*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!
Victoria, Hooksett NH
Yahweh is a man of war; Yahweh is his name. Exodus 15:3 (LEB)
Monica Kuebler, Centreville, VA
What is impossible with man is possible with God”(NIV). Luke 18:27
Sarah M., Laurel, MS
“Don’t have anything to do with foolish and stupid arguments, because you know they produce quarrels, and the Lord’s servant must not quarrel; instead, he must be kind to everyone, able to teach, not resentful.”
2 Timothy 2:23-24 (NIV)
Psalm 100:1-2 NIV
Shout for joy to the Lord, all the earth
Worship the Lord with gladness; come before Him
with joyful songs.
Sandra Smallwood, Anchorage, Alaska
Have you never heard?
Have you never understood?
The LORD is the everlasting God, the Creator of all the earth.
He never grows weak or weary.
No one can measure the depths of his understanding.
Isaiah 40:28, NLT
Theresa, Burr Oak, MI
God has a better plan for both of us; that their faith and our faith would come together to make one completed whole, their lives of faith not complete apart from ours.
Heb 11:40 (Mess)
I’m late with this- sorry
Tammy, Mt Pleasant, SC
19 The Lord [a]God is my strength,
And He has made my feet like hinds’ feet,
And makes me walk on my high places.
Habakkuk 3:19 (NASB)
Kelly, Auburn, Al – and to know this love that surpasses knowledge – that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God. Ephesians 3:19
Jeanette
St Petersburg FL
Those who lwho are in the realm of the flesh cannot please God.
Romans 8:8 NIV
Mandy Helm
College Station, TX
His divine power has given us everything we need for life and godliness through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
2 Peter 1:3 NIV
Tami
Platte, South Dakota
Psalm 18:19
“He brought me into a spacious place, he rescued me because He delighted in me.”
Onda Jenks, Morgantown, WV- “You open your hand; you satisfy the desire of every living thing.” Ps. 145:16 (ESV)
“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.”
Matthew 11:28
Sherry Spencer, Momence, IL
Molly Petrey
Paris, KY
Job 22:21 (ESV)
Agree with God, and be at peace; thereby good will come to you.
Sorry this is a very late entry! I did it but just didn’t enter it.
Shiela Meert, Elkhart, IN
Psalm 34:18 NLT
“The LORD is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed.”
Megan Loscher
Quincy, IL
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, greets you, always struggling on your behalf in his prayers, that you may stand mature and fully assured in all the will of God.
Colossians‬ â€4‬:â€12‬ ESV
Stephanie Smith , Sioux Falls SD
Psalms 37:5 NLT
Commit everything you do to the lord . Trust him, and he will help you.
Peggy Yorktown, VA
You have heard it said, eye for eye and tooth for tooth. But I tell you do not resist an evil person; if someone strikes you on the right cheek turn to him the other also and if someone wants to sue you and take your tunic, let him have your cloak as well. If someone forces you to go one mile, go with him two miles. Give to the one who asks you and do not turn away from the one who wants to borrow from you. Matt 5:38-42
Sandy Hartley, Clatskanie OR (I forgot to post – sorry!!)
Proverbs 31:13-15 She seeketh wool and flax and works willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants ships; she brings her food from afar. She rises while it is yet night and giveth meat to her household and a portion to her maidens. (KJV)
Lynn, Divide, CO
Romans 5:8 ESV
“But God shows his love for us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.”
“You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all of your heart.” Jerimiah 19:13 (NKJV)
Lacy McMurry
Carthage, MS
Aleah Marsden, Vacaville, CA
SO Late! But still working my way through 1 Peter 🙂
Therefore, preparing your minds for action, and being sober-minded, set your hope fully on the grace that will be brought to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ. As obedient children, do not be conformed to the passions of your former ignorance, but as he who called you is holy, you also be holy in all your conduct, since it is written, “You shall be holy, for I am holy.” (â€1 Peter‬ â€1‬:â€13-16‬ ESV)
Bambi Phillippe, Campbell, CA
The spirit of the sovereign Lord is on me, because the Lord has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim freedom for the captives and release from darkness for the prisoners. Isaiah 61:1 NIV
Diana
Wooster, Ohio
For you are saved by grace through faith, and this is not from yourselves; it is God’s gift– not from works, so that no one can boast.
