*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!
Teresa. Orange City. Ephesian 1:7 (ESV) In Him we have redemption through His blood, the forgiveness of our trespasses, according to the riches of His grace,
Danna, Atlanta, TX.
I can do everything through him who gives me strength. Phil. 4:13 (NIV)
Let your hope keep you joyful, be patient in your troubles, and pray at all times. (â€Romans‬ â€12‬:â€12‬ GNT)
Dee Ann from Henderson, Texas
Exodus 34:6-7 ESV
The Lord passed before him and proclaimed, “The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children and the children’s children, to the third and the fourth generation.”
Stephanie Reynolds, Austin, 2 Thess 3:5, ESV, “May the Lord direct your hearts to the love of God and to the steadfastness of Christ.”
Psalm 119:105 NIV Your word is a lamp for my feet, a light on my path.
Jackie, Versailles, KY
“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.”
Deuteronomy 31:6 (ESV)
Whitney Caves, Clinton MS
From whom every family in heaven and on earth derives it’s name that eh would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with power through His Spirit in the inner man. Ephesians 3:15&16 NASB
James 5:16 NLT
Confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed.
Lori, Yukon OK
Oh, give thanks to the Lord, for He is good! For His mercy endures forever.
Psalms 118:1 NKJV
Deonne Collins-Hallsville TX. “Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you.” James 4:8 NIV
Yvonne Gearing – Kingman, AZ
He ransoms me unharmed from the battle waged against me, even though many oppose me. Psalm 55:18 NIV
Kathy
Albuquerque, NM
Hebrews 5:14 NASB
But solid food is for the mature, who because of practice have their senses trained to discern good and evil.
Julie Richardson, Grand Rapids, MI
Be joyful always; pray continually;give thanks in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus. –1 Thessalonians 5:16 – 18
Diane -Lenexa, KS
Psalm 19:2 NIV
Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they display knowledge.
Lou Ann Smith, McAllen, TX
May have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth Ephesians 3:18 ESV
Trudy Smith, Baton Rouge, La.
May 5, 2015 11:43
For the kingdom of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
Romans 14:17
Be glad for all God is planning for you. Be patient in trouble, and always be prayerful.
Romans 12:12
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all our ways acknowledge him and he shall make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:5-6
Caren, Canyonville, OR. “Yes, everything else is worthless when compared with the infinite value of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For his sake I have discarded everything else, counting it all as garbage, so that I could gain Christ ” Philippians 3:8 (NLT)
You are my hiding place; you will protect me from trouble and surround me with songs of victory. Psalm 32:7 ESV
Cristy-Monroe, Ohio
And if you will indeed obey my commandments that I command you today, to love the Lord your God, and to serve Him with all your heart and with all your soul…Deuteronomy 11:13 ESV
acts 20:35 NIV
in everything I did, i showed you that by this kind of heard work we must help the weak, remembering the words the Lord Jesus himself said;, “it is more blessed to give than to receive.”
Alyssa Ethington, Chandler, AZ Therefore encourage one another and build one another up, just as you are doing. (â€1 Thessalonians‬ â€5‬:â€11‬ ESV)
Orlando, FL
Ps. 6:9 NLT The Lord has heard my plea.The Lord will answer my prayer!
Crystal in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Ephesians 3:18 ESV
May have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Tessa Clark Jefferson City,MO
Isaiah 25:8 ESV
He will swallow up death forever; and the LORD GOD will wipe away tears from all faces, and the reproach of his people he will take away from all the Earth, for the LORD has spoken.
Becky B., Medway, OH
Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves receive from God. (â€2 Corinthians‬ â€1‬:â€3-4‬ NIV)
“Many are the plans of the mind, but it is the purpose of The Lord that will stand.” ESV Proverbs 19:21
Rejoice in hope, be patient in affliction; be persistent in prayer. Romans 12:12 HCSB
Tara Milligan, Stigler, OK “Some trust in chariots and some in horses, but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.” Ps. 20:7 NIV
Terri Lopez, Cedar Grove, WI
“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,” Ephesians 3:18 NIV
“As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead.” (â€James‬ â€2‬:â€26‬ NIV)
– Angie Watson, Greenville, NC
Very late! Feeling so spiritually dry lately and wondering what verse to pick; when it hit me…..
O God, you are my God; earnestly I seek you; my soul thirsts for you; my flesh faints for you, as in a dry and weary land where there is no water.
Ps 63:1 ESV
Thank you, Jesus
Sheryl, Rocky Mount, NC “Patient endurance is what you need now,so you will continue to do God’s will. Then you will receive all that he has promised.” Hebrews 10:36
Sandy Amarillo,TX
I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of Him.
1 Samuel 1:27 NIV
Patti Knobbe from West Point, NE
“Therefore confess your sins to each other and pray for each other so that you may be healed. The prayer of a righteous person is powerful and effective.” James 5:16 NIV
“Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” Proverbs 19:21 NIV
Bonnie Webb Cibolo,Texas. Philippians 4:8 NIV
Finally brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable, if anything is excellent or praiseworthy think about such things.
Sarah Wiginton – Claremore, OK
The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight. (â€Proverbs‬ â€9‬:â€10‬ ESV)
Laura Sumpter-Salem, OR
2 Peter 1:5-8 ESV For this very reason make every
effort to supplement your faith with virtue and virtue
with knowledge and knowledge with self control
and self control with steadfastness and steadfastness
with godliness and godliness with brotherly affection
and brotherly affection with love. For if these qualities
are yours and are increasing, they keep you from being
ineffective or unfruitful in the knowledge of Jesus Christ.
Holly, Cape May, NJ. “So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed.” John 8:36 NIV
you may be able to comprehend with all the saints, what is the breadth and length and height and depth,
Ephesians 3:18 ( NET)
Beverly, Vicksburg, MS
“Always be joyful. Never stop praying. Be thankful in all circumstances, for this is God’s will for you who belong to Christ Jesus.” 1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Stephanie Jo
Crane Or
I will cleanse you from all your impurities and from all your idols. I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit in you;
Ezekiel 36:25b-26a NIV
Julie Grissett
“For you died, and your life is now hidden with Christ in God.”
Colossians 3:2 NIV
Brenda, Greenville SC
Eph. 3:15 NIV
from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name.
Becky Bigbie. Highland Village, Tx
I pray that from his glorious, unlimited resources, He will give you mighty inner strength through his Holy Spirit. Ephesians 3:15 NLV
“trust in the Lord with all your heart, do not depend on your own understanding. Seek his will in all you do and he will show you which path to take.”
Proverbs 3:5-6
Rebekah Gardner
Harrisburg , nc
Micki Elaine, Atlanta, Tx.
Don’t worry about anything; instead, pray about everything. Tell God what you need, and thank him for all he has done.
Philippians 4:6 (NLT)