*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!
Joni, Port Neches. “Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.”
Joni, Port Neches. “Not only so, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for our adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.” Romans 8:23, NIV84
Amy, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
“To Him be glory in the church by Christ Jesus to all generations, forever and ever. Amen.” Ephesians 3:21 NKJV
2800 South Jackson Street Dear Beth, I LOVED your video walking along, telling us your memory verse. You are the BEST! Have a wonderful time in London. I just got back from London, where my son and I had communion in Westminister Abby. What a special time for both of us. Love you, Harriet Renner
Kay,
For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at the last He will stand upon the earth.
Job 19:25 ESV
Kathy Sanford, Lake Jackson, Texas
The Parable of the Yeast
Luke 13:20-21 HCSB
Again He said, “What can I compare the kingdom of God to?
It’s like yeast that a woman took and mixed into 50 pounds of
flour until it spread through the entire mixture.”
Cindy from Sisters, OR 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)
Barbara from Wisconsin
If I take the wings of dawn
And dwell beyond the sea,
(Psalm 139:9. NAB)
Proverbs 24:10
If you faint in the day of adversity your strength is small
Lori, Pueblo West CO. “Let the peace of heart that comes from Christ be always present in your hearts and lives, for this is your responsibility and privilege as members of His body. And always be thankful.” ~ Colossians 3:15 TLB
Jennifer Meyers
Jasper, AL
“Finally, be strengthened by the Lord and by His vast strength.” Ephesians 6:10 HCSB
Rom 12:9-10 ESV
Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil;
hold fast to what is good.
Love one another with brotherly affection.
Outdo one another in showing honor.
Barbara, Medina, Oh
Cindy Webster, San Diego, CA
Ephesians 4:32 NIV
Be kind and compassionate to one another, forgiving each other, just as Christ God forgave you.
Janet from Odessa, TX
. “Watch and pray that you may not enter into temptation. The spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.”
. Matthew 26:41. ESV
Glenda Jensen
Belgrade MT
Let us search, and try our ways, and turn again to the Lord.
Lamentations 3:40 KJV
Deuteronomy 6:5-6 NIV
Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts.
Psalm 51:10 NIV
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Tyra Sias – Atlanta, GA
See what Great Love the Father has lavished on us,
that we should be called children of God! And that is
what we are!…
1 John 3:1a NIV
Janet S.
Bemus Point, NY
Psalm 56:8 (NLT)
You keep track of all my sorrows,
You have collected all my tears in your bottle.
You have recorded each one in your book.
And in French:
Psaumes 56:9 (SG21)
Tu comptes les pas de ma vie errante.
Recueille mes larmes dans ton outre:
ne sont-elles pas inscrites dans ton livre?
Ria Agterhof-Hinloopen
Nederland
Onderwerp u dus aan God, en verzet u tegen de duivel, dan zal die van u wegvluchten.
Jakobus 4:7 NBV
Jennifer
Lancaster Pa
2 Corinthians 4:9 NLT
We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed.
Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of grace,That we may find Mercy & Grace in time of Need – Hebrews 4:16 NIV
Donna Lange, Mobile, AL “Wherein he hath abounded toward us in all wisdom and prudence. Ephesians 1:8 (KJV)
Hebrews 10:18 ESV
Where there is forgiveness of those, there is no longer any offering for sin.
And this is the message we have heard from Him and announce to you, thT God is light and in Him there is no darkness at all.
If we say we have fellowship with Him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth, 1John 1:5-6.
Mary Saul
Houston, TX
Psalm 25:9 NIV
He guides the humble in what is right and teaches them his way.
Karen Bell, Hendersonville, TN
may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is breadth and length and height and depth (Eph. 3:18) ESV
Lesa, Garden City, Kansas
Ephesians 3:17
“so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith–that you being rooted and grounded in love,”
Linda Hammett from Wake Forest, N.C. says:
” Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. Everyone who loves has
been born of God and knows God.”
I John 4:7(NIV)
Susie, Northville, MI
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, Philippians 1:9 NIV
Esther, Lancaster county, PA 2 Corinthians 4:9 We are hunted down, but never abandoned by God. We get knocked down, but we are not destroyed. NLT
Tracy, Sidney, Ohio
Do not cast me from your presence or take your Holy Spirit from me. Psalm 51:11 NIV
Cecilia, Pflugerville, TX
Philippians 2:3-4 TLB
Don’t be selfish; don’t live to make a good impression on others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourself. Don’t just think about your own affairs, but be interested in others, too, and what they are doing.
Michele Gibbons, Waterloo, Ontario
“Establish my footsteps in Thy Word, And do not let any iniquity have dominion over me.”
Psalm 119:133 NASB
But seek he first the Kingdom and His Righteousness and all of these things will be
given to you as well. Matthew 6:33
Atlanta, GA
Colossians 2:2 ESV
…that their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God’s mystery, which is Christ…
Susan, Wynne
17 But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere. 18 And a harvest of righteousness is sown in peace by those who make peace. James 3:17-18 (ESV)
Alissa; Lexington, SC:
“Lord, You have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.” Psalm 90:1-2 (NIV)
Sheryl, PA
The Lord will sustain [her] on [her] sickbed and restore [her] from [her] bed of illness. Psalm 41:3 NIV
Claiming this as a promise and trusting Jesus for much-needed healing right now.
Amy Villa, Auburn, WA “that you may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Ephesians 3:18, ESV
Gina Demangos San Diego CA
Jeremiah 17:7 NIV
But blessed is the man who trusts in the Lord, whose confidence is in him.
Stephanie, La Habra, CA “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his Spirit in your inner being.” Eph 3:16 NIV
Krista – Winchester, VA
Don’t worry about anything, but in everything, through prayer and petition with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God. And the peace of God, which surpasses every thought, will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus. Finally brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable—if there is any moral excellence and if there is any praise—dwell on these things.
Philippians 4:6-8 HCSB
Kendra from Fort Wayne, IN “just as David also speaks of the blessing on the man to whom God credits righteousness apart from works: BLESSED ARE THOSE WHOSE LAWLESS DEEDS HAVE BEEN FORGIVEN, AND WHOSE SINS HAVE BEEN COVERED. BLESSED IS THE MAN WHOSE SIN THE LORD WILL NOT TAKE INTO ACCOUNT.” Romans 4:6-8 NASB
Diane Jackson, Riverside CA Jer. 24:7 nasb
“I will give them a heart to know Me; for I am the Lord, and They shall be My people; and I will be their God, for they will return to Me with their whole heart.”
Debbie H. St. Paul, MN Psalm 116:9 NLT
And so I walk in the Lord’s presence as I live here on earth.
Dallas, GA
“fixing our eyes on Jesus, the pioneer and perfecter of faith. For the joy set before him he endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.” Hebrews 12:2 NIV
Barb Faasse, Jenison, MI “You will keep in perfect peace those whose minds are steadfast,because they trust in you.” Isaiah 26:3 NIV
Sue Middeldorf – Troy, Michigan – “may have 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)
Eleanor MacKay, Saskatoon, SK. Canada
‘and what is the exceeding greatness of His power toward us who believe,
according to the working of His mighty power’.
Eph. 1:19 (NKJV)