*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!
Paige Woodard Mitchell, Minden, LA
“and He will wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there will no longer be any death; there will no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away.” Revelation 21:4 NASB
Cindy, Beaumont TX. And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God. Romans 12:2 NKJV
Jessica B. Cumming, GA
Verse 8
2 Corinthians 12:9
“My Grace is sufficient for you. My power is made perfect in weakness” NIV
Terry, Odessa, FL
“in all your ways submit to him and he will make your paths straight.” Proverbs 3:6, NIV
Cassie Davis, Orange City, Fl
You hem me in, behind and before, and lay your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; it is high; I cannot attain it. (Psalm 139:5-6, ESV)
Whoever finds their life will lose it, and whoever loses their life for my sake will find it. Matt. 10:39
Jill Moss, N. Scituate, RI “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
Florence, Arcadia, CA
“I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well.” Psalm 139:14
Jamie
Corbin, Ky
1Peter 3:5 NIV
For this is the way the holy women of the past who put their hope in God used to adorn themselves. They submitted themselves to their own husbands, (â€1 Peter‬ â€3‬:â€1-6 is my goal)
Metamora, IL
Colossians 3:2, NIV
“Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.”
Lesley, Oceanside, CA
“At that time, declares the LORD, I will be the God of all the clans of Israel, and they shall be my people.”
Jeremiah 31:1 ESV
Sarah Franke, College Station, TX “Let us hold fast the confession of our hope without wavering, for He who promised is faithful.” Hebrews 10:23 (ESV)
Lora Brobst, Hiawatha, KS –
Your statutes are my delight;
they are my counselors.
Psalm 119:24 NIV
Glenda Self
Nederland,Tx
14 The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.” (â€Exodus‬ â€14‬:â€14‬ NIV)
Lindsey Ehle
Kingwood, TX
Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
Phil 4:6
Charmaine from Jefferson City, MO
“We destroy arguments and every lofty opinion raised against the knowledge of God, and take every thought captive to obey Christ.”
2 Corinthians 10:5
Melia
Loganville, GA
Come, let us sing for joy to the Lord; let us shout aloud to the Rock of our salvation.
Psalm 95:1. NIV
Kristin Kellett, Tulsa, OK. For God did not give us a Spirit of fear but of power and love and self-control. 2 Timothy 1:7 (NET)
Philippians 1:27-29 ESV
1:27 Only let your manner of life be worthy of the Gospel of Christ, so that (whether I come and see you or am absent,)I may hear of you that you are standing firm in one spirit, with one mind striving side by side for the faith of the Gospel.
Philippians 1:27 ESV
Cindy/Midland
Rebecca Amaya, Elk Grove, CA
1 John 3:16 (NIV)
“This is how we know what love is: Jesus Christ laid down his life for us. And we ought to lay down our lives for our brothers.”
Linda, Holts Summit, MO
Job 19:25 NIV
I know that my Redeemer lives, and that in the end He will stand upon the earth.
Jana Troy, KS Max Lucado Devotional Bible
Psalm 139:14
” I praise you because you made me in an amazing and wonderful
way. What you have done is wonderful. I know this very well.”
Kay, Deer Park TX
Psalm 139:14 ESV
14 I praise you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.[a]
Wonderful are your works; my soul knows it very well.
Moscow Mills, Mo
“Blessed is she who has believed that what the Lord has said to her will be accomplished.”
Luke 1:45, NIV
Debbie – Sherwood, OR – “Faith is the confidence that what we hope for will actually happen; it gives us assurance about things we cannot see.” Hebrews 11:1
Janice
Euless, Texas
Psalm 91:1 ESV
He Who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
Lisa Lucik
Sugar Land, TX
“Therefore my heart is glad and my tongue rejoices;
My body also will rest secure,”
Psalm 16:9
NIV
Matthew 28:20 – …Remember, I am with you always to the end of the age.
Nicole – Wideman, AR
She watches over the ways of her household. And does not eat the bread of idleness, Proverbs 31:26 NKJV
Carol Kirby Amarillo, TX
But God demonstrates his own love for us in this: While we were still sinners, Christ died for us. (â€Romans‬ â€5‬:â€8‬ NIV)
Miranda Oliver, Lake Charles, La.
He that dwelleth in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I will say of the Lord, He is my refuge and my fortress: my God; in him will I trust. (â€Psalm‬ â€91‬:â€1-2‬ KJVA)
Laurie Burton
Amarillo TX
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, what is admirable – if anything is excellent or praiseworthy – think about such things.
Philippians 4:8 NIV
Julie Walker, Noblesville, IN
Ephesians 3:18
“And may you have the power to understand, as all God’s people should, how wide, how long, how high and how deep his love is.” NLT
Jamie Cook, Fort Worth, TX
“I pray that out of His glorious riches, He may strengthen you with power through His Spirit in your inner being so that Christ may dwell in your hearts though faith.” Eph. 3:16 NIV
Isaiah 26:3 (NIV)
You will keep in perfect peace him whose mind is steadfast, because he trusts in you.
Becky
Arlington Texas
Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding.
Proverbs 3:5
Galations 6:9
Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.
Tonya, Searcy, AR
“People may make plans in their minds, but the LORD decides what they will do.”
Proverbs 16:9 NCV
Ginger ~ Shelby Twp., MI ~ I Samuel 8:6 ~ “Samuel was very upset so he went to the Lord for advice.” (Living Bible)
Joni Denny Gray, Tn
Prov 16:20 MSG
It pays to take life seriously, things work out when you trust in God.
Robin Elliott, Mobile AL
For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.
Habakkuk 2:3 KJV
Roanoke, TX
Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for His compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness. (â€Lamentations‬ â€3‬:â€22-23‬ NIV)
Blessed is she who has believed that what The Lord has said to her will be accomplished. Luke 1:45 NIV
Donna, Fredericksburg, Va.
In peace I will both lie down and sleep; for you alone, O Lord make me dwell in safety.
Psalm 4:8, ESV
Cathy from Keller, TX;
Wait and hope for and expect the Lord; be brave and of good courage and let your heart be stout and enduring. Yes, wait for and hope for and expect the Lord. (â€Psalm‬ â€27‬:â€14‬ AMP)
Wanda Young
Osborn, Missouri
The LORD is wonderfully good to those who
wait for Him and seek Him.
Lamentations 3:25 (NLT)
Anita Hayes, Justin, TX
Ps. 91:1-2
He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High will abide in the shadow of the Almighty. I will say to the Lord,”My refuge and my fortress, my God, in whom I trust.” Ps 91:1-2
Sylvia S.
Collinsville, IL
Philippians 4:6 (NASB)
Be anxious for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known to God.
“I am the Alpha and Omega.” Says the Lord God, “who is and who was and who is to come, the Almighty.”
And I am sure of this, that he who began a good work in you will bring it to completion at the day of Jesus Christ. Philippians 1:6