*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!
Libby, Rochester, MN
Enter His gates with thanksgiving and His courts with praise; give thanks to Him and praise His name. Psalm 100:4 NIV
Shelly, Rochester, MN
He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the LORD require of you but to do justice, and to love kindness, and to walk humbly with your God? Micah 6:8 ESV
Monica Applegate Amarillo, Texas
In all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us
Romans 8:37 KJV
But Jesus spoke to them at once. “Don’t be afraid, ” he said. “Take courage. I am here!” Matt. 14:27 NLT
Patti, Clemmons, NC
And to wait for his Son from Heaven, whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. 1 Thessalonians 1:10 KJV
Cindy Beam
Rogers, AR
“Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.” Matthew 5:10 (NIV)
Amanda Keith
Lynchburg, VA
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding. (â€Proverbs‬ â€9‬:â€10‬ NASB)
Rebecca Alread, St Simons Island GA.
“Be cheerful no matter what; pray all the time; thank God no matter what happens. This is the way God wants you who belong to Christ Jesus to live.”
I Thessalonians 5:16-18 MSG
Jennifer Haglund; Story City, IA
“Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer.” Romans 12:12 (NIV)
Donna Mayfield, Archdale, NC
“The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God! He gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.” 1 Corinthians 15:56-57 (NIV)
Vikki, Jeffersonville, IN
For God did not give us a spirit of timidity, but a spirit of power, of love and of self-discipline. 2 Timothy 1:7 NIV
Jeanne Gammon, Renton, WA – God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them. (â€Genesis‬ â€1‬:â€27‬ NASB)
Maddy C, Los Angeles
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
Eph 3:17 NIV
Karen, Des Moines, IA
“Honor God by accepting each other, as Christ has accepted you.” (Romans 15:7) CEV
Let your conversation be always full of grace, seasoned with salt. (â€Colossians‬ â€4‬:â€6‬ NIV)
Jennifer Chatman
Jonesborough, TN
Oh the depths of the riches of the wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable his judgments and his paths beyond tracing out! Who has known the mind of the Lord? or who has been his counselor? Romans 11:33-34 NIV
Proverbs 20:3 (The Message)
“It is a mark of good character to avert a quarrel, but a fool picks a fight.”
Tina Crouch
Waxahachie, Texas
Colossians 3:23-24 NIV
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters, since you know you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward.
He will cover you with His feathers and under His wings you will find refuge;His faithfulness is a shield and rampart.
Psalm 91:4 NIV
giving thanks always and for everything to God the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ
Ephesians 5:20 ESV
Kandy Hall, Huffman, TX
It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. John 6:63 (ESV)
Jordan LaRoche, Kingwood, TX
I have said these things to you, that in me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take heart; I have overcome the world.” John 16:33 (ESV)
Michelle Adkins, Shinnston, West Virginia,
“A virtuous and worthy wife [earnest and strong in character] is a crowning joy to her husband, but she who makes him ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.”
Proverbs 12:4 AMP
Karin, Medina, MN
“The Lord foils the plans of the nations; he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
But the plans of the Lord stand firm forever, the purposes of his heart through all generations.”
Psalm 33:10-11 NIV
Tuscaloosa, AL Isaiah 43:1 But now, O Jacob, listen to the Lord who created you.O Israel, the one who formed you says,“Do not be afraid, for I have ransomed you.I have called you by name; you are mine. NLT
Kara, Overland Park, KS
“For this reason, since the day we heard about you we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding.” Colossians 1:9 NIV
Sorry I am SO late!
Karin Peters, College Station, TX
“No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and money. Matthew 6:24, ESV
Luke:10:27 (NKJV)
You shall love the Lord with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength & with all your mind & your neighbor as yourself.
Diane, Nowata, OK
Trust in the Lord with all of your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. (Proverbs 3:5-6) NIV
Charlotte Keifer, Houston, Tx “from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named” Ephesians 3:15 ESV
Gisella Oliver, Toledo Ohio
“Until now you have not asked for anything in my name. Ask and you will receive, and your joy will be complete.” John 16:24 NIV
Jenni, Murray, KY
You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. Matthew 5:13 ESV
Donna Marina, Ca
For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Ephesians 6:12 KJV
Chrystal – Coachella, CA – “For by grace you have been saved through faith; and not of yourselves, it is the gift of God” (Ephesians 2:8)
Jackie Brantley Rockledge FL
Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! (â€Philippians‬ â€4‬:â€4‬ HCSB)
Sheri Martens
Fairview,OK
“Rejoice in the Lord always, I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near.” Philippians 4: 4,5
Magnolia TX
Acts 24:16
I always do my best to have a clear conscience toward God and men.
HCSB
Miranda
Loganville, GA
They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than hiney, than honey from the comb.
Psalm 19:10 NIV
Kathy Jackson, Memphis, TN
“Since God chose you to be the holy people He loves, you must clothe yourselves with tenderhearted mercy, kindness, humility, gentleness, and patience.” (â€Colossians‬ â€3‬:â€12‬ NLT)
Reconócelo en todos tus caminos y él allanará tus sendas. Proverbios 3:6
Stephanie
Claremore,OK
HEBREWS 11:1
“Now faith is the confidence in what we hope for and the assurance of what we do not see.”
Jami Carey, Fishers, IN
But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us. We are hard pressed on every side, but not crushed; perplexed, but not in despair, persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed.
II Corinthians 4:7-8 NIV
Brenda Wilken from Eureka, MO
I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry.
Psalm 40:1 NIV
Jan McClure Lexington,KY
“As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you, unless you abide in Me.” John 15:4b NKJV
2 Corinthians 4:16-17(NCV)
So we do not give up.
Our physical body is becoming older
and weaker, but our spirit inside us
is made new every day.
We have small troubles for a while now,
but they are helping us gain an eternal glory that is much greater than the troubles.
Lois, Centerton, Preserve me, O God, for in You I put my trust. Psalm 16:1 NKJV
Jinga, Royal Palm Beach, FL
Philippians 3:14 NIV: I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which GOD has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus.
Cathy Morris Sedona, AZ
so that, as it is written, “Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord.”
1Cor 1:31 ESV
Megan, Goodlettsville, TN
“And without faith it is impossible to please God, because anyone who comes to Him must believe that He exists and that He rewards those who earnestly seek Him.” Hebrews 11:6 (NIV)
Aimee Wodkowski, Bay City, MI “In righteousness shalt thou be established: thou shalt be far from oppression; for thou shalt not fear: and from terror; for it shall not come near thee.” Isaiah 54:14 KJV