*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!
Kim, Amherst, OH
Prov. 31:20 NIV
She opens her arms to the poor
and extends her hands to the needy.
Suzy Adams, Wheelersburg, OH – Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will lift you up. James 4:10 NIV
Hear my prayer, Lord; let my cry for help come to you. ~Psalm 102:1 (NIV)
Dani, Greer, SC: Now if any of you lacks wisdom, he should ask God, who gives to all generously and without criticizing, and it will be given to him. (â€James‬ â€1‬:â€5‬ HCSB)
Denise(Arkansas)
“Give to the Lord the Glory due His name, Worship the Lord in the beauty of Holiness.” Psalm 29:2 NKJV
Beth bell. Cartersville, Ga
And so, dear brothers and sisters, I plead with you to give your bodies to God because of all he has done for you. Let them be a living and holy sacrifice—the kind he will find acceptable. This is truly the way to worship him. (â€Romans‬ â€12‬:â€1‬ NLT)
Julie Welch, Madison, MS
“Whatever happens, conduct yourselves in a manner worthy of the gospel of Christ.” Phil 1:27 NIV
Leigh Weisinger, Woodway, Texas
We wait in hope for the Lord, he is our help and our shield.
Psalm 33:20 (NIV)
Andi, Lincoln NE
“I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith.”
2 Tim 4:7 NIV
Shauna, Aurora, NE
“…with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,” Ephesians 4:2, ESV
Make the best use of your time, despite all the difficulties of these days. Ephesians 5:16
Finally, brethren, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is of good repute, if there is any excellence and if anything is worthy of praise, dwell on these things.
Phillipians 4:8 NASB
Shannon Peer, Churubusco, IN
“Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you.” 2 Peter 5:7, NIV
Jennifer Prochnow, Springerville, AZ – Though the mountains be shaken and the hills be removed,
yet my unfailing love for you will not be shaken
nor my covenant of peace be removed,”says the Lord, who has compassion on you. – Isaiah 54:10 NIV
Lauren Unger from Steinbach, Manitoba:
“For I am Yours” Psalm 119:94 NIV
“I’ll stand with arms high and heart abandoned. In awe of the One who gave it all. I’ll stand, my soul, Lord, to You surrendered. ALL I AM IS YOURS.” (Hillsong United)
Hannah Carroll, Waco, TX
“Show me your ways, Lord, teach me your paths. Guide me in your truth and teach me, for you are God my Savior, and my hope is in you all day long.” Psalm 25:4-5 NIV
Vicki Smith, Cleveland, Texas “Everything is permissible”-but not everything is beneficial. “Everything is permissible”-but not everything is constructive. Nobody should seek his own good, but the good of others.
I Corinthians 10:23-24 NIV
Megan, Columbus, OH
Ephesians 2:4
“But because of His great love for us, God, who is rich in mercy…”
Julie, Calgary AB Canada –
“He will cover you with his feathers and under his wings you will find refuge; his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.” Psalms 91:4 NIV
M. Choat, Claremore, OK
Hebrews 10:23 NIV
Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.
Pammie, Southern California
“Without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” Hebrews‬ â€11‬:â€6‬ NIV
Molly Legg, Gainesville GA
“And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you will know what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2 NASB
Tara G.
Sherwood, AR
The Lord’s unfailing love surrounds the one who trusts in him.
Psalm 32:10b (NIV)
Kelly P., Concord, NC
Out of all the peoples on the face of the earth, the Lord has chosen you to be his treasured possession. Deuteronomy 14:2 (NIV)
Joelle, Abilene, TX
Look to the Lord and his strength; Seek his face always.
1 Chronicles 16:11 (NIV)
Terri from College Station, TX
John 13:7
What I am doing you do not understand now, but afterward you will understand.
Belinda, Chesapeake, VA – “Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God.” Philippians 4:6 (NKJV)
Martha Blacklock
Lubbock, TX
Hebrews 10:23 “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering: for He who promised is faithful.”
NASB
Proverbs 19:21 Many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails
Sam hyle, katy, tx – when we pay according to God’s will He hears us and we know that we have what we asked of Him. 1 John 5:14-15
Pat,
Brandon, Fl
1 John 3:20
For God is greater than our worried hearts and knows more about us than we do ourselves.
The Message
Sue-Iron Mountain, MI
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid, do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go.
Joshua 1:9 (NIV)
Terry
Washington, IL
He alone is my rock and my salvation, my fortress where I will not be shaken.
â€Psalms‬ â€62‬:â€6‬ NLT
Melonie Sparks, Oklahoma
Galatians 6:9 (KJV)
9 And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not.
Portland, OR “And they overcame him by the blood of the Lamb and by the word of their testimony, and they did not love their lives to the death.” (â€Revelation‬ â€12‬:â€11‬ NKJV)
Betsy Roberts – Antwerp, OH
Ephesians 3:18-19a ESV
… may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth, and to know the love of Christ that surpasses knowledge,
Hailey Boone, Wilmington, NC. Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers. Galatians 6:10 (NIV)
Sarah Jackson
Pasadena, Texas
But if any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
James 1:5 niv
Annette Baal, Stouffville ON Canada
Jude 9
Yet Michael, the archangel, in contending with the devil, when he disputed about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him a reviling accusation, but said, “The Lord rebuke you!”
NKJV
Laura
Decatur Il
Psalm 43:3&4 NLT
Send out your light and your truth; let them guide me. Let them lead me to your holy mountain, to the place where you live. There I will go to the altar of God, to God – the source of all my JOY. I will praise you with my harp, O God, my God!
Becky, Scottsdale, AZ
So sorry to be late with my post!
“So let us come boldly to the throne of our gracious God.
There we will receive His mercy, and we will find grace to help us when we need it most.”
Hebrews 4:16 (NLT)
“He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty” Psalm 91:1 NIV
Heather Boone
Hineston, LA
Oh taste and see that the Lord is good; Blessed is the man who trusts in Him!
Psalms 34:8
Costa Mesa, CA “For we are God’s workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to do good works, which God prepared in advance for us to do.” Eph 2:10 NIV
Erin in Euless, TX
Galatians 6:5 (MSG)
“Each of you must take responsibility for doing the creative best you can with your own life.”
Shannon
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Ephesians 3:17 HCSB
And that the Messiah may dwell in your hearts through faith. I pray that you, being rooted and firmly established in love,
Robin Myers, Salem, Indiana, You are now children of God because you have put your trust in Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:26 NIV
Jennifer Wilson, Brentwood CA:
Psalm 51:12 “Restore to me the joy of your salvation, and make me willing to obey you.” (NIV)
Chaundel – Lake Forest, CA
Many, LORD my God, are the wonders you have done, the things you planned for us. None can compare with you; were I to speak and tell of your deeds, they would be too many to declare. Psalm 40:5 NIV
Robin Myers, Salem, Indiana, and The God of all grace, who called you to his eternal glory in Christ, after you have suffered a little while, will himself restore you , and will make you strong, firm, and steadfast. 1 Peter 5:10. NIV