*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!
Pam, Centerville, TX
I’m late posting May 1st scripture. Just struggling to keep up. So I’ve chosen an easier one for May 1.
Deuteronomy 30:14 (NIV)
No, the Word is very near you, it is in your mouth and in your heart so you may obey it.
April, Boone, NC
The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases. His mercies never come to an end. They are new every morning. Great is Your faithfulness.
Lamentations 3:22-23 ESV
We proclaim to you what we have seen and heard, so that you also may have fellowship with us. And our fellowship is with the Father and with the Son, Jesus Christ. We write this to make our joy complete. 1 John 1:3-4 NIV
Jennifer,Center Point,IA
Wendy Bashor, Lone Butte, BC – I keep my eyes always on the Lord. With Him at my right hand, I will not be shaken. -Psalm 16:8 (NIV)
Kim Williams, Colmesneil TX
All of us have become like one who is unclean, and all our righteous acts are like filthy rags; we all shrivel up like a leaf, and like the wind our sins sweep us away. Isaiah 64:6. (NIV)
Nikki McGregor, Radford, VA
When I am afraid, I will put my trust in Thee. – Psalm 56:3 (NASB)
Angie W., Federal Way, WA and Ennis, MT
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be terrified. Do not be discouraged, for the LORD your God will be with you wherever you go. Joshua 1:9
Natalie, Cumberland Gap, TN
Ephesians 3:16-17 KJV
That he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man; That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith that ye being rooted and grounded in love
But be doers of the word and not merely listeners to it, betraying yourselves
James 1:22(amp)
Carolyn
Indianapolis, IN
Micah 5:15 HCSB
I will take vengeance in anger and wrath against the nations that have not obeyed me.
Sherry, Independence, OR:
“And the grace of our Lord was exceedingly abundant, with faith and love which are in Christ Jesus.” (1 Timothy 1:14 NKJV)
Scripture Memory Verse for May 15, 2015
“If you have any encouragement from being united with Christ, if any comfort from His love, if any fellowship with the Spirit, if any tenderness and compassion, then make my joy complete by being like minded, having the same love, being one in spirit and purpose. Do nothing out of selfish ambition or vain conceit, but in humility consider others better than yourselves. Each of you should look not only to your own interests, but also to the interests of others.” Philippians 2:1-4 The Joy of Serving IN CHRIST!
I can do all things through Christ who gives me strength.
Phillippians 4:13
Connie Windham
Trout, LA
Psalm 62:1 ESV
For God alone my soul waits in silence, from Him comes my salvation.
Carol
Carthage, NY
may have power,
together with all the saints,
to grasp how wide & long & high & deep
is the love of Christ,
Ephesians 3:18 NIV
Pamela, Hendersonville, TN
“So God created mankind in his own image, in the image of God he created them; male and female he created them.” Genesis 1:27 NIV
Cindy Cabaniss, Shelby, NC
Isaiah 40:31 NIV
…but those who hope in the LORD will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Proverbs 14:4
Where there are no oxen, the manger is clean,
but abundant crops come by the strength of the ox.
Lillian P
Galatians 5:1 NIV
It is for freedom that Christ has set us free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves be burdened again by a yoke of slavery.
Kelly Parker, Shreveport,La
I can do all this through him who gives me strength. Philippians 4:13 NIV
Lauren Gross, Pineville, LA
Is it not to share your bread with the hungry, and that you bring to your house the poor who are cast out; When you see the naked, that you cover him, and not hide yourself from your own flesh?
Isaiah 58:7 NKJV
Megan, Sydney, Australia
Restore the joy of your salvation yo me and give me a willing spirit.
Psalm 51:12 HCSB
Sheri, Morrisville, MO
For what we preach is not ourselves, but Jesus Christ as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. For God, who said, “Let light shine out of darkness,” made his light shine in our hearts to give us the light of the knowledge of God’s glory displayed in the face of Christ.
2 Corinthians 4:5-6
Oakhurst, CA Psalms 20:1 (NIV) “May the Lord answer you when you are in distress, may the name of the God of Jacob protect you.”
This was my 6 yr old grandson’s choice on a day I truly needed it. God uses our children to feed us……praise His name.
