*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!
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer. – Psalm 19:14 NIV
Barbara Dunton
Midland, Texas
Psalm 103:14
(ESV)
“For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust.”
Marilyn, Piedmont, OK
Romans 3:10 (NIV)
“There is no one righteous, not even one;
Lucy- Mobile, AL
Because we look not at what can be seen but at what cannot be seen; for what can be seen is temporary, but what cannot be seen us eternal.
2 Corinthians 4:18 NSRV
Rejoice in hope; be patient in affliction; be persistent in prayer.
Rom. 12:12, HCSB
Alicia L. Clinton, Balch Springs, Tx, ‘from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named.’ Ephesians 3:15 HCSB
Amy, Arlington, VA “I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them.” 1 Timothy 2:1 NLT
Rose K., Oneida, TN–“That thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father which seeth in secret himself shall reward thee openly.” Matthew 6:4 (KJV)
Carrie from Cary, NC
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
And renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Psalm 51:10 NKJV
Sarah: Brookhaven, MS
Psalm 119:27 ESV
Make me understand the way of your precepts, and I will meditate on your wondrous works.
“For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men”
Galatians 1:10
In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.
Proverbs 16:9 NIV
Ephesians 3:17 ESV
so that Christ may dwell in your hearts through faith–that you, being rooted and grounded in love,
Carol, Farmers Branch, TX
Finally, brethren, whatever things are true, whatever things are noble, whatever things are just, whatever things are pure, whatever things are lovely, whatever things are of good report, if there is any virtue and if there is anything praiseworthy – meditate on these things.
Philippians 4:8, NKJV
Janie Brown, Lawton, Oklahoma
For the eyes of the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are open to their prayers, but the face of the Lord is against those who do evil.
1 Peter 3:12 NKJV
Paula, Houston, Texas — I’m late!
The Lord will be king over the whole earth. On that day there will be one Lord , and his name the only name.
(Zechariah 14:9 NIV)
Let your heart hold fast my words; keep my commandments and live. Proverbs: 4:4
ESV
Carolyn, Conroe, TX
“He who did not spare His own Son, but delivered Him over for us all, how will He not also with Him freely give us all things?”
– Romans 8:32 (NASB)
Philippians 2:12,13 NIV
Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always obeyed-not just only in my presence, but now much more in my absence-continue to work out your salvation with fear and trembling, for it is GOD who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose.
Debra Hamson – Dahlgren, IL
Your love, O LORD, reaches to the heavens,
your faithfulness to the skies.
Psalm 36:5 NIV
I am late getting my verse in I’ve been a little back slidden with my scripture memory work. But I’m back at it!
LuAnn, Winfield, IA
1John 3:1
How great is the love the Father has lavished on us that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know ys is that it did not know him.
Hap 🙂 in Heath, OH
“My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry,” James 1:19 NIV
Nicole Eckblad, Auburn, WA
“And I pray that you being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge-that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God”
Ephesians 3:17-19 NIV
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. Romans 15:13 NIV
austin, TX
Beth Bellow, Houston. NIV. Isaiah 40:30-31
30. Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall;
31. But those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Kelly B. from Jefferson City, MO:
The earth is the Lord’s, and everything in it, the world, and all who live in it; (â€Psalm‬ â€24‬:â€1‬ NIV)
Michelle, North Little Rock, AR
“I sought the Lord, and He answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.
Those who look to Him are radiant,
and their faces shall never be ashamed.”
-Psalm 34:4-5 (ESV)
Tonya Devine, Bryant, AR: The sovereign Lord has given me an instructed tongue, to know the word that sustains the weary. He wakens me morning by morning, wakens my ear to listen like one being taught. Isaiah 50:4 (NIV)
Billie, Greenville, KY “…Are they not all ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of those who are to inherit salvation? Therefore we must pay much closer attention to what we have heard, lest we drift away from it.” Hebrews 1:14 and Hebrews 2:1 ESV
Hi Beth – I am a South African Bible Study leader – we meet in my home. We’ve grown to 15 girls now. From all ages and denominations. Some new and other mature Christians. I attended Colour in London this year just to hear you! We love your teachings – I LOVE your teachings. I want to thank you for all the studies – all the work you put into them our latest two we’ve done is James and just recently Daniel – our lives have changed so! We have such a hunger for the word and for relationship with our God. It is because you have been obedient and dedicated.
We pray for you and for life Way ministers all the time – please pray for us too – but mostly keep doing what you’re doing our next study starts on 20 May on your Revelations series as we felt from Daniel it will be a nice step! May God truly bless you and your family and the ministry. I love you – we love you and THANK YOU! Love in Christ – Pam
So great to hear from you, Pam! We had such a great time worshiping and studying together with so many in London from across the globe! Yes praying for you and your group as you begin Revelation. There are so many unknowns, but I pray you thrill in the mystery and majesty of God through this study.
Prescott, AZ
“Make a clean break with all cutting, backbiting, profane talk. Be gentle with one another, sensitive. Forgive one another quickly and thoroughly as God in Christ forgave you.” Ephesians 4:31-32 The Message
To him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you before his glorious presence without fault and with great joy Jude 24 NIV
Karen- Greer, SC: “So teach us to number our days, so that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.” Psalm 90:12 (KJV)
Shannon Clark, Fredericksburg, VA
“Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others. Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus.” Philippians 2:3-5
Psalms 40:4 NAS
How lessened the man who has made the Lord his trust. And has not returned to the proud not to those who lapse into falsehood.
Jane from Calgary, Alberta
“And pray in the Spirit on all occasions with all kinds of prayers and requests. With this in mind, be alert and always keep on praying for all the Lord’s people.” Ephesians 6:18 (NIV)
Create in me a new heart, O God, and renew a right Spirit within me. Psalm 51:10 KJV
But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name,
he shall teach you all things, and bring all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
John 14:26 KJV
Rissa Larson, Clarksville Tennessee “That according to his riches of His glory He may grant you
To be strengthened with power through His spirit in your inner being.” Eph. 3;16 ESV
Marsha, Jupiter, Fl
It was for freedom that Christ set us free; therefore keep standing firm and do not be subject again to a yoke of slavery.
Galatians 5:1
Dee Shera – Jacksonville, Florida
Do not love the world nor the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.
(1 John 2:15 NASB)
Dana Goodwin Ashland, KY
1 Kings 8:28b NIV
“Hear the cry and the prayer that you servant is praying in your presence this day.”
(2015 National Day of Prayer Verse)
Shannon, Columbia, SC
He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:17 (NIV)
“For it is God who works in you to will and to do of his good pleasure.Philippians 2:13
Angela; Monroe, GA
Restore to me the joy of Your salvation And sustain me with a willing spirit. (â€Psalms‬ â€51‬:â€12‬ NASB)
Sarah B
Bonaire, GA
This you know, my beloved brethren. But everyone must be quick to hear, slow to speak and slow to anger.
James 1:19
NASB
2 John 1:6 And this is love; that we walk in obedience to His commands. As you have beard from the beginning, His command is that you walk in love.
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
Tracy-Aurora, CO
1 Timothy 2:1=I urge you, first of all, to pray for all people. Ask God to help them; intercede on their behalf, and give thanks for them. (NLT)
Kathy from Chesapeake, VA
(Life took over again so this post will be verses for #8 an 9
Verse 8. – Psalm 63:4. ESV
So I will bless You as long as I live; in Your name I will lift up my hands.
Verse 9. – Psalm 63:5 ESV
My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise You with joyful lips,