*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!
Bozeman, MT
Let us then approach God’s throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need. (â€Hebrews‬ â€4‬:â€16‬ NIV)
Proverbs 1: 5 NIV
let the wise listen and add to their learning, and let the discerning get guidance-
Sumrall, MS
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. (â€Isaiah‬ â€55‬:â€9‬ ESV)
Kim Kobayashi
Monroe, WA
Luke 1:45
“Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord.”
Laura from Gilbert AZ
NIV. My dear children, I write this to you so that you will not sin. But if anybody does sin, we have an advocate with the Father Jesus Christ, the Righteous One. 1 John 2:1
Linda O’Neill, Elk Grove, CA
She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future. (â€Proverbs‬ â€31‬:â€25‬ NLT)
Priscilla Fair
Orange, CA
Bear with each other and forgive one another if ant of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. Col. 3:13 (NIV)
Amy; Milton, WA
“He brought us to life with the real word, showing us off as the crown of all his creatures.”
James 1:18, MSG
Emily Menard {New Orleans, LA} “Therefore do not be anxious about tomorrow, for tomorrow will be anxious for itself. Sufficient for the day is its own troubles.” Matthew 6:34 ESV
Rebecca- eagle point , OR
2 Corinthians 4:18. “So we fix our eyes not in what is seen but what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary but what is unseen is eternal. ” NIV
Courtney Kelly, Starke, FL
“He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.” Ecclesiastes 3:11 NIV
Cheryl, Dunn,NC
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise, Redeeming the time, because the days are evil. Ephesians 5:15-16 KJV
Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see. Hebrews 11:1 NLT
Amy Flanagan – Santee 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
Oakdale, CA
Rejoice in our confident hope. Be patient in trouble, and keep on praying.
Romans 12:12 NLT
April K. of N. Seattle, WA
O Lord, You have searched me and known me. Psalm 139:1 (NASB)
“Because of the Lord’s great love, we are not consumed for His compassionate never fail. They are new every morning. Great is your faithfulness.” Lamentations 3:23-24 NIV
Fargo, ND
Exodus 14:14 (MSG) God will fight the battle for you. And you? You keep your mouths shut!
Santa Clarita, CA: “through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we rejoice in the hope of the glory of God”. Rom 5:2 NIV
Kandis Nucla, CO
Isaiah 53:5 (NIV)
But he was pierced for our transgressions, he was crushed for our iniquities; the punishment that brought us peace was on him, and by his wounds we are healed.
Kaitlin
Newberg, Oregon
16 May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, 17 encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.
1 Thessalonians 16-17. NIV
Brittney Zimprich Ellensburg, WA
And the God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you and make you strong, firm and steadfast.
1 Peter 5:10 NIV
Cara; Fridley, MN
Grace and peace be multiplied to you in the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord; seeing that His divine power has granted to us everything pertaining to life and godliness, through the true knowledge of Him who called us by His own glory and excellence. For by these He has granted to us His precious and magnificent promises, so that by them you may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world by lust. – 2 Peter 1:2-4, NASB
Emily, Loveland, CO – “But you, O Lord, are a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness.” Psalm 86:15 (ESV)
Deb, Loveland, CO – “For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep.” (NKJV)
Isaiah 30:15New Living Translation (NLT)
15 This is what the Sovereign Lord,
the Holy One of Israel, says:
“Only in returning to me
and resting in me will you be saved.
In quietness and confidence is your strength.
But you would have none of it.
M.H. Esposito, San Mateo, CA
Thou wilt make known to me the path of life;
In Thy presence is fulness of joy;
In Thy right hand there are pleasures forever.
Psalm 16:11
NASB
Hebrews 12:1
Therefore, since we are surrounded by such a huge crowd of witnesses to the life of faith, let us strip off every weight that slows us down, especially the sin that so easily trips us up. And let us run with endurance the race God has set before us.
New Living Translation (NLT)
*please forgive my last post I pasted the wrong verse
Emily, Olympia, Wa
“Because your love is better than life,my lips will glorify you. I will praise you as long as I live,and in your name I will lift up my hands. I will be fully satisfied as with the richest of foods;with singing lips my mouth will praise you.” Pslam 63:3-5 NIV
Pam Sue
Spring, TX
may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, (â€Ephesians‬ â€3‬:â€18‬ ESV)
Abby T., Ferndale, WA:
“Love must be sincere. Hate what is evil; cling to what is good. Be devoted to one another in brotherly love. Honor one another above yourselves. Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, seeking the Lord. Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with God’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality.”
–Romans 12:9-13 (NIV)
We were challenged to memorize these verses before a mission trip mid-month, so I thought it would be good to kill two birds with one stone 🙂
Hannah Marks, Harare, Zimbabwe
Psalm 25:5 ESV
Lead me in your truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation,
for you I wait all the day long.
Jana Fields, Wills Point, Texas
1 Thessalonians 5:17 KJV
Pray Without Ceasing.
Sharon Mills
Henderson, Nv
Joshua 1:9 NIV
“Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.”
So sorry this is late but I have a good excuse! My sister gave birth to a baby boy yesterday!
Vicky, Winchester, Hampshire, England
“Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”
James 1:17 (ESV)
Renee, Rockford, MI
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost you all you have, get understanding.
Proverbs 4:7 NIV
Tracy Brinkley, Grand Prairie, TX Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified because of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Deuteronomy 31:6 NIV
Psalm 42:8 “Yet the Lord will command His loving-kindness in the daytime, and in the night His song shall be with me, a prayer to the God of my life. “. AMP
Angela Kincade
Springfield, MO
Isaiah 55:8 ESV
“For my thoughts are not your thoughts,neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord.”
Lori Newton, Powder Springs, GA
You are My friends if you do what I command you.
John 15:14 NASB
Kimberly Orr
Zionsville, Indiana
The Lord directs the steps of the godly. He delights in every detail of their lives. Though they stumble, they will never fall for the Lord holds them by the hand. Psalm 37: 23-24 NLT
Jan B, Amarillo TX
Jesus was blunt: “No chance at all if you think you can pull it off by yourself. Every chance in the world if you let God do it.” (â€Mark‬ â€10‬:â€27‬ MSG)
Sandy Deming, NM
You are of God, little children, and have overcome them, because He who is in you is greater than he who is in the world. 1 John 4:4 NKJV
Linda, Xenia,Ohio
“So that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith- that you, being rooted and grounded in love,” Ephesians 3:17
Benton, AR
And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace; Above all, taking the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked. And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God: (â€Ephesians‬ â€6‬:â€15-17‬ KJV)
Faye from Calgary, Alberta, Canada
For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases him. (â€Philippians‬ â€2‬:â€13‬ NLT)
Andrea, Havelock, NC. “May grace and peace be multiplied to you through the knowledge of God and of Jesus our Lord.” 2 Peter 1:2 HCHB
“Behold, how good and pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity.” Psalm 133: 1
Carrie Lyons Homer Glen, IL
Philippians 4:13 NLT
I can do all things through Christ, who gives me strength.
Stacey in Hanahan, SC
Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Philippians 2:3 NIV