*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.Ā Ā 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!
Bixby, OK
Posting late!! 1 Corinthians 13:6 Love does not delight in evil, but rejoices with the truth.
Cathy in Orofino ID.
For GOD did not give us a spirit of timidity but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. II Tim. 1:7 NIV
MAY
1CO 13:7 NIV
It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
Amanda, Largo Fl
“Set a guard, O Lord over my mouth; Keep watch over the door of my lips”
Psalm 141:3. NKJV
Marsha R. Lexington Park, MD
The Lord’s right hand is lifted high;
The Lord’s right hand has done mighty things.
Psalm 118:16 NIV
Kim Cook – Lanett, AL
Lord, I love the house where you live, the place where your glory dwells. (āPsalmā¬ ā26ā¬:ā8ā¬ NIV)
Lori Moritz, Cedar Park, Texas
“Everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.”
Romans 10:13 NIV
Ada, MI
Phillipians 4:19 (NIV)
Any my GOD will meet all your needs according to HIS riches in Christ Jesus.
Melissa Parker,CO/Enid, OK:”God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.” Psalm 46:1
Sharice, Shelby, NC
“Don’t you know that the runners in a stadium all race, but only one receives the prize? Run in such a way to win the prize.”
Romans 9:24 (HCSB)
Gail Irwin, Thousand Oaks, CA…Better late than never!
In addition to all this, take up the shield of faith, with which you can extinguish all the flaming arrows of the evil one. Take the helmet of salvation and the sword of the Spirit, which is the word of God. (āEphesiansā¬ ā6ā¬:ā16-17ā¬ NIV)
“How great is the love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God!” 1 John 3:1a NIV
Emma LaBossiere from Pittsburgh, PA: “For you are the God in whom I take refuge” – Psalm 43:2a, ESV
San Angleo Tx
Psalms 46:5
God is within her, she will not fail; God will help her at the break of day.
I love this–I don’t think I’ve ever read it before. What translation is this? I need to memorize it, too!
San Angelo Tx
Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death
James 1:15 (HCSB)
Christy is Muleshoe, TX
Phil 2:14-15 ESV
14 Do all things without grumbling or disputing,
15 that you may be blameless and innocent, children of God without blemish in the midst of a crooked and twisted generation, among whom you shine as lights in the world,
Allison, Austin
If we confess our sins, He is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness.
1 John 1:9 (NIV)
Psalm 139:4
Even before there is a word on my tongue
Behold, Oh Lord you know it.
Jen … Fort Worth, Texas
Draw near to God and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded. (āJamesā¬ ā4ā¬:ā8ā¬ NASB)
Gail Ouimette, Tumalo, Oregon
Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.
Romans 12:12 NIV
He put a new song in my mouth, a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear the Lord and put their trust in him.
Psalm 40:3
Tilley Hawkins, Franklin, TN
“This teaching is a treasure that you have been trusted with. Protect it with the help of the Holy Spirit, who lives inside us.”
2 Timothy 1:14 (ERV)
Janice – Topeka, KS
NIV Psalm 139:13
For You created my inmost being, You knit me together in my mother’s womb.
Carla Kaney, Adel, Iowa “Call to Me, and I will answer you, and show you great and mighty things, which you do not know.” Jeremiah 33:3 NKJV
“Bondservants, obey in everything those who are your earthly masters, not by way of eye-service, as people pleasers, but with sincerity of heart, fearing the Lord.”
Colossians 3:22
Give therefore thy servant an understanding heart to judge thy people , that I may discern between good and bad: for who is able to judge this thy so great a people? 1 Kings 3:9 KJV
Guard, through the Holy Spirit who lives in us, that good thing entrusted to you. 2 Timothy 1:14. HCSB Debbi Rambo, Myrtle Beach, SC.
vicki, Lenexa, KS
Psalm 119:18 ESV
Open my eyes, that I may behold wondrous things out of your law.
Pamela Guins, Taylorsville, NC
“Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.I will say of the LORD, āHe is my refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trustā” (Psalm 91:1-2, NIV).
Sheree Campbell,Phoenix, AZ
“Devote yourselves to prayer being watchful and thankful” Colossians 4:2 NIV
Ephesians 1:16-19 NASB
do not cease giving thanks for you, while making mention of you in my prayers;
that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and of revelation in the knowledge of Him.
I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened, so that you will know what is the hope of His calling, what are the riches of the glory of His inheritance in the saints, and what is the surpassing greatness of His power toward us who believe. These are in accordance with the working of the strength of His might.
Rachel- Cumming, GA
A gentle answer turns away wrath,
but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:1 (NIV)
Jill Sanders, Leachville, AR
Then Christ will make his home in your hearts as you trust in him. Your roots will grow down into Godās love and keep you strong.
Cambridge, mn
1 Thessalonians 4:11 NLT
Make it your goal to live a quiet life, minding your own business and working with your hands, just as we instructed you before.
John 15:8
This is to my Father’s glory, that you bear much fruit, showing yourselves to be my disciples.
“because through Christ Jesus the law of the Spirit of life has set me free from the law of sin and death.” Romans 8:2 (NIV)
Mindy H., West Lafayette, IN : All a person’s ways seem pure to them, but motives are weighed by the Lord. Proverbs 16:2 (NIV)
Joan Anderson, Dousman,WI
Teach them to your children, talking about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up.
Deuteronomy 11:19 NIV
Terri Sims, Orange TX
“Let your graciousness be known to everyone. The Lord is near.”
Philippians 4:5 HCSB
Sara Morris Alpharetta, GA
James 3:13 NIV
“Who is wise and understanding among you? Let them show it by their good life, by deeds done in the humility that comes from wisdom.”
Alison, Plano, IL. “And do not forget to do good and to share with others, for with such sacrifices God is pleased.” Hebrews 13:16 (NIV)
Alison Sparre, Sacramento, CA
Romans 8:26-27 NASB
26 And in the same way the Spirit also helps our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we should, but the Spirit Himself intercedes for us with groaning too deep for words;
27 and He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is, because He intercedes for the saints according to the will of God.
Sarah- Appleton, WI
Isaiah 30:18 NLT
So the lord must wait for you to come to him so he can show you his love and compassion. For the lord is a faithful God. Blessed are those who wait for his help.
Duvall, WA
Blessed are those who trust in the Lord, whose confidence is in him. They will be like a tree planted by the water that sends out its roots by the stream. It does not fear when heat comes; its leaves are always green. It has no worries in a year of drought and never fails to bear fruit. Jeremiah 17:7-8 (TNIV)
Michelle Wynne, Spokane WA
And walk in love, as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us, a fragrant offering to God. Ephesians 5:2. ESV
Melissa St. Louis Mo, 1 Peter 3:3-4 NKJV “Do not let your adornment be merely outwardāarranging the hair, wearing gold, or putting on fine apparelā rather let it be the hidden person of the heart, with the incorruptible beauty of a gentle and quiet spirit, which is very precious in the sight of God.”
Denise Korsmo Amarillo, Tx. “Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:” Psalms 66:1 KJV
Joan G, Allentown, Pa “My son, give attention to my words;
Incline your ear to my sayings.” Proverbs 4:20 NASB
Lindsay ~ Bangor, Maine
“The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing!”
~Romans 13:12 (MSG)
Jessica Lance, Shelby, NC. “Be glad for all God is planning for you. Be patient in trouble and prayerful always.” Romans 12:12 TLB