*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!
Erika Dotto, West Palm Beach, FL
“For I know the plans I have for you,”
declares the Lord. “They are plans for good and not for disaster, to give you a future and a hope.”
Jeremiah 29:11 NLT
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork. Psalm 91:1 (KJV)–Kathleen, Amman, Jordan
Fay, Springfield, MO
Nehemiah 8:10 NIV
Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength.
Psalms 116:2 HCSB
Because he has turned His ear to me, I will call out to Him as long as I live.
Maria Snell, Louisville, KY
I forgot to post last time, so this is # 8&9:
Ephesians 2:4-7 NKJV
But God, who is rich in mercy, because of His great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in trespasses, made us alive together with Christ (by grace you have been saved),
and raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come He might show the exceeding riches of His grace in His kindness toward us in Christ Jesus.
Jennifer Edwards Alabama
Luke 12:25 NIV
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?
Suzie, Pennock, MN
“I urge, then, first of all, that petitions, prayers, intercession and thanksgiving be made for all people–” I Timothy 2:1 NIV
Psalms 71:14 (NIV)
But as for me, I will always have hope;
I will praise you more and more.
Psalms 40:2-3
He also brought me up out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay, And set my feet upon a rock,
And established my steps.
He has put a new song in my mouth—Praise to our God; Many will see it and fear, And will trust in the LORD.
Paulette P. Mays
Elmer, La
Coeurd’Alene ID.II Corinthians 1:20 NKJV
For all the promises of God in Him are Yes, and in Him Amen, to the glory of God through us.
Terry McNew, Psalm 27:14, KJV
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and He shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.
Melissa Robertson, Sulphur, LA
“Until we reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” Ephesians 4:13 (NIV)
Connie Rose, Moss Bluff, LA
“Until we reach unity in the faith and in the knowledge of the Son of God and become mature, attaining to the whole measure of the fullness of Christ.” Ephesians 4:13 (NIV)
Candis Oswalt South Bend IN Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Psalm 150:6 KJV
Zephaniah 3:17 ESV
The Lord your God is in your midst,
a mighty one who will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness;
He will quiet you by His love;
He will exult over you with loud singing.
Tori Mays
Elmer, La
I love this verse, Tori. It was one of my earlier ones, and really blessed me…. May the full impact of this verse go right into your bones!
Lots of love from Canada….
Ingrid
Rebecca , Murfreesboro Tn,
Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always preservers. Love never fails. 1 Corinthians 13:6-8a
I’m memorizing 1 Cor. 13:1-8 too! You go, girl! Plant that LOVE garden. 🙂
BRENETTA ROBISON,INDEPENDENCE, MO2 Samuel 22:22 NKJV For I have kept the ways of the Lord,
And have not wickedly departed from my God.
Gahanna OH
“Jesus replied, “What is impossible with men is possible with God.” Luke 18:27 NIV
2 Cor 5:17
If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old things passed away; behold, new things have come.
I also forgot to post last session so this is for last week! Plus, it spoke truth to my soul and provided much needed encouragement and comfort
Rom 15:1-3
We who are strong have an obligation to bear with the failings of the weak, and not to please ourselves. Let each of us please her neighbor for her good, to build her up. For Christ did not please Himself, bu as it is written” THE REPROACH OF THOSE WHO REPROACHED YOU FELL ON ME”
Amen to God inHhis faithfulness and strength
Chris Robertson from Fort Wayne, IN
may have the power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ Ephesians 3:18 (NIV)
Psalm 9:10 NIV “Those who know your name trust in you,for you, Lord, have never forsaken those who seek you.”
Brenda, I just got on to post this same verse in the NASB! I looked up and noticed you had the same verse-I love it!
Kristi, Milton, FL
“For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the powers of this dark world and against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realm.”
Ephesians 6:12, NIV
Santa Clarita, CA
I, therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, exhort you to walk in a manner worthy of the calling with which you were called.
