*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!
Joan Vanderwall, Orofino, Idaho
“For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also which have received the first fruits of the Spirit. Even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.”
Romans 8:22,23 (KJV)
Toni Sidler, Argyle, TX
If you abide in Me and my words abide in you, ask whatever you wish and it shall be done for you. By this is My Father glorified that you bear much fruit and so prove to be My disciples. Just as the Father has loved Me, I have also loved you; abide in My love. John 15:7-9, NASB
Wilton, CT
Luke 21:36 (NIV)
“Watch therefore and pray always that you may be counted worthy to escape all these things that will come to pass, and to stand before the Son of Man.”
Cedarville, OH
“But sexual immorality and all impurity or covetousness must not even be named among you, as is proper among saints.” Ephesians 5:3 ESV
Leslie Warnick
Oakland MD
John 14:27 NIV
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.
I do not give to you as the world gives.
Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
Kathy Pietraszewski, Windsor Heights, IA. “Understand this, my dear brothers and sisters: You must all be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry” (James 1:19 NLT)
Jules Lane
Foothills of the Rocky Mtns, Colorado
“The Lord is merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and plenteous in mercy.” ~ Psalm 103:8
Dee Dee Fernandina Beach, Florida
Rejoice with those who rejoice, weep with those who weep. Romans 12:15
Bonnie from Bellaire, TX
If you, then, though you are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good gifts to those who ask him! Matthew 7:11 NIV84
Freida, Chatham, LA “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.” Hebrews 4:16 NIV
Patty Pierce
Searcy Ar
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV
For God gave us a spirit not of fear but of power and love and self control
Lisa, West Columbia, Texas
“If you make the Most High your dwelling – even the LORD, who is my refuge -” Psalm 91:9 (NIV)
Kathi Crowder from Yorktown, Virginia: “This is what the Sovereign Lord, the Holy One of Israel, says: ‘In repentance and rest is your salvation, in quietness and trust is your strength'” Isaiah 30:15 (NIV)
Christa Lanier, Murfreesboro, TN. “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” Ephesians‬ â€4‬:â€29‬ NIV
Thanks, I need this today, truth be told EVERY day.
Teresa Wilson. Starkville, MS.
Surely He shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler and from the perilous pestilence”.
Psalm 91:3
Charlene Sarver, Cookeville, TN
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith – that you, being rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, Ephesians 3:17-18 (ESV)
Dede Mitchell Jacksonville FL
Romans 15:13 (NLT)
I pray that God, the source of hope, will fill you completely with joy and peace because you trust in him. Then you will overflow with confident hope through the power of the Holy Spirit.
Kim Lee, Faison, NC Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name. Bring an offering and come before him; worship the Lord in the splendor of his holiness. 1 Chronicles 16:29 (NIV)
Darcy Arnold, Elizabethtown KY.
“Trust in him at all times, O people; pour out your heart before him; God is a refuge for us.” Psalm 62:8 ESV
Danielle Rye, Cedar Park, TX
“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.”
Hebrews 12:11
Kathy Rye, Cedar Park, TX
“No discipline seems pleasant at the time, but painful. Later on, however, it produces a harvest of righteousness and peace for those who have been trained by it.”
Hebrews 12:11
I will go before you and make the rough places smooth; I will shatter the doors of bronze and cut through their iron bars.
NASB Isaiah 45:2
Susanna Greenville, TX
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
1 Corinthians 13:5 New International Version (NIV)
Cindy Wilbur from clifton, VIrginia
Matthew 5:6-8 NIV
6 Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
7 Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
8 Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
San Juan Capistrano, CA
It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.
1 Corinthians 13:5 New International Version (NIV)
Leah, Kansas City, MO
I say of the godly, who are in the land, “They are the noble people in whom is all my delight.” Psalm 16:3 TNIV
Windsor, CO
Ps 31:14 “But I TRUST in you Lord: I say YOU are my God.” NIV
Marilyn Owen
Seattle, WA
Let the morning bring me word of your unfailing love, for I have put my trust in you. Show me the way I should go, for to you I entrust my life. (â€Psalm‬ â€143‬:â€8‬ NIV)
Dawn Wells, Fort Worth, TX
“So let’s not get tired of doing what is good. At just the right time we will reap a harvest of blessing if we don’t give up.”
Gal 6:9 NLT
Let your light shine before people, so they can see the good things you do and praise your Father who is in heaven. Matthew 5:16 NRSV
Kimberly Waller, Moultrie, Georgia
“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)
Krista Ranson Ripley WV
Prov 3:5 trust in The Lord with all thine heart; and lean not on thine own understanding
Tracy Chapman
Andice, TX
Luke 6:37 NIV
“Do not judge, and you will not be judged.
Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned.
Forgive, and you will be forgiven.”
Dacia Edmonson, Bullard, Texas
But I trust in your unfailing love;
my heart rejoices in your salvation.
I will sing to the Lord,
for he has been good to me.
Psalm 13:5-6 (NIV)
Lynn Greene, Shelby, NC
“Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.”
Hebrews 13:8
Pam – Kountze, Tx
So I will sing praise to Your name forever, that I may daily perform my vows.
Psalm 61:8 NKJV
Aubrey. Groover. Houston,TX. “Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.” Ephesians 4:29 NIV
Maryse Sturm, Hoofddorp, the Netherlands, europe.
Kinderen, we moeten niet liefhebben met de mond, met woorden, maar waarachtig, met daden.
1 johannes 3:18
Stephanie, Paris, TX. “Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years.”. Deuteronomy 8:4, NIV
Amalia Smith Lumberton TX
Isaiah 54:13 NIV
All your children will be taught by the LORD and great will be their peace.
Linda, Longview, Tx:
I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies, and the one who lives and believes in me will never die.
John 11:25-26 NET
Dianne Hendersonville, NC
Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord
forgave you.
Colossians 3:13 NIV
Holly H., Frisco, TX
“You did not choose me, but I chose you and appointed you so that you might go and bear fruit – fruit that will last – and so that whatever you ask in my name the Father will give you.”
John 15:16, NIV
Mary Rhodes
Hermantown, MN
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Matthew 6:33
NIV
Dana, Clarksville, TN
“Make us glad for as many days as you have afflicted us, for as many years as we have seen trouble.” Psalm 90:15 NIV
Kelley, Houston, Tx
Psalm 57:2 I will cry out to God Most High,To God who performs all things for me.
LaVonne Hunt, Casper, Wyoming,”And into an inheritance that is imperishable, uncorrupted, and unfading, kept in heaven for you”1Peter1:4 HCSB
“My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you”. John 15:12 NIV
Allison
Wilmington, NC
“Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor what is evil. Cling to what is good.”
Romans 12:9 (NKJV)
Gina Hollis
Cantin, GA
“The Lord detests the way of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.”
Proverbs 15:8 NIV