*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!
Linda, Chester, VA
“Don’t be weary in prayer;
keep at it;
watch for God’s answers,
and remember to be thankful when they come.
Colossians 4:2 (TLB)
Praying. May, God richly answer your requested prayers abundantly. God bless each of you and may the beauty of Christ overwhelm each person you meet with God’s love and power abundantly .
Thank you Father God for sending forth your mighty angels to surround and protect your children as they go forth. In Jesus Christ precious name. Amen
Darcy – Albuquerque, NM
I lift my eyes up to the mountains-where does my help come from? My help comes from the LORD, the Maker of heaven and earth.” -Psalm 121:1 (NIV)
Sarah K, Lincoln, NE “For whoever keeps the whole law and yet stumbles at just one point is guilty of breaking all of it.” (James 2:10 NIV)
“If anyone is in Christ, they are a new creation.”
IICor. 5:17
Romans 8:39 “nor height nor depth nor anything else in all creation will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.” ESV
Lucinda Bomberger
Watsontown, PA
Hosea 6:3 ESV “Let us know; let us press on to know the Lord; his going out is sure as the dawn; he will come to us as the showers, as the spring rains that water the earth.”
Kim B., Orlando, Fl
“My Spirit will lead you into all truth and show
you what is to come.” John 16:12-13
Elaine ~ Powder Springs, GA (posting from Istanbul, Turkey where I am currently visiting)
Oh, taste and see that the Lord is good! Blessed is the man who takes refuge in him!
Psalm 34:8 ESV
“The Lord has done great things for us; we are glad.” Psalm 126:3. ESV
Wadena,MN “You are to live clean innocent lives as children of God in a dark world full of crooked and perverse people. Let your lights shine brightly before them.” Phil. 2:15
Melanie Anderson, Groesbeck, TX
“Your attitude should be the same as that of Christ Jesus: Who, being in the very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be grasped,”
Philippians 2:5-6 NIV(1984)
*I’m doing a long passage a verse or two at a time…love it! Did some of Hebrews 12 this way.
Kris, Treasure Island Fl
“…from whom his whole family in heaven and on earth derives its name.”
Ephesians 3:15 (NIV)
Nell, Gallatin, TN
Galatians 5:22-24
22)But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, 23)gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law. 24)And those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified the flesh with its passions and desires.
Kathy Welch
“The heart of man plans his way, but the LORD establishes his steps.” Proverbs 16:9 ESV
Veronica-Atlanta, Georgia
He healeth the broken in heart and bindeth up their wounds psalms 147:3
Round Rock, TX
Micah 6:8 NKJV
He has shown you, O man, what is good; And what does the Lord require of you, But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humble with your God?
Connie Johnson; Pittsboro, NC
“Therefore humble yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you at the proper time, casting all your anxiety on Him, because He cares for you” (1 Pet. 5:6-7) ESV
Geri, Deer Park, TX
Colossians 1:21 ESV
And you, who once were alienated and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, He has now reconciled in His body of flesh by His death, in order to present you holy and blameless and above reproach before Him,
Gwen Wray, Miami, OK
that He would grant you, according to the riches of His glory, to be strengthened with might through His Spirit in the inner man. Ephesians 3:16 (NKJV)
Diane, Wichita, KS
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. Phil 4:7 (NIV)
Alicia Coffey, Hutchinson, KS – For it is God who works in you to will and to act in order to fulfill his good purpose. (â€Philippians‬ â€2‬:â€13‬ NIV)
Psalms 91:7-8 RSV
A thousand may fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand; but it will not come near you. You will only look with your eyes and see the recompense of the wicked.