Eph 4:1 (MEV)
Marian Garcia. Springfield, MO
But as He who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, because it is written, “Be holy, for I am holy.”
1 Peter 1:15-16 NKJV
Nancy A. Terwilliger – Lebanon, Tn.
(Part 2)
Brothers, I do not consider myself to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do; forgetting what is behind and reaching to what is ahead, I pursue as my goal the prize promised by God’s heavenly calling in Christ Jesus.
Philippians 3:13-14 HCSB
Carol Rea, Midland, Texas
Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails. Proverbs 19:21
Kim Fishers, IN. “We wait in hope for the Lord; he is our help and shield.” Psalm 33:20 NIV
Deb in Windsor, CT:
“About all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.” – Proverbs 4:23, NIV
Nance from Newmarket, ON Canada
Then one of the seven angels who held the seven bowls containing the seven last plagues came and said to me, “Come with me! I will show you the bride, the wife of the Lamb.”
Rev 21:9 NLT
Linda Johnson, High Point, NC
“For we are God’s handiwork, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 NIV
Leah Cullen – Ramona, CA
Therefore, behold, I will allure her [Israel] and bring her into the wilderness, and I will speak tenderly and to her heart. There I will give her her vineyards and make the Valley of Achor [troubling] to be for her a door of hope and expectation. And she shall sing there and respond as in the days of her youth and as at the time when she came up out of Egypt. – Hosea 2:14-15 (AMP)
Karen Wright,, Shelton, WA
And take the helmet of salvation, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God.
Ephesians 6:17 NKJV
Laura Adams, Ada, Ok Ephesians 3:18….may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, (ESV)
Nadine
High Point, NC
…”and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.”
2Peter 1:7 NIV
Mickey, Blue Springs, MO
The one who calls you is faithful, and He will do it.
1 Thessalonians, 5:24 NIV
Khakki Bonner Nashville, TN
Oh give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; for his steadfast love endures forever. Psalm 118:1 ESV
How precious is your steadfast love, O God! The children of mankind take refuge in the shadow of your wings. (â€Psalm‬ â€36‬:â€7‬ ESV)
Cindy, Gulfport, MS. The Lord is good to those whose hope is in Him, to the one who seeks Him; Lamentations 3:25 (NIV)
Anita Moore, Fort Worth, TX
Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth. Matthew 5:5 NIV
Nancy Coffey
Barboursville WV
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.”
Matthew 5:9 NIV
Kelsey, Shawnee, KS
“Look at ships too: Though they are so large and driven by harsh winds, they are steered by a tiny rudder wherever the pilot’s inclination directs.”
James 3:4 NET
Rhonda Butler, Jackson, Tennessee, “Eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which God has prepared for those who love him.” I Corinthians 2:9
“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.”
Proverbs 15:1 NIV
Kim Safina,
Central Coast California
May the Lord direct your hearts into God’s love and Christ’s perseverance. Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with all of you. 2 Thessalonians 3:5,16
🙂 Praying Blessings & Safe Travel over you and those who are with you in London, England.
Enjoy the Lovely New Princess. Have a Brilliant time @ #ColourConference, Harrods and Kensington.
Becky, Huntington, WV
“Therefore, my brothers and sisters, make every effort to confirm your calling and election. For if you do, these things, you will never stumble,” 2 Peter 1:10 (NIV)
Billie, Naples, FL
“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
Linda, Colorado Springs, CO
ESV
Matthew 18: 19-20
19 Again I say to you, if two of you agree on earth about anything they ask, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.
20 For where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I among them.”
Lois, Southbury, CT
. . . so that you may be able to discern what is best and may be pure and blameless until the day of Christ . . .
Philippians 1:10 niv
Noreen
Calgary, AB
“So now there is no condemnation for those who belong to Jesus Christ.”
Romans 8:1 (NLT)
Lindsay Arellano, los alamos, nm
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouth, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen.
Ephesians 4:29