*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!
Elaine from Greenville, SC Colossians 3:4 (NLT) And when Christ, who is your life, is revealed to the whole world, you will share in all his glory.
Philippians 3:14 I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly call in Christ Jesus.
Beverly Verhage Huntsville AL
I can’t believe I couldn’t remember the scripture I referenced. Ugh this memory. I had to come back and find me to be able to memorize correct one. Haha
I’m behind on verses so here are 2:
If in Christ we have hope in this life only, we of all people most to be pitied I Cor. 15:19 NIV
Rejoice in hope, be patient in tribulation, be constant in prayer. Rom. 12:12 NIV
It was so encouraging when Beth said even if you can’t memorize well you can still meditate on your verses!!!! So I meditate alot!!
Brenda Russell
Hendersonville TN
“I will instruct you and teach you in the way you should go; I will counsel you with my loving eye on you.” Psa 32:8 NIV
Kelly, Glenwood, MD– ” A heart at peace gives life to the body, but envy rots the bones.” Proverbs 14:30, NIV
Pattie Jager – Holland MI
“But as for me, I know that my Redeemer lives,
and he will stand upon the earth at last.
Job 19:25 NLT
Romans 8:11 ESV – If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Pearland, TX. ‘Because we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that can defile our body or spirit. And let us work toward complete holiness because we fear God.’ (â€2 Corinthians‬ â€7‬:â€1‬ NLT)
Julie P Tierra Verde
you may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, (â€Ephesians‬ â€3‬:â€18‬ NET)
Nikki R., Alexandria, LA
“May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed.”
Psalm 20:4 (NIV)
Judy Campbell of Marietta, Ga says: Teach me to do your will for you are my God. May your gracious spirit lead me forward. Psalm 143:10 NLT
Susan L. (central IL) This extraordinary knowledge is beyond me. It is lofty; I am unable to reach it. (Psalm 139:6, HCSB)
Kelly Davis, Danville VA. Job 19:25 NIV
I know that my redeemer lives and that in the end He will stand on the earth.
Bowling Green, KY
Let us therefore draw near with confidence to the throne of grace,
that we may receive mercy and may find grace to help
In time of need. Hebrews 4:16 (NASB)
Psalm 125:1 Those who trust in the LORD are like Mount Zion, which cannot be shaken but endures forever.
by which have been given to us exceedingly great and precious promises, that through these you may be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust. 2 Peter 1:4
Kim Joyner; Poplar Bluff, MO. “The mind of man plans his way, But the LORD directs his steps.” Proverbs 16:9 (NASB)
Pat S., Lago Vista, TX
“You, God, are my God, earnestly I seek You; I thirst for You, my whole being longs for You,in a dry and parched land where there is no water.” Psalm 63:1-8 NIV
Deut. 30:6 ESV
And the LORD your God will circumcise your heart and the heart of your offspring so that you will love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your soul, that you may live.
Michelle V, Hewitt, TX
Through Christ we can approach God and stand in his favor. So we brag because of our confidence that we will receive glory from God.
Romans 5:2 GW
Cheri Cochran, Frisco, TX
“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!” (â€Romans‬ â€8‬:â€15‬ ESV)
Sue, houston..II CORITHIANS 2:14 NIV
thanks be to God who always leads us and
uses us to spread the aroma of the knowledge
of HIM everywhere
Layne Hall. Columbus MS: If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14 NKJV
1Corinthians 15:58 NIV
“Therefore, my dear brothers, stand firm. Let nothing move you. Always give yourselves fully to the work of The Lord, because you know that your labor in The Lord is not in vain.”
Carol B. – Conyers, GA Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy and find grace to help in time of need. Hebrews 4:16(NKJV)
Rebekah McAnally
Florence, CO
Psalms 23:4 NLT
Even when I walk through the darkest valley, I will not be afraid, for you are close beside me. Your rod and your staff protect and comfort me.
Rhonda Nelson from Grapevine, TX
“I saw the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.”
Acts 2: 25
Psalm 16:8 ESV
Michelle – Franklin, TN
For our battle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the world powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavens.
Ephesians 6:12 (HCSB)
Katrinna Durbin, Bossier City, LA, Romans 12:18 NIV, “If it is possible, as far as it depends on you, live at peace with everyone.”
If anyone considers himself religious and yet does not keep a tight rein on his tongue he deceives himself and his religion is worthless
James 1:26 NIV
Paola Hernandez-Hoffmann, Pinellas Park, Fl
Psalm 52:8 ESV
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God. I trust in the steadfast love of God forever and ever.
Fern Massey – Leavenworth, KS
Now this is the confidence we have before(in approaching-NIV) Him; Whenever we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. -1 John 5:14-HCSB
Mona, Bossier City, LA, 2 Corinthians 1:4 NIV “who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God.”
Eph. 3:16-17 NIV
I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being, so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith.
Annette- Columbus, OH
The true light, which enlightens everyone, was coming into the world. John 1:9 (ESV)
Vonda, Thorntown, IN
Eph 3:16 (ESV)
that according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His spirit in your inner being
Eph 3:16 (ESV)
Vanessa – Johnson City, TN
1 John 3:1
See what great love, the father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God!
Save travels across the pond!Godspeed!
Love the word “lavish”! Thanks for the inspiration; this is the Scripture I need.
Julie, Gahanna, OH
“Fear not for I am with you. Be not dismayed, for I am your God.I will strengthen you,Yes, I will help you, I will uphold you with My righteous right hand.”
Isaiah 41:10 NKJ
Valerie, Columbus, GA
The Lord is good, a strong refuge when trouble comes. He is close to those who trust in Him. Nahum 1:7 NLT
Rosa, Cane Ridge, TN “These things I have spoken to you, that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation; but be of good cheer, I have overcome the world.” (â€John‬ â€16‬:â€33‬ NKJV)
romans 15:13
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.
Sue Groveport, OH
Psalm 37:16-17 NIV
Better the little the righteous have than the wealth of many wicked; for the power of the wicked will be broken, but the LORD upholds the righteous.
Carolyn, St. Catharine’s. ON
I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.” Matthew 16:19 (ESV)
Dawn, Silver Spring, MD
Ps 19: 11 (ESV) Moreover, by them is your servant warned; in keeping them there is great reward.
Robbie Calley, Bay Minette, AL
You scrutinize my path and my lying down, and are intimately acquainted with all my ways. Even before there is a word on my tongue, behold, O Lord, You know all.
Psalm 139:3-4
“The Lord makes firm the steps of those who delight in Him; although they may stumble, they will not fall for the Lord upholds them with His hands.” Psalm 37: 23-24. TNIV
Elizabeth from Midland, Texas
iThes. 3:8 NIV
For now we really live, since you are standing firm in the Lord.
Misty Keith, Pflugerville, TX “No one takes my life from me, but I lay it down on my own accord. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it up again. This command I received from my Father.” John 10:18 (NIV)
Catasauqua, PA
Deuteronomy 6:5
You must love the Lord your God with all of your heart, all of your soul, and all of your strength
I LOVE that in the video Beth says she’s “trying not to step on a snake” while she ministers in the woods. Beth, you ARE stepping on snakes in quoting scripture to us, according to Romans 16:20 and Luke 10:19!! Go girl!!
Praying for all of you!
-Beth