*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!
Scarlett Flynn, Round Rock, TX
Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever. (Hebrews 13:8, NIV)
Winder, GA Colossians 3:9 (NASV) “Do not lie to one another, since you have laid aside the old self and it’s evil practices.”
“Therefore God exalted Him to the highest place and gave Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.” Philippians 2:9-11
“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in Him, shall not perish but have eternal life.
John 3:16
“May the words of my mouth and the mediation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer.” Psalm 19:14
Linda Proffitt, Louisville, Kentucky
“And whatever you do, in word or deed, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.”
â€â€Colossians‬ â€3:17‬ â€ESV‬‬
Brentwood, CA
“Love is patient and kind. Love is not jealous or boastful or proud or rude. It does not demand its own way. It is not irritable and it keeps no record of being wronged. It does not rejoice about injustice but rejoices whenever truth wins out. Love never gives up, never loses faith, is always hopeful, and endures through every circumstance.” (1 Corinthians 4-7) NLT
“These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.” (John‬ â€16‬:â€33‬ KJV)
Rebecca S. Fort Worth, Texas
“I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.” Galatians 2:20a
Linda Grantham from Raymond, MS
Verse 10 for May 15, 2015
ESV ll Corinthians 5:7
“For we walk by faith, not by sight.”
Linda Grantham from Raymond, MS
Verse 11 for June 1, 2015
KJV Proverbs 25:28
“He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.”
“The Lord will reign for for ever and ever” Exodus15:18 (NIV)
Barbara Stone
Springfield, Mo
But He answered and said to them “I tell you
that if these should keep silent, the stones
would immediately cry out.”
Luke 19:40 NKJV
Colleen, Mae Sot, Thailand
Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.
James 3:1 ESV
Misty Dildine, Glenallen, Missouri
Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift. II Corinthians 9:15 (KJV)
Connie Dildine, Hiram, Missouri
If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness. I John 1:9 (KVJ)
Mikayla Marler, Glenallen, Missouri
Foras the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts. Isaiah 55:9 (KJV)
Sarah L., Houston
My command is this: Love each other as I have loved you.
John 15:12 NIV
Susie, Harrisburg,PA
For I will give you words and wisdom that none of your adversaries will be able to resist or contradict.
~ Luke 21:5 NIV
Deborah Cochran Milan, MI
Matthew 7:7 NKJV
Ask, and it will be given to you; Seek, and you will find; Knock, and it will be opened to you.
brittany diss Woodward,ok proverbs 3:5 trust in the Lord with all thine heart and lean not on thine own understanding.
I know your works. Behold, I have set before you an open door, which no one is able to shut. I know that you have but little power, and yet you have kept my word and have not denied my name. Revelation 3:8
Verse 9 May 1
I will give you the Keys of the Kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven. Matthew 16:19 NIV
Sherri Meyer New Baltimore MI
May 1 verse 9
I will give you the Keys of the Kingdom of heaven; whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.
Matthew 16:19 NIV
Pamela, Hendersonville, TN
“A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.” Proverbs 15:1 NIV
Kim, Richmond. Tx, “So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow”. 1 Cor 3:7 ( NIV)
Joyce ~ Bison, SD
“Do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you have received from God? You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body.” 1 Corinthians 6: 19 – 20 (NIV)
Ann Medford, Sunset, TX
Precious in the sight of the Lord is the death of his faithful servants. Psalms 116:15, NIV
Anna Yancey, Fort Collins, CO
Rejoice in the Lord always; again I will say rejoice. Philippians 4:4 ESV
Nicole//Dallas//NLT Matthew 25 At that time Jesus prayed this prayer: “O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, thank you for hiding these things from those who think themselves wise and clever, and for revealing them to the childlike.
Twyla, from Greenville, KY
“The Lord will fight for you. You need only to be still.” Ex.14:14 NIV
Diane Perkins Rockford Mi
May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your site, O Lord my Rock and my Redeemer
Psalms 19:-14
Dana Johnson, Waterford WI.
For I say walk by the spirit, and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh. For the flesh desires what is contrary to the spirit, and the spirit what is contrary to the flesh. They are in conflict with each other so that you are not to do whatever you want. Gal 5:16,17 ESV
For by grace you have been saved through faith and that not of yourselves; it is the gift of God not of works, lest anyone should boast. For we are His workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
Ephesians 2:8-10 New King James
Rita, Lexington, SC
I lift up my eyes to the hills. From where does my help come? My help comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth. He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber. Behold, he who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not strike you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and forevermore. (â€Psalm‬ â€121‬:â€1-8‬ ESV)
Cynda
Newnan, GA
And not only the creation, but we ourselves, who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, groan inwardly as we wait eagerly for adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies.
Romans 8:23 ESV
Patrice, Midland, TX
Matthew 28:19-20 (NIV)
Therefore, go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.
Linda
Jacksonville, FL
Psalm 27:9 KJV
Hide not Thy face far from me; put not Thy servant away in anger: Though hast been my help; leave me not, neither forsake me, O God of my salvation.
Krystn Marmion from huntington Beach, Ca
For God didn’t not time is a spirit of fear
But of power and Love and self control.
2 Timothy 1:7 ESV
Shelley, Rio Rancho,NM
for He guards the course of the just and protects the way of His faithful ones.
Proverbs 2:8 NIV
I am only counted as one of the just by the blood of Jesus. His grace alone causes me to be one His faithful ones.
I lift my eyes up to the hills where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord the Maker of heaven and earth.
Psalm 121:1-2 NIV
Dana
Boerne, TX
Elaine, New Orleans, Louisiana
Psalm 119:165 HCSB
Abundant peace belongs to those who love Your instruction; nothing makes them stumble.
Hilary
Orlando, FL
1 John 4:9, NIV
This is how God showed his love among us: He sent his one and only Son into the world that we might live through him.
Morgan Roberts
Brandon, MS
“…What our fathers have told us. We will not hide them from their children; we will tell the next generation the praiseworthy deeds of the LORD, his power, and the wonders he has done.” ‘
Psalm 78:3b, 4 NIV
Nehemiah 6:3a – I am doing a great work and I cannot come down
Sharon, Lititz PA
Fear not, for I am with you; be not dismayed, for I am your God;
I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my righteous right hand.
Isaiah 41:10 ESV
Now may the Lord of peace himself give you peace at all times and in every way. The Lord be with you.
-2 Thessalonians 3:16
Charlotte Brown, Broken Arrow, OK. Galatians 5:1. Christ has liberated us to be free. Stand firm then and don’t submit again to a yoke of slavery. HCSB
Danielle Dryburgh, Philadelphia PA “Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees.” Isaiah 35:3 ESV
Erin K, Chesnee, SC
“We demolish arguments and every pretension that sets itself up against the knowledge of God, and we take captive every thought to make it obedient to Christ.”
2 Corinthians 10:5 NIV