Ephesians 2:8-9 HCSB
Marsha, Batesville, Ms
Psalm 137:4(NKJV)
“How shall we sing the LORD’S song in a foreign(pagan) land?”
Melinda Brown, Olive Branch, MS – In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He will make your paths straight. Prov. 3:6 NAS
Jennifer Shoalmire, Houston, TX
Psalm 4:8
In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety. NIV
Rayeanne, Round Rock, Texas
2 Timothy 1:7New King James Version (NKJV)
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Jennifer T, Fairfax VA
The Spirit himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God Romans 8:16 (ESV)
God will show his mercy and ever to those who worship and serve him.
Luke 1:50
There is no one righteous, not even one.
Romans 3:10 (NIV)
Charlene, Waterloo, ON
Cast your burden on the Lord [releasing the weight of it] and He will sustain you; He will never allow the [consistently] righteous to be moved (made to slip, fall, or fail).
Psalm 55:22, AMP
“He tends his flock like a shepherd: he gathers the lambs in his arms and carries them close to his heart; he gently leads those that have young.”
Isaiah 40:11 NIV
Rachel G., Raymond, MS
For the word of the Lord is right and true; he is faithful in all he does. The Lord loves righteousness and justice; the earth is full of his unfailing love. Psalm‬ â€33‬:â€4-5‬ (NIV)
Liz N Santee CA
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. Heb 11:6 NIV
“He answered, You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself.”
Luke 10:27 (NIV)
Psalm 56:3&4
V3 When I am afraid, I put my trust in you. V4 In God, whose word I praise- in God I trust and am not afraid. What can mere mortals do to me?
Therefore put on the full armor of God so that when the day of evil comes you may be able to stand your ground, and after you have done everything, to stand.
Ephesians 6:13. NIV
Cindy Rising Sun In
Yet I am confident I will see the Lord ’s goodness
while I am here in the land of the living (Psalm 27:13 NLT)
Micah 7:7 (NIV)
But as for me, I watch in hope for the Lord, I will watch for God my Savior, my God will hear me.
Kathy
Chattanooga, TN
Debbie, Hattiesburg, MS
“Stand therefore, having girded your waist with truth, having put on the breastplate of righteousness, and having shod your feet with the preparation of the gospel of peace,”
Ephesians 6:14-15 NKJV
PS 51:10
Create in me a pure heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit within me.
Mary Anne Kent, Austin, Texas
as it is my eager expectation and hope that I will not be at all ashamed, but that with full courage now as always Christ will be honored in my body, whether by life or by death. Phil1.20 (ESV)
Elaine Brady, Jefferson, GA
But those who seek to destroy my life will go into the depth of the earth.
~Psalm 63:9, HCSB
Carolyn V, Chicago, IL
I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. Ecclesiastes 9:11 NIV
Jennifer, Norfolk, VA
And you also are among those who are called to belong to Jesus Christ.
Romans 1:6 (NIV)
Rhonda Peterson, Fargo, ND
Point out anything in me that offends you, and lead me along the path of everlasting life.
Ps 139:24 NLT
New Albany, MS
You gave me life and showed me your unfailing love. My life was preserved by your care.
Job 10:12 NLT
cindy b, Alton NH Romans 12:20 to the contrary if your enemy is hungry feed him, if he is thirsty give him something to drink, for by doing so you will heap burning coals on his head. NLT
1John 2:7 NIV
Dear friends, I am not writing you a new command but an old one, which you have had from the beginning. This old command is the message you have heard.