*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!
Lise Ode, Cumming, GA.
It is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace. Hebrews 13:9, NAS
Laura Naiser, Georgetown TX
Matthew 7:24, NIV
Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock.
Debra Thomas, Macon, GA that according to the riches of his glory he may grant you to be strengthened with power through his Spirit in your inner being, Eph 3:16 ESV
Kasey Gray, Madison Heights, VA
“Let us hold unswervingly to the hope we process for he who promised is faithful” Hebrews 10:23 NIV
Sandee Tseng, Santa Monica CA
“For the Word of God is full of living power. It is sharper than the sharpest knife, cutting deep into our innermost thoughts and desires. It exposes us for what we really are.” – Hebrews 4:12 (NLT)
Beth Davis, Madison, MS
Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for men, since you know that you will receive an inheritance from the Lord as a reward. It is the Lord Christ you are serving. Col 3:23-24 NIV84
Teri Thompson Bedias, TX
John 20:29 NIV
“Then Jesus told them, “Because you have seen me, you have believed; blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed.”
Audra Hines, Jackson, TN
“Brothers, become fellow imitators with me and observe those who walk according to our example.”
Phillipians 3:17 MEV
Autumn, Lubbock, TX
“She opens her mouth with wisdom and
loving instruction is on her tongue.”
Proverbs 31:26 (HCSB)
Kirsten Pierce, Boones Mill, VA “Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” Proverbs 19:21 NIV
Vivian, Person, NC
“My little children, these things I write to you, so that you may not sin. And if anyone sins, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous.” NKJV
Emily Miller, Greensburg, LA
“For as high as the heavens are above the earth, so great is His faithful love toward those who fear Him.” Psalm 103:11 (HCSB)
Madison, MS
“Lead me in Your truth and teach me,
For you are the God of my salvation.
On You I will wait all the day.” Pslam 25:5 NKJV
Janis Nelson, College Station, Texas
Jesus said to them, “My Father is always at His work to this very day, and I, too, am working.”
John 5:17 NIV
Mildred from Montserrat.
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Psalms 100:1 (KJV)
rhonda
gilmer
Galatians 2:20 (NKJV)
I have been crucified with Christ; it is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me; and the life which I now live in the flesh I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave Himself for me.
Katera, Kentwood, LA
James 1:15 ESV
Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully grown brings forth death.
Lisa Jensen
Lyman, WY
Psalm 107:1 (NIV) Give thanks to the Lord for he is good; his love endures forever.
Lisa Williams, Houston, TX
Phil 4:6 (NAB)
“Dismiss all anxiety from your minds. Present your needs to God in every form of prayer and in petition full of gratitude.”
Eugenie Wilcox from Phoenix AZ
“So don’t be afraid, you are worth more than many sparrows.”
Matthew 10:31(NIV)
Everlasting joy shall be upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away. Isaiah 35:10
Debby Conway, Clinton Mississippi
Hebrews 12:3 NIV
Consider Him who endured such opposition from sinful men, so that you will not grow weary and lose heart.
Barbara
Eagle, Idaho
For you are all children of light, children of the day. We are not of the night or of the darkness.
I Thessalonians 5:5 (ESV)
Christy, Conifer, Colorado
I looked for someone who might rebuild the wall of righteousness that guards the land. I searched for someone to stand in the gap in the wall so I wouldn’t have to destroy the land, but I found no one.
Ezekiel 22:30 NLT
From the ends of the earth I call to you, I call as my heart grows faint: lead me to the rock that is higher than I. Psalm 61:2 NIV
Dana, San Angelo, Texas
“For we live by faith, not by sight.” 2 Corinthians 5:7(NIV).
Rhonda – Houston
Job 38:1-3 NIV
Then the LORD spoke to Job out of the storm, “Who is this that obscures my plans with words without knowledge? Brace yourself like a man; I will question you and you will answer me.”
Sacramento, CA
O, my strength, I sing praise to
you; you O God, are my fortress,
my loving God. Psalm 59:17 NIV
Colossians 1:17
He is before all things and by Him all things
hold together.
Brenda Zabriskie
Lindon, Utah
Isaiah 26:4
TRUST in the LORD forever, for the Lord God is an everlasting rock.
Missy
Humble, Texas
I called upon the Lord in distress: the Lord answered me, and set me in a large place.
Psalm 118:5 KJV
Psalm 37:4 (ESV)
Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Payson, Arizona
Psalm 37:4 (ESV) Delight yourself in the LORD and he will give you the desires of your heart.
Shannon, Mandeville. “But when the kindness and love of God our Savior appeared, He saved us, not because of righteous things we had done, but because of His mercy”. Titus 3:4-5.
Dawn, Pampa, TX
“Many are the plans in a person’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails.” Proverbs 19:21 NIV
Kitty Bennett, Bend, Oregon
‘Never let loyalty and kindness leave you! Tie them around your neck as a reminder, write them deep within your heart.’ Proverbs 3:3
Laury Pitts from San Clemente, CA:
“4 Even to your old age, I am He, And even to gray hairs I will carry you! I have made, and I will bear; Even I will carry, and will deliver you.” Isaiah 46:4 NKJV
Lisa Parker, Arkansas 26 “In your anger do not sin’: Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry, 27 and do not give the devil a foothold. Ephesians 4:26-27 NIV
Tracey from Shawnee, Kansas
just as Sarah obeyed Abraham, calling him lord, and you have become her children if you do what is right without being frightened by any fear. 1 Peter 3: 6 (NASB)
Gloria Davis, Mansfield, OH
“Take delight in the Lord, and he will give you the desires of your heart.” Psalms 37:4 (NIV)
J.J. Ehr, Longmont, CO
Psalm 55:22 NIV
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you; he will never let the righteous be shaken.
Emily Mechanicsvile, VA
may have strength to comprehend with all the saints what is the breadth and length and height and depth. Ephesians 3:18 ESV
“for the Son of Man has come to seek and to save that which was lost” Luke 19:10
Dionne Crawford, Chicago, Il
Teach us to realize the brevity of life, so that we may grow in wisdom. —Psalm 90:12 (NLT)
Sheba Munroe
St Petersburg Fl
Lamentations 3:22 ESV
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases;
Glenda Jensen
Belgrade MT
Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
Matthew 26:41
Tiffany Boles
Wheeling, WV
“For God has not given us a spirit of fear and timidity, but of power, love and self-discipline.” 2 Timothy 1:7
For you make me glad by your deeds, O Lord; I sing for joy at the works of your hands. Psalm 92:4 (NIV)
Diane from Chesapeake, VA
Colossians 2:7 (NLT)
“Let your roots grow down into him, and let your lives be built on him. Then your faith will grow strong in the truth you were taught, and you will overflow with thankfulness.”
Marilyn, Dearborn, MO.
Finally, be strong in the Lord and in the strength of His might.
Ephesians 6:10 ESV
Sorry this is so late. I had to give myself some grace on this one!