*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!
Melissa, Vicksburg, MS “God is working in you, giving you the desire and the power to do what pleases Him.” Philippians 2:13 NLT
Deby
New Carlisle, OH
He must become greater, I must become less. NIV
John 3:30
Wanda Bishop, Tijeras, NM
“For your name’s sake, O Lord, preserve my life; in your righteousness, bring me out of trouble.” Psalm 143:11 NIV
Judy Conn, Ashland, KY
” Romans 5:3-5 NIV
We also rejoice in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance character; and character hope. And hope does not disappoint because God has poured out His love into our hearts by the Holy Spirit whom He has given us.”
The Goodness of God will far outlast Satan’s attempts to steal the goodness of this day. 1Peter 1:5
Let no corrupting talk come out of your mouths, but only such as is good for building up, as fits the occasion, that it may give grace to those who hear.
Cathy – Richmond, VA – For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, declares the Lord. As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:8-9 NIV
Maria Cristina Bruschi
Orlando, Florida
Better to have one handful with quietness than two handfuls with hard work and chasing the wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:6 – NLT
Cece, Gilbert, AZ
I have been crucified with Christ; and it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me, and delivered Himself up for me.
Galatians 2:20 (NASB)
Roxanne from Houghton Lake, MI
1 Thessalonians 5:16-18 NIV
Be joyful always; pray continually; give thanks in all
circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.
Margaret, Falls Church VA
He brought me out into a spacious place; he rescued me because he delighted in me. (Psalm 18:19 NIV)
Sara- Missouri City, TX
Your hands made me and formed me; give me understanding so that I can learn your commands. Psalm 119:73 HCSB
A gossip betrays a confidence; so avoid anyone who talks too much. Proverbs 20:19 NIV
Psalm 91:8 NLT
Just open your eyes
and see how the wicked are punished.
Lisa Jones Andalusia, Alabama
Psalm 61:1-3 ESV
Hear my cry, O God,
listen to my prayer;
2 from the end of the earth I call to you
when my heart is faint.
Lead me to the rock
that is higher than I,
3 for you have been my refuge,
a strong tower against the enemy.
Kelsey Baker, Milledgeville, GA
“I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which Gof has called me heavenward in Chris Jesus.” -Philippians 3:14, NIV
Tammy, Dothan,Al. “I know whom I have believed, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to Him until that day.” 2Timothy 1:12b
Cheryl Dulaney
Lafayette, LA
Psalm 119:29 NIVr
Keep me from cheating and telling lies. Be kind and teach me Your law.
Dr. Wilma Ann Arant, Swartz, LA: “There are huge numbers of people in the Valley of Decision, because the LORD’s day of judging is near the Valley of Decision.” Joel 3:15 New Century Version
That according to the riches of His glory He may grant you to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in your inner being.
Ephesians 3:16 ESV
Debbie
Portland, OR
Anna Lynch, Greensboro, NC
may be able to comprehend with all the saints what is the width and length and depth and height- Ephesians 3:18 NKJV
Mary Jane, Troy KS
“This is what the LORD says- your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel: “I am the LORD your God who teaches you what is best for you, who directs you in the way you should go.” Isaiah 48:17 NIV
Sandy – Dodge City, KS
When Jesus spoke again to the people, he said, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
John 8:12 (NIV)
Janis, Auckland, New Zealand
Isaiah 46 v 3 NIV
Listen to me, O house of Jacob, all you who remain of the house of Israel, you whom I have upheld since you were conceived, and have carried since your birth.
Susie- Kirkland, Wa.
“He who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.”
Philippians 1:6b
Psalm 145:8New International Version (NIV)
8 The Lord is gracious and compassionate,
slow to anger and rich in love.
Shelly Burke, Corpus Christi tx
…looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before Him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Hebrews 12:2
“Oh, sing to the LORD a new song!
For HE has done marvelous things;
His right hand and His holy arm
have gained Him the victory.”
Psalm 98:1 NKJV
3 You are already clean because of the word I have spoken to you.
John 15:3 NIV
Orange, TX Psalm 37:4 (NIV) Take delight in the LORD, and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Debbie Hernandez, Atascocita, Tx
Eph 4:16 “I pray that out of his glorious riches he may strengthen you with power through his spirit in your inner being.” NIV
Emily Hayes. Conway, Arkansas.
Do not let any unwholesome talk come out of your mouths, but only what is helpful for building others up according to their needs, that it may benefit those who listen. Ephesians 4:29 NIV
Dorie from Hillsboro
Ps. 100:4,5 “Enter his gates with thanksgiving; go into his courts with praise. Give thanks to him and praise his name. For the Lord is good. His unfailing love continues forever, and his faithfulness continues to each generation.” NLT
Paula Weatherly
Huffman, TX
“Go therefore and make disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you; and lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Matthew 28:19-20 NASB
Lafayette, IN Lamentations 3:22-23
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; His mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is they faithfulness.
‘You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of victory.’ Psalm 32:7, ESV
Cindy L, Bridge City, Texas
For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made; wonderful are Your works, and my soul knows it very well. Psalm139:13-14 (NASB)
Salt Lake City, Ut
“See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called the children of God! And that is what we are!” 1 John 3:1 NIV
Melissa Evans, Lexington, KY,
“Blessed is the man who perseveres under trial, because when he has stood the test, he will receive the crown of life that God has promised to those who love him.” James 1:12 NIV
Rachel huff mechanicsville, VA Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, let your requests be made known to God Philipians 4:6 NKJV
Jan – Buena Vista, CO
Is 26:3-4 NASB
3. The steadfast of mind You will keep in perfect peace,
Because he trusts in You.
4. Trust in the LORD forever,
For in God the LORD, we have an everlasting Rock.
Alicia Thompson – Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines –
All glory to Him who alone is God, our Savior through Jesus Christ our Lord. All glory, majesty, power, and authority are His before all time, and in the present, and beyond all time! Amen.
Jude 1:25 (NLT)
Marie
Kinard,FL
Then you will know that I am the Lord;
those who hope in Me will not be disappointed.
Isaiah 49:23b
Stephanie– Frankfort,KY: “I am the vine, you are the branches Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing.”
Frances, Orange, TX
May he give you the desire of your heart and make all your plans succeed. Psalm 20:4 NIV
Rita Martin, Prague, OK
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we profess, for he who promised is faithful.” Hebrews 10:23, NIV
Angie Shockney, Lafayette, IN
James 1:2. Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you fave trials of many kinds,
Mandy Matthew 6:20-21 “Lay up for yourselves treasures
in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where
thieves do not break in and steal. 21 For where your
treasure is, there your heart will be also”
Paula, San Antonio TX
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of all compassion and the God of all comfort.
2 Cor 1:3 NIV
In Louisville, KY. if My people, who are called by My name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from Heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. II Chronicles 7:14 NIV