*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!
Susan Smith, Helena, MT
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
Patrice in ABQ
“Don’t grieve God. Don’t break His heart. His Holy Spirit, moving & breathing in you is the most intimate part of your life. Making you fit for Himself. Don’t take such a gift of granted.” Ephesians 4:30 (The Message)
Diane from Rancho Santa Margarita, CA
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge him and he will make your paths straight. ” Prov. 3:5-6 (NIV)
Cynthia,
Hackett, AR
“He will fulfill the desires of those who reverently and worshipfully fear Him.” Psalm 145:19 AMP
Pam Pruett, Clarksville, Arkansas
The wicked have set a snare for me,
but I have not strayed from your precepts.
Psalm 119:110 (NIV)
“But the word is very near you, in your mouth and in your heart, that you may observe it.
Deuteronomy 30:14 NASB
Kathryn Todd
Katy, Tx
James 1:22
Do not merely listen to the word and so deceive yourselves. Do what it says.
Becky Houston, TX
“Oh, that my actions would consistently reflect your decrees! Then I will not be ashamed when I compare my life with your commands.”
Psalm 119:5-6 NLT
Louisville, KY: “The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? The Lord is the stronghold of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?” Ps 27:1 NIV
Fran Harris; Stedman, NC
“Finally, be strong in the Lord and in His mighty power. Put on the whole armor of God so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes. Eph. 6:10-11 NIV
Sharon, McKinney, TX
I have set the Lord always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
Psalm 16:8
Scarlett N., Savannah, GA
I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. (â€Philippians‬ â€4‬:â€13‬ NASB)
Jodi Alley, Humble, TX For God has not given us a spirit of fearfulness, but one of power, love, & sound judgment. 2 Timothy 1:7 (HCSB)
Cassia from Spring, TX
A devout life does bring wealth, but it’s the rich simplicity of being yourself before God. Since we entered the world penniless and will leave it penniless, if we have bread on the table and shoes on our feet, that’s enough.
1 Tim 6:6-8 MSG
Woodburn, IN. Hebrews 4:14 (NIV) Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.
Pam Hendersonville, NC
“But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.” James 1:4 KJV
“For the Lord is faithful, and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one.” 2 Thessalonians 3:3 NIV
Ali C., Pleasanton, CA- 25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? Matthew 6:25-27 (ESV)
My prayer is not that you take them out of the world but that you protect them from the evil one.
John 17:15
Psalms 73:23-24
I am always with you. You hold my right hand. You guide
me with your counsel, and afterwards you will take me into glory.
Phyllis, Ft. Worth, TX. “Commit your actions to the Lord, and your plans will succeed.” Proverbs 16:3 NLT
Margie Coleman, Starks, La
But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is perfected in weakness.”
Therefore I will most gladly boast all the more about my weaknesses, so that Christ’s power may reside in me.
2nd Corinthians 12:9 HCSB
Jen from Quincy, Mass. Psalm 139:9-10 (NIV) -“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.”
from Whom every family in heaven and on Earth derives its name, Eph 3:15 NASB
Gail, Atascadero, CA
The name of the Lord is a strong tower; the righteous runs into it and is safe.
Proverbs 18:10 NASB
Willa
Rock Springs, Wyoming
Ephesians 3:20-21 ESV
Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, according to the power at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, forever and ever. Amen.
Jamie Martin, Judsonia AR, “….Not by might nor by power,but by My Spirit, says The Lord of hosts” Zechariah 4:6 NAS
Lorie Herinckx, Portland, OR
In my distress I called to the Lord; I cried to my God for help. From his temple he heard my voice; my cry came before him, into his ears.
Psalm 18:6 NIV
“I have swept away your offenses like a cloud, your sins like the morning mist. Return to me, for I have redeemed you.” (â€Isaiah‬ â€44‬:â€22‬ NIV)
indeed, He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The LORD watches over you – the LORD is your shade at your right hand; Psalm 121:6-7 NIV84
Joan Colby, Richland WA
PS: continuing bi-monthly through all of Psalm 121
Heather Morgan
Proverbs 4:23 NIV
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
Zephaniah 3:17 NKJV
“The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One who saves. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love, He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Silvia Morales, Tampa, FL
Teri Thompson TX
Romans 10:9 NIV
“That if you confess with your mouth, “Jesus is Lord,” and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead,
you will be saved.”
I know that my redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand on the earth. Job 19:25
Hannah Hancock from Winter Haven, FL
“Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away.”
-1 Corinthians 13:8 (NKJV)
Leslie, Effingham, IL
Phillippians 4:4 NKJV
“Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, Rejoice!
Nathalie Van Hoorebeke, Birmingham, UK
For God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases Him.
Phil2:13 NLT
Judy Berey, Mandeville, LA “I am the bread of life” Jesus told them. “Those who come to me will never be hungry; those who believe in me will never be thirsty.” John 6:35 GNT
Gen Hull, Omak, WA “…Let us also lay aside every encumberance and the sin which so easily entangles us and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus, the Author and Perfecter of faith. Who for the joy set before Him endured the cross, despising he shame and has sat down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hebrews 12:1b-2 NASB
Rebecca Holmes, Birmingham, Alabama
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
Donna Alsop, Bakersfield, CA
Colossians 1:17-18 (NIV)
“He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. And he is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning and the firstborn from among the dead, so that in everything he might have the supremacy.”
Jedonne, Nashville, TN
“Yet in all these things we are more than conquerors through Him who loved us. For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels nor principalities nor powers, nor things present nor things to come, nor height nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord” Romans 8:37-39 (NKJV)
Janet, Daytona Beach, FL
(Hebrews 10:24) “And let us consider how we may spur one another on toward love and good deeds.” (TNIV)
Thank you, Beth for the video. It did just that — spur me on to keep memorizing!
Gina Rosamond, Ca
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Matthew 5:8 NASB
Janessa Ford, Davao City, Philippines.
It is God who arms me with strength and keeps my way secure. 2 Samuel 22:33,NIV
forgot to give translation! Should have been John 17:15 NIV
Spokane, WA The Lord has established his throne in heaven, and His kingdom rules over all. Psalm 103:19.
Elmwood, Tennessee
Keep your minds fixed on things there, not on things here on earth. Colossians 3:2 (GNT)
Sherilyn, Warsaw, IN
Don’t let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith and in purity.
I Timothy 4:12 NIV
Valerie, Taylors, SC
As a prisoner for the Lord, then, I urge you to live a life worthy of the calling that you have received.
Ephesians 4:1 NIV