Anne, Simpsonville, SC
“May you experience the love of Christ, though it is too great to understand fully. Then you will be made complete with all the fullness of life and power that comes from God. Now all glory to God, who is able, through His mighty power at work within us, to accomplish infinitely more than we might ask or think.” Ephesians 3:19-20 NLT
Patrice MCMurtrey Crestwood KY
BUt he gives us more grace. That is why scripture says: God opposes the proud but shows favor to the humble. James 4:6 NIV
“Listen to advice and accept instruction that you may gain wisdom in the future.” Proverbs 21:17 ESV
Suzy from Cedar Falls, IA
1 John 3:1 NIV
“See what great 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 us is that it did not know him.”
Johnnie, Wake Forest, NC
The grass withers, the flower fades,
but the word of our God will stand forever.
Isaiah 40:8 ESV
Habakkuk 3:18
Yet I will rejoice in the Lord; I will take joy in the God of my salvation.
Leah Kuor, Salem, OR
“For this reason also, God highly exalted Him, and bestowed on Him the name which is above every name, so that at the name of Jesus every knee will bow, of those who are in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and that every tongue will confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Philippians 2:9-11 (NASB)
Natalie Bullock – Pearl, MS – 2 Chronicles 16:9 You asked and he gave you the victory. His eyes constantly look to and fro ( back and forth) for those who are totally committed to him.
Barb Argyle, WI
Because you have made the Lord your dwelling place- the Most High, who is my refuge-
Psalm 91:9 ESV
Colleen, Mae Sot, Thailand
But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.
James 3:17 ESV
Teresa, Chadron,NE
Accept one another, then, just as Christ accepted you, in order to bring praise to God. (â€Romans‬ â€15‬:â€7‬ NIV)
Shauna K., River Falls, WI.
Psalm 17:14a (NIV) -“O Lord, by your hand save me from such men, from men of this world whose reward is in this life.”
Misty Schoephoerster. Abilene, TX.
“Keep me as the apple of his eye; Hide me in the shadow of your wings.” Psalm 17:8 (ESV)
Jamie McClary, Columbus, OH
For I am confident of this very thing, that He who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Christ Jesus. Philippians 1:6 NASB
Theresa
Cypress,Tx
For God does not give us a spirit of timidity, of cringing fear, but He does give us a spirit of Power, of Love and of a Sound mind.
NKJ
Kimberly Kleimann, Chico CA
Proverbs 3:7,8 Be not wise in thine own eyes: fear the Lord,and depart from evil.8 It shall be health to thy navel, and marrow to thy bones.
Theresa from Cypress, Tx (8th verse)
Do not let this Book of the Law depart from your mouth. Meditate on it day and night so that you may be careful to do everything written in it. Then you will be prosperous and successful.
NIV
Dayle (Mugga) Sheridan Wyoming Colossians 3:14-15 ESV
And above all these put on love, which binds everything together in perfect harmony. And let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, to which indeed you were called in one body. And be thankful.
Proverbs 16:3 ESV
“Commit your works to the Lord, and your plans will be established”
Julia Lane says –
sarah, Bracknell, UK
Train yourself in godliness, for, while physical training is of some value, godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for both the present life and the life to come.
1Timothy 4:7b-8 NRSV
Nancilea, The Woodlands, TX
A gentle tongue is a tree of life, but perverseness in it breaks the spirit.
(Proverbs 15:4 ESV)
Lora Faircloth, Fayetteville, NC
Charm is deceptive, and beauty is fleeting; but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
Proverbs 31:30 NIV
“Do everything in love.”
1 Corinthians 16:14 NIV
Kim Columbus NC. Ephesians 4:14 ESV
“…so that we may no longer be children, tossed to and fro by the waves and carried about by every wind of doctrine, by human cunning, by craftiness in deceitful schemes.”
Toni, Greer, SC “So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you; I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.”
” For I am the Lord your God who takes hold of your right hand and says to you, Do not fear; I will help you.” Isaiah 41:10, 13
Terri Lundskow – Hughesville, Maryland
James 4:7 NIV – Submit yourselves, then, to God. Resist the devil and he will flee from you.
Angie Diemer Battle Creek, Michigan “He who believes in Me, as the Scriptures has said,out of his heart will flow living water. JOHN 7:38 NKJV