*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!
Ellainn White, Titusville, Florida
Wait for the Lord; be strong and take heart and wait for the Lord.
Psalm 27:14 HCSB
James 1:3
For when your faith is tested, your endurance has a chance to grow.
NLT-Catholic
Kim
Batesville, Ms
“But forget all that-it is nothing compared to what I am going to do. For I am about to do something new. See I have already begun! Do you not see it? I will make a pathway through the wilderness. I will create rivers in a dry wasteland. Isaiah 43:18-19 NLT
Paige Storlie, Amarillo, TX
“Do not put out the Spirit’s fire;”
1 Thessalonians 5:19 (NIV)
Homosassa, FL
“I will betroth you to me forever; I will betroth you in righteousness and justice, in love and compassion.” Hosea 2:19 NIV
Vicki, from Grapevine, TX
If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea ~ Psalm 139:9
Sherry McCurrie-Russellville, AR
Seek the Lord while He may be found; call upon Him while He is near.
Isaiah 55:6 NASB
Peggy, Corpus Christi, TX
For no one can lay a foundation other than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 3:11 – ESV
3 Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit. Rather, in humility value others above yourselves, 4 not looking to your own interests but each of you to the interests of the others. (â€Philippians‬ â€2‬:â€3-4‬ NIV)
Beth Evans, Prague, OK
cara from Houston, Tx
The Lord will surely comfort Zion
and will look with compassion on all her ruins;
he will make her deserts like Eden,
her wastelands like the garden of the Lord.
Joy and gladness will be found in her,
thanksgiving and the sound of singing.
Isaiah 51:3
Gwen Ziegler Washington, IL “Rejoice always, pray continually, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV
Melanie of Greenbrier,TN
Psalm 18:29(VOICE)
With Your help, I can conquer an army;
I can leap over walls with a helping hand from You.
Nicole Blake, Severance, CO
“So don’t get tired of doing what is good. Don’t get discouraged and give up, for we will reap a harvest of blessing at the appropriate time.” Galatians 6:9 (NLT)
Kristi S. Rogersville TN
Matthew 28:19 NASB
Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations baptizing in the name of the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Spirit
Kathy, Missouri City, TX
Psalm 33:6 (NIV)
By the word of the Lord the heavens were made, their starry host by the breath of his mouth.
Beth Coker Medford, OR
‘Yet I will exult in the LORD, I will rejoice in the God of my salvation’ Habakkuk 3:18 NASB
carol mueller lincoln ne
Proverbs 20:4 NIV. ” Sluggards do not plow in season, so at harvest time they look and find nothing.”
(But) if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. (HCSB)
Susan Toney, Raymond, MS
I have told you this so that my joy may be in you and that your joy may be complete.
John‬ â€15‬:â€11‬ NIV
(But) if we walk in the light as He Himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus His Son cleanses us from all sin. 1 John 1:7 (HCSB)
The Spirit of the Sovereign LORD is on me,
because the LORD has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to bind up the brokenhearted,
to proclaim freedom for the captives
and release from darkness for the prisoners,
2 to proclaim the year of the LORD’s favor
and the day of vengeance of our God,
to comfort all who mourn, Isa 61:1-2
NIV
Pam, Ponca City, OK ~ “Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly lived, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” Colossians 3:12 NIV
Louise – Irvine,CA – Jeremiah 29:11 NIV – “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.”
Ruth, Modesto, CA
I gain understanding from your precepts; therefore I hate every wrong path. Psalm 119:104 NIV
“He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.”
Revelation 21:4 ESV
Stephanie Bryant, Charlotte, NC
For you have died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God.
Colossians 3:3 ESV
If the Lord delights in a man’s way, He makes his steps firm; though he stumble,he will not fall, for the Lord upholds him with His hand. Psalm 37:23-24 (NIV)
jana, Altus, OK
1 Thessalonians 5:17, esv
“Pray without ceasing.”
how awesome! I chose the same verse! God must be saying something to us Jana peeps!
Edmond, OK
3 Don’t be selfish; don’t try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. 4 Don’t look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others, too. (â€Philippians‬ â€2‬:â€3-4‬ NLT)
Ephesians 3:20,21 ( NIV). ” Now to Him who is able to do more than we could ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work in us——to Him be the glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations for ever and ever, AMEN
Kathy White, Modesto, California
“RESTORE TO ME THE JOY OF MY SALVATION
AND GRANT ME A WILLING SPIRIT TO SUSTAIN ME”
PSALM 51:12
Beth Lewis, Story City, Iowa
“He has delivered us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into the kingdom of the Son of His love,”
Colossians 1:13, NKJ
“For everyone who asks and keeps on asking receives; and he who seeks and keeps on seeking finds; and to him who knocks and keeps on knocking, the door shall be opened.” – Luke 11:10 AMP
Tiffany Wooldridge, Bolivar, MO
“For with the heart one believes unto righteousness, and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation.” Romans 10:10 NKJV
Abi Copeland — Springfield, MO
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom; all those who practice it have a good understanding. His praise endures forever! Psalm 111:10 ESV
Theresa Dau, Chesterfield, MO
Riches and honor come from you alone, for you rule over everything. Power and might are in your hand, and it is at your discretion that people are made great and given strength.
1Chronicles 29:12 NLT
Meredith Clark – Newnan, GA
And my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of his glory in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 4:19 NIV
La Plata, MD. “For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.” Matthew 7:8 NKJV
Hannah Huneycutt
Mt. Pleasant, NC
Psalm 91:2 (NIV)
I will say of the LORD, “He is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.”
Auneca from Donalsonville, GA
As the water reflects the face, so one’s life reflects the heart. Proverbs 27:19 NIV
Donna Huneycutt, Mt. Pleasant, NC
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
I Peter 1:3 NASB
Caryn Bedford, TX
“And since we know He hears us when we make our requests, we also know that , He will give us what we ask for”
1 John 5:15NLT
Shelly Wilson, Fort Worth, Texas
Proverbs‬ â€17‬:â€28‬ (NIV) – Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongues.
Terry Karlson
Winchester, VA
Mark 4: 40 – “Why are you so afraid? Do you still have no faith?” – NIV
Stephanie Volkmer, Tulsa, Ok.
*to the praise of the glory of His grace, by which He made us accepted in the Beloved. (â€Ephesians‬ â€1‬:â€6‬ NKJV)
Lauren, Sugar Land, TX – “Restore to me the joy of my salvation and grant me a willing spirit to sustain me.” Psalm 51:12 (NIV)
Toms Brook, VA
‘The grass withers and the flowers fade, but the word of God stands forever.’
Isaiah 40: 8 NLT
Angela Dhans, Brooksville, Florida
Romans 8:38-39 (NKJ)
For I am persuaded that neither death nor life, nor angels, nor
principalities, nor power, nor things present nor things to come nor height
nor death nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate
us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Carolyn, Terrace BC Canada
Psalm 29:2 NIV
Ascribe to the Lord the glory due his name;
Worship the Lord in the splendour of his holiness.
“casting ALL your anxieties (cares) on Him, because He cares for you.” 1 Peter 5:7 (NIV)