*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!
Rachel
Columbus, OH
“Physical training is good, but training for godliness is much better, promising benefits in this life and in the life to come.” 1 Timothy‬ â€4‬:â€8‬ NLT
Diane
Wichita, KS
Eph.4:3 NIV “Make every effort to keep the unity of the Spirit through the bond of peace.”
Erin Boling- Denison, TX
And the one sitting on the throne said, “Look, I am making everything new!” And then he said to me, “Write this down, for what I tell you is trustworthy and true.”
Revelation 21:5 (NLT)
Robin, Knoxville
For this reason I kneel before the Father from whom every family in heaven and earth derives its name.
Ephesians 3:14
Ronda from Marion, IN
“My eyes are ever on the Lord, for only he will release my feet from the snare.”
Ps 25:15 NIV
Leslie
Union
Luke 4:40
At sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who had various kinds of sickness, and laying His hands on each one, He healed them.
(NIV)
Denise, Winfield, MO
Joel 2:13 Rend your heart and not your garments. Return to the LORD your God, for he is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger and abounding in love, and he relents from sending calamity. NIV
Lori, Beaumont, Texas.
In him we have redemption by his blood, the forgiveness of transgressions, in accordance with the riches of his grace that he lavished upon us.
Ephesians 1:7, NAB
Ashley, West Monroe,LA
may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, (â€Ephesians‬ â€3‬:â€18‬ NIV)
Deb Bryan from Topeka, KS
Proverbs 2: 6-8 NIV
For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding.
He holds success in store for the upright,
he is a shield to those whose walk is blameless,
for he guards the course of the just
and protects the way of his faithful ones.
Beverly Reeder Columbus, Ms. Be still and know I am God. Psalms 46:10 NIV
Natalie Macek, Damascus, MD-“For we are to God the fragrance of Christ among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing.” 2 Corinthians 2:15 (NKJV)
Jude 1:25 to the only God our Savior be glory, majesty, power and authority, through Jesus Christ our Lord, before all ages, now and forevermore! Amen. NIV
Deuteronomy 32:47 NIrV
They aren’t just useless words for you. They are your very life.
Lisa S. In Mintgomery TX
Kabrina Ethington, Chandler, AZ. Be strong and courageous. Do not fear or be in dread of them, for it is the Lord your God who goes with you. He will not leave you or forsake you.” (â€Deuteronomy‬ â€31‬:â€6‬ ESV)
Kara B., Longview, TX
“Only fear the Lord and serve him faithfully with all your heart. For consider what great things he has done for you.”
– 1 Samuel 12:24 ESV
Claudia from Edmond, Ok:
” May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God.” Ephesians 3:19 NLT
Chrissy Hilliard, Gardner, KS
“Again, truly I tell you that if two of you on earth agree about anything they ask for, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.”
-Matthew 18:19
Dedicated to Karen Gillett, my Two or More, until we meet again in our Heavenly home!
Wendy Cary, NC
Proverbs 29:25 (NIV) Fear of man will prove to be a snare, but whoever trusts in the Lord is kept safe.
Vickie Ethington, Chandler,AZ. Know therefore that the LORD your God, He is God, the faithful God, who keeps His covenant and His lovingkindness to a thousandth generation with those who love Him and keep His commandments; (â€Deuteronomy‬ â€7‬:â€9‬ NASB)
Lori Boone, Renton, WA
For once you were full of darkness, but now you have light from the Lord. So live as people of light!” (Ephesians 5:7–8).
“They will wage war against the Lamb, but the Lamb will triumph over them because He is Lord of lords and King of kings – and with Him will be His called, chosen and faithful followers.”
Rev 17:14 NIV
Studying your Revelations bible study and our bible study group is memorizing this theme verse together this week.
Stacie Kilgore; Lee’s Summit, MO
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore take unto you the whole armour of God, that you may be able to withstand in the evil day, and having done all, to stand. Ephesians 6:12-13 KJV
NIV
Isaiah 61:1a
” The Spirit of the Sovereign Lord is upon me because He has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor”.
