 Corinthians‬ â€4‬:â€18‬ (NIV)
Patty, Shelton, WA
Philippians 2:13 (NIV) For it is God who works in you to will and to act according to his good purpose.
Doris Ann Barnes, Manchester, GA
John 12:47 KJV And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
Kaci; Thomasville, Ga
“It [love] always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preserves.”
1 Corinthians 13:7 NIV
Chris, Seattle, WA
May the favor of the Lord our God rest upon us; establish the work of our hands for us–
yes, establish the work of our hands. Psalm 90:17
Martha, Cocoa, FL
Psalm 86:11-12 NIV
Teach me your way, LORD, and I will walk in your truth; give me an undivided heart, that I may fear your name. I will praise you , O LORD, with all my heart. I will glorify your name forever.
Val, Aldergrove, BC Canada
Jeremiah 6:16 NIV
This is what the Lord says, ‘Stand at the crossroads and look,
Ask for the ancient paths
Ask where the good way is and walk in it
And you will find rest for your souls.’
Jennifer Brosdahl, Menahga, MN
“And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.” Colossions 3:14
Kathy, Easley SC
Cast your cares on the Lord
and he will sustain you;
he will never let
the righteous be shaken.
Psalm 55:22 NIV
Misty Weare, Alliance, NE
2 Thessalonians 2:1-2
“Now concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our being gathered together to Him, we ask you, brothers, not to be quickly shaken in mind or alarmed, either by a spirit or a spoken word, or a letter seeming to be from us, to the effect that the day of the Lord has come.”
Nell Brinkley chattanooga tn The lord appeared to him from far away. I have loved you with an everlasting love; therefore I have continued my faithfulness to you. Jeremiah 31;3. Esv
Mary Lou
Farmington, NM
And we know that in all thing, God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28 NIV
Kathie Dini-the Lord will fulfill his purpose for me;your love, O lord, endures forever- do not abandon the works of your hands. Ps. 138:8 NIV
Lynn Watson. Hurst, TX
Hebrews 10:25. NKJV
Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as is the manner of some, exhorting one another, and so much more as you see the day approaching.
Stephanie Tanner, Cordova, TN
In all you ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Proverbs 3:6 NIV
Amy Harrison, Lubbock, TX
He will give His angels orders concerning you, to protect you in all your ways.
Psalm 91:11 HCSB
Elke Ingersoll – Lake Geneva, WI
“For the word of God is alive and active. Sharper than any double-edged sword, it penetrates even to dividing soul and spirit, joints and marrow; it judges the thoughts and attitudes of the heart.” – Hebrews 4:12 (NIV)
Gail-Tyler,TX
And this I pray, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and all discernment,
Philippians 1:9 NKJV
Megan M., St. Louis, MO
“For God alone my soul waits in silence; from Him comes my salvation. He only is my rock and my salvation, my fortress; I shall not be greatly shaken.” Psalm 62:1-2 ESV