Donna from Chesapeake, VA The unfolding of your words gives light, it imparts understanding to the simple. Psalm 119:130 ESV
Sorry…backtracking a little, can’t remember if I posted.
Laura J, from Katy, TX
#8 Ps. 40:1-2 NIV
I waited patiently for the Lord; he turned to me and heard my cry. He lifted me out of the slimy pit, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet upon a rock and gave me a firm place to stand.
#9 Ps. 40:3-4a
He put all new song in my mouth – a hymn of praise to our God. Many will see and fear and put their trust in the Lord. Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust.
“The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.'” Matthew 25:40
Priscilla Nash-San Antonio
Whoever covers over his sins does not prosper. Whoever confesses and abandons them receives compassion. (â€Proverbs‬ â€28‬:â€13‬ GW)
Christy, Cheryl, Karen A Cord of Three Strands
Jay, OK
Let us then approach the throne of grace with confidence, so that we may receive mercy and find grace to help us in our time of need.
Hebrews 4:16 NIV
Jennie Strope
Enid, OK
For we were so utterly burdened beyond our strength that we despaired of life itself.
Indeed, we felt that we had received the sentence of death. But that was to make us rely not on ourselves but on God who raises the dead.
He delivered us from such a deadly peril and he will deliver us. On him we have set our hope that he will deliver us again.
2 Cor 1:8b-10
Elizabeth B
Farmington, AR
Psalm 139:23-23 NIV
Search me, God, and know my heart, test me and know my anxious thoughts. See if there is any offensive way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting.
I’m quite late, but catching up!
Carolyn Dotts, Spruce Pine, NC
Romans 8: 24 ESV For in this hope we are saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what he sees?
raquel Davis- Monticello ms
Isaiah 53:4-7 kjv
4 Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.
5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed.
6 All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all.
7 He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he openeth not his mouth.
brittany Powell. Jayess ms
Psalm 94:19 kjv
In the multitude of my thoughts within me, thy comforts delight my soul.
Jennifer B, Plano, TX
But the rich should take pride in their humiliation—since they will pass away like a wild flower.
James 1:10 NIV
betty austin,texas If I rise on the wings of the dawn, if I settle on the far side of the sea. Psalm 139:9 NSV
Shelly Verley
Apache Junction, AZ
Then you will call upon Me and come and pray to Me, and I will listen to you.”
Jeremiah 29:12, NASB
Kary D
Irvine, CA
He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in the human heart; yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.
Ecclesiastes 3:11
NIV
Beverly, Cumberland Gap, TN
Ephesians 6:18 (KJV)
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit and watching there unto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints
Deb, Lancaster
“Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.”
Isaiah 55:1 NIV
Adrienne
Jasper, TN
“From the fullness of His grace, we have all received one blessing after another.”
John 1:16, NIV
Terri G, Corinth, TX
“You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your presence.”
Psalm 90:8
Lauren Clontz, Danville, KY
“I gave you a good bath, washing off all that old blood, and anointed you with aromatic oils.”
Ezekiel 16:9 The Message
Deborah (Debbie), Calgary. AB. Canada
“Jesus answered, “It is written…” (Matthew 4:4)
(Note: I am so behind…but these are words God really seems to be impressing on me…so I am going to spend the next days…meditating on these words…No matter what I am facing, remember “It is written (fill in the blank with the scripture that speaks to it!)”.
Angie Martens, Charlotte, NC
“Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust, who does not turn to the proud, to those who go astray after a lie!” Psalm 40:4 (ESV)
Shawna ~ Boise, Idaho
Pray also for me that the message will be given to me when I open my mouth to make known with boldness the mystery of the gospel.
Ephesians 6:19 HCSB
Sharon, Radford, VA
James 1:2-4 (NASB)
Consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.
Lonnie Hall – Brunswick, GA
James‬ â€3‬:â€14‬
But if you have bitter jealousy and selfish ambition in your heart, do not be arrogant and so lie against the truth.
Be still before the Lord adn wait patiently for him; fret not yourself over the one who prospers in his way, over the man who carries out evil devices!
Psalm 37:7
Deneen
Sterlington, LA
im a bit behind. Week 9-
I keep my yes always one Lord. with Hom at my right hand, I will not be shaken. Psalm 16:8