Theresa Paschall, Fort Worth, TX
Ephesians 3:17 “That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith, that ye, being rooted, and grounded in love,”
LaRonda Pogue from Arlington,TX
I long to see you so that I may impart to you some spiritual gift to make you strong vs.12 -that is, that you and I may be mutually encouraged by each others face
Romans 1:11,12 NIV
Lisa Jones, St. Louis, Mo.
” Wait on The Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on The Lord.
Psalm 27:14 ( KJV)
Kirsten, El Paso, TX:
James 1:25 NIV
[25] But whoever looks intently into the perfect law that gives freedom, and continues in it—not forgetting what they have heard, but doing it—they will be blessed in what they do.
Erika from celebration Florida
“Therefore do not throw away your confidence, which has a great reward.”
â€â€Hebrews‬ â€10:35‬ â€ESV‬‬
Jeri Jacobs, Hemet, CA
Anyone who listens to the word but does not do what it says is like someone who looks at his face in the mirror and after looking at himself, goes away and immediately forgets what he looks like.
James 1:23-24
Erin from Kennewick,WA
Do you not know that in a race all the runners run, but only one gets the prize? Run in such a way as to get the prize.
~ 1 Corinthians 9:24 (NIV)
Psalm 52:8 NIV
But I am like a green olive tree in the house of God: I trust in the mercy of God for ever and ever.
Pam- Wassenaar,Netherlands
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. (â€Psalm‬ â€139‬:â€14‬ NIV)
Battle Ground, WA
The Lord will guide you continually; and satisfy your soul in drought, and strengthen your bones; you shall be like a watered garden, and like a spring of water, whose waters do not fail.
Isaiah 58:11 NKJV
Danielle, Wolcottville, IN
“When I look at your heavens, the work of your fingers, the moon and the stars, which you have set in place, what is man that you are mindful of him, and the son of man that you care for him?” Psalm 8:3-4 ESV
Nancy in Jayess, MS
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
He who calls you is faithful; he will surely do it. 1 Thessalonians 5:23, 24(ESV)
Jamie Stellingwerf – Paramount, Ca
“They are like trees planted along a riverbank, with roots that reach deep into the water. Such trees are not bothered by the heat or worried by long months of drought. Their leaves stay green, and they never stop producing fruit.”
â€â€Jeremiah‬ â€17:8‬ â€NLT‬‬
Jan @ Hillsboro, KS “Come and see what our God has done, what awesome miracles he performs for people!” Psalm 66:5 NLT
Katie from Greensboro NC
Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly nor standeth in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Psalms 1:1 KJV
Carolyn Webb, Grand Prairie, Tx
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified of them, for the Lord your God goes with you; He will never leave you nor forsake you. Deut 31:6 NIV
Heidi Cahill, DeLand, Fl: “and to godliness, brotherly kindness; and to brotherly kindness, love.” 2 Peter 1:7 NIV
Jen Dakin, Kenton, OH
“Put on the full armor of God, so that you will be able to stand firm against the schemes of the devil.” Ephesians 6:11 NIV
Mandy Codding, Wadsworth, OH- Romans 5:3-5
Not only so, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance character; and character, hope. And hope does not disappoint us, because God has poured out his love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit, whom he has given us.
Romans 5:3-5 (NIV)
Jenny Manis, Glen Rose, TX, Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. (â€Romans‬ â€12‬:â€2‬ NIV)
Susan Peaslee Somerville, Maine
“For I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me” Philippians 4:13
Karla, Columbus, Oh
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dreamed. Our mouths were filled with laughter, our tongues with songs of joy. Then it was said among the nations, “The Lord has done great things for them.” Psalm 126: 1-2 NIV
Karen Todd, Beech Island, SC
“May be able to comprehend with all the saints, what is the width and length and depth and height” Ephesians 3:18
Julie Behnke in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
“But I say to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you”
Matthew 5:44
Asheville NC It is good to give thanks to the Lord and to sing praises to Your name O Most High: Psalm 92:1 (NASB)
Connie Vorwals
Suffolk, Va
Eph 3:16 ESV
That according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being,